Oh, also she is phenomenal live. That Ally Pally gig last year one of my all time faves.
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Yes. I canāt believe how delighted I was when NME decided that was the greatest song of the 2010s!!! Maybe the only good thing they did all decade.
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I know this was shared at the time, but if people havenāt read it, itās a great place to start with her:
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Dunno/5
Never listened to her. Just stuck Dancing On My Own on to see what all the fuss is about. Itās fineā¦
Smashed the heck out of that 5.
My mate had Konichiwa Bitches on one of those HMV Playlist CDs in 2005 and we used to sing the whole thing on car journeys - I thought it was some throwaway number and then bought the album when I saw it in the wild in Foppā¦ blown away by how great the songwriting and melodies were. Then 2 years later, With Every Heartbeat was number one in the UK?!
Waited what seemed like ages for new material and Body Talk Pt1 came out (I remember The Fly magazine gave it 2/5) and thought it was light years better than any other pop (still is tbh) then Part 2 came out and I still think that itās even betterā¦ the whole Body Talk album / compilation is absolutely marvellous. Absolute shame it sold next to nothing - tho I used to keep it on the HMV store CD changer and managed to sell a few copies that way. Dancing on My Own sold reasonably well in the dying days of the CD single.
I remember around 2011 she performed at the Grammys and they literally cut her off 30 seconds into the song for commercial breakā¦ always felt she was super unappreciated to the point of being evangelical and putting her discography on USBs and handing them out to friends.
The wait for Honey felt like forever and was a slow growerā¦ I liked it initially, but after a dozen listens it really clicked as something brilliant and a whole piece rather than the compilation feel of Body Talk.
Five out of Five
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Itās certainly in my top 20 of the last decade. Itās an incredible record. I love the Koze influence across it.
Passed me by tbh. Abstain but will check out what people highlight
With Every Heartbeat is one of the best songs of the last 20 years, and easily the best number one single in the UK within the same period of time.
Fair play to Andreas Kleerup who wrote and produced it, originally releasing it in Sweden as Kleerup featuring Robyn, and then allowing the label to re-release it as Robyn featuring Kleerup. The are some bangers on his album from 2008 if you can track it down.
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For anyone interested in her influence, particularly the style of pop thatās much loved on these boards, this paragraph says it all.
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FTFY
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I love her and thatās that on that. 5.
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Been caning this Floorplan remix recently
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When āFrench Kissā comes in on thisā¦
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Just look at that list of singles.
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Also, this is what āHoneyā is based on, for anyone who cares.
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Gave her a 4 because Dancing On My Own is genuinely one of the best songs ever written or recorded in any genre of music throughout all of human history.
Pretty lukewarm on most of her other stuff though tbh.
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Donāt get Robyn at all
Feel like itās some big musical conspiracy designed to confuse me
To me, itās totally anodyne scandi-pop by numbers and I couldnāt bring any of it to mind bar dancing on my own, which is only fine, not amazing by any stretch of the imagination. And Iām generally a sucker for hooky synthpop
Maybe I need to delve deeper, but something tells me thatās not it either
2/5
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I love Scandi Pop! Lykke Li, Annie, Niki & the dove, Susane SundfĆør etc.
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Why is there no 6 option here?
Seriously, sheās amazing. Last years Alexandra Palace gig was an all timer. (I got goosebumps there thinking about it).
Love her.
Royksoppās Girl and the Robot is an enormous banger as well.
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Pretty much word for word my take too. Iāve tried her albums a few times and nothingās quite stayed with me really. Will try again