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Wow, "Konichiwa Bitches." She must be a Dave Chappelle fan!

― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Friday, 20 May 2005 00:48 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (edwardo), Friday, 20 May 2005 00:53 (eighteen years ago) link

She also did "Do You Know (What It Takes)," which I think was the pop song that really made me reconsider my nonstop alt-rock listening habits when I was 18.

― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Friday, 20 May 2005 01:19 (eighteen years ago) link

Konichiwa Bitches is good!!: Fannypack's 'Seven-one-eight' crossed with Gwen Stefani. I'm not so hot on the ballad-type tracks that clog up the back-end. Jack U Off from the single obviously ace, as someone pointed out around here ages ago.

― alext (alext), Friday, 20 May 2005 06:20 (eighteen years ago) link

There is a killer remix of Be Mine floating around somewhere. I've yet to find it. It's Robyn singing over a heavy as plutonium DAF bassline. Meat Boys remix or something it's called. I was very drunk when I heard it. But it was fantastic.

― Kaiser of Köln (Kaiser of Köln), Friday, 20 May 2005 08:07 (eighteen years ago) link

one month passes...

God this album is great. I can't believe that she did the original version of that 'Keep the fire burning', I adore it but for ages I've wanted to hear a version by someone else (pref Jamelia). Got Emule on the case now.

― Affectian (Affectian), Thursday, 23 June 2005 15:53 (eighteen years ago) link

She'd be like, what, 25 now?

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Thursday, 23 June 2005 16:39 (eighteen years ago) link

Another vote for "Konichiwa Bitches." JJ Fad lives!

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Thursday, 23 June 2005 16:46 (eighteen years ago) link

Yeah! This whole album has a touch of the L'Trimms and the rest of that lot. How long has she been releasing records and what are her best older tracks?

― Affectian (Affectian), Thursday, 23 June 2005 17:14 (eighteen years ago) link

hm, just heard her version of 'fire..burning' and I'm surprised to say that I think Bev still does it best despite her near-total lack of personality. Robyn's vocals just don't *yearn* as much.

― Affectian (Affectian), Thursday, 23 June 2005 17:16 (eighteen years ago) link

Great, another album to add to my ever-growing to-buy list. I've got "Robyn Is Here" and it is really good. I think I bought it when I was in States a couple of years ago. Am I right in thinking she's been pretty successful over there? If so, is there any apparent reason why she isn't in Britain?

― Nick H (Nick H), Thursday, 23 June 2005 20:13 (eighteen years ago) link

I *really* need to hear the rest of this album!

― BARMS, Friday, 24 June 2005 07:34 (eighteen years ago) link

Who produces her now? Surely not Max Martin.

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Friday, 24 June 2005 13:55 (eighteen years ago) link

Robyn has own label, and doesn't want demos:
http://www.konichiwa.se/demo.html

God, she's great.

― edward o (edwardo), Friday, 24 June 2005 14:20 (eighteen years ago) link

Is anyone able to do the album for me, please? Excepting 'Kon'wa, Bitches' and 'Be Mine'. Thanks in advance.

― BARMS, Friday, 24 June 2005 16:27 (eighteen years ago) link

three weeks pass...

If this doesn't get a UK release I am going to have to import it from Sweden.
It rules very much.

― fandango (fandango), Sunday, 17 July 2005 00:29 (eighteen years ago) link

I always see 10 used copies of her album for $1. I really don't think it would be any good

http://image.com.com/mp3/images/cover/200/drd000/d052/d05230qmx27.jpg
I hate looking at that cover.

― Michael Costello (MichaelCostello1), Sunday, 17 July 2005 00:42 (eighteen years ago) link

This is amazing.

― Tom (Groke), Sunday, 17 July 2005 08:35 (eighteen years ago) link

She reminds me of Bob Dylan on "Handle Me".

― Tom (Groke), Sunday, 17 July 2005 08:36 (eighteen years ago) link

It is fantastic, though after "Konichiwa Bitches" I find that it trails off a little. But "Curriculum Vitae" still makes me laugh even though I've played the album 1,325,834 times.

― j0e (j0e), Sunday, 17 July 2005 11:30 (eighteen years ago) link

This album is still awesome. Up there with Fannypack for album of the year, definitely. OK, up there with Tegan and Sara for the no. 2 spot, after Fannypack.

― alext (alext), Sunday, 17 July 2005 12:53 (eighteen years ago) link

ARGH BE MINE NON-IMPORT CHEAP COPY.

― Hari A$hur$t (Toaster), Sunday, 17 July 2005 17:24 (eighteen years ago) link

I don't like "Be Mine!" though. :(

― Tom (Groke), Sunday, 17 July 2005 21:33 (eighteen years ago) link

four weeks pass...

Holy shit, why didn't anyone force me to listen to this earlier? Album of the Year, possibly.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 14:37 (eighteen years ago) link

EdwardO, get over yr hate of "Konichiwa," bitch!

And this might be the one & only time I'll agree w/ Dom P. Ever. Forever ever.

― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 15:07 (eighteen years ago) link

"Bum Like You" is seriously in my top 5 singles of the year so far. Is this still not set for a domestic U.S. release? If not, that is a massive oversight on someone's part.

― Legroom at the Vista (Bent Over at the Arclight), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 15:09 (eighteen years ago) link

'Be Mine' is perfect in every way, from the swoop of the strings to the jitter of the beats to the jacking of 'Time After Time' to the amazing lyrics.

'Konichiwa Bitches' is just begging for an electrohouse remix: fantastic lyrics, great delivery, beat which sounds like a reject Casio demo.

I like 'Who's That Girl?' too, really should get round to the rest of the album as I'll clearly love most of it, but I can't be arsed to import or download.

― The Lex (The Lex), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 15:13 (eighteen years ago) link

I'm really surprised Tom doesn't like 'Be Mine'!

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 15:14 (eighteen years ago) link

Great album.

― marc h. (marc h.), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 15:55 (eighteen years ago) link

This is really great! Love love the spoken part on "Be Mine." And the album is pretty solid all the way through.

I am also surprised Tom doesn't like "Be Mine."

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Monday, 22 August 2005 04:29 (eighteen years ago) link

I even like the ballads!

― fandango (fandango), Monday, 22 August 2005 06:03 (eighteen years ago) link

Several months later I am not remotely bored of this album, no UK release yet? tsk, madness, in terms of godlike unavailability it will doubtless be to 2005 what Lene was to 2003 and Utada to 2004 except (whisper it) even better.

"Who's That Girl?" goes from strength to strength, THIS is my single of the year now (assuming it gets a release, anywhere, ever)

― Alex in Sheffield (Alex in Doncaster), Monday, 22 August 2005 07:57 (eighteen years ago) link

According to her website it was just released as a single...

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Monday, 22 August 2005 07:59 (eighteen years ago) link

Daver, I don't hate Konichiwa Bitches so much, it's just that it should be SO MUCH BETTER THAN IT IS WITH THAT TITLE. Though I had a really good idea of what two songs it sounded like and I've now forgotten. ALSO DAVER ANSWER MY EMAILS you mean thing you.

"Who's That Girl" is out as a single now in Sweden, the remixes don't seem to do it for me that I've heard. SUrely "Crash & Burn Girl" has to be a single too, D-D-D-DOWN is a MIGHTY HOOK bit.

(I think Utada is out in the UK this year)

― edward o (edwardo), Monday, 22 August 2005 08:08 (eighteen years ago) link

Konichiwa Bitches is perfect.

What on earth would improve it? An ODB, Ludacris, Missy Elliot guest verse??

― fandango (fandango), Monday, 22 August 2005 08:16 (eighteen years ago) link

More Missy-esque daft rhymes like in the second verse would help a bit.

― edward o (edwardo), Monday, 22 August 2005 08:20 (eighteen years ago) link

I am not sufficiently up to speed on Robyn developments, clearly. Any remixes, sub-par or otherwise, would be received pretty delightedly at the address below...

― Alex in Sheffield (Alex in Doncaster), Monday, 22 August 2005 09:12 (eighteen years ago) link

"Konichiwa Bitches" is definitely a masterpiece within a masterpiece. I think it is ideal just the way it is.

I'm pretty big on every song on the record, even the trio of ballads at the end that no one ever seems to talk about.

― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Monday, 22 August 2005 13:45 (eighteen years ago) link

"BUM LIKE YOU"! "BUM LIKE YOU"! "BUM LIKE YOU"! "BUM LIKE YOU"!

― David R. (popshots75`), Monday, 22 August 2005 13:47 (eighteen years ago) link

Ha, make that a quartet of ballads then.

― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Monday, 22 August 2005 19:29 (eighteen years ago) link

two weeks pass...

this album is...

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 07:04 (eighteen years ago) link

great!

― jmeister (jmeister), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 07:19 (eighteen years ago) link

UTTERLY FANTASTIC

― sean gramophone (Sean M), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 08:26 (eighteen years ago) link

yeah it's good

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 08:51 (eighteen years ago) link

konichiwa bitches is the best title

― Googley Asearch (Toaster), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 10:05 (eighteen years ago) link

"Bum Like You" makes my day!

― djangojones (djangojones), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 12:11 (eighteen years ago) link

I have gotten over my Konichiwa Bitches hate. I didn't hate it, I just thought with that title it should be her dissing LOTS of punks. Sexily. But it kind of is, I guess.

― edward o (edwardo), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 12:23 (eighteen years ago) link

three weeks pass...

anyone found a website that will let me import this to the UK? i don't really feel like getting into an eBay bidding war for something that's on my computer already. but it is GREAT and i want to have it (and wouldn't mind paying robyn for the privilege).

― sean gramophone (Sean M), Sunday, 2 October 2005 21:21 (eighteen years ago) link

CD-Wow is *in* the UK, no?
A bargain

― vinegar (Koens), Sunday, 2 October 2005 21:36 (eighteen years ago) link

WHOA

thank-you-sir!

― sean gramophone (Sean M), Sunday, 2 October 2005 21:58 (eighteen years ago) link

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oh my god at remixes by Avalon Emerson AND Floorplan, this album truly is a gift that continues to give

― vision joanna newsom (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 6 July 2020 16:09 (three years ago) link

i wish i liked that floorplan remix more

― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 6 July 2020 16:38 (three years ago) link

I love that Floorplan remix. The clicktracky feel reminds me of those South African house tracks from ten years ago that I’ve been digging recently.

― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Friday, 10 July 2020 12:23 (three years ago) link

i like the floorplan remix, the sax lick makes it pop for me, otherwise a little hood-by-numbers

avalon emerson remix is clearly on another level though

the rest of the remixes (i think there were 6? 8? total) did not sound great to me but i barely touched them so ymmv

― carin' (map), Friday, 10 July 2020 21:32 (three years ago) link

three weeks pass...

Hello.

5/8 🧩 pic.twitter.com/NUCkztq7AS
— Robyn (@robynkonichiwa) August 3, 2020

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 3 August 2020 16:15 (three years ago) link

took me a second to determine that suggested August 5 and not "Part 5 of 8"

― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 3 August 2020 16:17 (three years ago) link

woo sounds potentially good

― dyl, Monday, 3 August 2020 16:18 (three years ago) link

oh damn

― Give me a Chad Smith-type feel (map), Monday, 3 August 2020 16:33 (three years ago) link

I thought she was rating her song 5 out of 8.

― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 3 August 2020 16:37 (three years ago) link

I thought she was clarifying that this was simply five-eights of the full track

― vision joanna newsom (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 3 August 2020 17:22 (three years ago) link

I think you are not Europeans

― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Tuesday, 4 August 2020 16:40 (three years ago) link

how dare you

― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 4 August 2020 16:41 (three years ago) link

https://a.wattpad.com/cover/223083531-352-k230359.jpg

― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Tuesday, 4 August 2020 17:50 (three years ago) link

I guess it's a song she's featured in with Channel Tres (who is v fun live when I saw him open for Robyn)

― self-clowning oven (Murgatroid), Tuesday, 4 August 2020 23:43 (three years ago) link

I mean I shouldn't say "I guess" since she literally posted about the song on social media

― self-clowning oven (Murgatroid), Tuesday, 4 August 2020 23:43 (three years ago) link

ayo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6olJF2LPRM

― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 5 August 2020 18:38 (three years ago) link

this rules

― ufo, Wednesday, 5 August 2020 21:00 (three years ago) link

It's fine, doesn't nearly reach the heights of either Robyn or Channel Tres at their best but whatever

bigger question is who is this SG Lewis guy that I've literally never heard of until 24 hours ago, wikipedia says he's been around for like 2-3 years now? where have I been

― self-clowning oven (Murgatroid), Thursday, 6 August 2020 00:35 (three years ago) link

i wondered the same after "experience" (victoria monét, khalid and him) came out. still haven't sought out much of his other work but he must be pretty good!

― dyl, Friday, 7 August 2020 03:03 (three years ago) link

one year passes...

apologies if already posted but i just saw this for the first time and i’m basically a mess now

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMR9M1RNd/

― Tracer Hand, Monday, 13 September 2021 19:43 (two years ago) link

ugh i need new robyn

― Linda and Jodie Rocco (map), Monday, 13 September 2021 19:48 (two years ago) link

that was cool, glad they did the whole song and not just part. What was that from?

― akm, Monday, 13 September 2021 19:54 (two years ago) link

that was my question too. apparently maya rudolph had a show with martin short?? it lasted 6 episodes.

― Tracer Hand, Monday, 13 September 2021 21:26 (two years ago) link

That sounds like plenty.

― a hallan shaker loon (dowd), Wednesday, 15 September 2021 14:22 (two years ago) link

lol

― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 15 September 2021 16:17 (two years ago) link

For some reason I never checked out the album she did with Röyksopp until recently. It's really good! It was like a getting a surprise new Robyn album.

― Cow_Art, Wednesday, 15 September 2021 16:37 (two years ago) link

four weeks pass...

A new guest appearance

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

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 14 October 2021 02:27 (two years ago) link

🎤🎶 "I'm in the corner..." 🎶 pic.twitter.com/a0IVnVJa5e
— Josh Kantor (@jtkantor) October 13, 2021

― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 14 October 2021 02:33 (two years ago) link

context for people who don't care about baseball
https://www.mlb.com/news/red-sox-adopt-new-postseason-song-for-2021

― When Young Sheldon began to rap (forksclovetofu), Friday, 15 October 2021 20:52 (two years ago) link

here is a video of the boston red sox singing “dancing on my own” pic.twitter.com/2wtPGMC20Q
— 🎃🍂 maggie graber 🍁💀 (@magraber) October 12, 2021

― When Young Sheldon began to rap (forksclovetofu), Friday, 15 October 2021 20:52 (two years ago) link

It's not quite We Are Family

― ✖, Friday, 15 October 2021 20:56 (two years ago) link

One time, years ago, I requested "Dancing on My Own" at karaoke and it wasn't until I was on stage and the music started that I realized they were playing a karaoke version of the sad cover, not the original...

― glenn mcdonald, Friday, 15 October 2021 21:17 (two years ago) link

There's an NYT article about it as well that I found really charming.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/15/sports/baseball/red-sox-dancing-on-my-own.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage§ion=Sports

― Lily Dale, Saturday, 16 October 2021 00:36 (two years ago) link

it really bums me out that the first link that pops up when you google "Dancing on My Own" is the stupid cover and not Robyn

― Roz, Saturday, 16 October 2021 06:25 (two years ago) link

i host karaoke and a few weeks ago someone requested dancing on my own and left the artist blank, so I assumed the Robyn version. When it started up she stomped a foot and yelled over to me “no not the dumb remix, the original!” and that was the day I learned about the famous cover version

― Clay, Saturday, 16 October 2021 07:54 (two years ago) link

I remember hearing local radio playing a poppers o'clock remix of the sad cover and feeling it was possibly the most redundant piece of music ever - just play the original!

― hamicle, Saturday, 16 October 2021 10:26 (two years ago) link

eight months pass...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdF2kxdpom4

on the new Louie Vega album, giving what I think might be one of her best performances ever

― boxedjoy, Sunday, 10 July 2022 21:15 (one year ago) link

Always liked this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uL8cdjFcLKM

― dow, Monday, 11 July 2022 03:40 (one year ago) link

one year passes...

honey has aged really well. i know it's only 5 years old but it kinda feels like a lifetime ago.

― ꙮ (map), Tuesday, 18 July 2023 16:39 (nine months ago) link

Check out the Song Exploder on the title song. Great to hear the patient, slow evolution of the track into one of her best.

― Psychocandy Apple Grey (Pyschocandles), Tuesday, 18 July 2023 19:11 (nine months ago) link

two months pass...

Honey remains one of the best albums ever.

― omar little, Friday, 6 October 2023 16:14 (six months ago) link

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