"Dressed for Success" | ||||||||||||||
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Single by Roxette | ||||||||||||||
from the album Look Sharp! | ||||||||||||||
B-side | "The Voice" | |||||||||||||
Released | 3 August 1988 | |||||||||||||
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Recorded | 1988 at EMI Studios in , Sweden | |||||||||||||
Genre | Pop rock | |||||||||||||
Length | 4:09 | |||||||||||||
Label | EMI | |||||||||||||
Writer(s) | Per Gessle | |||||||||||||
Producer(s) | Clarence Öfwerman | |||||||||||||
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"Dressed for Success" is a song by the Swedish rock duo Roxette, released in mid-1988 as the first single from their second studio album, Look Sharp! (1988).
The recording of the song was marked by a dispute between the band members, but this apparently contributed to the strength of Marie's performance.
"I was so mad when I did it. Everything about that session went wrong, we argued about the arrangement, we changed the key, I was dead tired of the song when I went in to do a guide vocal. Did it in one blast and suddenly realized, "hmm... this is it"."
—Marie Fredriksson, Don't Bore Us, Get to the Chorus! liner notes.
The music video for the song mostly revolved around the duo performing together in "nightclub ruins" as several dancers and groups of party-goers swayed to the song.
All songs written and composed by Per Gessle.
*sales figures based on certification alone
^shipments figures based on certification alone