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Post by Zeebee on Sept 6, 2016 20:35:02 GMT
It looks more like Agnetha is the one looking into the wrong camera.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 7, 2016 8:30:55 GMT
I don't think it's a case of the wrong camera for either of them, I think they're giggling in advance at doing the wornout profile/frontal routine once again. Anyway, it's very cute, and it almost makes me swallow that annoying song!
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Post by shoshin on Sept 7, 2016 11:59:55 GMT
 Ah no, it's definitely a Frida-induced event! Run it from 2:07 to 2:10, freezing it at 2:10. Slow it down to half speed for best results  Frida is supposed to be turning to look straight into the camera, with Agnetha turning away from it to look across her at right angles: the classic ABBA video stance. But Frida has lost her bearings. She keeps on turning past the active camera and focuses behind Agnetha instead. You can then see her catch Agnetha out of the corner of her eye and correct herself as surreptitiously as possible. Agnetha tries to stifle a smirk, while Frida wisely transforms her face into a smile of sweet Fernando-friendly serenity. Generally, Frida always did have a bit more trouble locating her active camera than Agnetha; there are loads of examples of this. My theory is that because Frida was the more natural performer, Agnetha had to do her homework when it came to camera angles and production instructions. But it might be worth taking that debate into its own thread 
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Post by Deleted on Sept 7, 2016 12:25:01 GMT
But for your theory to hold water, there must have been an actual 'wrong camera' to look into. right? How come all the angles are frontal (full, at an angle, or bizarrely, from someone dangling from the ceiling)? She even looks back and to the left at around 3:13? (Hey, this was fun, I should have studied law instead of wasting my youth listening to ABBA!) |
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Post by shoshin on Sept 7, 2016 22:03:26 GMT
But for your theory to hold water, there must have been an actual 'wrong camera' to look into. right?.. You're right, dammit. I should have just said she was looking the wrong way, for reasons unknown. |
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Post by shoshin on Sept 11, 2016 22:47:46 GMT
Appearing on East German tv, each ABBA member is given a board with their name on it. The production team has pulled off the tricky 'Agnetha' spelling, and even the accent is correct for 'Bjorn'. However, 'Anni-Frid' is not so successful.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 14, 2016 20:44:38 GMT
^^^
Three out of four is not bad, but still not quite worthy of the Pulitzer Prize.
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Post by shoshin on Oct 5, 2016 22:35:14 GMT
Earlier in this thread I posted Agnetha's 'one twirl too many' So Long gaffe. Maybe she was counting the twirls in similar fashion to the following video. Here, all Agnetha has to do is count to three, so that on the fourth beat they all say 'Happy New Year' together. But she helpfully counts the 'four' too, forgetting that she can't do this while starting to say the line at the same time |
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Post by shoshin on Jan 25, 2018 0:18:03 GMT
A microgaffe here, all taking place within the first couple of seconds before the lipsynching starts. Agnetha looks disturbingly calm and motionless, while Frida looks a bit on edge. After a couple of seconds Frida seems to think Agnetha isn't noticing her cue, so she sort of motions towards her with her left arm. Agnetha comes to life just in time; it isn't clear whether she had it covered all along, or whether Frida's prompt helped.
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Post by shoshin on Feb 19, 2018 22:14:32 GMT
Earlier in this thread I made the keenly disputed claim that A & A almost cracked up during Fernando because Frida had struggled to locate the active camera for one of their trademark side view/front view poses. I think she makes the same minigaffe here 
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Post by wobblenit on May 6, 2018 6:37:26 GMT
A subtle one that made it to a promo video. Very subtle but once you notice it, it's hard to un-notice. Agnetha has to swallow, just as the line "it's simple and it's plain" needs miming. She gets away with it as she is miming, but if she was singing, she would have had to stop.
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Post by abbafan456 on May 25, 2018 17:09:45 GMT
Agnetha and Frida start out their dances slightly out of sync and Agnetha has to subtly try to synchronize with Frida.
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Ah no, it's definitely a Frida-induced event! Run it from 2:07 to 2:10, freezing it at 2:10. Slow it down to half speed for best results 
