Dangerous

I was a fan of Roxette because their vocals seem to blend well together. My favorite song from this band is called, 'Dangerous". Although, there are other songs from them that other people might have liked better, than this song, I still like this song the best because of the twisted lyrics, and of course, the cool sounding music, which accompanies those lyrics.
Roxette is from Sweden, and they enjoyed world wide success, from the late 80's, until the mid 90's, when their second album 'Look Sharp', was released.
This song hit #2 on the Billboard charts, when it was released near the end of 1989, and stayed at #2 at the beginning of 1990.
This song was written by Per Gessle, the male member of the singing duo, who is also a songwriter and guitarist. The other member of the singing duo is Marie Fredriksson. She is a singer and pianist. Before she became a member of Roxette she was experience a lot of success on her own, until after some years of talking about forming a band named Roxette with Per Gessle. They finally agreed to form the band in 1986, even though her friends, and people in the music industry were skeptics, about this band, when Marie was discussing the union, with Per Gessle.




What is the name of your favorite song from Roxette?

Life In A Northern Town

When I first heard this song it made me think about the small northern town that I grew up in. I have been told that we were kind of like in a backwards time warp, because we were a hair behind with progress, when compared to more populated areas like cities. And when we talked, we didn't talk like we were well educated, even though our school taught difficult subjects.
I use to remark to others that if you would blink your eyes, while you were driving through our small town, you would miss seeing it.
I know, it wasn't that bad, but we even talked different than people, whom I met when I was in the Army. Kind of like a mix of french Canadian English, and American Indian English, which gave us a weird sounding accent, which I didn't realize that I had until I moved away from my home town.
I don't really know, what else to compare it to, so don't hate me if you are originally from my small town, because it is not meant as an insult. The accent is what makes us unique as individuals.
I hope that you enjoy this song as much as I do when I listen to it, because it really is a very peaceful sounding song.



Did you grow up in a small town?