English version of "Du måste finnas" from the musical "Kristina from Duvemåla". From the twelfth day concert january 6 2010 in Stockholm.
Пікірлер: 225
@boalollal2423 жыл бұрын
English doesn't do this song justice. It just feels so much more powerful and emotional in swedish.
@sjpatrik23 жыл бұрын
totally agree with you
@nehathomas21553 жыл бұрын
Absolutely
@svwerkerdfad38142 жыл бұрын
@@sjpatrik2 The swedish language is underestimated in a lot of ways :)
@ericnichols92232 жыл бұрын
I totally agree, even though I'm a native English speaker and don't know Swedish! I've read translations of the original to get a sense for the Swedish version, and I can tell that the original is much more powerful.
@dorkflassbury11642 жыл бұрын
The lyrics between the english and swedish versions are quite different. I think the swedish version is more powerful and better tells the story about the doubt in god that Kristina has and is more true to the book(s) by Vilhelm Moberg that is the basis for the whole musical Kristina Från Duvemåla.
@TyrfingUN3 жыл бұрын
This version brings tears to my eyes.. but the Swedish version makes me cry
@KimAlexisG7 ай бұрын
Oh, my world. I've never heard this English version before. It's so different from the Swedish lyrics, but still delivers the same message, and God it's good! And obviously Helen's performance is stunning and gives me goosebumps all over.
@thomaslawrence2375 Жыл бұрын
I just listened to the full soundtrack for Kristina yesterday and the story is so heartbreaking and by the time we reached this song i was a sobbing mess 😭😭😭😭
@philbrm Жыл бұрын
This song is a haunting masterpiece of brilliance - bringing together voice and production - wow
@mikaellindberg86757 ай бұрын
Whether it's in Swedish or in English... This song always make me cry... It is so beautiful!!!
@kattoneycliffe67152 жыл бұрын
I feel it has its power in both languages!! Especially with this lady singing it!!
@DerRealLoewe10 жыл бұрын
we, Swedes, love our Music, we feel it as a national treasure, she is bringing glory to our land.....
@stefanhellqvist84910 жыл бұрын
I am so blessed to live in the same time and country as this pearl.
@glennolsen874610 жыл бұрын
And so you should. She is truly great. Hälsningar från Norge! :)
@swedishmake-upgeek56503 жыл бұрын
The Swedish version is so much more powerful, in her doubt, her anger, her anguish.
@alexanderbrookes93313 жыл бұрын
This song 🎵 is another fantastic example of the beauty of Swedish partnership Andersson and Ulvaeus.
@manuelagaspar59913 жыл бұрын
I love the song,she sing with feelings and she is so beautiful.anybody has the wording of this song.can you share me.
@reubenmusyoka3192 Жыл бұрын
Hellen could only be the best to perform this great song ❤️. But the genius of Benny and Bjorn of ABBA is undoubtedly incredible! God bless us all.
@ianm65822 жыл бұрын
This is musical master piece, as is all their music.
@Sgt_gh0st3 жыл бұрын
Jag brukar inte ofta känna såhär... men Helen har faktiskt blivit ännu vackrare med åren... vilken underbar röst... jag ryser varje gång..
@DinoSvanhvit3 жыл бұрын
Jag tycker samma.👍
@Migler13 жыл бұрын
Håller med till 100 procent!
@Skytte-po7jz3 жыл бұрын
Håller med. Hon har alltid varit vacker men hon blir bara vackrare. Likt hennes musik som bara blir bättre ju mer man lyssnar.
@user-ic9mo7bn3z6 ай бұрын
Yes yes ❤❤❤❤❤RAa
@kattskit116 ай бұрын
Sveriges (till att börja med 😊) bästa röst 🎶🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 Tack!!! Helen.... Björn & Benny för att ni finns!❤
@borg22222 Жыл бұрын
Such power and beauty. The song and Helen.
@supastah68 Жыл бұрын
Beautiful
@frazermurray86057 ай бұрын
På svenska, denna låt är perfektion! The English version leaves me wanting.
@pedroviaud11193 жыл бұрын
Reminds me of Job, how he was struggling within his soul why would God allow so much suffering in his life, the most beautiful thing that exists is the mystery of human suffering, everything we have is temporal, only God is eternal
@Sunburst752 жыл бұрын
Written by Benny and Bjorn. Magnificent.
@lisapedersen20562 жыл бұрын
Vilken känsla, vilken röst❤️
@gillianleenas9772 жыл бұрын
I'm in love with this song. I love both the English and the Swedish versions. It feels like the original is always best, though! Great performance!
@scottbabus70882 жыл бұрын
I come back to this so many times because it so timely in this day and age.What a brilliant performance.
@neilcare51732 ай бұрын
Magnificent...
@lassestenwall21127 ай бұрын
Helen. Du är bara så BÄÄÄÄST !!! Det bästa Sverige har.
@markmcloughlin39452 жыл бұрын
Outstanding
@easypeasy39042 жыл бұрын
incredible singing!
@charottenanton63112 ай бұрын
she is amazing
@monaandersen21236 ай бұрын
Underbar gestaltning. DUÄR FENOMENAL solie deo gloria
@janolofjohansson5210 Жыл бұрын
Du är så otroligt fantastiskt sångerska
@mauridelabrida90353 жыл бұрын
Considero a voz de Helen uma das melhores do mundo . parabéns
@graphiquejack2 жыл бұрын
Interesting that two men tended to write such brilliant music for women to sing. I could see Frida or Agnetha or both singing this magnificently. I kind of wish the women, even in their 70s, did an album together of B&B music they wrote outside of ABBA.
@philbrm5 ай бұрын
still so fantastic
@notsomuch2734 ай бұрын
Beautiful! ❤
@rositakarlsson4524 ай бұрын
Helt underbart ❤
@GD-ec2xu Жыл бұрын
Awesome song! I'm obsessed. LOL
@ernestjones81643 жыл бұрын
I think this song delivers a strong message in any language. The words are beautful whether in English, Swedish or outer Mongolian. I never make comparisons.
@caridaddiazmartell58082 жыл бұрын
Bella canción hermosa voz bendiciones gracias
@jaimeseronmunoz63193 жыл бұрын
Hermoso tema interpretado por la grandísima Hellen
@korretuf3 жыл бұрын
pekino makerino jabberino, what u saying my bro?
@caridaddiazmartell58082 жыл бұрын
Fantástico
@caridaddiazmartell58082 жыл бұрын
La música es vidad y amor bendiciones gracias
@alexplaza65623 жыл бұрын
Im a swede, and Hearst both version's and I have to say, I prefer this one over the Swedish version.
@TomAnderson77 ай бұрын
As another Swede. The Swedish version is superior!!
@bjornbrunstorp68392 жыл бұрын
Why the swedish original is more powerful is because its she feels more secure singing in here own language.
@markmcloughlin39452 жыл бұрын
O M G
@fjosor13 жыл бұрын
❤️
@thomaspettersson90393 жыл бұрын
Stupid to compare language. Briliant both way´s!
@gillisfranzen9414 Жыл бұрын
Jag är aå ledsen men jag tror att jag älskar dig ❤
@kristerkarlehem33353 жыл бұрын
Helen: Just another day at the office......
@user-ic9mo7bn3z6 ай бұрын
❤🙏❤️🙏🙏❤️🙏❤️
@user-ic9mo7bn3z6 ай бұрын
❤❤❤❤🎉😊
@TheNyakaat Жыл бұрын
Do yourself a favour and search for videos of her singing this in Swedish!!!
@henrikmodin42353 жыл бұрын
I think it's better when she sings in swedish. This is from a concert in Minnesota , US. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/l5iZl7l6nJnFmac.html And Peter Joback from the same concert. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/m5ikl6V8q7Gzook.html
@Lindrah2 ай бұрын
STANDING OVATION PLEASE 😅🎉
@hectorthewonderdog2 жыл бұрын
Is there no producer brave enough to stage this show in London?
An incredible song about someone desperately holding on to faith written by someone who doesn't believe in god. I find something incredibly beautiful in that sort of empathy. The only time I have seen that type of understanding of other views in art is in the Book series Ender's Game where a mormon(?) writer seems to completely understand the viewpoint of Ender, an atheist. Yeah yeah, bla bla, just enjoy the song :D I'll shush now.
@Kkardemumma3 ай бұрын
As a smålänning I prefer the English language version.
@antiHUMANDesigns3 жыл бұрын
So much weight was lost in this English translation. Some parts are completely different from the original, and a lot of the lines have been scrambled into a different order. But I think the main problem is that Helen Sjöholm is unable to express as much emotion without this native-language connection to the words. It simply doesn't feel real to the same extent that the original did. This is a song about a woman who set out on a long and dangerous journey to the new world, assuming God would see her and her family through, but now that she feels she last lost everything, and now that many have died, she begins to wonder if God ever existed in the first place. The English version feels more like empty platitudes, especially the chorus, and makes it seem like she thinks God may have forsaken her, rather than reflecting a loss of faith that God actually ever existed in the first place - a dangerous and terrifying thought to a peasant woman in those times. Consider my more literal translation of the original Swedish, which doesn't take rhyming and rhythm into account: You banished me, God. I was torn my from homeland. Here, I am a refugee and stranger, and I accept that fate. But, you took my child and you take me from my husband. I can no longer see a meaning. What is it that you want? What am I to believe? The though is dizzying, ahead an abyss opens up. My whole being revolts and wants to say "no". The question's been woken, and now my soul trembles before the answer, that you aren't real, even though I believed in you. Who, then, would help me suffer through life in this place? Who, then, could give me the strength I require? Who, then, would console me? I am so small on this Earth. If you didn't exist, then just what would I do? No, you have to exist, you have to! I live my life through you! Without you, I am a fragment adrift a dark and stormy sea You have to exist, you have to! How could you abandon me? I'd be nowhere, I'd be nothing if you didn't exist. Never before have I toughed this in words or in thought. Those tiny words that terrify and torment me so. Those words are "what if?" What if I prayed all those prayers for nothing? If you do not exist, then what am I to do? Who, then, would sense my regrets and forgive me? A piece of the soul, who would grant me this? Who, then, would thus receive me at death? If you didn't exist, who'd take care of me, then? (Repeat chorus)
@SirTubeALotMore3 жыл бұрын
And now I want Agnetha Fältskog to sing this song ...
@patrickhicks98802 жыл бұрын
some of abba's songs sound better in swedish i've been waiting for you is one
@arwenitaofdoom90413 жыл бұрын
The Swedish version is so much better.
@DaKolbasz6 ай бұрын
Sorry, no. What happened to the perfect lyrics in the original? And the ending - "I reach for your hand". Wtf.
@DionIjeh1991Ай бұрын
Jag gillar original bättre.
@User-wr5qz2 жыл бұрын
The lyrics in english JUST NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
@ilreput12 жыл бұрын
I don’t like the English translation at all. “You must exist” is not the same as “You have to be there”. I can’t listen to the English version, the Swedish is divine.
@NurseEmilie3 жыл бұрын
As beautifully as she sings, no one catch match Susan Boyle singing it. Susan has the desperation each searching soul faces as she searches for God. Maybe because this has been her experience.
@jamie70563 жыл бұрын
Helen is leagues better than Susan Boyle,there’s no comparison.Helen’s 1996 Minnesota performance is stunning.
@Dsdsds3462 ай бұрын
You should hear Helen doing the original in Swedish then
@danielmcgowan49706 жыл бұрын
In Swedish or English, Helen sings with every fibre of her being. A Magnificent Performance.
@violetmaggiemae33 жыл бұрын
Beautiful
@JuanCarlos15669 жыл бұрын
She has a wonderful voice!!! she sings with her soul!!!
@bethsillytoe13 жыл бұрын
Why are they not standing??????? She deserves a standing ovation that was phenomenal ...!!!!!
@mrbullseye12 жыл бұрын
This gives me goosebumps every single time I hear it. She puts so much feeling into it that it's almost ridiculously emotional for me to hear this. And the swedish version is even more powerful for me.
@andrewplatts386510 жыл бұрын
I just keep coming back to this - time and time and time again - sublime xx
@michalisraelvolf12 жыл бұрын
Helen is so so so so so so so so so incredible
@bunnymad50497 жыл бұрын
I have listened to this so many times and still cannot, not cry. She's unbelievable in the BEST way.
@bonniehork11487 жыл бұрын
Helen is the Streisand of Sweden. I am so touched by everything she expresses..
@claumouz5 жыл бұрын
I agree with you. I'm from Argentina and I've just discovered her. Her renditions of "Someone else's story", both in English and Swedish, are so intense and amazing. A real talent
@zeffe05285 жыл бұрын
claudette mousseau you should see her doing some funny performance too. She is a fantastic actor in those too.
@mzmiller523 жыл бұрын
Streisand lost her magic by the late 60’s, unfortunately.
@corriepitt76302 жыл бұрын
Sjöholm is so much more than Streisand ever was. Streisand never got over her self-satisfaction, acquired in the 1960s. Sjöholm goes out to far greater limits vocally and dramatically. And then there’s that fantastic chemistry with Tommy Körberg, but that’s another story.
@robertbob246210 жыл бұрын
I love you Helen. Please please come to Scotland or even the UK to perform
@rongross30910 жыл бұрын
Absolute Perfection!
@alexreyes79318 жыл бұрын
No words to say how beautiful....
@Fanniiiy11 жыл бұрын
This is one of the best performances by any artist ever!!
@kattoneycliffe67152 жыл бұрын
More recent years, Susan Boyle does an excellent rendition of this song!! Same as Helen, gives it her everything!!
@svenskengratisegott3 ай бұрын
Ja, plus mama med queen
@blackjoker507695 жыл бұрын
Nevertheless....This Woman is incredible. She always sings with her heart.
@stefanoolcese8 жыл бұрын
I prefer the Swedish version, which is normal since in 99,9% of cases original versions are better than translations. But she is FANTASTIC in both renditions. WOW!!!
@JayJasperLondon8 жыл бұрын
Oh no doubt about that- they're lucky to have Helen sing the English version as she knows the actual (Swedish) words, the character of Kristina & how powerful the whole piece/song is and what it's supposed to bring across better than Helen (our national treasure, bless her heart). Btw how come Kristina från Duvemåla hasn't been on stage over here (UK) - anyone know? These are the sort of moments where I wish I was a producer haha I wouldn't even need to audition people I'd know exactly who to cast 🙌🏻🎭🎬🎹🎤👤👥👥👤
@Qumak132 жыл бұрын
The English lyrics are very powerful and while staying as close as possible to the Swedish original, they have been written in a very artful way, too! The sit so well with the haunting music!
@byggs1295 жыл бұрын
This is a performance. In Swedish it is perfection.
@EADGBE510 жыл бұрын
I must have played this video a dozen times over the past months... each time I swear I will not tear (“teer”) up... each time I fail. The close-ups show this is coming from Helen’s soul. Bless you for keeping hope strong. ~Andy
@tobblerable9 жыл бұрын
This song is much stronger in swedish
@fontenayperi9 жыл бұрын
what's it called in Swedish?
@Sasstra899 жыл бұрын
fontenayperi "Du måste finnas" :)
@tobiask51316 жыл бұрын
Inte jämförbart ens.
@Markus-ns6ld3 жыл бұрын
Svenska versionen är dock överlägsen.
@svarog81268 жыл бұрын
I just watched the Boyle version, yeah, no contest.
@MrsRosencranz18 жыл бұрын
Swedish version Lutheran, English version Catholic Both are impressive. And Helen is a goddess.
@Miatpi2 жыл бұрын
How is the English version Catholic?
@BerishStarr2 жыл бұрын
@@Miatpi The English one sounds more like a call for God, whereas in the Swedish one she has lost all faith. In Swedish the song speak truth to a lot of atheist's.
@joeymcdonald42146 жыл бұрын
HELEN sings from the very depth of her being . Just think of the listening pleasure that GOD gives humanity through HELEN and she gives thanks by singing THANKS to her very Creator.
@borg222227 жыл бұрын
Such Passion....she seems to be in a trance.....so much in the song.....I notice she sort of drops the mask right at end ....her more calm self wakes up or comes back. Amazing
@richardgornalle45364 жыл бұрын
I discovered this lady only some weeks ago. I am glad I did. She is wonderful.
@alanhall82869 жыл бұрын
Celine could not touch this perfformance.
@alanhall82868 жыл бұрын
Few if any could. \
@JoeJonesABC12314 жыл бұрын
Absolutely brilliant! I keep watching it over and over.
@CodebladeWielder00613 жыл бұрын
One of the best swedish singers of all time!
@kpruck96156 жыл бұрын
Live Performance Favorites und
@crawfty196511 жыл бұрын
Are the audience asleep, do they not feel that this is one of the presentations of a well written B&B song EVER. Goosebumps every time, the first time I heard it in English I cried, it is so so moving, I questioned ny beliefs when I heard this. Amazing Performance. A
I like this song in English, but i LOVE it in Swedish... And that for a Dutchie
@borg222224 жыл бұрын
Watching this again...Helen is just so so powerful....she smoothly Belts it out...full passion and grimace showing so forcefully on her face. She becomes this song...is really ‘taken away ‘ by it...until at the end she pops out of the ‘trance ‘. Fantastic,. Really compare her last “mad” reach fir your hand.....then song ends and she blinked back awake to the real world of the stage, that sweet and innocent smile appears. Where or how did she go? Possessed. Passion.
@carlcummings546510 жыл бұрын
Never saw such feelings put into a song.You can feel the emotions going straight to the heart.
@andrewcrawford58908 жыл бұрын
Both Swedish & English versions cut my stomach with a knife, both are so powerful & pill you in. Magnificent performance by Helen & one of the best pieces written by Benny & Bjorn. It makes it even more painful when you realise Bjorn is an athiest like myself, but You Have To Be There is just damn moving. A
@abbamad62837 жыл бұрын
Another great presentation of a powerful song by Helen, love her.
@VocalMolly11 жыл бұрын
She is so, so so SO fabulous. Love this song and how she sings it.
@OneChiChic9 жыл бұрын
Awesome performance (and I love the lyrics; very moving, touching)