I'm sorta joking with a few of these interpretations. β¦if not entirely.
Let's see:
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Being ghosted
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Altruism (you should be altruistic)
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Being in a rock band (as performed by a band whose thing isn't specifically rock)
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Sitting in a palm tree
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King Kong
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About the least compelling, most cringeworthy defense of space exploration I've ever heard
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How bigotry (in this case, misogyny) starts influencing children at an incredibly young age
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Flying off to somewhere tropical because you're Swedish and extremely cold (there're several of these ones in their oeuvre, in fact)
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The bourgeoisie, abstractly
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Wanting to kiss your teacher
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The existential horror of being 26 years old (or maybe 31)
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Wanting to fuck a violinist
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How to escape the endless cycle Dolly Parton discussed in Nine to Five
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Vore
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The Mexican Revolution
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Dollkink
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Pickup artists (derogatory)
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Being responsible with precocious teenagers
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Using medical misinformation as a pickup line
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Divorce, strictly (as opposed to just breaking up)
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Being a plural system
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Literally just the tale of the Pied Piper
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Going on vacation to France soon before a relationship ends
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Gangstalking
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The feds
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Girlbosses who gaslight and gatekeep
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War propaganda (it's bad)
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Mail-order brides
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Narcissistic personality disorder
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Predator/prey play (not in the vore sense)
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Being Irish
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Christmas, from the perspective of a grandchild of one of four incredibly famous Swedish musicians
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Rekindling a relationship that's been over for forty years
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Alcohol use disorder
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Custody battles
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The current mass extinction event
Putting the "spoliers" (to songs that are one or fifty years old) under a cut.
- Ring Ring (1973)
- Ring Ring
- He Is Your Brother
- Rock 'n' Roll Band
- Waterloo (1974)
- Sitting in the Palmtree
- King Kong Song
- What About Livingstone
- Suzy-Hang-Around
- ABBA (1975)
- Tropical Loveland
- Man in the Middle
- Arrival (1976)
- When I Kissed the Teacher
- Dancing Queen
- Dum Dum Diddle
- Money, Money, Money
- Tiger
- Fernando
- The Album (1977)
- I'm a Marionette
- Voulez-Vous (1979)
- Angeleyes
- Does Your Mother Know
- Lovers (Live a Little Longer)
- Super Trouper (1980)
- The Winner Takes It All
- Me and I
- The Piper
- Our Last Summer
- Elaine
- The Visitors (1981)
- The Visitors
- Head Over Heels
- Soldiers
- Two for the Price of One
- Should I Laugh or Cry
- Under Attack
- Voyage (2021)
- When You Danced With Me
- Little Things
- Don't Shut Me Down
- I Can Be That Woman
- Keep An Eye On Dan
- Bumblebee

