Robyn

And "Be Mine!" is one of the best singles of the year. Hurrah!, for Robyn.

I hope this gets a UK release soon too. I'm so excited.

"I know you wanna hate, but you're all wack! Konichiwa, bitches!". Or similar.

God, she's great.

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

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

'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.

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

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

"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)

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

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.

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/

ugh i need new robyn

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

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

That sounds like plenty.

lol

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.

A new guest appearance

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

🎤🎶 "I'm in the corner..." 🎶 pic.twitter.com/a0IVnVJa5e

— Josh Kantor (@jtkantor) October 13, 2021

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

here is a video of the boston red sox singing “dancing on my own” pic.twitter.com/2wtPGMC20Q

— 🎃🍂 maggie graber 🍁💀 (@magraber) October 12, 2021

It's not quite We Are Family

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...

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

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...

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

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

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!

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

Always liked this:

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

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

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

Honey remains one of the best albums ever.

so I was wondering what was going on with her and... there was a clothing brand sponsored music festival in LA last Month where she played! was this secret or something?

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=robyn+h%26m%26la

https://www.instagram.com/p/DLpg2a-McYk

It’s hard to describe the feeling of having nothing to lose, it’s often a romantic description of something that felt far more scary than how you describe it afterwards. To squeeze yourself out of the almost impossible, it always made me feel free, but you can never calculate your way there. And so this was the first album I released on my own label with the help from many people, a person named Martin Dodd being one of them. He lent me the money so I could start up my label and make what really felt and still feels like my first album. I´m so happy to celebrate it turning 20 years old this year by releasing a new edition of the vinyl. Original cover and new colour on the plate. Et voilà!

’Robyn’ 20th Anniversary re-issue available to pre-order via link in bio. Out 12th September.

b-b-but which version of Bum Like You will be on it?? who am i kidding, i'm buying this regardless

tbh i was wondering that too. the original swedish release has the better versions of that and "robotboy" but i guess they'll want to include the extra tracks on the international reissue? ("with every heartbeat", "cobrastyle", the ola salo-free "dream on")

The cover art is the Swedish cover so I'm hopeful...

I posted this on another thread not too long ago. I watch this performance a couple times a month.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DW5s-nNbFns

re-issue features the electro version of Bum Like You unfortch

it's fine, I like it but it also seems like a retread, like she can make a songs like this in her sleep

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vitil9qMN6A

:( more than that, i can't believe that this is the comeback video after all these years away. doesn't even feel well-executed.

but honestly i'm not convinced this track is better than, say, the new charlie puth

wth i love this

that's because the new Charlie Puth is better

*surrenders gay card*

charlie puth has on a number of occasions made better music than robyn let's not all act surprised...

i love this video and song. it's very robyn. it still seems courageous to me to do the no makeup thing. i like her thing enough that i just love having some new more of it. haters can get bent lol.

Charlie Puth rules. This is not her best.

at best i'm robyn agnostic in reality i find her an annoying cultural presence so i may not be the best judge on which of her music really hits however i do like this song, it's cool that it kinda stays suspended in air the whole time

also is there a taio cruz interpolation i'm not picking up on? if not i'd have to imagine this is a demo that the producer had laying around for a while that robyn heard and started working off of

very much a retread of "missing u" except not quite as good. i still like her in this mode though

in reality i find her an annoying cultural presence

really? she's hardly sucking up all the air the culture, but I'm the US so maybe it's different

have never even seen her name outside ilx!

“Dancing on my own” was some MLB team’s unofficial “anthem/theme song” a few years ago

"dancing on my own" is annoyingly overpraised but that's about it

red sox

xpost

she is so boring

This is okay but excited for some new music from her.

I wasn't too hopped up on the prerelease singles from the last one but they worked great within the context of the album.

I trust her as far as this being better in the context of an album, Honey flowed so well it elevated everything to a sublime level, even the tracks that were just "good" on their own like this one.

This track is a total snoozefest, but then again I only know her singles, not her albums, so I am thinking of it in that context.

This is an upbeat banger compared to nearly all her singles since Monument (so the last eleven years!) tbh

I should have clarified: her singles from the aughts. I haven't paid attention to her since 2012 or so.