#21

My favourite ‘pop star’ of the last 20 years. Innovative, fearless, a trailblazer for a whole generation of pop.

She does that happy / sad thing better than anyone currently operating, has made three excellent pop albums - of which for my money Honey is the best - and fuses her influences into her sound rather than ripping them off like most. ‘Honey’ the track sounds so like Koze (another of me heroes) but in a way that it’s equal to his best work, rather than pastiche.

That song, plus Be Mine!, With Every Heartbeat, Call Your Girlfriend, Dancing on My Own are all perfect.

And her minor stuff is well worth checking out too. Collaboration with Royksopp is great (adore Monument), ‘Dream On’ with Christian Falk (the subject of Missing U) is excellent & the La Bagatelle EP is cool.

Five

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#22

:+1:t3:

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#23

Oh, also she is phenomenal live. That Ally Pally gig last year one of my all time faves.

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#24

Yes. I can’t 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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#25

I know this was shared at the time, but if people haven’t read it, it’s a great place to start with her:

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#26

Dunno/5

Never listened to her. Just stuck Dancing On My Own on to see what all the fuss is about. It’s fine…

#27

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 Fopp… 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 it’s even better… 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 break… 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 grower… 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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#28

After an initial surge of praise I feel like Honey is a bit forgotten/underrated these days. Have it on again this morning and it’s still incredible.

Arguably battling it out with Lemonade for the best non-Emotion pop album of the 2010s.

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#30

It’s certainly in my top 20 of the last decade. It’s an incredible record. I love the Koze influence across it.

#31

Passed me by tbh. Abstain but will check out what people highlight

#33

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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#34

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For anyone interested in her influence, particularly the style of pop that’s much loved on these boards, this paragraph says it all.

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#35

FTFY

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#36

I love her and that’s that on that. 5.

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#37

Been caning this Floorplan remix recently

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#38

When ‘French Kiss’ comes in on this…

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#39

Just look at that list of singles.

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#40

Also, this is what ‘Honey’ is based on, for anyone who cares.

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#41

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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#42

Don’t get Robyn at all

Feel like it’s some big musical conspiracy designed to confuse me

To me, it’s totally anodyne scandi-pop by numbers and I couldn’t bring any of it to mind bar dancing on my own, which is only fine, not amazing by any stretch of the imagination. And I‘m generally a sucker for hooky synthpop

Maybe I need to delve deeper, but something tells me that’s not it either

2/5

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