The lyric “But every time she asks me do I look ___?” is completed by “okay” in Bruno Mars’s “Just the Way You Are.” The line appears in the song’s chorus, where Mars reassures the woman that she looks beautiful exactly as she is.
Released in 2010 as Mars’s debut solo single, “Just the Way You Are” became the lead single from his album Doo-Wops & Hooligans. The song was written by Mars with Philip Lawrence, Ari Levine, Khalil Walton and Needlz, and produced by the Smeezingtons with Needlz.
A common mix-up is confusing this lyric with the song’s better-known refrain, “’Cause girl, you’re amazing, just the way you are.” “Okay” is the single missing word in the question. The song topped charts in the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and several other countries, and won the 2011 Grammy for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance.