Elaine (song)

"Elaine" is a song recorded by Swedish pop group ABBA.

[2] ABBA: Let the Music Speak describes "Elaine" as a "bold and brazen up-tempo number", adding that it has a "wealth of treated synth effects".

The pace remains the same throughout the song, and the intro has a "melodic riff that is squeezed and contorted over a series of suspended chords".

[3] The song has a degree of programmatic irony, as the "extrovert nature" of the refrain juxtaposes "Agnetha and Frida's decisive and cutting unison stabs".

[2] Abba - Uncensored on the Record says the song is "OK, in a rather frantic way", and adds that it "paled in comparison," in the author's opinion, to the song it was paired with in the single "The Winner Takes It All".