I think quite a formative artist for me. When I was a teenager, I immediately disavowed all and any pop music. Looking back, this was definitely down to ideas of masculinity and a bit of overcompensation with the confusion over my sexuality. This was the mid to late 00s and there was lots of good stuff being released that my sisters were listening to and I now listen to today occasionally - some of my fave Kylie stuff, madonnaās confessions, girls aloud, sugababes etc. Instead I liked indie/ guitar music and had a teenage pretentiousness that dictated pop music was vapid and inferior, so i never burned pop album cds onto my ipod. I Canāt remember when I first heard those singles from the self titled robyn album, but I remember them having a huge impact. I fell in love with them straight away, especially Be Mine. They felt dramatic and urgent and emotional. I bought the CD, then Body Talk and after that, felt much more comfortable listening to pop music. It sounds silly now when It now constitutes a lot of what I listen to today, but she was definitely the gateway to pop music for me, to show that it was just as enjoyable and valid, if not more so, than the āseriousā white men in a band that my music library was full of. Honey was superb too, as is the stuff with royskopp, her guest slots on stuff and her quarantine dj sets. A great live performer, had a ball at the Alexandra palace show. Just love her.
