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Pt. 3 is the best one yet, to my ears. Most of it is smart dance-dolly trash.

look at it, pwn3d, made u look at my peen/vadge (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 8 December 2010 12:12 (thirteen years ago) link

It's come closest to forcing me to think, "I understand why indie kids like her."

look at it, pwn3d, made u look at my peen/vadge (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 8 December 2010 12:12 (thirteen years ago) link

Love Kills maybe favourite track of the whole lot

but she really really must drop these arpeggiated synth patterns forever now

modrić in paradise (blueski), Wednesday, 8 December 2010 14:36 (thirteen years ago) link

cant believe she left "cry when u get older" and "include me out" off the final album, those were two of the best EP songs, but hey, maybe it gives fans a reason to go check 'em out in reverse (for those who buy the full album first)

i genuinely thought when i first joined that he was the admin (ilxor), Wednesday, 8 December 2010 14:53 (thirteen years ago) link

Yeah, "Include Me Out" was the one I was most disappointed not to see on the full length.

Lightning Is For Babies (Johnny Fever), Wednesday, 8 December 2010 14:54 (thirteen years ago) link

I'm enjoying the full album a lot now, it could well end being my favourite album of the year.

I never realised just how great None Of Dem is, the last minute is just amazing. We Dance to the Beat has grown on me a lot, I didn't rate it on part 2. Out of the new songs Call Your Girlfriend is easily my favourite.

If you ignore Dancehall Queen I think the second half is a lot stronger. The Snoop track is still my favourite song from the whole project.

Kitchen Person, Wednesday, 8 December 2010 23:18 (thirteen years ago) link

one month passes...

Having Dance Hall Queen instead of Cry When You Get Older is a terrible decision

I am so down with Robyn, people. But in all seriousness, how could she leave Cry When You Get Older off the Body Talk album? That could be the hook of the year, fer crying out loud. Geez Louise!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

kornrulez6969, Friday, 14 January 2011 19:27 (thirteen years ago) link

same reason she left off "include me out" from pt. 2 -- gotta give fans an incentive to go hear the other great tracks on the EPs!

ilxor, Friday, 14 January 2011 19:31 (thirteen years ago) link

I haven't even heard part 2 yet. I'm new to Robyn and trying to wrap my head around the idea that my favorite music of 2010 is basically disco. (I'm old and rockist)

kornrulez6969, Friday, 14 January 2011 19:41 (thirteen years ago) link

think of it like madonna. her run of '80s albums is rockist approved, right?

ilxor, Friday, 14 January 2011 19:52 (thirteen years ago) link

that, or MJ Off the Wall/Thriller, maybe?

ilxor, Friday, 14 January 2011 19:52 (thirteen years ago) link

I like at least 3 songs from Body Talk pt 1 more than any Madonna song.

kornrulez6969, Friday, 14 January 2011 19:58 (thirteen years ago) link

three weeks pass...

Robyn Is Here is one of very few fond memories of the late 90s. begins with a bang....

door to door legume salesman (San Te), Wednesday, 9 February 2011 03:22 (thirteen years ago) link

two months pass...

Revisited Pt 3 this week because I don't think I ever gave it a proper chance, and I'm really glad I did. Call Your Girlfriend and Time Machine are killing it.

I think what I really like about the best parts of the album is that her vocal melodies are very traditional and not "formulaic" as such, but quite obvious, and she's got a very conventional pop singer voice, but the music itself borrows straight from more obtuse dance music from recent times. The synth arpeggi are a bit over-used but an imaginary 12" instrumental of most of the songs on this could work in a muscular techno set, and this duality in the music really works with her persona. Robyn herself comes across as such a three-dimensional character, managing to seem both tough and self-assured yet vulnerable and wounded without it ever seeming false to who she paints herself as, and the music echoes that - neither so fluffy as to suggest vacuousness or so challenging as to indicate unapproachability.

o0o00h really? (boxedjoy), Saturday, 9 April 2011 12:50 (thirteen years ago) link

"Call Your Girlfriend" is to my ears the best thing she's ever recorded.

Hey Look More Than Five Years Has Passed And You Have A C (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 9 April 2011 12:54 (thirteen years ago) link

two months pass...

Wow, she busts out the Electric Slide! Killing the "Edge of Glory" clip for entertainment value.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6ImxY6hnfA

Spinspin Sugah, Thursday, 7 July 2011 21:45 (twelve years ago) link

That album is great. That song is great. That video is great. She is great.

This is a new found this for me, this Robyn love, and I'm sorta head over heels tbh.

my ponies hate you (ENBB), Thursday, 7 July 2011 21:48 (twelve years ago) link

This and Dancing on my Own get me so amped.

my ponies hate you (ENBB), Thursday, 7 July 2011 21:49 (twelve years ago) link

Yeah, she's the best in my book. I'm glad she went with this as a single and the clip is like some awesome figure skating meets Pleasure Principle thing that just amplifies the song even more.

Spinspin Sugah, Thursday, 7 July 2011 21:56 (twelve years ago) link

I think she's hot in the Dancing on my Own video

Muttley vs. Mumbly (CaptainLorax), Thursday, 7 July 2011 22:08 (twelve years ago) link

two years pass...

Robyn and Royksopp are releasing a mini album together next month.

http://pitchfork.com/news/54757-robyn-and-royksopp-announce-new-mini-album-do-it-again-share-monument-preview/

The Girl & The Robot is one of my favourite songs of recent years so I'm very excited for this.

Kitchen Person, Monday, 14 April 2014 19:50 (ten years ago) link

Great artwork. Interesting to see a couple of songs on there almost ten minutes long.

http://boomkat.com/downloads/981464-r-yksopp-robyn-do-it-again

Kitchen Person, Monday, 14 April 2014 19:52 (ten years ago) link

pretty excited about this, could be very nice. the clip sounds good too.

dyl, Monday, 14 April 2014 19:56 (ten years ago) link

the new john newman "stay with me" is "hang with me" slowed down to funereal pace and bullshit gospel accompaniment

TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 16 April 2014 15:26 (ten years ago) link

sorry my mistake, the newman song is actually ripping off "won't back down" by tom petty...

wrong thread

TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 16 April 2014 15:28 (ten years ago) link

it's also by sam smith rather than newman i think

all is fair in love and womp (monotony), Thursday, 17 April 2014 02:28 (ten years ago) link

lol yes

TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 17 April 2014 09:33 (ten years ago) link

New single is fantastic.

http://nymphaeax.tumblr.com/post/83509940902/royksopp-robyn-do-it-again

Kitchen Person, Tuesday, 22 April 2014 16:03 (ten years ago) link

Just realized that there will be no ill-conceived Diplo productions on the mini-album. Yay!

Herbie Handcock (Murgatroid), Tuesday, 22 April 2014 16:26 (ten years ago) link

New single is fantastic.

http://nymphaeax.tumblr.com/post/83509940902/royksopp-robyn-do-it-again

― Kitchen Person, Tuesday, April 22, 2014 9:03 AM (28 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

This is not real, by the way. Some Popjustice forum poster decided to put together the already-released snippets of the song.

Herbie Handcock (Murgatroid), Tuesday, 22 April 2014 16:34 (ten years ago) link

Oh right. I thought it was more or less the full song. Sounds promising then. Apparently it comes out on Monday so not long to until we hear it properly.

Kitchen Person, Tuesday, 22 April 2014 16:40 (ten years ago) link

Love the bridge.

Herbie Handcock (Murgatroid), Saturday, 26 April 2014 04:42 (ten years ago) link

Curious about the song at the end.

Herbie Handcock (Murgatroid), Saturday, 26 April 2014 04:45 (ten years ago) link

Lyrically it's not the most inspiring song but the music I love everything else about it. The last minute sounds so great and gives me Pet Shop Boys vibes.

Kitchen Person, Saturday, 26 April 2014 14:09 (ten years ago) link

it's the sort of scandibanger that should've been all over the icona pop album(s)

all is fair in love and womp (monotony), Saturday, 26 April 2014 15:06 (ten years ago) link

the way she sings "ah-gain" repeatedly kinda reminds me of hyph mngo

all is fair in love and womp (monotony), Saturday, 26 April 2014 15:07 (ten years ago) link

this is pretty nice

dyl, Saturday, 26 April 2014 15:42 (ten years ago) link

Lyric video.

http://youtu.be/HIG7PVa8SS8

This is already on iTunes. No idea if this going to be a hit or not.

Kitchen Person, Wednesday, 30 April 2014 14:43 (ten years ago) link

The "We should not be friends" bit is where the song really gets amazing.

Kitchen Person, Wednesday, 30 April 2014 14:45 (ten years ago) link

seems like basically anything can be a hit in the UK these days so who knows.

the bridge is really something - the tremor in robyn's voice, the way everything just seems to endlessly rise and rise

ginuwine's cousin (monotony), Wednesday, 30 April 2014 23:46 (ten years ago) link

Pretty dope. I'm a longtime fan of Girl and The Robot and this ain't on that level but it's worth a dozen listens easy.

sitting on a claud all day gotta make your butt numb (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 1 May 2014 12:59 (ten years ago) link

i'm going with a big nnnnnnopes on this one :/

TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 1 May 2014 21:11 (ten years ago) link

It's....okay? It's like she listened to Femme Fatale two months ago and decided to reproduce it.

guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 1 May 2014 21:12 (ten years ago) link

Oh shit yeah, I've been thinking it reminds me of something since I heard it. Just realised it's I Wanna Go.

Still really like it though.

Kitchen Person, Friday, 2 May 2014 00:12 (ten years ago) link

i guess there are some femme fatale-y production tricks on display but i heard it as a sped-up synthesis of "with every heartbeat" and "indestructible"

ginuwine's cousin (monotony), Friday, 2 May 2014 00:33 (ten years ago) link

new one's okay. hard to live up to this, though, which i've been listening to a lot over the past few days

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TlwcQn5eBI

still one of the best pop songs of the last 10 years.

Daniel, Esq 2, Friday, 2 May 2014 00:39 (ten years ago) link

Yeah I agree. Along with The Girl & The Robot, With Every Heartbeat, Be Mine, Who's That Girl, Dream On and Call Your Girlfriend she's going to have one amazing singles collection one day.

Kitchen Person, Friday, 2 May 2014 00:47 (ten years ago) link

lol @ pitchfork naming this best new track

dyl, Friday, 2 May 2014 01:02 (ten years ago) link

nothing will beat Dancing on My Own, so we just have to deal, embrace the new even tho we know the truth.

obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Friday, 2 May 2014 01:14 (ten years ago) link


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