Trivia / Roxette

• Breakaway Pop Hit: The aforementioned "It Must Have Been Love". To a lesser extent, "Almost Unreal", though they're less than proud of it.
• Creator Backlash:
  • Per has gone on record as saying that "Almost Unreal" sounds like a parody of the band's style, and is generally unhappy with the way its release was handled. However, being that it was the credits theme to the Super Mario Bros. live-action movie, it's how a lot of people in the US came to know and love them. Besides that, Per became angry that the song ended up in that film soundtrack instead of Hocus Pocus, because he didn't believe that the song would not fit in with a film about three witches and a talking cat. Look at the lyrics sheet where the chorus has a Title Drop for the film that the song was intended for.
  • "Fireworks" has consistently been ignored on Roxette's compilation albums, to the point that it didn't even make it on to the box set The Rox Box, which included all the other singles. Judging by Per's comments about the song in an interview with a fan site, he doesn't seem to be very fond of the song.
• Revival by Commercialization: "The Look", after its reappearance in Rock Band.
• Screwed by the Network: A change in top management at EMI in 1992 resulted in everyone who'd help make them such a success in the USA before that being laid off. Coupled with changes in the musical landscape this meant the end of Roxette's USA success.
• Sleeper Hit: The record company originally didn't want to release "The Look" as a single in the US, since they didn't think an unknown Swedish band were worth promoting. An American exchange student handed his copy of Look Sharp to a DJ at his local station in Minneapolis, who liked the song and sent out tape copies to affiliates... eventually the record company realised that they had a radio hit and had to release the single and the album in the US.
• Throw It In!: The introductory lyrics to "The Look" were guide lyrics - words just scribbled down just to have something to sing to the tune while working on it - Per couldn't come up with anything better and decided to roll with it, saying later after the song became a smash hit "Everyone gets lucky sometimes."