Dangerous

Album: Listen (2014)
Charted: 5 56
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Songfacts®:

  • This song features Sam Martin on vocals. The American singer-songwriter was also the contributing singer and co-writer on Guetta's "Lovers On The Sun" single. Martin also has writing credits on several of Maroon 5's tunes, including their hit songs "Daylight" and "It Was Always You."
  • The epic Formula 1 themed seven-minute video features Guetta playing the role of a renegade motor racing driver. The clip co-stars actor James Purefoy (Solomon Kane, Rome, The Following) as the rival racer. Actual F1 driver Romain Grosjean makes a cameo appearance towards the end of the visual, on the podium.

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  • Crump Stillerman from Little Rock, Aralways thought this song was about rawdogging
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