"Det gör ont ibland", with Petter, is a hidden track on the first track's pregap. Robyn described the duet as the "most hip hop" song she had recorded to date. "Aftonbladet" Per Bjurman described "Play" (the first track) as world music-tinged, and Lucas called it "as playful a song as 's ever recorded". It is followed by the R&B "My Only Reason", whose lyrics describe a bad relationship. Next is "Underneath the Heart", a piano-guitar-and-string ballad whose lyrics describe the desire to help someone else feel better, which was compared by a critic to the catalogue of American singer Toni Braxton. The fourth track, "Electric", is an electronic funk song with reggae elements; it uses positive and negative energy as metaphors for the close relationship between love and hate. The title track has a "convinced relativism", according to Robert Christgau, and Robyn wrote the song in 1997 about feeling misunderstood. The sixth song, "Main Thing" (which samples Shot's 1986 single of the same name), explores the deep house, disco and funk genres. Robyn wrote the song (about her ex-boyfriend) in February 1999, while she was working with Masters at Work in New York.