Robyn

I wore my konichiwa records t-shirt, yesterday

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

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

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.

radio 1 a-list though, remarkably!

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

not that that's automatically a good thing, mind

xpost dude i have no idea

xxpost on what bbc thing?

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

a remix of that song seems beyond pointless

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

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.

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

TOP TEN BITCHES :D

lol miss kittin

TOP FIVE BITCHES

plus top 5 = go ladies, generally

"Proper pop". Is this "troo kvlt black metalz!!!!111!!1" for poptimists?

I love this song, but jesus "proper" sounds like a total insult of an adjective when it comes to pop.

WOOOOO HOOO

"with every heartbeat" is about as unproper a pop record as robyn has ever made! i mean, it's basically techno.

I don't think I've actually heard With Every Heartbeat, possibly due to losing interest in Robyn about a year ago. Is it as good as Who's That Girl or Be Mine?

I love how the first two comments under that piece are from Peter Robinson and Alex Needham.

it's very different, matt. it's more sad and wistful. she (and kleerup?) capture something of that superpitcher style of sad equanimity. "who's that girl" and "be mine" are more in the fire of the moment, in the confusion of making tough decisions, and this one is after those decisions have been made, and how in the hell one can live with that.

Tracer do you like that track she's done with Christian Falk? it's good.

the one that sounds like it was recorded live somewhere? "dream on"? i like that one a lot.

but i would, wouldn't i! (actually she and falk have a couple of other songs that i don't like very much)