Talk:The Day Before You Came

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BetacommandBot (talk) 20:13, 13 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

From the article: (I added the numbers)
"The song minutely details the story of a lonely ordinary office girl's life right before she either (1) met her loved one or (2) met a loved one with whom she'd previously split ((3) another interpretation is before she died)".
I would say it's (1). How would anyone understand it's (2) or (3)? 77.126.27.3 (talk) 18:56, 30 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Definitely agree there, but I still take issue with "but now she is living a much more interesting life". If we are going to say that she is still together with the one that Came, we really need a source for that. I would certainly have assumed from the desperation in how the song actually sounds, that this is sung by someone suddenly in painful need to find her way back to the Day Before, so as to avoid "living without aim". (Of course, seeing that it was the last ABBA song recorded, it could conceivably also be considered an allegory for how the four have to adapt to living without ABBA.) 85.226.205.124 (talk) 09:36, 4 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Wouldn't it be better to write "English-singing solo careers"? 77.126.27.3 (talk) 19:03, 30 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I suppose so, though both sound a bit odd. I've changed it to "English-language solo careers", which sounds most natural to me. (I'm a native English speaker, if that matters.) 86.132.139.119 (talk) 23:37, 15 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Shouldn't "before" be written low case in the title, since it's a preposition? --85.253.85.72 (talk) 03:57, 16 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Style manuals (e.g. Chicago) generally support your opinion on classic title case usage. If The Day before You Came looks a bit untidy, maybe it's because, in that short phrase, only the word other is not an obvious candidate for a capital initial. In commercial contexts like advertising, it's common practice to start every word in a title with a capital, presumably both to maximise the impact and to achieve a more even visual effect. Humboles (talk) 10:27, 13 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

... is precisely why I come to Wikipedia; it saves me having to trawl the entire web for these intelligent musicological analyses, to have them aggregated here. to whomever added the "this article may contain.." tag- what? are you worried about server space? your electricity bill? justify the tag or remove it.

duncanrmi (talk) 13:34, 1 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

There are multiple references in the article to a piece in the big Stockholm daily Dagens Nyheter, and these are cited to "Kultur" in the main text. Now there's no such thing as a guy called Mr. Kultur; the piece was written by novelist Jerker Virdborg, whose name is clearly there at the bottom. I changed one of those points in the text, but can't be bothered to look them all up in this long (somewhat overlong?) WP article. "Kultur" means simply "culture" in Swedish, and it's shorthand for the name of the section of DN that Virdborg's article appeared in ("culture pages", a common feature of major dailies in Sweden though the coverage is nowise restricted to "high culture").

Also, I would caution against using Google Translate, as was done in this case. Anyone who has seen a few texts run through Google's translation software and who is familiar with both languages involved will know that the results can be quite erratic, sometimes even ridiculously wrong (I'm a native speaker of Swedish myself, with English as a second language but no anglophone family background). 83.251.170.27 (talk) 01:59, 18 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Much of original research, based partially on unreliable sources, not confirmed by any reliable source. IMHO all of it should be deleted as no part of those stories have been confirmed by the author of the lyrics or any reliable analyse. I have removed the section concerning murders it contained no single quotation and sounded much as as a made up story. Kicior99 (talk) 01:59, 5 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]