It feels softer like Robyn is more comfortable with taking her time. A sci-fi love story that somehow manages to be devastating and danceable.
If you cross paths with them, so are you. Robyn voiced the character of Miranda in the 1989 Swedish-Norwegian animated film The Journey to Melonia. On paper, a song about calling your girlfriend to tell her that you’re leaving her … Like a more complex version of Icona Pop’s I Love It, together they captured the moment in a night where the euphoria peaks and you never want it to end. Call Your Girlfriend. While fans may crave the immediacy of the early demo that featured on Girls, this version has a longevity because it you’ve gotta work for it. And like any self-titled album should, Robyn defines what she's all about. They go toe-to-toe, bar-for-bar with Snoop shouting out Obama and Robyn saying, “We need a black pope and she better be a woman.” She’s right and we better get it done because we all know better than to fuck with Robyn. Not every independent moment on Robyn is so lonely, however.
Snoop Dogg and Robyn is one of the stranger pop collaborations of the past decade but it just works so well on U Should Know Better.
Love Is Free came in the middle of an experimental, collaborative period for Robyn and saw her team up with frequent collaborators Markus Jägerstedt and Christian Falk. Pool balls, magpies and thorns without roses - how well do you know your Tom Waits lyrics? Robyn simultaneously makes herself look 10-foot tall while squishing this guy in a song that’s full of lyrical gold. The critics credited Daft Punk with bringing human emotion to robots on Random Access Memories but Robyn and Röyksopp had already achieved it. We knew Robyn was onto something good when she was able to write a love song about a “bum” who has a “dump” of a car and is potentially skimming her money. Monument may be the darkest song Robyn has ever made.
The third verse of "Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm" by Crash Test Dummies ("they shook and lurched all over the church floor...") was inspired by girl whose parents would speak in tongues at their Pentecostal service. Metronomy's … It feels too bloated a concept to pack into a four minute pop song but she simplifies it so beautifully. The lead-singles from each of Robyn’s Body Talk EPs followed a similar script. She redid one of her earlier songs Keep This Fire Burning though as a bonus track on her reinvention record Robyn. Over the years, she’s notched up an incredible track record of some of the finest pop moments this millennium.
When Robyn isn’t pouring her heart out on the dancefloor she’s laying down pure attitude and that’s exactly what Konnichiwa Bitches delivers. Lucinda Williams wrote and recorded "Passionate Kisses" 4 years before it was a hit for Mary Chapin Carpenter. And even on the songs where she isn't so strong, like "Bum Like You" and "I Should Have Known"'s catchy recriminations, she's never the less than self-aware. Robyn Song list.
It’s a slow-moving, elongated epic that stretches over 10 minutes. Related Blog Posts. By its finish, the beat is at full force, the chorus is euphoric and the heart is larger than ever. It’s a declaration of independence but Robyn’s never one to lie and her insecurities shine through at moments as she admits to being “helpless sometimes”. Originally a chart-topper for Steve Lawrence in 1962 chart-topper, "Go Away Little Girl," became the first song of the rock era to be taken to #1 by two different artists when Donny Osmond's cover version also reached the summit in 1971. It’s a sweeping, orchestral song that grows without you even really noticing. Find Robyn discography, albums and singles on AllMusic. That's just one of the everyday things these guys find to sing about. Call Your Girlfriend is a complete and utter triumph. The song has such a beautiful sincerity that’s translated through Robyn’s honest vocal delivery and Kindess’ retro stylings. With Every Heartbeat was the song that made Robyn’s transformation a worldwide success. It’s a loop of sugary, sleek dance music that oozes feeling at every single point. It was used in the climactic dance scene at the end, which was actually the first scene shot for the movie. Hang With Me is a soaring, emotional pop song that sees Robyn let a love interest back into her live as long as it’s just as friends.
It’s still to this day one of the most affecting songs on the dancefloor helmed by a monstrous chorus and an instrumental break that should quite frankly be illegal. It’s a subtle masterpiece and her greatest show of restraint. We delve into that song and find out how you can form a band when you don't sing or play an instrument. We thought we’d take the chance to go back through her catalogue and pull out the best 20. Directed by Per Åhlin, the film is loosely based on William Shakespeare's The Tempest. Be Mine! On The Radar: Erika De Casier – ‘No Butterflies, No Nothing’, The New Crop: Sloan Peterson, Josie Man And More New Songs We Love By New Artists. Robyn either uses a pulsating dance beat to pour or heart out or dig her heels in. Later today, Robyn will release her first solo single in eight years Missing U. Michael tells the story of "Send Me On My Way," and explains why some of the words in the song don't have a literal meaning. "With Every Heartbeat," the epic, Kleerup-produced breakup song that was Robyn's breakthrough single in the U.K., pushes her forward on percolating, escalating synths and strings until it peaks with the chorus echoing all around her. According to Robyn, Missing U is an anomaly on her forthcoming album Honey but it was a necessary bridging for this new era. It’s a love song that lets nothing get in its way and one of Robyn’s first displays of melodic brilliance. "Everybody Wants To Rule The World" was a line from a 1980 Clash song called "Charlie Don't Surf." gives us frantic verses and a confident chorus. On Honey, she does the opposite. Be Mine! No one can make a tough guy look small quite like Robyn can. Strangely, nobody expected Robyn to come back from an eight year solo break with a song that recalled her biggest dancefloor hits. On paper, a song about calling your girlfriend to tell her that you’re leaving her for another woman accompanied by a Dirty Dancing-inspired video sounds convoluted. It’s these admissions that make Robyn such a brilliant songwriter. Robyn feels like she crammed everything she couldn't do before into a space that can barely contain it, starting with "Konichiwa Bitches," a sassy hip-pop manifesto with a title that could very well have been the first thing she said to her old bosses once she got her own label set up. It’s a pulsating, emotional pop song that recalls the heartache of Dancing On My Own or the directness of Call Your Girlfriend but it’s gentler. It’s a relentless warning that leaves politeness at the door. “Come get your honey,” she sings, making it available but not without you coming to her. We don’t want to say we enjoy a heartbroken Robyn but she writes a break-up song like no other. Over a thumping, 80s-inspired beat she makes a song about insecurity strong and confident with a chorus that could break the speakers.
That honor goes to one of two songs that really hit home that true independence can be the hardest thing. "Be Mine!" Who writes a song about a name they found in a phone book? Tears For Fears used it as the title of their 1985 hit. As mentioned above though, Robyn has this knack for creating pop songs about niche subjects and making it sound simple. nails the complicated, sad yet liberated feelings surrounding an impossible relationship, celebrating "the sweet pain of watching your back as you walk away" as it propels itself on a buoyant rhythm. Robyn doesn’t write pop songs; she writes anthems of strength and survival. (2005) Between The Lines (2018) Call Your Girlfriend (2010) Cry When You Get Older (2010) Dancehall Queen (2010) Dancing On My Own (2010) Don't F--king Tell Me What to Do (2010) Ever Again (2018) “I’m so very hot that when I rob your mansion/You ain’t call the cops, you call the firestation,” is the sort of content we signed up for. "(I've Had) The Time of My Life" was a huge hit from the movie Dirty Dancing. A history of songs dealing with transgender issues, featuring Pink Floyd, David Bowie, Morrissey and Green Day. It’s all the things that make Robyn such a once in a lifetime artist delivered in this tight four minute pop song. As Procol Harum's lyricist, Keith wrote the words to "A Whiter Shade Of Pale." Along with Cobrastyle, it’s an outlier on the Robyn record but an important side of her nonetheless. You could begin Honey at any point and it’s feeling would still be the same. It’s a minimal, playful jam with one of Robyn’s most understated yet successful choruses. A monthly update on our latest interviews, stories and added songs, Trans Soul Rebels: Songs About Transgenderism. Jeff Lynne sang the word "groose" in the chorus of "Don't Bring Me Down" as a nonsense placeholder, but left it in when he found out it means "greetings" in German ("gruss"). It's not bragging if you can back it up, and Robyn does just that, channeling all the frustration of her creative differences with her previous labels into a freewheeling, accomplished pop album that is so fresh that it could pass for a debut -- and, as the first release for her own label, Konichiwa Records, it is a debut of sorts. Love Kills does the latter, using that four-to-the-floor beat to create one of her most aggressive songs to date. Even if it took a few years to put together the label and album (and a few more to get the album released everywhere), this is the pop tour de force that Robyn has always had in her.
It’s a frantic dance track that rattles with boundless energy. She has a few words for the ladies as well: the cautionary tale "Crash and Burn Girl" is one of the album's funkiest tracks. Robyn used a robot metaphor to create a climaxing dance song about loneliness and neglect. "Who's That Girl," the song that her old label didn't want to release, and sparked her emancipation from them, is also here, and its distinctive skipping, tropics-go-Nordic rhythms and aggressively buzzy synths -- courtesy of the Knife -- sound great, but it isn't even the best song here. Dream On is a sweeping dance pop song that channelled the same melodic emotion of With Every Heartbeat.
It feels softer like Robyn is more comfortable with taking her time. A sci-fi love story that somehow manages to be devastating and danceable.
If you cross paths with them, so are you. Robyn voiced the character of Miranda in the 1989 Swedish-Norwegian animated film The Journey to Melonia. On paper, a song about calling your girlfriend to tell her that you’re leaving her … Like a more complex version of Icona Pop’s I Love It, together they captured the moment in a night where the euphoria peaks and you never want it to end. Call Your Girlfriend. While fans may crave the immediacy of the early demo that featured on Girls, this version has a longevity because it you’ve gotta work for it. And like any self-titled album should, Robyn defines what she's all about. They go toe-to-toe, bar-for-bar with Snoop shouting out Obama and Robyn saying, “We need a black pope and she better be a woman.” She’s right and we better get it done because we all know better than to fuck with Robyn. Not every independent moment on Robyn is so lonely, however.
Snoop Dogg and Robyn is one of the stranger pop collaborations of the past decade but it just works so well on U Should Know Better.
Love Is Free came in the middle of an experimental, collaborative period for Robyn and saw her team up with frequent collaborators Markus Jägerstedt and Christian Falk. Pool balls, magpies and thorns without roses - how well do you know your Tom Waits lyrics? Robyn simultaneously makes herself look 10-foot tall while squishing this guy in a song that’s full of lyrical gold. The critics credited Daft Punk with bringing human emotion to robots on Random Access Memories but Robyn and Röyksopp had already achieved it. We knew Robyn was onto something good when she was able to write a love song about a “bum” who has a “dump” of a car and is potentially skimming her money. Monument may be the darkest song Robyn has ever made.
The third verse of "Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm" by Crash Test Dummies ("they shook and lurched all over the church floor...") was inspired by girl whose parents would speak in tongues at their Pentecostal service. Metronomy's … It feels too bloated a concept to pack into a four minute pop song but she simplifies it so beautifully. The lead-singles from each of Robyn’s Body Talk EPs followed a similar script. She redid one of her earlier songs Keep This Fire Burning though as a bonus track on her reinvention record Robyn. Over the years, she’s notched up an incredible track record of some of the finest pop moments this millennium.
When Robyn isn’t pouring her heart out on the dancefloor she’s laying down pure attitude and that’s exactly what Konnichiwa Bitches delivers. Lucinda Williams wrote and recorded "Passionate Kisses" 4 years before it was a hit for Mary Chapin Carpenter. And even on the songs where she isn't so strong, like "Bum Like You" and "I Should Have Known"'s catchy recriminations, she's never the less than self-aware. Robyn Song list.
It’s a slow-moving, elongated epic that stretches over 10 minutes. Related Blog Posts. By its finish, the beat is at full force, the chorus is euphoric and the heart is larger than ever. It’s a declaration of independence but Robyn’s never one to lie and her insecurities shine through at moments as she admits to being “helpless sometimes”. Originally a chart-topper for Steve Lawrence in 1962 chart-topper, "Go Away Little Girl," became the first song of the rock era to be taken to #1 by two different artists when Donny Osmond's cover version also reached the summit in 1971. It’s a sweeping, orchestral song that grows without you even really noticing. Find Robyn discography, albums and singles on AllMusic. That's just one of the everyday things these guys find to sing about. Call Your Girlfriend is a complete and utter triumph. The song has such a beautiful sincerity that’s translated through Robyn’s honest vocal delivery and Kindess’ retro stylings. With Every Heartbeat was the song that made Robyn’s transformation a worldwide success. It’s a loop of sugary, sleek dance music that oozes feeling at every single point. It was used in the climactic dance scene at the end, which was actually the first scene shot for the movie. Hang With Me is a soaring, emotional pop song that sees Robyn let a love interest back into her live as long as it’s just as friends.
It’s still to this day one of the most affecting songs on the dancefloor helmed by a monstrous chorus and an instrumental break that should quite frankly be illegal. It’s a subtle masterpiece and her greatest show of restraint. We delve into that song and find out how you can form a band when you don't sing or play an instrument. We thought we’d take the chance to go back through her catalogue and pull out the best 20. Directed by Per Åhlin, the film is loosely based on William Shakespeare's The Tempest. Be Mine! On The Radar: Erika De Casier – ‘No Butterflies, No Nothing’, The New Crop: Sloan Peterson, Josie Man And More New Songs We Love By New Artists. Robyn either uses a pulsating dance beat to pour or heart out or dig her heels in. Later today, Robyn will release her first solo single in eight years Missing U. Michael tells the story of "Send Me On My Way," and explains why some of the words in the song don't have a literal meaning. "With Every Heartbeat," the epic, Kleerup-produced breakup song that was Robyn's breakthrough single in the U.K., pushes her forward on percolating, escalating synths and strings until it peaks with the chorus echoing all around her. According to Robyn, Missing U is an anomaly on her forthcoming album Honey but it was a necessary bridging for this new era. It’s a love song that lets nothing get in its way and one of Robyn’s first displays of melodic brilliance. "Everybody Wants To Rule The World" was a line from a 1980 Clash song called "Charlie Don't Surf." gives us frantic verses and a confident chorus. On Honey, she does the opposite. Be Mine! No one can make a tough guy look small quite like Robyn can. Strangely, nobody expected Robyn to come back from an eight year solo break with a song that recalled her biggest dancefloor hits. On paper, a song about calling your girlfriend to tell her that you’re leaving her for another woman accompanied by a Dirty Dancing-inspired video sounds convoluted. It’s these admissions that make Robyn such a brilliant songwriter. Robyn feels like she crammed everything she couldn't do before into a space that can barely contain it, starting with "Konichiwa Bitches," a sassy hip-pop manifesto with a title that could very well have been the first thing she said to her old bosses once she got her own label set up. It’s a pulsating, emotional pop song that recalls the heartache of Dancing On My Own or the directness of Call Your Girlfriend but it’s gentler. It’s a relentless warning that leaves politeness at the door. “Come get your honey,” she sings, making it available but not without you coming to her. We don’t want to say we enjoy a heartbroken Robyn but she writes a break-up song like no other. Over a thumping, 80s-inspired beat she makes a song about insecurity strong and confident with a chorus that could break the speakers.
That honor goes to one of two songs that really hit home that true independence can be the hardest thing. "Be Mine!" Who writes a song about a name they found in a phone book? Tears For Fears used it as the title of their 1985 hit. As mentioned above though, Robyn has this knack for creating pop songs about niche subjects and making it sound simple. nails the complicated, sad yet liberated feelings surrounding an impossible relationship, celebrating "the sweet pain of watching your back as you walk away" as it propels itself on a buoyant rhythm. Robyn doesn’t write pop songs; she writes anthems of strength and survival. (2005) Between The Lines (2018) Call Your Girlfriend (2010) Cry When You Get Older (2010) Dancehall Queen (2010) Dancing On My Own (2010) Don't F--king Tell Me What to Do (2010) Ever Again (2018) “I’m so very hot that when I rob your mansion/You ain’t call the cops, you call the firestation,” is the sort of content we signed up for. "(I've Had) The Time of My Life" was a huge hit from the movie Dirty Dancing. A history of songs dealing with transgender issues, featuring Pink Floyd, David Bowie, Morrissey and Green Day. It’s all the things that make Robyn such a once in a lifetime artist delivered in this tight four minute pop song. As Procol Harum's lyricist, Keith wrote the words to "A Whiter Shade Of Pale." Along with Cobrastyle, it’s an outlier on the Robyn record but an important side of her nonetheless. You could begin Honey at any point and it’s feeling would still be the same. It’s a minimal, playful jam with one of Robyn’s most understated yet successful choruses. A monthly update on our latest interviews, stories and added songs, Trans Soul Rebels: Songs About Transgenderism. Jeff Lynne sang the word "groose" in the chorus of "Don't Bring Me Down" as a nonsense placeholder, but left it in when he found out it means "greetings" in German ("gruss"). It's not bragging if you can back it up, and Robyn does just that, channeling all the frustration of her creative differences with her previous labels into a freewheeling, accomplished pop album that is so fresh that it could pass for a debut -- and, as the first release for her own label, Konichiwa Records, it is a debut of sorts. Love Kills does the latter, using that four-to-the-floor beat to create one of her most aggressive songs to date. Even if it took a few years to put together the label and album (and a few more to get the album released everywhere), this is the pop tour de force that Robyn has always had in her.
It’s a frantic dance track that rattles with boundless energy. She has a few words for the ladies as well: the cautionary tale "Crash and Burn Girl" is one of the album's funkiest tracks. Robyn used a robot metaphor to create a climaxing dance song about loneliness and neglect. "Who's That Girl," the song that her old label didn't want to release, and sparked her emancipation from them, is also here, and its distinctive skipping, tropics-go-Nordic rhythms and aggressively buzzy synths -- courtesy of the Knife -- sound great, but it isn't even the best song here. Dream On is a sweeping dance pop song that channelled the same melodic emotion of With Every Heartbeat.
It feels softer like Robyn is more comfortable with taking her time. A sci-fi love story that somehow manages to be devastating and danceable.
If you cross paths with them, so are you. Robyn voiced the character of Miranda in the 1989 Swedish-Norwegian animated film The Journey to Melonia. On paper, a song about calling your girlfriend to tell her that you’re leaving her … Like a more complex version of Icona Pop’s I Love It, together they captured the moment in a night where the euphoria peaks and you never want it to end. Call Your Girlfriend. While fans may crave the immediacy of the early demo that featured on Girls, this version has a longevity because it you’ve gotta work for it. And like any self-titled album should, Robyn defines what she's all about. They go toe-to-toe, bar-for-bar with Snoop shouting out Obama and Robyn saying, “We need a black pope and she better be a woman.” She’s right and we better get it done because we all know better than to fuck with Robyn. Not every independent moment on Robyn is so lonely, however.
Snoop Dogg and Robyn is one of the stranger pop collaborations of the past decade but it just works so well on U Should Know Better.
Love Is Free came in the middle of an experimental, collaborative period for Robyn and saw her team up with frequent collaborators Markus Jägerstedt and Christian Falk. Pool balls, magpies and thorns without roses - how well do you know your Tom Waits lyrics? Robyn simultaneously makes herself look 10-foot tall while squishing this guy in a song that’s full of lyrical gold. The critics credited Daft Punk with bringing human emotion to robots on Random Access Memories but Robyn and Röyksopp had already achieved it. We knew Robyn was onto something good when she was able to write a love song about a “bum” who has a “dump” of a car and is potentially skimming her money. Monument may be the darkest song Robyn has ever made.
The third verse of "Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm" by Crash Test Dummies ("they shook and lurched all over the church floor...") was inspired by girl whose parents would speak in tongues at their Pentecostal service. Metronomy's … It feels too bloated a concept to pack into a four minute pop song but she simplifies it so beautifully. The lead-singles from each of Robyn’s Body Talk EPs followed a similar script. She redid one of her earlier songs Keep This Fire Burning though as a bonus track on her reinvention record Robyn. Over the years, she’s notched up an incredible track record of some of the finest pop moments this millennium.
When Robyn isn’t pouring her heart out on the dancefloor she’s laying down pure attitude and that’s exactly what Konnichiwa Bitches delivers. Lucinda Williams wrote and recorded "Passionate Kisses" 4 years before it was a hit for Mary Chapin Carpenter. And even on the songs where she isn't so strong, like "Bum Like You" and "I Should Have Known"'s catchy recriminations, she's never the less than self-aware. Robyn Song list.
It’s a slow-moving, elongated epic that stretches over 10 minutes. Related Blog Posts. By its finish, the beat is at full force, the chorus is euphoric and the heart is larger than ever. It’s a declaration of independence but Robyn’s never one to lie and her insecurities shine through at moments as she admits to being “helpless sometimes”. Originally a chart-topper for Steve Lawrence in 1962 chart-topper, "Go Away Little Girl," became the first song of the rock era to be taken to #1 by two different artists when Donny Osmond's cover version also reached the summit in 1971. It’s a sweeping, orchestral song that grows without you even really noticing. Find Robyn discography, albums and singles on AllMusic. That's just one of the everyday things these guys find to sing about. Call Your Girlfriend is a complete and utter triumph. The song has such a beautiful sincerity that’s translated through Robyn’s honest vocal delivery and Kindess’ retro stylings. With Every Heartbeat was the song that made Robyn’s transformation a worldwide success. It’s a loop of sugary, sleek dance music that oozes feeling at every single point. It was used in the climactic dance scene at the end, which was actually the first scene shot for the movie. Hang With Me is a soaring, emotional pop song that sees Robyn let a love interest back into her live as long as it’s just as friends.
It’s still to this day one of the most affecting songs on the dancefloor helmed by a monstrous chorus and an instrumental break that should quite frankly be illegal. It’s a subtle masterpiece and her greatest show of restraint. We delve into that song and find out how you can form a band when you don't sing or play an instrument. We thought we’d take the chance to go back through her catalogue and pull out the best 20. Directed by Per Åhlin, the film is loosely based on William Shakespeare's The Tempest. Be Mine! On The Radar: Erika De Casier – ‘No Butterflies, No Nothing’, The New Crop: Sloan Peterson, Josie Man And More New Songs We Love By New Artists. Robyn either uses a pulsating dance beat to pour or heart out or dig her heels in. Later today, Robyn will release her first solo single in eight years Missing U. Michael tells the story of "Send Me On My Way," and explains why some of the words in the song don't have a literal meaning. "With Every Heartbeat," the epic, Kleerup-produced breakup song that was Robyn's breakthrough single in the U.K., pushes her forward on percolating, escalating synths and strings until it peaks with the chorus echoing all around her. According to Robyn, Missing U is an anomaly on her forthcoming album Honey but it was a necessary bridging for this new era. It’s a love song that lets nothing get in its way and one of Robyn’s first displays of melodic brilliance. "Everybody Wants To Rule The World" was a line from a 1980 Clash song called "Charlie Don't Surf." gives us frantic verses and a confident chorus. On Honey, she does the opposite. Be Mine! No one can make a tough guy look small quite like Robyn can. Strangely, nobody expected Robyn to come back from an eight year solo break with a song that recalled her biggest dancefloor hits. On paper, a song about calling your girlfriend to tell her that you’re leaving her for another woman accompanied by a Dirty Dancing-inspired video sounds convoluted. It’s these admissions that make Robyn such a brilliant songwriter. Robyn feels like she crammed everything she couldn't do before into a space that can barely contain it, starting with "Konichiwa Bitches," a sassy hip-pop manifesto with a title that could very well have been the first thing she said to her old bosses once she got her own label set up. It’s a pulsating, emotional pop song that recalls the heartache of Dancing On My Own or the directness of Call Your Girlfriend but it’s gentler. It’s a relentless warning that leaves politeness at the door. “Come get your honey,” she sings, making it available but not without you coming to her. We don’t want to say we enjoy a heartbroken Robyn but she writes a break-up song like no other. Over a thumping, 80s-inspired beat she makes a song about insecurity strong and confident with a chorus that could break the speakers.
That honor goes to one of two songs that really hit home that true independence can be the hardest thing. "Be Mine!" Who writes a song about a name they found in a phone book? Tears For Fears used it as the title of their 1985 hit. As mentioned above though, Robyn has this knack for creating pop songs about niche subjects and making it sound simple. nails the complicated, sad yet liberated feelings surrounding an impossible relationship, celebrating "the sweet pain of watching your back as you walk away" as it propels itself on a buoyant rhythm. Robyn doesn’t write pop songs; she writes anthems of strength and survival. (2005) Between The Lines (2018) Call Your Girlfriend (2010) Cry When You Get Older (2010) Dancehall Queen (2010) Dancing On My Own (2010) Don't F--king Tell Me What to Do (2010) Ever Again (2018) “I’m so very hot that when I rob your mansion/You ain’t call the cops, you call the firestation,” is the sort of content we signed up for. "(I've Had) The Time of My Life" was a huge hit from the movie Dirty Dancing. A history of songs dealing with transgender issues, featuring Pink Floyd, David Bowie, Morrissey and Green Day. It’s all the things that make Robyn such a once in a lifetime artist delivered in this tight four minute pop song. As Procol Harum's lyricist, Keith wrote the words to "A Whiter Shade Of Pale." Along with Cobrastyle, it’s an outlier on the Robyn record but an important side of her nonetheless. You could begin Honey at any point and it’s feeling would still be the same. It’s a minimal, playful jam with one of Robyn’s most understated yet successful choruses. A monthly update on our latest interviews, stories and added songs, Trans Soul Rebels: Songs About Transgenderism. Jeff Lynne sang the word "groose" in the chorus of "Don't Bring Me Down" as a nonsense placeholder, but left it in when he found out it means "greetings" in German ("gruss"). It's not bragging if you can back it up, and Robyn does just that, channeling all the frustration of her creative differences with her previous labels into a freewheeling, accomplished pop album that is so fresh that it could pass for a debut -- and, as the first release for her own label, Konichiwa Records, it is a debut of sorts. Love Kills does the latter, using that four-to-the-floor beat to create one of her most aggressive songs to date. Even if it took a few years to put together the label and album (and a few more to get the album released everywhere), this is the pop tour de force that Robyn has always had in her.
It’s a frantic dance track that rattles with boundless energy. She has a few words for the ladies as well: the cautionary tale "Crash and Burn Girl" is one of the album's funkiest tracks. Robyn used a robot metaphor to create a climaxing dance song about loneliness and neglect. "Who's That Girl," the song that her old label didn't want to release, and sparked her emancipation from them, is also here, and its distinctive skipping, tropics-go-Nordic rhythms and aggressively buzzy synths -- courtesy of the Knife -- sound great, but it isn't even the best song here. Dream On is a sweeping dance pop song that channelled the same melodic emotion of With Every Heartbeat.
It feels softer like Robyn is more comfortable with taking her time. A sci-fi love story that somehow manages to be devastating and danceable.
If you cross paths with them, so are you. Robyn voiced the character of Miranda in the 1989 Swedish-Norwegian animated film The Journey to Melonia. On paper, a song about calling your girlfriend to tell her that you’re leaving her … Like a more complex version of Icona Pop’s I Love It, together they captured the moment in a night where the euphoria peaks and you never want it to end. Call Your Girlfriend. While fans may crave the immediacy of the early demo that featured on Girls, this version has a longevity because it you’ve gotta work for it. And like any self-titled album should, Robyn defines what she's all about. They go toe-to-toe, bar-for-bar with Snoop shouting out Obama and Robyn saying, “We need a black pope and she better be a woman.” She’s right and we better get it done because we all know better than to fuck with Robyn. Not every independent moment on Robyn is so lonely, however.
Snoop Dogg and Robyn is one of the stranger pop collaborations of the past decade but it just works so well on U Should Know Better.
Love Is Free came in the middle of an experimental, collaborative period for Robyn and saw her team up with frequent collaborators Markus Jägerstedt and Christian Falk. Pool balls, magpies and thorns without roses - how well do you know your Tom Waits lyrics? Robyn simultaneously makes herself look 10-foot tall while squishing this guy in a song that’s full of lyrical gold. The critics credited Daft Punk with bringing human emotion to robots on Random Access Memories but Robyn and Röyksopp had already achieved it. We knew Robyn was onto something good when she was able to write a love song about a “bum” who has a “dump” of a car and is potentially skimming her money. Monument may be the darkest song Robyn has ever made.
The third verse of "Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm" by Crash Test Dummies ("they shook and lurched all over the church floor...") was inspired by girl whose parents would speak in tongues at their Pentecostal service. Metronomy's … It feels too bloated a concept to pack into a four minute pop song but she simplifies it so beautifully. The lead-singles from each of Robyn’s Body Talk EPs followed a similar script. She redid one of her earlier songs Keep This Fire Burning though as a bonus track on her reinvention record Robyn. Over the years, she’s notched up an incredible track record of some of the finest pop moments this millennium.
When Robyn isn’t pouring her heart out on the dancefloor she’s laying down pure attitude and that’s exactly what Konnichiwa Bitches delivers. Lucinda Williams wrote and recorded "Passionate Kisses" 4 years before it was a hit for Mary Chapin Carpenter. And even on the songs where she isn't so strong, like "Bum Like You" and "I Should Have Known"'s catchy recriminations, she's never the less than self-aware. Robyn Song list.
It’s a slow-moving, elongated epic that stretches over 10 minutes. Related Blog Posts. By its finish, the beat is at full force, the chorus is euphoric and the heart is larger than ever. It’s a declaration of independence but Robyn’s never one to lie and her insecurities shine through at moments as she admits to being “helpless sometimes”. Originally a chart-topper for Steve Lawrence in 1962 chart-topper, "Go Away Little Girl," became the first song of the rock era to be taken to #1 by two different artists when Donny Osmond's cover version also reached the summit in 1971. It’s a sweeping, orchestral song that grows without you even really noticing. Find Robyn discography, albums and singles on AllMusic. That's just one of the everyday things these guys find to sing about. Call Your Girlfriend is a complete and utter triumph. The song has such a beautiful sincerity that’s translated through Robyn’s honest vocal delivery and Kindess’ retro stylings. With Every Heartbeat was the song that made Robyn’s transformation a worldwide success. It’s a loop of sugary, sleek dance music that oozes feeling at every single point. It was used in the climactic dance scene at the end, which was actually the first scene shot for the movie. Hang With Me is a soaring, emotional pop song that sees Robyn let a love interest back into her live as long as it’s just as friends.
It’s still to this day one of the most affecting songs on the dancefloor helmed by a monstrous chorus and an instrumental break that should quite frankly be illegal. It’s a subtle masterpiece and her greatest show of restraint. We delve into that song and find out how you can form a band when you don't sing or play an instrument. We thought we’d take the chance to go back through her catalogue and pull out the best 20. Directed by Per Åhlin, the film is loosely based on William Shakespeare's The Tempest. Be Mine! On The Radar: Erika De Casier – ‘No Butterflies, No Nothing’, The New Crop: Sloan Peterson, Josie Man And More New Songs We Love By New Artists. Robyn either uses a pulsating dance beat to pour or heart out or dig her heels in. Later today, Robyn will release her first solo single in eight years Missing U. Michael tells the story of "Send Me On My Way," and explains why some of the words in the song don't have a literal meaning. "With Every Heartbeat," the epic, Kleerup-produced breakup song that was Robyn's breakthrough single in the U.K., pushes her forward on percolating, escalating synths and strings until it peaks with the chorus echoing all around her. According to Robyn, Missing U is an anomaly on her forthcoming album Honey but it was a necessary bridging for this new era. It’s a love song that lets nothing get in its way and one of Robyn’s first displays of melodic brilliance. "Everybody Wants To Rule The World" was a line from a 1980 Clash song called "Charlie Don't Surf." gives us frantic verses and a confident chorus. On Honey, she does the opposite. Be Mine! No one can make a tough guy look small quite like Robyn can. Strangely, nobody expected Robyn to come back from an eight year solo break with a song that recalled her biggest dancefloor hits. On paper, a song about calling your girlfriend to tell her that you’re leaving her for another woman accompanied by a Dirty Dancing-inspired video sounds convoluted. It’s these admissions that make Robyn such a brilliant songwriter. Robyn feels like she crammed everything she couldn't do before into a space that can barely contain it, starting with "Konichiwa Bitches," a sassy hip-pop manifesto with a title that could very well have been the first thing she said to her old bosses once she got her own label set up. It’s a pulsating, emotional pop song that recalls the heartache of Dancing On My Own or the directness of Call Your Girlfriend but it’s gentler. It’s a relentless warning that leaves politeness at the door. “Come get your honey,” she sings, making it available but not without you coming to her. We don’t want to say we enjoy a heartbroken Robyn but she writes a break-up song like no other. Over a thumping, 80s-inspired beat she makes a song about insecurity strong and confident with a chorus that could break the speakers.
That honor goes to one of two songs that really hit home that true independence can be the hardest thing. "Be Mine!" Who writes a song about a name they found in a phone book? Tears For Fears used it as the title of their 1985 hit. As mentioned above though, Robyn has this knack for creating pop songs about niche subjects and making it sound simple. nails the complicated, sad yet liberated feelings surrounding an impossible relationship, celebrating "the sweet pain of watching your back as you walk away" as it propels itself on a buoyant rhythm. Robyn doesn’t write pop songs; she writes anthems of strength and survival. (2005) Between The Lines (2018) Call Your Girlfriend (2010) Cry When You Get Older (2010) Dancehall Queen (2010) Dancing On My Own (2010) Don't F--king Tell Me What to Do (2010) Ever Again (2018) “I’m so very hot that when I rob your mansion/You ain’t call the cops, you call the firestation,” is the sort of content we signed up for. "(I've Had) The Time of My Life" was a huge hit from the movie Dirty Dancing. A history of songs dealing with transgender issues, featuring Pink Floyd, David Bowie, Morrissey and Green Day. It’s all the things that make Robyn such a once in a lifetime artist delivered in this tight four minute pop song. As Procol Harum's lyricist, Keith wrote the words to "A Whiter Shade Of Pale." Along with Cobrastyle, it’s an outlier on the Robyn record but an important side of her nonetheless. You could begin Honey at any point and it’s feeling would still be the same. It’s a minimal, playful jam with one of Robyn’s most understated yet successful choruses. A monthly update on our latest interviews, stories and added songs, Trans Soul Rebels: Songs About Transgenderism. Jeff Lynne sang the word "groose" in the chorus of "Don't Bring Me Down" as a nonsense placeholder, but left it in when he found out it means "greetings" in German ("gruss"). It's not bragging if you can back it up, and Robyn does just that, channeling all the frustration of her creative differences with her previous labels into a freewheeling, accomplished pop album that is so fresh that it could pass for a debut -- and, as the first release for her own label, Konichiwa Records, it is a debut of sorts. Love Kills does the latter, using that four-to-the-floor beat to create one of her most aggressive songs to date. Even if it took a few years to put together the label and album (and a few more to get the album released everywhere), this is the pop tour de force that Robyn has always had in her.
It’s a frantic dance track that rattles with boundless energy. She has a few words for the ladies as well: the cautionary tale "Crash and Burn Girl" is one of the album's funkiest tracks. Robyn used a robot metaphor to create a climaxing dance song about loneliness and neglect. "Who's That Girl," the song that her old label didn't want to release, and sparked her emancipation from them, is also here, and its distinctive skipping, tropics-go-Nordic rhythms and aggressively buzzy synths -- courtesy of the Knife -- sound great, but it isn't even the best song here. Dream On is a sweeping dance pop song that channelled the same melodic emotion of With Every Heartbeat.
It feels softer like Robyn is more comfortable with taking her time. A sci-fi love story that somehow manages to be devastating and danceable.
If you cross paths with them, so are you. Robyn voiced the character of Miranda in the 1989 Swedish-Norwegian animated film The Journey to Melonia. On paper, a song about calling your girlfriend to tell her that you’re leaving her … Like a more complex version of Icona Pop’s I Love It, together they captured the moment in a night where the euphoria peaks and you never want it to end. Call Your Girlfriend. While fans may crave the immediacy of the early demo that featured on Girls, this version has a longevity because it you’ve gotta work for it. And like any self-titled album should, Robyn defines what she's all about. They go toe-to-toe, bar-for-bar with Snoop shouting out Obama and Robyn saying, “We need a black pope and she better be a woman.” She’s right and we better get it done because we all know better than to fuck with Robyn. Not every independent moment on Robyn is so lonely, however.
Snoop Dogg and Robyn is one of the stranger pop collaborations of the past decade but it just works so well on U Should Know Better.
Love Is Free came in the middle of an experimental, collaborative period for Robyn and saw her team up with frequent collaborators Markus Jägerstedt and Christian Falk. Pool balls, magpies and thorns without roses - how well do you know your Tom Waits lyrics? Robyn simultaneously makes herself look 10-foot tall while squishing this guy in a song that’s full of lyrical gold. The critics credited Daft Punk with bringing human emotion to robots on Random Access Memories but Robyn and Röyksopp had already achieved it. We knew Robyn was onto something good when she was able to write a love song about a “bum” who has a “dump” of a car and is potentially skimming her money. Monument may be the darkest song Robyn has ever made.
The third verse of "Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm" by Crash Test Dummies ("they shook and lurched all over the church floor...") was inspired by girl whose parents would speak in tongues at their Pentecostal service. Metronomy's … It feels too bloated a concept to pack into a four minute pop song but she simplifies it so beautifully. The lead-singles from each of Robyn’s Body Talk EPs followed a similar script. She redid one of her earlier songs Keep This Fire Burning though as a bonus track on her reinvention record Robyn. Over the years, she’s notched up an incredible track record of some of the finest pop moments this millennium.
When Robyn isn’t pouring her heart out on the dancefloor she’s laying down pure attitude and that’s exactly what Konnichiwa Bitches delivers. Lucinda Williams wrote and recorded "Passionate Kisses" 4 years before it was a hit for Mary Chapin Carpenter. And even on the songs where she isn't so strong, like "Bum Like You" and "I Should Have Known"'s catchy recriminations, she's never the less than self-aware. Robyn Song list.
It’s a slow-moving, elongated epic that stretches over 10 minutes. Related Blog Posts. By its finish, the beat is at full force, the chorus is euphoric and the heart is larger than ever. It’s a declaration of independence but Robyn’s never one to lie and her insecurities shine through at moments as she admits to being “helpless sometimes”. Originally a chart-topper for Steve Lawrence in 1962 chart-topper, "Go Away Little Girl," became the first song of the rock era to be taken to #1 by two different artists when Donny Osmond's cover version also reached the summit in 1971. It’s a sweeping, orchestral song that grows without you even really noticing. Find Robyn discography, albums and singles on AllMusic. That's just one of the everyday things these guys find to sing about. Call Your Girlfriend is a complete and utter triumph. The song has such a beautiful sincerity that’s translated through Robyn’s honest vocal delivery and Kindess’ retro stylings. With Every Heartbeat was the song that made Robyn’s transformation a worldwide success. It’s a loop of sugary, sleek dance music that oozes feeling at every single point. It was used in the climactic dance scene at the end, which was actually the first scene shot for the movie. Hang With Me is a soaring, emotional pop song that sees Robyn let a love interest back into her live as long as it’s just as friends.
It’s still to this day one of the most affecting songs on the dancefloor helmed by a monstrous chorus and an instrumental break that should quite frankly be illegal. It’s a subtle masterpiece and her greatest show of restraint. We delve into that song and find out how you can form a band when you don't sing or play an instrument. We thought we’d take the chance to go back through her catalogue and pull out the best 20. Directed by Per Åhlin, the film is loosely based on William Shakespeare's The Tempest. Be Mine! On The Radar: Erika De Casier – ‘No Butterflies, No Nothing’, The New Crop: Sloan Peterson, Josie Man And More New Songs We Love By New Artists. Robyn either uses a pulsating dance beat to pour or heart out or dig her heels in. Later today, Robyn will release her first solo single in eight years Missing U. Michael tells the story of "Send Me On My Way," and explains why some of the words in the song don't have a literal meaning. "With Every Heartbeat," the epic, Kleerup-produced breakup song that was Robyn's breakthrough single in the U.K., pushes her forward on percolating, escalating synths and strings until it peaks with the chorus echoing all around her. According to Robyn, Missing U is an anomaly on her forthcoming album Honey but it was a necessary bridging for this new era. It’s a love song that lets nothing get in its way and one of Robyn’s first displays of melodic brilliance. "Everybody Wants To Rule The World" was a line from a 1980 Clash song called "Charlie Don't Surf." gives us frantic verses and a confident chorus. On Honey, she does the opposite. Be Mine! No one can make a tough guy look small quite like Robyn can. Strangely, nobody expected Robyn to come back from an eight year solo break with a song that recalled her biggest dancefloor hits. On paper, a song about calling your girlfriend to tell her that you’re leaving her for another woman accompanied by a Dirty Dancing-inspired video sounds convoluted. It’s these admissions that make Robyn such a brilliant songwriter. Robyn feels like she crammed everything she couldn't do before into a space that can barely contain it, starting with "Konichiwa Bitches," a sassy hip-pop manifesto with a title that could very well have been the first thing she said to her old bosses once she got her own label set up. It’s a pulsating, emotional pop song that recalls the heartache of Dancing On My Own or the directness of Call Your Girlfriend but it’s gentler. It’s a relentless warning that leaves politeness at the door. “Come get your honey,” she sings, making it available but not without you coming to her. We don’t want to say we enjoy a heartbroken Robyn but she writes a break-up song like no other. Over a thumping, 80s-inspired beat she makes a song about insecurity strong and confident with a chorus that could break the speakers.
That honor goes to one of two songs that really hit home that true independence can be the hardest thing. "Be Mine!" Who writes a song about a name they found in a phone book? Tears For Fears used it as the title of their 1985 hit. As mentioned above though, Robyn has this knack for creating pop songs about niche subjects and making it sound simple. nails the complicated, sad yet liberated feelings surrounding an impossible relationship, celebrating "the sweet pain of watching your back as you walk away" as it propels itself on a buoyant rhythm. Robyn doesn’t write pop songs; she writes anthems of strength and survival. (2005) Between The Lines (2018) Call Your Girlfriend (2010) Cry When You Get Older (2010) Dancehall Queen (2010) Dancing On My Own (2010) Don't F--king Tell Me What to Do (2010) Ever Again (2018) “I’m so very hot that when I rob your mansion/You ain’t call the cops, you call the firestation,” is the sort of content we signed up for. "(I've Had) The Time of My Life" was a huge hit from the movie Dirty Dancing. A history of songs dealing with transgender issues, featuring Pink Floyd, David Bowie, Morrissey and Green Day. It’s all the things that make Robyn such a once in a lifetime artist delivered in this tight four minute pop song. As Procol Harum's lyricist, Keith wrote the words to "A Whiter Shade Of Pale." Along with Cobrastyle, it’s an outlier on the Robyn record but an important side of her nonetheless. You could begin Honey at any point and it’s feeling would still be the same. It’s a minimal, playful jam with one of Robyn’s most understated yet successful choruses. A monthly update on our latest interviews, stories and added songs, Trans Soul Rebels: Songs About Transgenderism. Jeff Lynne sang the word "groose" in the chorus of "Don't Bring Me Down" as a nonsense placeholder, but left it in when he found out it means "greetings" in German ("gruss"). It's not bragging if you can back it up, and Robyn does just that, channeling all the frustration of her creative differences with her previous labels into a freewheeling, accomplished pop album that is so fresh that it could pass for a debut -- and, as the first release for her own label, Konichiwa Records, it is a debut of sorts. Love Kills does the latter, using that four-to-the-floor beat to create one of her most aggressive songs to date. Even if it took a few years to put together the label and album (and a few more to get the album released everywhere), this is the pop tour de force that Robyn has always had in her.
It’s a frantic dance track that rattles with boundless energy. She has a few words for the ladies as well: the cautionary tale "Crash and Burn Girl" is one of the album's funkiest tracks. Robyn used a robot metaphor to create a climaxing dance song about loneliness and neglect. "Who's That Girl," the song that her old label didn't want to release, and sparked her emancipation from them, is also here, and its distinctive skipping, tropics-go-Nordic rhythms and aggressively buzzy synths -- courtesy of the Knife -- sound great, but it isn't even the best song here. Dream On is a sweeping dance pop song that channelled the same melodic emotion of With Every Heartbeat.
Anything in their field of vision or general scope of knowledge is fair game. The way the album moves from whimsical tracks like the Teddybears cover "Cobrastyle" or "Robotboy" to subtle ballads like "Eclipse" and "Any Time You Like" just emphasizes that this album is a space for expression for and by Robyn. She doesn't mince words on "Handle Me," but she purrs "you're a selfish, narcissistic, psycho-freakin', boot-lickin' creep" so sweetly that it stings even more. The co-writer/guitarist on many Alice Cooper hits, Dick was also Lou Reed's axeman on the Rock n' Roll Animal album. They were driven by a pulsating beat, elevated by a euphoric chorus and brought the heart to the centre of the dancefloor. Who’s That Girl may be Robyn’s most straight-forward pop moment but it’s no less glorious.
It feels softer like Robyn is more comfortable with taking her time. A sci-fi love story that somehow manages to be devastating and danceable.
If you cross paths with them, so are you. Robyn voiced the character of Miranda in the 1989 Swedish-Norwegian animated film The Journey to Melonia. On paper, a song about calling your girlfriend to tell her that you’re leaving her … Like a more complex version of Icona Pop’s I Love It, together they captured the moment in a night where the euphoria peaks and you never want it to end. Call Your Girlfriend. While fans may crave the immediacy of the early demo that featured on Girls, this version has a longevity because it you’ve gotta work for it. And like any self-titled album should, Robyn defines what she's all about. They go toe-to-toe, bar-for-bar with Snoop shouting out Obama and Robyn saying, “We need a black pope and she better be a woman.” She’s right and we better get it done because we all know better than to fuck with Robyn. Not every independent moment on Robyn is so lonely, however.
Snoop Dogg and Robyn is one of the stranger pop collaborations of the past decade but it just works so well on U Should Know Better.
Love Is Free came in the middle of an experimental, collaborative period for Robyn and saw her team up with frequent collaborators Markus Jägerstedt and Christian Falk. Pool balls, magpies and thorns without roses - how well do you know your Tom Waits lyrics? Robyn simultaneously makes herself look 10-foot tall while squishing this guy in a song that’s full of lyrical gold. The critics credited Daft Punk with bringing human emotion to robots on Random Access Memories but Robyn and Röyksopp had already achieved it. We knew Robyn was onto something good when she was able to write a love song about a “bum” who has a “dump” of a car and is potentially skimming her money. Monument may be the darkest song Robyn has ever made.
The third verse of "Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm" by Crash Test Dummies ("they shook and lurched all over the church floor...") was inspired by girl whose parents would speak in tongues at their Pentecostal service. Metronomy's … It feels too bloated a concept to pack into a four minute pop song but she simplifies it so beautifully. The lead-singles from each of Robyn’s Body Talk EPs followed a similar script. She redid one of her earlier songs Keep This Fire Burning though as a bonus track on her reinvention record Robyn. Over the years, she’s notched up an incredible track record of some of the finest pop moments this millennium.
When Robyn isn’t pouring her heart out on the dancefloor she’s laying down pure attitude and that’s exactly what Konnichiwa Bitches delivers. Lucinda Williams wrote and recorded "Passionate Kisses" 4 years before it was a hit for Mary Chapin Carpenter. And even on the songs where she isn't so strong, like "Bum Like You" and "I Should Have Known"'s catchy recriminations, she's never the less than self-aware. Robyn Song list.
It’s a slow-moving, elongated epic that stretches over 10 minutes. Related Blog Posts. By its finish, the beat is at full force, the chorus is euphoric and the heart is larger than ever. It’s a declaration of independence but Robyn’s never one to lie and her insecurities shine through at moments as she admits to being “helpless sometimes”. Originally a chart-topper for Steve Lawrence in 1962 chart-topper, "Go Away Little Girl," became the first song of the rock era to be taken to #1 by two different artists when Donny Osmond's cover version also reached the summit in 1971. It’s a sweeping, orchestral song that grows without you even really noticing. Find Robyn discography, albums and singles on AllMusic. That's just one of the everyday things these guys find to sing about. Call Your Girlfriend is a complete and utter triumph. The song has such a beautiful sincerity that’s translated through Robyn’s honest vocal delivery and Kindess’ retro stylings. With Every Heartbeat was the song that made Robyn’s transformation a worldwide success. It’s a loop of sugary, sleek dance music that oozes feeling at every single point. It was used in the climactic dance scene at the end, which was actually the first scene shot for the movie. Hang With Me is a soaring, emotional pop song that sees Robyn let a love interest back into her live as long as it’s just as friends.
It’s still to this day one of the most affecting songs on the dancefloor helmed by a monstrous chorus and an instrumental break that should quite frankly be illegal. It’s a subtle masterpiece and her greatest show of restraint. We delve into that song and find out how you can form a band when you don't sing or play an instrument. We thought we’d take the chance to go back through her catalogue and pull out the best 20. Directed by Per Åhlin, the film is loosely based on William Shakespeare's The Tempest. Be Mine! On The Radar: Erika De Casier – ‘No Butterflies, No Nothing’, The New Crop: Sloan Peterson, Josie Man And More New Songs We Love By New Artists. Robyn either uses a pulsating dance beat to pour or heart out or dig her heels in. Later today, Robyn will release her first solo single in eight years Missing U. Michael tells the story of "Send Me On My Way," and explains why some of the words in the song don't have a literal meaning. "With Every Heartbeat," the epic, Kleerup-produced breakup song that was Robyn's breakthrough single in the U.K., pushes her forward on percolating, escalating synths and strings until it peaks with the chorus echoing all around her. According to Robyn, Missing U is an anomaly on her forthcoming album Honey but it was a necessary bridging for this new era. It’s a love song that lets nothing get in its way and one of Robyn’s first displays of melodic brilliance. "Everybody Wants To Rule The World" was a line from a 1980 Clash song called "Charlie Don't Surf." gives us frantic verses and a confident chorus. On Honey, she does the opposite. Be Mine! No one can make a tough guy look small quite like Robyn can. Strangely, nobody expected Robyn to come back from an eight year solo break with a song that recalled her biggest dancefloor hits. On paper, a song about calling your girlfriend to tell her that you’re leaving her for another woman accompanied by a Dirty Dancing-inspired video sounds convoluted. It’s these admissions that make Robyn such a brilliant songwriter. Robyn feels like she crammed everything she couldn't do before into a space that can barely contain it, starting with "Konichiwa Bitches," a sassy hip-pop manifesto with a title that could very well have been the first thing she said to her old bosses once she got her own label set up. It’s a pulsating, emotional pop song that recalls the heartache of Dancing On My Own or the directness of Call Your Girlfriend but it’s gentler. It’s a relentless warning that leaves politeness at the door. “Come get your honey,” she sings, making it available but not without you coming to her. We don’t want to say we enjoy a heartbroken Robyn but she writes a break-up song like no other. Over a thumping, 80s-inspired beat she makes a song about insecurity strong and confident with a chorus that could break the speakers.
That honor goes to one of two songs that really hit home that true independence can be the hardest thing. "Be Mine!" Who writes a song about a name they found in a phone book? Tears For Fears used it as the title of their 1985 hit. As mentioned above though, Robyn has this knack for creating pop songs about niche subjects and making it sound simple. nails the complicated, sad yet liberated feelings surrounding an impossible relationship, celebrating "the sweet pain of watching your back as you walk away" as it propels itself on a buoyant rhythm. Robyn doesn’t write pop songs; she writes anthems of strength and survival. (2005) Between The Lines (2018) Call Your Girlfriend (2010) Cry When You Get Older (2010) Dancehall Queen (2010) Dancing On My Own (2010) Don't F--king Tell Me What to Do (2010) Ever Again (2018) “I’m so very hot that when I rob your mansion/You ain’t call the cops, you call the firestation,” is the sort of content we signed up for. "(I've Had) The Time of My Life" was a huge hit from the movie Dirty Dancing. A history of songs dealing with transgender issues, featuring Pink Floyd, David Bowie, Morrissey and Green Day. It’s all the things that make Robyn such a once in a lifetime artist delivered in this tight four minute pop song. As Procol Harum's lyricist, Keith wrote the words to "A Whiter Shade Of Pale." Along with Cobrastyle, it’s an outlier on the Robyn record but an important side of her nonetheless. You could begin Honey at any point and it’s feeling would still be the same. It’s a minimal, playful jam with one of Robyn’s most understated yet successful choruses. A monthly update on our latest interviews, stories and added songs, Trans Soul Rebels: Songs About Transgenderism. Jeff Lynne sang the word "groose" in the chorus of "Don't Bring Me Down" as a nonsense placeholder, but left it in when he found out it means "greetings" in German ("gruss"). It's not bragging if you can back it up, and Robyn does just that, channeling all the frustration of her creative differences with her previous labels into a freewheeling, accomplished pop album that is so fresh that it could pass for a debut -- and, as the first release for her own label, Konichiwa Records, it is a debut of sorts. Love Kills does the latter, using that four-to-the-floor beat to create one of her most aggressive songs to date. Even if it took a few years to put together the label and album (and a few more to get the album released everywhere), this is the pop tour de force that Robyn has always had in her.
It’s a frantic dance track that rattles with boundless energy. She has a few words for the ladies as well: the cautionary tale "Crash and Burn Girl" is one of the album's funkiest tracks. Robyn used a robot metaphor to create a climaxing dance song about loneliness and neglect. "Who's That Girl," the song that her old label didn't want to release, and sparked her emancipation from them, is also here, and its distinctive skipping, tropics-go-Nordic rhythms and aggressively buzzy synths -- courtesy of the Knife -- sound great, but it isn't even the best song here. Dream On is a sweeping dance pop song that channelled the same melodic emotion of With Every Heartbeat.
