Dangerous (Rumer song)

Joyce explained that "Dangerous" was about her fear of re-entering the music industry following bipolar disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder and ADHD, only translated to a love song: "I had so much resistance to going back into writing and performing publicly again that I realised I wasn't going to be able to break through it until I literally wrote a song about the resistance itself."[1] She songs on the song, "It's taken me a long time to feel better babe / I've only just begun to feel my heart again."[4] Helen Brown, a writer for The Daily Telegraph, suggested the line "You want me to let go/ You want me to lose control/ But I don't want to lose control," was a response to "critics who find her too smooth and safe."[5] Musically, "Dangerous" is an uptempo, 1970s-inspired disco pop track[6] that includes strings, jazz-esque bass, and a funk guitar section in its instrumentation,[4] and the song differs from most of her music for being upbeat and disco-tinged.[7]

Glasswerk called "Dangerous" an "instant classic."[8] Tom Ingham praised Joyce's vocal performance as her "most colourful and charged" to date.[4] The Observer critic Paul Mardles, labeling most of Into Colour as "flat" and "forgettable," found "Dangerous" to be the album's most memorable track for its disco style.[9] Writer Paul John, however, criticized it for being a "slightly dishonest representation of the remainder of the album," but nonetheless called it "a wonderful song in and of itself."[6] The Daily Express described it as a "smooth and sexy hommage to the elegant days of early disco. Less 'sweaty dancefloor' and more 'martinis and mirrorballs.' Just the way we like it."[10]

On 15 October 2014, a video for the song "Dangerous" was released.[11] Directed by Anthony Byrne and produced by Jess Bell, the video depicts a manager for a ballet company who crushes on a male ballet dancer.[11]

Adapted from the liner notes of Into Colour:[12]