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* [[Broken Base]]: Agnetha fans vs. Frida fans. Because two women can't ''possibly'' [[Cat Fight|get along with each other]].
* [[Cargo Ship]]: "Dum Dum Diddle". Some guy/violin.
* [[Common Knowledge]]:
** "When I Kissed the Teacher" is considered a song about a [[Teacher-Student Romance]], which falls under [[Values Dissonance]] in the 21st century. But all the song discusses is how a student has a crush on her teacher and kisses him in the middle of him re-explaining an exercise in the lesson, and he is shown to be just as shocked as the students.
** "ABBA made disco tracks" or "ABBA is a disco band" is another one, when the band mostly did 1970s' pop music and occasionally followed trends. While ABBA made a disco album ("Voulez-Vous") their most famous disco track is "Dancing Queen", a song released years before from the ''Arrival'' album.
* [[Ear Worm]]: Just about ''every'' song.
* [[Even the Girls Want Her]]: This is often the discussion when it comes to Agnetha and Frida, though the former tends to meet this more often than the latter, though she has some female
* [[Funny Aneurysm Moment]]: Any music video of the band in an automobile like "Tiger", "Money, Money, Money", and "That's Me" seems hard to watch after one considers the fact Agnetha [[No One Could Have Survived That|almost was killed in a bus crash]] in 1983, with a [[Only a Flesh Wound| minor concussion]] despite the force of the impact was enough to threw her into a random field.
* [[Harsher in Hindsight]]:
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** The music video of "Under Attack" ends with the band members walking out of the warehouse into the daylight, reminiscent of an "[[And the Adventure Continues...|And the Adventure Continues]]" ending, but would later become the last time the world would see ABBA together until their album ''Voyage'' in 2021.
* [[Hilarious in Hindsight]]:
** The ''"alright, alright, alright, alright"'' from "So Long", which would later become [[Memetic Mutation]] attributed to ''[[Dazed and Confused]]'' (by extension, [[Matthew McConaughey]]) and [[OutKast]]'s "Hey Ya!"
** The song "Nina, Pretty Ballerina" from ''Ring, Ring'' is about a shy woman who wows night club crowds with her dancing every Friday night. Almost 40 years later, the movie ''[[Black Swan]]'' starring [[Natalie Portman]] was released, which was about a trainee ballerina with self-esteem issues called Nina.
* [[Internet Backdraft]]: Criticism of this group is near impossible due to the fans.
* [[Iron Woobie]]: Frida
* [[Magnum Opus]]: ''Arrival'' and/or ''The Album''.
* [[Memetic Mutation]]: Keep in mind that many ABBA memes are only known within the fandom.
** ABBA: The X<ref>Started with ''The Album'', then ''The Movie'', ''The Folio'', ''The Scrapbook'', and nowadays there's ''The Forum'', ''The Site'', etc.</ref>
** "What does kinky mean?"<ref>A line spoken by Benny in the movie, used whenever someone says "kinky" for whatever reason.</ref>
** "Sweaty, obsessive fans."<ref>A general description of (usually) hardcore Agnetha fans.</ref>
** "How can I answer to that?" <ref> Agnetha's answer to Greg Evens's question when asked about her body. </ref>
** The idea of listening to "Dancing Queen" when you're seventeen-years-old is a common one outside the fan circle. YouTube comments to the videos usually mention they're listening the night before their seventeenth birthday or that they cannot listen to it now they've turned 18.
* [[They Changed It, Now It Sucks]]: Some fans blast ''Voulez Vous'' for being more disco-oriented.
* [[True Art Is Angsty]]: Many critics who diss ABBA tend to sing praises for ''[[Cerebus Syndrome|The Visitors]]''.
* [[Vindicated by History]]: The more pretentious type of rock critic (and rock fan) liked to deride
▲* [[Vindicated by History]]: The more pretentious type of rock critic (and rock fan) liked to deride Abba during their heyday as being little better than bubblegum pop; as Bjorn pointed out in a 2002 Australian interview, "for the main part of the group's lifespan, the critics despised us". These days, a lot of people appreciate the group for their musical and vocal craftsmanship, and for their innovation in the field of music video (see [[Trope Codifier]]).
* [[What Do You Mean It's Not for Kids?]]: Sure, their songs are all love-and-peace-and-some-more-love and the kids love to sing along with them. But:
** "Honey Honey" is really about sex, so much that in the version heard in ''[[Mamma Mia!]]'', when the lines "you do your... thing" and ''[[Refuge in Audacity|"you're a dog-gone beast"]]'' are sung, the singer is [[Lampshade Hanging|clearly enjoying herself]].
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