YMMV / Wham!

• Eclipsed by the Remix: If you hear "Last Christmas" today it will almost certainly be the 1985 remix (based on the 12" version) rather than the original 7" mix, which has never been reissued since the single's original run. The remix has lots of little differences but the biggest giveaway is that the original had a layered snare and clap on every other beat, right through the song; the remix just has the snare.
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • A particular line in "Everything She Wants" is a little too on-the-nose since George Michael would eventually come out as gay. It's not like he would've been the only person to leave a heterosexual relationship after figuring out he was into something else.
    George: I don't even think that I love you!
  • Another line from "Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go": "Wake me up before you go-go/'Cause I'm not plannin' on going solo". Guess what George Michael does in 1986.
• Memetic Loser: Andrew Ridgeley. He gets this even more than most second fiddles in music mostly due to how he legitimately doesn't contribute much in the studio, with George doing much of the work.
• Retroactive Recognition: The video for "The Edge of Heaven" shows George Michael dancing with Danny John-Jules during the instrumental break, a couple of years before Red Dwarf debuted.
• Signature Song: "Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go", "Careless Whisper", "Everything She Wants", or "Last Christmas".
• What Do You Mean, It's Not for Kids?: The band was a popular act of the Second British Invasion of the early 80s, and had an enormous fanbase of teenage girls on both sides of the pond. However, their songs' lyrics often talk about things that their teenage fans could not understand (for example, "Club Tropicana" satirizes Club 18-30, a package holiday service that was popular in the UK at the time amongst rowdy teens, "Wham Rap! (Enjoy What You Do)" satirizes government assistance from the UK's Department of Health and Social Security for unemployed low-life-type people (hence the initials "DHSS" that are repeatedly chanted during the song) and "Careless Whisper" was based on George Michael's past relationship issues with multiple girls). And not to mention the original version of the "Wham Rap!", which contained hard swear words.

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