ROXETTE - DANGEROUS

 DANGEROUS

ROXETTE

SONGWRITER: PER GESSLE

COUNTRY: SWEDEN

ALBUM: LOOK SHARP!

LABEL: EMI STUDIOS

GENRE: POP ROCK

YEAR: 1989

 

            Roxette was a Swedish pop rock duo, consisting of Marie Fredriksson(vocals and keyboards) and Per Gessle (vocals and guitar). Formed in 1986, the duo became an international act in the late 1980s, when they released their breakthrough second álbum Look Sharp! Their third album Joyride, which was released in 1991, became just as successful as its predecessor. Roxette went on to achieve nineteen UK Top 40 hits and several US Hot 100 hits, including four US number-ones with "The Look", "Listen to Your Heart", "It Must Have Been Love", featured on the soundtrack of Pretty Woman, and "Joyride". Their other hits include "Dressed for Success", "Dangerous", and "Fading Like a Flower".

     Before coming together to form the duo, Fredriksson and Gessle were already established artists in Sweden, she having released a number of solo albums and he being the lead singer and songwriter of Gyllene Tider, a band that had three Nº 1 albums. On the advice of the managing director of their record label, the two came together to record "Neverending Love", which became a hit single in Sweden.

           After the release of Don't Bore Us, Get to the Chorus!, a greatest hits record, the duo took a hiatus before returning with the albums Have a Nice Day(1999) and Room Service(2001). They continued to chart in other territories, mainly in Europe, Australia and Latin America, where they earned various Gold and Platinum awards until the beginning of the new millennium. In 2002, the duo took a break from recording and touring when Fredriksson was diagnosed with a brain tumour. Gessle went on to release solo albums and reunited with Gyllene Tider before Roxette took to the stage together again for the first time in eight years, in 2009, during Gessle's European Party Crasher tour. In 2011, they released Charm School, their first studio album in ten years, which was followed by Travelling in 2012. Their final studio album, Good Karma, was released in 2016. Marie Fredriksson died on 9 December 2019, at the age of 61, following a long battle with a brain tumour, and the group was disbanded shortly after Fredriksson's death.

         "Dangerous" is a song by the Swedish pop duo Roxette. Written by Per Gessle, the song was released as the fifth and final single from their second studio album Look Sharp!(1988). Gessle penned it just before Roxette's first tour in 1987. Released in May 1989, it was the group's third top 10 showing on the Billboard Hot 100, spending two weeks at number two in March 1990—kept off the top spot by Janet Jackson's "Escapade". The music video was recorded in the ruins of Borgholm Castle. In the United Kingdom and Ireland, "Dangerous" was released as a double A-side with "Listen to Your Heart".

            The version on the single features a different introduction, omitting the instruments in favour of the duo singing the first line of the chorus.

Oh, just a little bit dangerous

You pack your bag, you take control

You're moving into my heart and into my soul

Get out of my way, get out of my sight

I won't be walking on thin ice to get through the night

 

Hey, where's your work? What's your game?

I know your business but I don't know your name

 

Hold on tight, you know she's a little bit dangerous

She's got what it takes to make ends meet

The eyes of a lover that hit like heat

You know she's a little bit dangerous

 

You turn around, so hot and dry

You're hiding under a halo, your mouth is alive

Get out of my way, get out of my sight

I'm not attracted to go-, go deeper tonight

 

Hey, what's your word? What's your game?

I know your business but I don't know your name

 

Hold on tight, you know she's a little bit dangerous

She's got what it takes to make ends meet

The eyes of a lover that hit like heat

You know she's a little bit dangerous

Oh, just a little bit dangerous

 

Hey, hey, hey, where's your work? What's your game?

I know your business but I don't know your name

 

Hold on tight, you know she's a little bit dangerous

She's got what it takes to make ends meet

The eyes of a lover that hit like heat

You know she's a little bit dangerous

 

She's armed and she's extremely dangerous

She's got what it takes to make ends meet

The eyes of a lover that hit like heat

You know she's a little bit dangerous

Oh, just a little bit dangerous

 

Sa!

Hey, where's your work? What's your game?

I don't know your name

Hey you, oh, just a little bit dangerous

I don't know your name (dangerous)

Due to the exceptional weakness of this song, play loud!