Why is Dancing queen supposed to be the best song

A victim of its own success played everywhere at all occasions even funerals. It is my favourite. I can’t help but feel happy when I hear it.Takes me right back to the never ending summer of 1976. What a great year. Best summer ever and Abba churning out the hits. But Fernando and KMKY are up there too. We are lucky that Abba have such a fabulous catalogue good songs.

What more can I say that Josef hasn't said already..

Just look at the video , smile and understand that it really can't be beaten for making you happy and joyous..

its at my own funeral and want everyone singing dancing and laughing, what better way is there to go

What's beyond dispute, I'd argue, is that DQ is THE iconic ABBA song. Why? Obviously being a bloody good song helps. But there are other factors too. It not only perfectly captured the zeitgeist that was abroad in 1976. (More than that, the fact it came out in SUMMER helped secure its place in the pop pantheon. Would it have caught the mood and the imagination in quite the same way if it had been released in dreary November? I don't think so.) It also came out at exactly the right moment in ABBA's career trajectory. It represented that last step forward after the perilous ascent, the final defiant planting of the flag in the summit of pop music - a flag that said: "We're here - and we're going nowhere for the foreseeable future". If 'Waterloo' represented Base Camp and 'SOS' represented the long-awaited, tricky and successful negotiation of a treacherous icefield, then 'Mamma Mia' and 'Fernando' saw them confidently strike out for the top in fair conditions. DQ, though, gave them - finally - the ability to look down from the roof of the musical world.

Part of that was the fact that it summed up in three minutes who ABBA were, what they could do and what they were about. Of course, there were many other sides to ABBA. But DG is as good a mission statement as they ever produced. Plus, of course, its mega-success (for all the reasons stated above) gave it an almost mythical status almost immediately. HOWEVER, its standing would undoubtedly have eroded over time if ABBA hadn't been able to back it up with a blistering series of further mega-classics. Otherwise, might it perhaps have ended up as another piece of mid-70s pop flotsam, now largely forgotten? Yes, the fact that DQ sits as (arguably) the centrepiece of an unbelievable body of work has only added to its allure and renown.

Having said all that, I'd probably place it at around number 25 in my personal ABBA Top 100! But that doesn't detract from its status as the iconic, surely the quintessential, ABBA song.

Adding my opinion...

Dancing Queen tackles just about everything a music connoisseur wants in a perfect song:

-A driving groove (thanks Rutger and Ola)
-The turn-it-up arrangement
-A crossover between electronic and acoustic (Benny's synthesiser and the Swedish strings blending it together)
-Something that stands out (the girls' glamourous war cries)
-Smooth and edgy - we already have that with the melodies and the bass

And what a feeler of music wants:
-The ambiguity between the positive connotation and negative connotation of what it means to be a dancing queen, what it feels to see a dancing queen. Even VICE claimed it was the saddest song ever made because they said the narrator knows she is no longer the dancing queen and has little choice but to accept that "you" are the dancing queen. It's kept simple and tidy.
-Catchy lyrics. The abundance of active verbs keeps the listeners occupied; YOU dance, YOU jive, SEE the girl, WATCH that scene, they PLAY the right music, LOOKING out, GET the chance, etc.
-Straight up telling of the scenery. It's hard to define the song without scenery and it's obviously a nightclub.

It's apolitical, irreligious (unless you may interpret Dancing Queen is a Quinceanera thing, which is unlikely, because it's "17"), innocent, and free from tragedies. It's a three-minute lecture of why it's worth partying when you're a teenage (lady).