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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })The Visitors is ABBA's eighth and penultimate studio album, released on November 30, 1981. It's notable for being the first popular music album to be pressed onto a Compact Disc with the intention of a commercial release on the format.note It wasn't the first CD outright though (that being a test pressing of a recording of Richard Strauss' An Alpine Symphony) nor was it the first CD of any kind manufactured for commercial release (that being a recording of Fryderyk Chopin's piano waltzes). It wasn't the first CD released either, that being a batch of fifty albums from CBS-owned artists, with 52nd Street by Billy Joel frequently being considered the first CD to be released due to it being the earliest-indexed title in this batch.The year previous, the two couples (Benny and Frida, Bjorn and Agnetha) had divorced, putting strain on their musical partnership. Tired of working together, recording sessions were cold and distant. Frustration over having to use a 32-track digital recording rather than their old one led to a delay, only making things worse. The tensions show themselves in the music. Indeed, it is their darkest and most serious work, filled with songs of failed relationships and paranoia, along with a heavy electronic influence. Gloom hangs over the album, reflected by the cover, where all four members are positioned at opposite sides of a dark room, all studiously ignoring each other.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })Upon its release, it reached the top spot in quite a few European album charts, but its singles did not fare nearly as well, only topping the charts in four countries ("One of Us" hit #1 in Germany, Ireland, and the Netherlands; "Head Over Heels" also topped the latter), shocking at the time compared to their previous releases. The band dissolved in 1983, and wouldn't reunite until 2016; until the release of Voyage in 2021, The Visitors spent decades holding the distinction of being ABBA's final album. | |
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Creator Cameo: In the "Head Over Heels" video, Frida bumps into director Lasse Hallstrom (the guy in the puffy blue coat). | |
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Unreliable Narrator | |
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Unreliable Narrator: The female protagonist of "The Day Before You Came" starts practically every description of her day with the phrase "I must have..." (For example, "I must have read the evening paper then" or "I must have lit my seventh cigarette at half past two"), indicating she thinks she did the event, but she's not quite sure. However, given some of the song's more dark interpretations, this isn't surprising. It's entirely possible that no one is coming after the narrator of "The Visitors" and she's just insane. | |
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The female protagonist of "The Day Before You Came" starts practically every description of her day with the phrase "I must have..." (For example, "I must have read the evening paper then" or "I must have lit my seventh cigarette at half past two"), indicating she thinks she did the event, but she's not quite sure. However, given some of the song's more dark interpretations, this isn't surprising. | |
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Alpha Bitch | |
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Alpha Bitch / Lovable Alpha Bitch: The protagonist of "Head Over Heels" may be one or the other, but the song's narrator seems unsure which. | |
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Flashback Fail | |
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Flashback Fail: The narrator of "The Day Before You Came" went through the day in question on autopilot, to the extent that she doesn't actually have any clear memory of it. She just knows that she didn't deviate from her normal routine to any great degree and so prefaces almost every "memory" with "I must have..." or words to that effect. | |
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Ambiguous Ending | |
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Ambiguous Ending: "The Day Before You Came" says nothing about what happens when the "You" arrives. The gloomy music and dispassionate delivery may suggest that whoever or whatever the "you" is, its arrival didn't make the narrator's life any better. Enquiries to Benny and Bjorn on the subject merely elicit a Shrug of God. | |
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Wham Line | |
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Wham Line: "Two For The Price Of One": | |
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Day in the Life | |
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Day in the Life: "The Day Before You Came". The entire song is a listing of events in a typical day of the narrator. | |
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Three-Way Sex | |
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Three-Way Sex / Twin Threesome Fantasy: "Two For The Price Of One". Done as a "Shaggy Dog" Story ending with the revelation that they're not twins, they're mother and daughter. | |
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Riding into the Sunset | |
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Riding into the Sunset: A variation with the final shot of the group in their very last video "Under Attack" has them walking away from camera in a dark warehouse outside into the bright daylight. | |
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Lemony Narrator | |
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Lemony Narrator: Agnetha in "Head Over Heels". | |
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Anti-Love Song | |
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Anti-Love Song: The voice in "Should I Laugh Or Cry" is frustrated with how pathetic she finds her husband. | |
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Henpecked Husband | |
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Henpecked Boyfriend: Oddly enough, Björn played this to Frida in the "Head Over Heels" video. He reluctantly follows Frida around on her shopping trip and is forced to carry her bags. | |
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This Is No Time to Panic | |
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This Is No Time to Panic: The song "The Visitors" is about a dissident having a panic attack when she believes the Secret Police are ringing her doorbell. | |
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Stalker with a Crush | |
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Stalker with a Crush: "Under Attack" is about being stalked and being in a constant state of fear because of it. | |
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Production Foreshadowing | |
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Production Foreshadowing: If you hadn't already figured out that Benny and Bjorn had ambitions toward musical theatre, "I Let the Music Speak" makes it clear, as it sounds like it could have been lifted directly from a Broadway cast album. The more subtle but better known "The Day Before You Came" is also frequently noted as a precursor to the pair's work on Chess. | |
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Doomed by Canon | |
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Doomed by Canon: | |
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Mood Whiplash | |
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Mood Whiplash: "Two for the Price of One", a humorous "Shaggy Dog" Story about mail-order brides, sits right in between "One of Us", a Break-Up Song, and "Slipping Through My Fingers", a song about the narrator missing out her daughter's childhood. "Head Over Heels", the other humorous song in the album, is in between "The Visitors", a song about a political dissident fearing that they're about to be arrested by the Secret Police, and "When All Is Said and Done", another Break-Up Song. | |
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Mood Dissonance | |
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Mood Dissonance: The expression "an angel passes through the room" refers to an awkward silence. However, though the lyrics of "Like An Angel Passes Through My Room" are about reminiscing alone by the fireplace, the music makes it sound like it refers to an actual religious experience. | |
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Secret Police | |
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Secret Police: Who are probably ringing the doorbell in "The Visitors", since none of her friends would be so stupidly impatient and she is apparently in hiding. | |
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Break-Up Song | |
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Break-Up Song: "When All is Said and Done" is a bittersweet one. The narrator is glad the relationship is over, but she's not unhappy she had it. | |
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One-Woman Wail | |
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One-Woman Wail: Performed by Frida at the end of "The Day Before You Came". | |
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Shout-Out | |
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Shout-Out: In "The Day Before You Came", the narrator says, "There's not, I think, a single episode of Dallas that I didn't see." In the movie soundtrack this is changed to House of Cards. Then she reads some book that, at her best guess, was written by Marilyn French. In the movie soundtrack, this is changed to Margaret Atwood. | |
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Cassandra Truth | |
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Cassandra Truth: "Cassandra" is the Cassandra myth from the perspective of someone who sympathizes with her. | |
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Mail-Order Bride | |
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Mail-Order Bride: In "Two For the Price of One", where the man finds their ad among the relationship ads. | |
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Lyrical Dissonance | |
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Lyrical Dissonance: Granted, this is ABBA's signature trope. "I Let The Music Speak" is about the voice's love of and connection with music, but it sounds bored. Averted with "One Of Us". The tone is as sad as the lyrics. "Two For The Price Of One" cheerfully narrates the life of a depressed man whose life has no meaning. It ends in a wedding march after he meets the younger one of the prostitutes, but it's uncertain which one he married or if it was both. "Slipping Through My Fingers" again averts this by both being and sounding sad. "Should I Laugh Or Cry" relates the voice's despair and frustration over her pathetic and verbally abusive husband in a upbeat tone. "The Day Before You Came" and its video sound and look very sinister, but the lyrics themselves (supposedly) describe a woman's mundane life before she met her lover, and implies that she now leads a more interesting life. That said, the song offers no description of what happens AFTER she meets him; anything could have happened afterwards really. We don't even have much clue of who 'you' is actually addressing… There's a theory she's actually meeting Death and that she's reflecting on her life on last time before moving on to the afterlife. "Under Attack", a song about how scary it is to be paranoid or kidnapped or both, is again surprisingly upbeat. Surprising if you are new to ABBA, at least. "You Owe Me One" has incredibly silly, upbeat music, and yet features some of the darkest lyrics ever in the band's music, indicating being hopelessly doomed in a relationship. And in the second verse | |
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A God Am I | |
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A God Am I: "I Am The City". | |
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Grief Song | |
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Grief Song: "Slipping Through My Fingers". | |
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Sanity Slippage Song | |
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Sanity Slippage Song: "The Visitors": The narrator is paranoid people are coming after her, but maybe she's just insane. She even Lampshades this fact: "You Owe Me One" has the narrator losing their mind frantically due to depression over a failing relationship, a fact captured by its upbeat as opposed to sad music for the lyrics. They hint that they'll have a breakdown if they don't go on holiday to the Bahamas to "get a break from their petty little dramas". "Under Attack" may also be a anxiety-induced hallucination. | |
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War Is Hell | |
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War Is Hell: For civilians, and not just soldiers, in "Soldiers". | |
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Series Fauxnale | |
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Series Fauxnale: For decades, The Visitors stood as ABBA's last album thanks to the band's dissolution in 1983; their reunion in 2016, and the creation of 2021's Voyage, ultimately did away with that. | |
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The Power of Friendship | |
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The Power of Friendship: "When All Is Said And Done". | |
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