The video for Rye Rye's "Never Will Be Mine" featuring Robyn has premiered on VEVO.com. The Tim Nackashi (OK Go, TV on the Radio, Maroon 5) directed clip brings the Baltimore native and Swedish siren together in a colorful journey through the streets of Los Angeles.
Catch Robyn on Katy Perry's California Dreams Tour through the summer where she'll be joined by Rye Rye for "Never Will Be Mine."
Watch the premiere of Robyn's video for her latest single "Call Your Girlfriend" ... recorded in a single continuous take inside an LA warehouse and directed by regular collaborator Max Vitali.
"Call Your Girlfriend" appears on Robyn's critically-acclaimed Body Talk which is available now via Cherrytree Records. A remix EP for the track is also available.
While other singers are busy playing fame games to court fans, Robyn is taking over the world the old fashioned way -- with her music. The singer sat with Out magazine for an up-close interview.
On being mistaken for a lesbian and her affinity with LGBT people:
“I get mistaken for a lesbian all the time—but I guess I do have the most lesbian haircut of any of the girls in my field,” she laughs, referring to her signature blonde bowl cut. “And when I was growing up and I introduced myself to people I’d say, ‘Hi, my name is Robyn and I’m a girl,’ because in Sweden, Robyn is a boy’s name and I had such short hair. My handicrafts teacher thought I was a boy for three years. I tried to tell her I was a girl, but she’d just say, ‘My little boy wanted to be a girl when he was a kid, too.’ Finally my mom had to write her a note that said, ‘Please don’t assume that Robyn is a boy anymore because she’s a girl.’ Having that experience where I was confronted by people’s reactions to what I looked like or what I was supposed to look like made me identify with queerness. It still happens to me all the time, and a lot of the time it happens to me in America because even though what I consider butch is still very feminine in Europe, here you can shock people very easily just by looking a little queer.”
On her hit "Dancing On My Own" being considered a gay anthem:
Unlike some straight artists whose jockeying to be the voice of the gay community has left many feeling patronized and pandered to, Robyn doesn’t presume to speak for anyone but herself. “I have never thought of ‘Dancing on My Own’ as a gay anthem, but hearing it put that way doesn’t surprise me,” she says. “Gay culture has always had to embody outsidership. I think we’re all just scared to be lonely. We all want to be loved and we all want to be seen. When you’re different on a very basic level, that feeling is going to be with you more often than someone who doesn’t have to face what being an outsider is really like. I think it’s a song about being on the outside—very physically—and if it feels like a gay anthem then I take that as a super compliment.”
Read the full Robyn interview at Out magazine.
Put some dub in your step with Feed Me’s remix of Robyn’s “Call Your Girlfriend” (available now on iTunes and Amazon). The pop sensation just released a new digital EP with four remixes of the song which also includes unique spins by Kascade and Sultan & Ned. “Call Your Girlfriend” appears on Robyn's critically-acclaimed Body Talk album.
Two-for-1: Be sure to catch Robyn performing live this summer on Katy Perry's California Dreams Tour - and at the Sasquatch Music Festival, Bonnaroo and more. CLICK HERE for upcoming tour dates.
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The Swedish singer-songwriter’s work recently prompted London’s Sunday Times to ask: “Who else is recording chart-bound pop as sophisticated as this?” while NME said Body Talk “might just be the album of the year.” The new record will contain 15 tracks: five brand new songs plus five tracks each from Body Talk PT 1 and PT 2. See next page for track listing.
With “Time Machine,” one of the new tracks, Robyn comes full circle in her career, collaborating once again with Max Martin, who produced her debut album, Robyn Is Here, which included two songs that charted in the Top 10 hits of The Billboard Hot 100 – “Show Me Love” and “Do You Really Want Me (Show Respect).” Body Talk illustrates the breadth of Robyn’s recent collaborations – from Diplo (“Dancehall Queen”), Kleerup (“In My Eyes”) and Snoop Dogg (“U Should Know Better”) to Röyksopp (“None of Dem”), Savage Skulls (“Love Kills”) and, of course, her longtime producer Klas Ahlund, who was instrumental in making the Body Talk trilogy.
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Watch pop sensation Robyn put her spin on Alicia Keys' "Try Sleeping With a Broken Heart." The intimate performance is part of Robyn's iheartradio session filmed last month in New York City at P.C. Richard & Son Theater.
Robyn's new album, Body Talk PT 2, is due out in the US on September 7th. Visit Robyn.com for more info.
While on tour with their Cherrytree Records’ labelmate Robyn, Far East Movement had a little fun and re-flipped the pop sensation's song "Don’t Fu*ckin Tell Me What To Do." The group has just posted a video for their version of the track, "Don't F*cking Tell Me What To Drink," featuring footage from the "All Hearts" tour with Kelis, Robyn and Dan Black.
Robyn has premiered the new web video for "Don’t F*cking Tell Me What to Do" on her website, Robyn.com. The video is the first of its kind, a 3D video using no cameras, written entirely in code, with much of the content fed by fans via a Twitter feed. The video is a unique experience with every view as it re- generates with each loading of the URL. The first portion of the video features visualization of Robyn’s lyrics in 3D. The remainder of the video is created by users themselves who tweet in what is killing them using the Twitter hash tag, #killingme. These tweets are themselves visualized and credited to the user. The video has the potential to become the infinite video as users can continue to add on to the endless stream of #killingme comments.
'Don’t F*cking Tell Me What To Do' is the opening track from Body Talk Pt. 1 which sees Robyn sardonically running through a check-list of guilt-inducing vices- “My drinking is killing me, my smoking is killing me” against a propulsive, glitchy backbeat. It’s half manifesto of what the singer represents and half slacker rant.
Listen to the track and try out the video here: robyn.com/killingme. Be sure to include the #killingme hash tag after tweeting!
Watch Robyn rock a heartfelt live performance of her single, "Dancing On My Own," on Swedish program Sommarkrysset. The track will appear on her new album Body Talk PT 1 due out June 15th in the US via Cherrytree Records.
It's here! International pop sensation Robyn has premiered the highly anticipated video for "Dancing On My Own." Robyn teamed up once again with Max Vitali who also directed her video for "Be Mine." "Dancing On My Own" will appear on Body Talk PT. 1 which is set for release on June 15th in the US. The single will be available digitally on June 1st as well as new remixes on June 8th.
