"Super Trouper" is a song by the Swedish pop group ABBA, and the title track from their 1980 studio album of the same name, written by Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus.
In February 2020, saxophonist Ulf Andersson, who toured with ABBA in the late 1970s, revealed that name-checking Glasgow was a coded love note from Björn Ulvaeus to then-wife Agnetha Faltskog.
"[5] However, in 2014 lyricist Björn Ulvaeus wrote about the creation of the song for The Singles box set, hinting it was inspired by his new fiancé Lena Källersjö: "weaving a story around that title was no problem for a man, who had fallen in love again."
[11] The track was the fourth biggest selling single in the UK for 1980 and sold 709,000 copies in United Kingdom in 1980 alone.
[12] As of September 2021, it is the group's second biggest song in the country with 982,000 pure sales and 40 million streams.
[13] Record World said that the song "deals with onstage loneliness" and that "engaging vocal interaction bounces resoundingly.
The spotlight featured throughout the video is, in fact, a CCT Silhouette profile spot with followspot kit, as opposed to a real Super Trouper.
The city of Glasgow mentioned in the lyric was suggested by Howard Huntridge who worked with their then-UK publishers Bocu Music.
Parts of the video were later reused in the clip for the song "Happy New Year" (which also features on the Super Trouper album).
The video shows a girl so obsessed with the band that she owns posters, magazines, mugs, clothing, and a key chain.
In the first few seconds of the video, before the actual song starts, Mamma Mia can be faintly heard in the background.
The song is performed by the whole main cast (Christine Baranski, Pierce Brosnan, Cher, Dominic Cooper, Alexa Davies, Josh Dylan, Colin Firth, Andy García, Jeremy Irvine, Lily James, Amanda Seyfried, Stellan Skarsgård, Hugh Skinner, Meryl Streep, Julie Walters and Jessica Keenan Wynn) and it was produced by Benny Andersson.