"Dancing Queen" Quotes
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Source: "Dancing Queen"
Speaker: ABBA
See that girl, watch that scene, digging the Dancing Queen.
Context
This line is from the song "Dancing Queen" by ABBA, from the album Arrival (1976).
Decades before Ace of Base saw the sign, ABBA ushered in the Swedish pop music revolution with "Dancing Queen." This is the second line of the hit song.
Heard on disco dance floors across the globe, this dreamy tune made everyone who listened to it feel like a dancing queen—"young and sweet" and forever seventeen.
Where you've heard it
You've heard Christine Baranski and Meryl Streep belt it out in Mamma Mia!, the movie based on the hit ABBA musical of the same name—unless the words "ABBA musical" or "Meryl Streep singing" make you cringe in fear, that is.
Additional Notable References
- YouTube star PelleK delivers a "Dancing Queen" heavy-metal remix.
Pretentious Factor
If you were to drop this quote at a dinner party, would you get an in-unison "awww" or would everyone roll their eyes and never invite you back? Here it is, on a scale of 1-10.
Everyone—young or old, man or woman—wants to feel like a dancing queen every now and then.