Does Your Mother Know

a young girl goes to a disco looking for a mate for the night. She spots Bjorn, and he is willing to flirt, but no more, since she is under age

I like how even though song has a modern (well i mean for it's time..a haha) sound/style and all.. the chorus has a bit of 50's rock 'n' roll influence too. that intro and the (faint) sax in the chorus make me love this song.

I love this song to pieces.

And yeah, the first time I heard it was in Johnny English. Seeing Rowan Atkinson dancing to it just made my day.

Yep...and now it's my favourite ABBA song.

This is my favourite ABBA song. I was about 16 when it came out and the beat was great at the disco's. The rumble with drums at the very beginning filled the floor immediately.

In the movie "MAma Mia", there is a scene with a teenage boy who has a crush on a middle-aged woman. The woman sings this song at the boy. It's done for laughs.

I used to go to dances in the late 70's, and young girls were like that. Being over 21 I had to not fall for them. Like it says " Does your mother know" I did take one lady home to meet her mother, only to find she knew my uncle!!

I know that this is NOT what the song is about at all, but I always personally interpreted it as this:

Every post-2001 gay guy has had the experience, especially in high school, of the straight guys making fun of them by not being mean, but by pretending that they're gay to get a reaction out of the guy and make his own friends laugh. Of course, most gay guys are smart enough to see through this charade and walk away, but I always see this song as the gay affirming his stance of never going out with someone who isn't "out" (ergo "does your mother know that you're out?") Haha. I know, it's weird, but it's just my little spin :)

And yeah, I absolutely love this song. I cannot help singing and dancing along whenever it comes on and it is currently my favourite song of all time.

I was already an ABBA fan, but I had never heard this song before my roommate showed me that hilarious bit from Johnny English. I immediately recognized their sound, though, and promptly went searching for it online afterwards.

I really like the way there's like two different (and very different-sounding) refrains - the rockin' "You can dance with me honey" followed by the oddly chirpy little "Take it easy" bit. The contrast between them is weird - it shouldn't work, but it does, and gives this song a unique character that makes it one of their more distinctive tunes. The killer bass riff doesn't hurt, either.

"This is my favourite ABBA song. I was about 16 when it came out and the beat was great at the disco's."

I was about 16 when the film Johnny English came out with this song on the soundtrack. (I'm a huge Rowan Atkinson fan.) I immediately searched the internet and found the title of this, my favorite ABBA song. I've been an ABBA fan ever since.

My favorite ABBA song too. Does Swedish law prohibit relations between +18 and under-18 year olds, like in the USA? "You seem pretty young to be searching for that kind of fun"