{"id":2713,"date":"2025-06-08T22:16:01","date_gmt":"2025-06-08T22:16:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/story15.com\/?p=2713"},"modified":"2025-06-08T22:16:01","modified_gmt":"2025-06-08T22:16:01","slug":"darci-lynne-stuns-with-spellbinding-high-notes-in-a-dazzling-rendition-of-abbas-the-winner-takes-it-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/story15.com\/?p=2713","title":{"rendered":"Darci Lynne Stuns with Spellbinding High Notes in a Dazzling Rendition of ABBA\u2019s \u201cThe Winner Takes It All\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the champion of\u00a0<em>America\u2019s Got Talent<\/em>\u00a0Season 12, singer-ventriloquist\u00a0Darci Lynne\u00a0knows from experience:\u00a0<em>The winner takes it all<\/em>. That\u2019s also the name of the\u00a0ABBA\u00a0song she sang in her latest video, once again demonstrating that she has a phenomenal voice, no puppet required. Accompanying herself on piano, Lynne sang a stripped-down version of arguably the Swedish pop supergroup\u2019s saddest song. She also wore a T-shirt repping fellow singer Noah Kahan. Check it out below.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div id=\"blog-post-how-to-watch\" class=\"embedded-entity how-to-watch\">\n<div class=\"media__image-wrapper\">\n<div>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nbc.com\/sites\/nbcblog\/files\/styles\/scale_862\/public\/2024\/06\/darci-lynne-abba.jpg\" alt=\"Split of Darci Lynne and Abba\" width=\"862\" height=\"575\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"media__metadata\">\n<div class=\"media__metadata-wrapper\"><span class=\"media__caption\">Studio shot of Swedish pop group ABBA, Germany 1970s; Darci Lynne attends the 31st Annual MovieGuide Awards Gala at Avalon Hollywood &amp; Bardot on February 09, 2024 in Los Angeles, California.\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"media__credit\">Photo: Frazer Harrison\/Getty Images; Siegfried Pilz\/United Archives via Getty Image<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h2>About \u201cThe Winner Takes It All\u201d by ABBA<\/h2>\n<p>\u201cABBA truly gave us a gift with this song!!!\ud83d\ude2d\ud83e\udd0c\ud83c\udffb\ud83e\udd79\u201d wrote Lynne on Instagram, and it\u2019s true. The song was written in 1980 by band members Benny Andersson and Bj\u00f6rn Ulvaeus, and although the lyrics were inspired by the melody rather than lyricist Ulvaeus\u2019s personal life, the band admits that it\u2019s reflective of the fact that both of the couples in the band had recently split.\u00a0\u201cThe lyrics are deeply personal, and the music is unsurpassed. Singing it was like acting a part. I mustn\u2019t let my feelings take over. It was quite a while afterwards before I realised that we\u2019d made a small masterpiece,\u201d singer\u00a0Agnetha F\u00e4ltskog said of the song,\u00a0per ABBA\u2019s official site.<\/p>\n<div class=\"tDUE1nCa\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"embed-code-other\"><iframe id=\"instagram-embed-0\" class=\"processed instagram-media instagram-media-rendered\" src=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/C8Cmvi6uh6z\/embed\/captioned\/?cr=1&amp;v=14&amp;wp=485&amp;rd=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nbc.com&amp;rp=%2Fnbc-insider%2Fdarci-lynne-cover-abba-the-winner-takes-it-all#%7B%22ci%22%3A0%2C%22os%22%3A53415.699999928474%2C%22ls%22%3A12051.099999904633%2C%22le%22%3A16230.099999904633%7D\" height=\"971\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-instgrm-payload-id=\"instagram-media-payload-0\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-origwidth=\"\" data-origheight=\"971\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Darci Lynne\u00a0just won\u2019t slow down, continuing her meteoric rise in the entertainment world that began with\u00a0one fateful\u00a0<em>AGT<\/em>\u00a0audition. In an exciting December 18 Instagram post, the 20-year-old shared some seriously exciting news: she\u2019s hitting the road and embarking on a concert tour this year.<\/p>\n<p>Check out the tour dates for her\u00a0<em>Up Close and Personal<\/em>\u00a0U.S. tour below, and make sure to also catch the announcement made by Lynne and her\u00a0iconic puppet friend, Petunia.<\/p>\n<div class=\"3gwZ2udb\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re going back on tour! Cant wait to see you \u201cUp Close and Personal\u201d on the road!\u201d Lynne captioned.<\/p>\n<p>However, it was her and Petunia\u2019s adorable announcement that did it for us. We\u2026\u00a0<em>think<\/em>\u00a0Petunia is excited about the upcoming tour.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/gcdn\/-mm-\/93513cbb4ef9700edc9e6c16dcb6fc885faf0062\/c=0-131-2406-1490\/local\/-\/media\/2017\/08\/16\/USATODAY\/USATODAY\/636384419847719254-NUP-178282-3279.JPG?width=2406&amp;height=1359&amp;fit=crop&amp;format=pjpg&amp;auto=webp\" alt=\"America's Got Talent': Singing ventriloquist Darci Lynne amazes again\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cGuess what, guys? We\u2019re back!\u201d announced Lynne.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the champion of\u00a0America\u2019s Got Talent\u00a0Season 12, singer-ventriloquist\u00a0Darci Lynne\u00a0knows from experience:\u00a0The winner takes it all. That\u2019s also the name of the\u00a0ABBA\u00a0song she sang in her&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/story15.com\/?p=2713\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Darci Lynne Stuns with Spellbinding High Notes in a Dazzling Rendition of ABBA\u2019s \u201cThe Winner Takes It All\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2714,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Darci Lynne Stuns with Spellbinding High Notes in a Dazzling Rendition of ABBA\u2019s \u201cThe Winner Takes It All\u201d -<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/story15.com\/?p=2713\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Darci Lynne Stuns with Spellbinding High Notes in a Dazzling Rendition of ABBA\u2019s \u201cThe Winner Takes It All\u201d -\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"As the champion of\u00a0America\u2019s Got Talent\u00a0Season 12, singer-ventriloquist\u00a0Darci Lynne\u00a0knows from experience:\u00a0The winner takes it all. 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