History Music / TheCardigans

* PrecisionFStrike: With her band's benign-sounding instrumentals and Nina's soft vocals, it's shocking to hear her say "They're '''fucked up''' and annoying but somehow you seem to care" on "Losers".

* NonAppearingTitle: "Lovefool" has both "love" and "fool" in it many times, but never together. "Been It" lists many things the narrator has "been" but the title phrase never appears. "Pikebubbles", "Country Hell" and "Happy Meal" are all straight-up non appearing titles.

* StepUpToTheMicrophone: The band's guitarist/songwriter Peter Svensson [[SpokenWordInMusic has a long, spoken-word section all to himself]] on the track "Closing Time" from the Swedish/Japanese edition of ''Life''.

* SpokenWordInMusic: "Closing Time", the final track on ''Life'', features a long middle section in between instrumentals where [[StepUpToTheMicrophone guitarist/songwriter Peter Svensson tells the listener]] [[WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue what happened to some of the characters mentioned in the album's previous songs.]]

* ForeignLanguageTitle: ''Gran Turismo'', which is an Italian word that means "a high performance automobile".

* ForeignLanguageTitle: ''Gran Turismo''.

** The title of their first album, ''Emmerdale'', comes from [[{{Series/Emmerdale}} the popular British sitcom of the same name.]]

** The title of their first album, ''Emmerdale'', comes from [[Series/Emmerdale the popular British sitcom of the same name.]]

* NonAppearingTitle: "Lovefool" has both "love" and "fool" in it many times, but never together. "Been It" lists many things the narrator has "been" but the title phrase never appears. "Travelling With Charley never mentions Charley by name, "Pikebubbles", "Country Hell" and "Happy Meal" are all straight-up non appearing titles.

** The more famous version of the "Lovefool" video, with the band inside a bottle floating over water, is actually the second version of the video. The original features elderly women in lingerie.

* LongTitle: "I Need Some Fine Wine And You, You Need To Be Nicer"

'''The Cardigans''' are a [[UsefulNotes/{{Sweden}} Swedish]] pop group formed in 1992. Their big US airplay hit was "Lovefool" from their third album ''First Band on the Moon'' (and perhaps more pertinently [[BreakawayPopHit featured in the ''Film/WilliamShakespearesRomeoAndJuliet'' soundtrack]]), though their big hit album internationally was the DarkerAndEdgier follow-up ''Gran Turismo'', featuring the European hits "My Favourite Game" and "Erase/Rewind".

!Tropes associated with The Cardigans:

* MultipleEndings: The video for "My Favourite Game". After placing a rock on her car's accelerator and causing havoc on the freeway, Nina crashes her car into a van coming the other way. You then get one of four endings:
** She is thrown over the top of the van and lands in the road, then gets up and walks away.
** She is thrown over the top of the van and lands in the road, dead.
** She is thrown over the top of the van and starts to get up, but is then hit by the rock and killed.
** She hits her own windscreen and is decapitated. Only the head ends up in the road.

'''The Cardigans''' are a [[UsefulNotes/{{Sweden}} Swedish]] pop group formed in 1992. Their big US airplay hit was "Lovefool" from their third album ''First Band on the Moon'' (and perhaps more pertinently [[BreakawayPopHit featured in the ''Romeo + Juliet'' soundtrack]]), though their big hit album internationally was the DarkerAndEdgier follow-up ''Gran Turismo'', featuring the European hits "My Favourite Game" and "Erase/Rewind".

* [[EpicRocking Epic... er, Rocking?]]: "Cocktail Party Bloody Cocktail Party". Nearly 16 minutes of a lounge piano medley of tunes from ''Life'' with cocktail party sound effects in the background.

** ''Long Gone Before Daylight'' - if not actually full-on alt-country, then certainly heavily influenced by that style.

* OneHitWonder: They're labelled as this due to "Lovefool", but both "My Favourite Game" and "Erase Rewind" charted in many places.

* ShoutOut: In its album version, "Black Letter Day" has a spoken verse with a shout out to the astronomer Tycho Brahe.
** The album ''Gran Turismo'' was named after the [[VideoGame/GranTurismo video game]] which they played frequently during the tour for ''First Band On The Moon''. And appropriately, the sequel included "My Favourite Game" (which .

* WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue: On the Swedish edition of ''Life'', the final track "Closing Time" tells us what happened to some of the characters from the other songs. (In brief: they all lived HappilyEverAfter).

* {{Bowdlerize}}: "My Favourite Game" has a tamer version where Nina is just seen driving. Although that version still shows she occasionally lets go of the steering wheel completely.
* BreakupSong: "My Favourite Game".

* LongRunnerLineUp: A shining example; the band's line-up has remained unchanged since 1992, with only a hiatus in-between.

A [[UsefulNotes/{{Sweden}} Swedish]] pop group formed in 1992. Their big US airplay hit was "Lovefool" from their third album ''First Band on the Moon'' (and perhaps more pertinently [[BreakawayPopHit featured in the ''Romeo + Juliet'' soundtrack]]), though their big hit album internationally was the DarkerAndEdgier follow-up ''Gran Turismo'', featuring the European hits "My Favourite Game" and "Erase/Rewind".

* LongRunnerLineUp: A shining example; the band's line-up has remained unchanged since 1992.

** The album ''Gran Turismo'' was named after the [[VideoGame/GranTurismo video game]] which they played frequently during the tour for ''First Band On The Moon''.

Swedish pop group formed in 1992. Their big US airplay hit was "Lovefool" from their third album ''First Band on the Moon'' (and perhaps more pertinently [[BreakawayPopHit featured in the ''Romeo + Juliet'' soundtrack]]), though their big hit album internationally was the DarkerAndEdgier follow-up ''Gran Turismo'', featuring the European hits "My Favourite Game" and "Erase/Rewind".

* ShoutOut: In its album version, "Black Letter Day" has a spoken verse with a shout out to the astronomer Tycho Brahe.