Music Review: David Guetta & Sam Martin "Dangerous"

David Guetta & Sam Martin

Dangerous

Album: Listen

Year: 2014

                Sam Martin is smitten with his free spirited girlfriend in the uncertain      “Dangerous.”

              An enthralled piano opens the single, setting a rhapsodic tone.  Before she leaves, she waves to him and tells she’ll talk to him later. For a moment, he has to think of something to say. He says, “ok.” One year later and he still is enraptured by her that he forgets his train of thought. So far, the plan is go out with her parents. With any other girl, he would’ve ran by now. However, he wants to know what makes her tick. (“You take me down/Spin me around/You got me running all the lights/Don't make a sound/Talk to me now/Let me inside your mind.”)

                  Freezer burned synths begin, still left in the package from the 80s.

              In the pre-chorus, he is in love with her. He grew up a lot because of her. She made him want to be better. It’s leading to a deeper emotional place he’s never been. (“I don't know what you're thinking sugar/But I just got that feeling sugar/I can hear the sirens burning/Red lights turning/I can't turn back now/So hold on tight.”)

             In the chorus, he doesn’t know what’s going to happen between them. In another year, they could have a child or broken up. It’s the real world they have to battle every day. He’s at the point that he will be damaged if it doesn’t work out like he hopes. (“I don't know where the lights are taking us/But something in the night is dangerous/And nothing's holding back the two of us/Baby this is getting serious/Oh oh oh/Dangerous/Oh oh oh.”)

            He asks to hear one of her darkest secrets. What is she afraid to tell him? She is perhaps the kindest person he’s ever met. He wants to the relationship to be ok with her, on terms she can handle. (“Show me your soul/I gotta know/Bet that you're beautiful inside/Toes on the glass/Car moving fast/Come take the wheel and drive.”)

          The pre-chorus and chorus are sung again.

           A swaggering guitar appears, giving the illusion of cool.

         In the bridge, he can’t enough of her. He wants to be around her all the time. (“It's dangerous, so dangerous/I wanna do it again/Come on baby/It's dangerous, so dangerous

I wanna do it again/It's dangerous, so dangerous/I wanna do it again.”)

              The chorus is sung again to end the single.

           Underrused operatic synths close the single.

             Martin’s scant vocals lack depth. There is no curiousity. He’s only interested in the thrill.

            Guetta’s  slapdash arrangement had some potential. The piano in the beginning has an ethereal quality to it and the operatic synths give it heightened ending. However, the middle is the stereotypical rubber beat.

          The meager “Dangerous” takes the easy way out.