Upon release, I was embarrassed to admit just how much I liked this band. This is very slick, shiny, professional, pop music; and I was coming out of my hard rock/metal lust and moving towards the indie rock/grunge that was to come. There was nothing "cool" about Roxette, and everybody from 6 year olds to fully grown insurance salespeople found something to enjoy in their music. I had always gravitated to "image" and Roxette severely challenged me to overlook image and take music for what it was.
To be honest, I doubt I would've liked Roxette so much if I hadn't gone through a phase that expanded my taste to include The Fixx and Wang Chung (finding both bands to be quite enjoyable). By this point, I lost my aversion to keyboards and new wave music. "The Look" had a nice Rickenbacker guitar line, but it had a drum machine, synthesizers, and stacked vocals ("Na Na Na Na Na Na", anyone?). "Dangerous" was a full-fledged kitchen-sink production that was potently catchy, so shiny and perfect that only robots could've executed it. This was far simpler and easier to process than most of what I was listening to at the time.
