![]() ![]() But it’s still important to talk about celebrities as something that’s quite weird. I’m really, really happy - I like what I do and that they want to buy my music. I’ve been really lucky in that way, but I think also people know that I’m maybe not so interested in being seen. Robyn: In Sweden people are very relaxed and leave me alone. ![]() He became instantly defensive in a way that suggested he expected to be looked down upon or scorned because she was a celebrity and he was this drunk metalhead on his way home. She’s one of the more well known living Swedes at this point in time. Robyn: We ran into this guy who seemed to be in a really bad mood.īainbridge:Most people in Stockholm are going to know Robyn’s face. We spill out onto the streets of Stockholm. One song that I like to do is a classic - it’s “Total Eclipse of the Heart.”īainbridge: The manager of the karaoke bar knew them very well and was extremely apologetic when he finally had to knock on the door and say, “Look, we closed an hour ago, do you mind going home?” It would have been pretty late - 3 or 4 in the morning. That’s a good karaoke tip, if you only have an hour or half an hour left. Robyn: We started doing only 30 seconds or one minute of each song because we wanted to go through more songs than we had time for. ![]() I think that Max, my boyfriend, wanted to make sure that he was not sober when he was singing with me and Adam.īainbridge:Max was reluctant to enter a karaoke situation with two professional musicians. Their energy spilled over into this karaoke session. ![]() That’s the point of the night where people would have stopped. Me, Robyn and Robyn’s partner had gone out and enjoyed a long boozy dinner, which was already probably sufficient for most people. That was the genesis of this whole project - just hanging out and spending time and discussing what we liked and didn’t like about music. “But coming out of the super-super-commercial pop industry in the Nineties, maybe people forgot about the fact that pop music can do both of those things.” -S.V.L.TIME spoke to Robyn and Kindness (separately - their interviews have been lightly edited together) about what exactly went down that night, shooting the poignant new music video and what the ghost of Teena Marie may have had to do with the whole thing.īainbridge: Robyn approached me through her team and asked if we’d like to meet and hang out. “All the big pop acts that I’ve been into over the years - whether it’s ABBA or Prince - managed to combine amazing melodies and honest human emotion,” Robyn told one interviewer. “Dancing on My Own” just kept building as the 2010s went on, soundtracking a memorable scene in HBO’s Girls and countless karaoke nights across the nation. And while she’s no torch-song diva, Robyn sang the hell out of this one, sounding as warm and human as the precision-engineered track isn’t. Written and produced with fellow Swedish ace Patrik Berger, it’s a relatable hit of heartbreak at the club, with a chaser of empowering uplift - exactly the disco anthem we needed in the long hangover of the subprime-mortgage crisis. Then came “Dancing on My Own,” the killer single that elevated her to something approaching voice-of-a-generation status among America’s burned-out youth. pop audiences in the 2000s, who mostly ignored her as she spent years refining her bright, fizzy synth-pop sound to perfection. “I’m right over here, why can’t you see me?” Robyn might as well have been singing to U.S. ![]()
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