Robyn

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)

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

This and Dancing on my Own get me so amped.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

wrong thread

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

lol yes

New single is fantastic.

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

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

New single is fantastic.

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

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

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.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSqqolW78Oo

Love the bridge.

Curious about the song at the end.

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.

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

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

this is pretty nice

Lyric video.

http://youtu.be/HIG7PVa8SS8

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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"

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.

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.

lol @ pitchfork naming this best new track

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

the EP should be interesting. A couple of the tracks are almost 10 mins long

I thought "Hang With Me" was a great single too.

Hang With Me is so underappreciated, I think - that's my favorite Body Talk song

^^^

"hang w/me" not QUITE as good as the non-electro version of "bum like you" imo but that's some pretty fine hair splitting

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), Thursday, May 1, 2014

yeah, this is truth. love her performance of that song from the letterman show, without reservation.

Non-electro Bum Like You totally the most underappreciated and best S/T song!

electro bum like you v duff