Voulez-Vous (song)

{{About|the song|the album|Voulez-Vous}}

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{{Infobox song

| name = Voulez-Vous

| cover = VoulezVous.jpg

| alt =

| type = single

| artist = ABBA

| album = Voulez-Vous

| B-side = Angeleyes

| released = 6 July 1979{{cite web|url=https://www.worldradiohistory.com/UK/Music-Week/1979/Music-Week-1979-07-07.pdf|title=Music Week|page=34}}

| recorded = {{nobr|13 March 1978 – 29 March 1979}}

| studio =

• Criteria (Miami, US)
• Polar (Stockholm, Sweden)

| genre = Disco{{cite web|first= Stewart |last= Mason |title= Voulez-Vous – Song Review |website= AllMusic |access-date= 7 July 2013 |url= http://www.allmusic.com/song/voulez-vous-mt0032161399}}{{cite book|first= John |last= Tobler |author-link= John Tobler |year= 2011 |title= Abba – Uncensored on the Record |publisher= Coda Books Ltd |page= 112 |isbn= 978-1-90853-823-9}}

| length =

• 5:11 (album version)
• 4:21 (single version)
• 6:09 (extended promo version)

| label =

• Polar
• Atlantic (12-inch single)

| writer =

• Benny Andersson
• {{nobr|Björn Ulvaeus}}

| producer =

• Benny Andersson
• {{nobr|Björn Ulvaeus}}

| prev_title = Does Your Mother Know

| prev_year = 1979

| next_title = Angeleyes

| next_year = 1979

| misc = {{Extra chronology

| type = single

| prev_title = Dancing Queen

| prev_year = 1992

| title = Voulez-Vous

| year = 1992

| next_title = Thank You For The Music

| next_year = 1992

}}

{{External music video|{{YouTube|za05HBtGsgU|"Voulez-Vous"}}

{{Extra album cover

| header = 12-inch disco single

| type = single

| cover = Voulez-Vous - 12 in.jpg

| border =

| alt =

| caption =

}}}}

}}

"Voulez-Vous" ({{IPA|fr|vule vu|pron}} {{respell|voo|lay|voo}}; French for "Do you want?") is a 1979 song by the Swedish group ABBA, written and composed by Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus. Agnetha Fältskog and Anni-Frid Lyngstad shared the lead vocals. It is the second track on the group's 1979 album of the same name. In the UK and Ireland, "Voulez-Vous" was released as a double A-side, though nearly everywhere else, "Voulez-Vous" was a single A-side. The double A side single is, as of September 2021, ABBA's 13th-biggest song in the UK, including both pure sales and digital streams.{{cite web|first= Rob |last= Copsey |title= ABBA's Official Top 20 biggest songs |publisher= Official Charts Company |date= 2 September 2021 |access-date= 20 September 2021 |url= https://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/abbas-official-top-20-biggest-songs__26113/}}

The song also features on the album Gold: Greatest Hits, first as a 4:21 edited version when the compilation was first released in 1992 and then in its full 5:09 version from 1999 onwards. "Angeleyes" is featured on the More Gold: More Hits compilation. "Voulez-Vous" was re-released as a single in 1992 to promote Gold: Greatest Hits. "Voulez-Vous" is also the only ABBA song to have been officially released as an extended dance remix{{snd}}albeit only as a promo. The 6:07 version of the track, released as a double A-side 12-inch single by Atlantic Records in the United States in 1979, was included as a bonus track on the 2001 compilation The Definitive Collection.

A songwriting trip to the Bahamas saw the birth of this melody, and the proximity to Miami made it convenient to record the backing track at Criteria Studios with members of the disco group Foxy. "Voulez-Vous" is the only ABBA song (other than live recordings) to be recorded outside of Sweden, additionally the use of the Phrygian dominant scale marks it as very unusual as a pop song and gives it a unique sound.