How Do You Do!

There is something deliberately sunlit about the way this track opens — a jangly guitar figure, a brisk tempo that feels less like urgency and more like a good mood you can't suppress. Roxette at their peak had a particular gift for writing songs about romantic electricity that didn't tip into saccharine territory, and this is one of their most buoyant examples. Marie Fredriksson's voice here is breathy and light, almost conspiratorial, as though she's sharing something delightful rather than performing for an audience. Per Gessle's guitar work gives the track a slight new wave edge that keeps the sweetness honest. The lyric circles around the giddy disorientation of early infatuation — that period when someone occupies your thoughts so completely that ordinary language starts to feel insufficient. Melodically the song is constructed around a hook that appears to exist in a state of constant forward momentum, like it's perpetually arriving rather than sustaining. It belongs to the early-90s moment when Swedish pop was quietly dominating global charts by being genuinely good rather than trend-chasing. This is the song for a drive with the windows down in late spring, or for the particular mood of feeling unreasonably happy about nothing specific.