Let’s have a listen to Robyn!
So, in case you hadn’t spotted it, Robyn’s new album leaked all over the interweb today. Rumour has it, it’s the first of three albums for 2010. This is a very good thing. We like Robyn.
So, let’s take a little listen - it’s not very long, so this shouldn’t take long…
Track one is up and running. So far, a lot of things are killing poor Robyn. More importantly, she’s listing each and every one of them. She’d also like you to know that she’d rather you didn’t tell her what to do.
The next one is the single - the one about tech stuff, just for the geeky boys and girls. If you haven’t heard it, here it is:
Oh dear, Robyn’s spotted her ex-BF snogging another girl. Poor love, at least she’s dancing but she seems a little sad, if we’re honest.
So, this next song seems to have about three choruses. No-one’s going to complain about that. It’s about crying as well though. You may think from this that it’s a miserable album but it’s actually very pop and really quite a toe-tapper….
So, now she’s gone all dancehall. Well, dancehall in a Scandinavian stylee. So a really quite blonde and white kind of dancehall. She does occasionally try out a Jamaican accent, though (clue: she’s not very good at it).
Ooh, Royksopp! This is all quite dark because Robyn is bored in whatever town she’s in. Probably Quebec City. The club she’s in sucks, the girls aren’t stylish and the drugs don’t work. You can see why she’s not very happy.
Oh, so now we’ve got the acoustic ballad! It has strings and everything. This is the breakup song. Sob.
OK, so this last song is in, I’m guessing, Swedish. It sounds like a a folk song and I’m going to go out on a limb here and suggest that it is. Wow, a Swedish folk song. It is neither sad nor dancey but it is kind of cute. However, it won’t feature in many playlists, at a guess.
That’s your lot. Quite short but, as I said, the first of three Robyn albums this year! Yay! I have to listen to it again now…
