Robyn: From Pop Puppet to Independent Icon

This is Robin S with her 1993 US top five hit “Show Me Love”. It's one of the greatest house-pop songs ever. Just to make things clear this is not Robyn with a “y”. The Swedish pop sensation who also had a 90's top ten hit with a song called “Show Me Love”. The latter Robyn is one of the most important pop stars of the last three decades. Any female pop artist to have survived and thrived into their thirties is an impressive feat, most being chewed out after their first album. But Robyn got chewed out, and then went on to do better than ever. She went from pop puppet to critically acclaimed indie `darling. As The Guardian clickbait-titled their 2018 article: “Robyn transformed pop music”, and they aren't wrong. Everyone from Britney Spears to Taylor Swift, Charli XCX, Teagan and Sara, and Ariana Grande have taken bits and pieces from Robyn's sound, persona and work-ethic. All this plus, Robyn's “Dancing on My Own” is one of the most perfect pop singles of the twenty-tens. But who is Robyn? How did she get here? And how did a 30-something Euro-pop artist outdo the greatest faces and producers in modern pop?

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