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doyoulikethissong-poll · 7 months ago

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Roxette - The Look 1989

"The Look" is a song by pop duo Roxette; Sweden's second-best-selling music act after ABBA. It was released in early 1989 as the fourth single from their second studio album, Look Sharp! (1988). The album was an immediate commercial success in their home country, spending seven weeks at number one on the Swedish Albums Chart. "The Look" was written by Per Gessle as an exercise while learning how to operate the Ensoniq ESQ-1 synthesizer he had recently purchased, using a repeated A–G–D bass line as the song's core. The track's sixteenth-note rhythm was inspired by the work of ZZ Top. The original title was "He's Got the Look", with the lyrics using male pronouns. Gessle said this was done because he initially wanted Marie Fredriksson to sing the track. Both he and EMI Sweden had chosen to highlight Fredriksson as Roxette's lead vocalist. However, when recording the demo, Gessle realised the song "didn't fit her style that well, so I had a go and it sounded OK."

The singles from Look Sharp! at the time were only released in Sweden, Germany and France. However, an American exchange student from Minnesota named Dean Cushman returned from Sweden and gave his copy of the album to his local Top 40 radio station, KDWB-FM in Minneapolis. The station's program director Brian Phillips initially ignored Cushman's request to play a song from the album, leaving the CD unplayed in his office for several weeks. Phillips eventually listened to it after learning Cushman had come to the office requesting the return of his CD. Immediately impressed by the album's opening track, "The Look" was played by the station for the first time on US radio less than an hour later, and the response from listeners was overwhelmingly positive; the station immediately began receiving phone calls to replay the track.

KDWB began distributing the track to their sister radio operations, sending 500 copies to other stations throughout the United States. EMI America promptly signed the duo to a recording contract as a result of the airplay. The label had previously rejected Roxette as "unsuitable for the American market". The song had already entered the top fifty of the Billboard Hot 100 before official promotion began, peaking at number one on the chart eight weeks later. This made "The Look" the third number one single by a Swedish act on the Billboard Hot 100, following Blue Swede's "Hooked on a Feeling" (poll #152) in 1974 and ABBA's "Dancing Queen" in 1976.

The track went on to top the charts in 25 countries. It spent three weeks atop the New Zealand Singles Chart, and six weeks at number one in Australia, where it was certified platinum for sales in excess of 70,000 copies. It also topped the charts throughout Scandinavia. The song spent five weeks at number one in West Germany, and an additional five weeks at number two. It was a massive success in Spain and Switzerland, spending eight weeks at number one in both countries. It reached number seven on the UK Singles Chart.

"The Look" received a total of 80,5% yes votes!

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sailorsoapbox · 1 month ago

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Roxette - Fading Like A Flower

#sailor moon #usagi x mamoru #roxette #sailor moon gifset #fading like a flower #song lyrics #my gifs

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fuitgummybat · 2 years ago

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Friends, as a massive new wave fan, I have developed a theory: Every new wave song is somewhere between punk, goth, and disco.

My proof:

Big thanks to @dartheritis for their help

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tranquilitybasehotelcasino · 3 months ago

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yahar

#my art #gijinka #roxette #look sharp #autoheart #punch #the black keys #let's rock #u2 #achtung baby

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strawbyarts · 1 year ago

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roxette shenanigans (ft. hayner and pence)

requested by @chirithy564 - ☆

#request #roxette #roxlette #rokulette #roxas #olette #hayner #pence #twilight town gang #kingdom hearts #kh #kh art #fanart #ship art #digital art #strawbs art #roxas x olette #olette x roxas #rarepair

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virtuouswhitehatorganization · 3 months ago

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Why It Wasn't Until The Rehab Center Scheme That Don Porccini Was Exterminated By Black Hat?

We know from the fake and real story of Don Porccini watching over Heed it didn't get him Black Hat's wrath. It probably was because he wasn't going to think about being a hero here and just was doing dirty work for a hero or a hero aligned businessman. It would just simple like that. This wouldn't get him eliminated by Black Hat.

I think this was the turning point for the reason why Black Hat now wanted him dead because he was helping a heroine by going against and framing his fellow villains (even if they are rookies). Again it seems outright helping a hero doesn't get you condemned by actively going against the organization to become a hero is another.

And again this pig thought he could easily leave the life of villainy after being aligned with Black Hat who is notoriously emphasizes the consequences for trying to think of leaving evil behind. Even if he was a fake hero, that still would get in trouble because he wants to any type of hero is an insult to Black Hat.

As emphasized in the manual, if Black Hat suspects someone is thinking of leaving the hero life he will hunt them down and eliminate them. And again Don Porccini feared for his life because again he knew the dire consequences of what would happened but took it anyway because he saw the perks of being a heroes and thought it outweighed invoking Black Hat's anger.

Ultimately he played his hand too much and ended up invoking Black Hat's wrath by betraying his contract and paying with his life with not even PEACE willing to honor their deal since they had no reason to.