It Just Happens
"It Just Happens" is a song by Swedish pop music duo Roxette, released on 8 April 2016 as the lead single from their tenth studio album, Good Karma. An electropop track, it was their first release under a new deal signed with Warner Music Group. The music video was directed by Tobias Leo Nordquist. Although the song was not as successful as the duo's previous lead singles on commercial charts, it performed well on numerous airplay charts; the track has been broadcast almost 15,000 times on radio in Russia.
Composition and recording
wrote the song specifically for vocalist Marie Fredriksson. It was one of the first tracks recorded for parent album Good Karma, with Gessle saying he presented his original demo to Clarence Öfwerman, Christoffer Lundquist and Fredriksson, and "they all loved it. I never considered it to be a single but the others got a 'Wish I Could Fly'-feel out of it." The track was primarily produced by Lundquist; Gessle said that, while in the studio, Lundquist noted he had "never produced a 'classic' Roxette mid-tempo ballad before", so he "had to have a go". The recording would "set the tone for the whole project." The backing track was recorded in Lundquist's studio Aerosol Grey Machine in Scania, while Fredriksson's vocals were recorded at her home in the Stockholm suburb of Djursholm.Gessle described the chord progression in the verses as "very unlike me style-wise. Haven't got a clue how that happened. It just happened." According to Ultimate Guitar, the track is an electropop song with a vivace tempo of 156 beats per minute. The first verse consists of two sequences—the first of these is made up of Dm–A♯–C–F–E–Am; the second is identical, with the exception of the A♯ being replaced by a G. This is followed by a bridge made up of three repetitions of A♯–F, with the third repetition ending with a C, a chorus consisting of two repetitions of Dm–G–F–C and an A♯–C–F–C sequence, and a post-chorus section of two repetitions of Dm–A♯–F–C. The second verse is made up of Dm–A♯–C–Am–E–Am, followed by the aforementioned bridge. The second chorus amends upwards by almost two octaves, consisting of two repetitions of Dm–A♯–F–C and a concluding sequence of A♯–C–Dm–A♯–C. The post-chorus is then repeated, followed by a final verse of Dm–G–F–G–Dm–G–F–C–A♯–C–F–C. The final chorus and outro consists of repeated sequences of Dm–A♯–F–C.