"Spending My Time"
Single by Roxette
from the album Joyride
Released	1991
Genre	Pop
Length	4:49 (album version)
Label	EMI
Writer(s)	Per Gessle, Mats Persson
Roxette singles chronology
"The Big L" (1991) "Spending My Time" (1991) "Church of Your Heart" (1992)
"Un día sin ti" Single by Roxette from the album Baladas En Español B-side "Timida" ("Vulnerable") Released November 29, 1996 Genre Pop Label EMI Writer(s) Per Gessle, Mats Persson & Luis G. Escolar Roxette singles chronology "She Doesn't Live Here Anymore" (1996) "Un día sin ti" (1996) "No sé si es amor" (1997)

"Spending My Time", written by Per Gessle, was the fourth single released from Swedish pop duo Roxette's 1991 album Joyride. It peaked at #32 on Billboard's Hot 100. A remix was created by MC King Carli and Dr Renault at EMI Studios in Stockholm, Sweden in July 1991, and was included on the single. A Spanish version of the song, called "Un día sin ti" ("A day without you"), was released as a single from the album Baladas En Español.

"Spending My Time" is part of the Brazilian soap opera Dangerous Turkeys- Soundtrack (Perigosas Peruas – Trilha Sonora Internacional - 1992) by Globo TV.^[1]

Contents 1 Music video 2 Track listing 3 Musical Analysis 4 Charts 5 References

[edit] Music video

The video was directed by Wayne Isham, who has worked on other music videos for other popular artists.

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[edit] Track listing

1. "Spending My Time" (electric dance remix)
2. "Spending My Time" (album version)
3. "The Sweet Hello, The Sad Goodbye" (non-album track)
4. "Spending My Time" (electric dance remix/instrumental)

[edit] Musical Analysis

An acoustic guitar based ballad, sung by Marie Fredriksson. The verse is in the key of F#m, while the chorus is in E, later transposing to F#.

[edit] Charts

This song reached the top 10 in Canada and Germany, and was as sizeable hit in many other places worldwide. In South America, the song became as successful as "Joyride" or "It Must Have Been Love". In 1996 - sung in perfect Spanish and called "Un día sin ti" - was the first single off Baladas en Español, reaching the Top 3 in Chile, Argentina, Spain, and many other latin-american countries.

[edit] References

1. ^ http://www.teledramaturgia.com.br/perigt.htm