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i have entered a contest to become her "roadie" - watch out world

― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 17:32 (nineteen years ago)

haven't really listened to the UK one through as a whole but I think the running order of the original album (if you take out robotboy and the skits) is perfect

― RJG, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 17:40 (nineteen years ago)

lex her whole thing before this album was modelling herself on US R&B, doing the same accents and vocal inflections - she worked very diligently on this stuff in new york so it's not surprising to me that some mary j would have rubbed off on her

really?! i haven't heard any of her previous stuff - i really can't imagine it because her voice on 99% of what i have heard is so...pert, full of those quirky cutesy tics which really bug me. and when i do enjoy her voice (ie when she calms the fuck down and stops being pleased with herself enough to let actual emotion through, ie 'with every heartbeat' and 'be mine') it doesn't sound r&b at all, it sounds ike kate bush. and on the album when she does lean in the r&b direction, it sounds like a really insincere piss-take.

so this is interesting! do you have any of her old stuff you could send/burn me?

― lex pretend, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 18:38 (nineteen years ago)

And in case people DON'T know, despite it having been mentioned loads of times, Robyn also did the original version of Bev Knight's super-fantastic "Keep This Fire Burning". She looked well scary in the video which had some painted blokes in it. I love her.

edward o (upthread)

― fandango, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 19:04 (nineteen years ago)

so this is interesting! do you have any of her old stuff you could send/burn me?

http://www.dailymotion.com/visited/search/robyn%2B%2B%2Bshow%2Bme%2Blove/video/xbws6_robyn-show-me-love

her most famous song. I think it's about 10 years old. it always make me think of the film with the same name(the swedish title of the film is fucking åmål) by lukas moodysson.

this one came out 5 years ago:.
http://www.dailymotion.com/visited/search/robyn%2B%2B%2Bshow%2Bme%2Blove/video/xnmas_robyn-keep-this-fire-burning

lex her whole thing before this album was modelling herself on US R&B

not entirely true. her second album from 1999 was quite experimental and eclectic, but she went back to her r&b-pop roots on her third album in 2002. the album discussed on this thread is her forth.

― Lovelace, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 20:10 (nineteen years ago)

fourth*

― Lovelace, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 20:12 (nineteen years ago)

her first single in canada was "Do You Know What It Takes" and there's a whole bunch of Mary J Blige-isms in that tune. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6kH3BQeqRc

― Jah Q Areas, Thursday, 22 March 2007 19:17 (nineteen years ago)

....so at the beginning over her career in north america, she was clearly still in thrall to US R&B, mid-90s edition

― Jah Q Areas, Thursday, 22 March 2007 19:19 (nineteen years ago)

'do you know what it takes' is pretty great! the other two are like low-rent low-interest british r&b, it doesn't surprise me that bev knight covered one of them. no more taking ms blige's name in vain though, robyn's voice is more on a samantha mumba level.

― lex pretend, Thursday, 22 March 2007 22:43 (nineteen years ago)

quirky cutesy tics??

― fandango, Saturday, 24 March 2007 01:50 (nineteen years ago)

is Robyn the new Neneh Cherry ?

― djmartian, Thursday, 29 March 2007 17:14 (nineteen years ago)

Robyn is a real woman made of blood and cheese. Fuck, I love her moosh.

― TynanTynan, Thursday, 29 March 2007 22:08 (nineteen years ago)

enjoyed her show at Cargo tonight. did 'Dream On', 'With Every Heartbeat', 'Jack U Off' n' all.

― blueski, Thursday, 29 March 2007 23:25 (nineteen years ago)

Two encores! Two versions of "Be Mine"! Having two drummers on the first few songs made them sound almost... tribal??

She did a wonderful slowed-down version of "Show Me Love", which was a great surprise.

The sound was crystal clear although there were a few hiccups - feedback, buzzing - but whatever.

She forgot the words in the middle of what - "Handle Me", I think?

(I was right in my unvoiced theory about "Bum Like You" - the new beefed-up electro album version of it sets her up to do the heart-breaking acoustic version in concert. IT'S ALL PART OF THE PLAN.)

A wonderful show, a really supportive crowd. And a merch table! Just like a real scrappy rock n roll band. She mentioned that she's on her own record label now and she "did it all myself" - you could see that she's really proud of that.

I can't remember being so hopelessly in love with a singer.

― Tracer Hand, Friday, 30 March 2007 11:26 (nineteen years ago)

I wore my konichiwa records t-shirt, yesterday

― RJG, Friday, 30 March 2007 12:06 (nineteen years ago)

I wore my konichiwa records t-shirt, yesterday

-- RJG, Friday, March 30, 2007 5:06 AM (10 hours ago)

yeah right.

― TynanTynan, Friday, 30 March 2007 22:10 (nineteen years ago)

OK I've been into Robyn since "Who's that girl" but it's been bugging me people saying she did a song called "Show me love" in the 90s. I am pleased to discover thanks to this thread that it is not the song "Show me love" by "Robin S", a track I particularly despised in my adolescent years.

The real one's pretty crap though right.

"Cobrastyle" is very good also.

― Not the real Village People, Friday, 30 March 2007 23:25 (nineteen years ago)

yeah right?

― RJG, Saturday, 31 March 2007 00:06 (nineteen years ago)

three weeks pass...

I played some Robyn tracks in my journalism class, and everyone said she sucked. They then blasted that John Mayer track ("Waiting on the World to Change"?), and I couldn't hear Robyn. I was sad.

― Tape Store, Thursday, 26 April 2007 03:03 (nineteen years ago)

Le sigh.

― The Reverend, Thursday, 26 April 2007 03:23 (nineteen years ago)

ALARM!

ROBYN @ DINGWALLS 14th June 2007
£8.00 @ www.seetickets.com
Doors are 8pm
Reduced tickets (£7) from Robyn's web site!

― CharlieNo4, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 15:06 (nineteen years ago)

two months pass...

still love robyn but the paucity of new tracks is almost annoying. enough w/ the remixes. don't care much for her new logo or sleeve designs, either

― RJG, Tuesday, 17 July 2007 12:19 (eighteen years ago)

tried to pile through all the remixes of Heartbeat yesterday and got fed up. the album version is probably the one i will play the most.

― mark e, Tuesday, 17 July 2007 12:45 (eighteen years ago)

radio 1 a-list though, remarkably!

― CharlieNo4, Tuesday, 17 July 2007 13:05 (eighteen years ago)

not a coincidence surely.

rjg don't worry, everybody has to go through a grunge phase. don't they? i very much like her new logo. but i agree on the sleeve art, it doesn't hold a candle to the orig. album.

― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 17 July 2007 13:50 (eighteen years ago)

appparently she's signed a distribution deal with Island - so - next stop America? or at least Toronto?

― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 17 July 2007 22:40 (eighteen years ago)

I did a quick search and cannot BELIEVE that nobody has used the word hipster to describe her yet. Is it her being Scandinavian that makes people oblivious to the obvious? I write this as some posters seem to harbor some assumption that she is this homespun maverick "just doing her own thing," when a comparison with a certain Diplo protegé would be more apt.

― Jeb, Tuesday, 17 July 2007 23:29 (eighteen years ago)

She started out as a really lame teenpop act with "Do You Really Want Me" and I've never really liked her afterwards either.

― Geir Hongro, Wednesday, 18 July 2007 09:01 (eighteen years ago)

Jeb have fun fighting with those voices in your head, dude

― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 18 July 2007 10:07 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah the word hipster really doesn't get used enough to describe musicians or music fans, let's change this together at ILM!

― DJ Mencap, Wednesday, 18 July 2007 10:16 (eighteen years ago)

here's hoping she has some new songs of her own eventually!!

― RJG, Wednesday, 18 July 2007 10:38 (eighteen years ago)

Diplo IS the 5th Stockholm Teddybear... burn all your MIA CDs now, it's not real music you know!

― fandango, Wednesday, 18 July 2007 10:39 (eighteen years ago)

Jeb have fun fighting with those voices in your head, dude

Huh? ... w/e, pinko. M.I.A. is all right with me, and Robyn's first album is neato in a sugary, ephemeral-fun kinda way. The new stuff, however, treads that baleful space where overly self-conscious indie and dance music at its least hedonistic converge, which is to say that it's pompous garbage masquerading as ebullient, let-it-all-hang-loose music. I would have thought that the discerning ILXor masses would have spotted that in an instant, but it appears not.

― Jeb, Wednesday, 18 July 2007 12:54 (eighteen years ago)

wow looks like someone got hit over the head with robyn's size 10xl boxing gloves this morning.

it is possible to like 'do you know (what it takes)' and 'konichiwa bitches,' dude. and please never use the word 'hipster' again unless you can define it. hint: 'i know one when i see one' doesn't count.

― maura, Wednesday, 18 July 2007 13:11 (eighteen years ago)

maura i'm pretty sure it means having an interesting haircut.

― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 18 July 2007 13:44 (eighteen years ago)

wow looks like someone got hit over the head with robyn's size 10xl boxing gloves this morning.

Ah, a veiled attempt at the old "you're only envious" reply -- musty as ever.

and please never use the word 'hipster' again unless you can define it. hint: 'i know one when i see one' doesn't count.

and please never use the word 'evil' again unless you can define it. hint: 'i know it when i see it' doesn't count.

― Jeb, Wednesday, 18 July 2007 16:42 (eighteen years ago)

evil has many haircuts so it's harder to define, it's not really a fair comparison.

― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 18 July 2007 23:01 (eighteen years ago)

i heard "with every heartbeat" randomly today, as i was walking by a radio! wow!

― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 19 July 2007 23:44 (eighteen years ago)

that song absolutely slays me - bitter, triumphant, sad - about as far from a "pose" as you can get, really

― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 19 July 2007 23:45 (eighteen years ago)

is that guy talking about robyn's first album or not?

― RJG, Thursday, 19 July 2007 23:46 (eighteen years ago)

there's a remix of with every heartbeat on some BBC thing at the moment no?

― RJG, Thursday, 19 July 2007 23:46 (eighteen years ago)

not that that's automatically a good thing, mind

xpost dude i have no idea

xxpost on what bbc thing?

― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 19 July 2007 23:47 (eighteen years ago)

like a preview for a new season of programmes or something...? maybe it's a telly ad for radio stations?

― RJG, Thursday, 19 July 2007 23:49 (eighteen years ago)

a remix of that song seems beyond pointless

― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 19 July 2007 23:49 (eighteen years ago)

pretty sure it sounded different but I admit I am v quick to assume the remix

― RJG, Thursday, 19 July 2007 23:51 (eighteen years ago)

the normal one has a kind of... compressed quality to it that i normally hate but which i think adds to the closeness of it, the intimacy, everything feels like it's squashed up against itself - yet it all sounds as though it's at a slight remove from you as well, like it's some distance off. anyway on tv i bet it sounds even MORE compressed.

― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 19 July 2007 23:58 (eighteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/music/2007/08/robyn_scores_a_triumph_for_pro.html

TOP TEN BITCHES :D

― fandango, Saturday, 4 August 2007 08:36 (eighteen years ago)

lol miss kittin

― Dom Passantino, Saturday, 4 August 2007 09:03 (eighteen years ago)

TOP FIVE BITCHES

― blueski, Sunday, 5 August 2007 23:14 (eighteen years ago)

plus top 5 = go ladies, generally

― blueski, Sunday, 5 August 2007 23:18 (eighteen years ago)

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