Robyn – Hang With Me official video from Robyn on Vimeo.

1. In My Eyes
2. Include Me Out
3. Hang With Me
4. Love Kills
5. We Dance to the Beat
6. Criminal Intent
7. U Should Know Better (feat. Snoop Dogg)
8. Indestructible (acoustic version)

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Pitchfork: You’re back in the U.S. What are you excited about?

R: I’m excited to tour. I mean serious. I want it to feel real and authentic, even though it’s pop music. I think the live thing is important for that because it brings a connection for people that I don’t think a lot of times you get with pop music because you get it in big venues. But we’re trying to do something more playful.

My audience is kind of the same everywhere. It’s this weird mix of people. People that knew me from before, but also mixed with lots of new kinds of people. And it’s the same thing here in America which is so striking to like go to Berlin and then go to London and then go to New York and see the same kind of crowd.

Pitchfork: You were at Roskilde. I saw you there a couple years ago. They are so vocal in Scandanavia too right?

R: That’s the one place where– actually in Sweden it’s like that too. But I think Roskilde is the only place outside of Sweden where I get that kind of response, except for here. The UK, I’ve sold more records there than anywhere else but it’s a different kind of audience. They’re a little trickier but here it’s just like [makes a noise] you know? Even if it’s a small club, people are still into it.

Pitchfork: Recently you covered Alicia Keys. What do you like about her?

R: I like that song. It feels like she listened to Prince. I totally have those songs too where you hear Prince but she did it in this good way that I liked. So I just wanted to pick up on that you know?

Pitchfork: Can you talk at all about what’s coming up?

R: I just finished mixing the next album. It’s just kind of sent off to the factory. It has more of the traditional pop songs on there, but the productions are still in the same world as the first album [Body Talk, Pt. 1] so it’s definitely connected. It’s meant to even have a little connection back to like “Show Me Love” and stuff like that. It’s not ducking from the pop thing at all. So it’s full on it’s like [makes a noise].

Pitchfork: Who do you like in Sweden? Do you listen to anybody else? I mean the Knife you worked with before.

R: I listen to a lot of Swedish music actually. I’m really excited to hear Lykke Li’s new album. I don’t know what she’s up to but I think that’s gonna be really fun. There’s a Swedish girl, a rapper called Mapei. She’s done some stuff with Major Lazer and she’s like a new– it’s always bad to compare people– but she’s like a new Neneh Cherry in a way.

There’s also this production duo called Savage Skulls that I worked with on the new album. They are also kind of in that Major Lazer world. They really like took that into a Swedish kind of context and they’re doing that kind of club dance music but it’s very, very– they’re not afraid to go Euro or go kind of kitsch but in a really nice way. I really like them.

Pitchfork: What else are you excited about, being back in the U.S.? Is it different in any other way this time?

R: It’s nice for me to come back and connect to what I built with the last album and the plan is to come back here and tour with every album so that it’s a continuous thing. I hope to just build on what happened here the last time– all the love I’m getting from this very natural place. It’s not filtered through a pop industry that I don’t feel connected to. It’s really, really nice. I’m just enjoying it really.

Pitchfork: I guess that’s what fascinates me, hearing you talk about it. I love, in a connection with Alicia Keys, when it feels really real but it’s still accessible to everybody. There’s not much music that’s like that. What is it about that for you that really draws you to that kind of music?

R: I think that when that happens, when that real thing is there it isn’t about the genre anymore. It’s more about the sincere pop quality and I think for me that’s what I always drove for when I listened to music, whether it’s like the things I grew up with like KLF or Technotronic or Neneh Cherry or if it’s things that are going on right now. I think that’s what it is to me, and it’s never about the commercial pop perspective, it’s about the place it comes from and the artist that does it. –Marc Hogan

Source: Pitchfork

Robyn Gets Chicago Dancing at Pitchfork Festival – Spinner

The first night of the 2010 Pitchfork Music Fest commenced with sweltering temperatures reaching the mid 90s, but it didn’t deter a crowd of of thousands there to watch Swedish pop singer Robyn give a highly energetic set in Chicago’s Union Park.

Wearing a revealing dress with the sides and back cut out, lacy tights and sunglasses, the blonde bombshell aimed to bring her icy coolness to dampen the heat. She opened with two songs from her latest electro-pop record ‘Body Talk Pt.1,’ including vocoder-infused ‘Fembot’ and ‘Cry When You Get Older.’

Upon hearing her catchy, electo beats, the crowd immediately began jumping up and down and danced along with Robyn, who strutted her stuff. The dancing probably only aided to the heat, but no one seemed to mind. “It’s so damn hot, Chicago!” Robyn screamed to the crowd. “How you doing people? We got on a flight from Sweden to come here.”

Robyn took off her sunglasses and continued to cavort and gyrate on ‘Cobrastyle,’ her boisterous cover of fellow Swedes the Teddybears’ song, which appeared on her self-titled album ‘Robyn.’ The crowd sang along to another new one, the huge single ‘Dancing On My Own,’ where she wrapped her arms around herself and danced alone. Things slowed down for the pulsating break-up anthem ‘With Every Heartbeat,’ but the momentum picked up again for ‘Dancehall Queen.’ Penultimate song ‘Don’t F—ing Tell Me What to Do’ began with a pre-recorded litany of things that are killing Robyn, like drinking, and the scintillating dance music coerced her to playfully hit the hi-hat and jab the air with punches.

She ended her 10-song set with an amplified version of ‘Be Mine,’ featuring synths that washed over the rest of the melody. “Thanks for standing in the heat,” Robyn told the drenched the crowd as the dance party wrapped.

Source: Spinner

Pitchfork confirmed the release date of Body Talk Pt. 2 (for the UK at least) – it will be released September 6, 2010 – the single for the album, an up-beat version of “Hang With Me” will drop the day before, on September 5.

The second “Body Talk” should also include a team-up with Snoop Dogg, though Robyn says she’s still nailing down the appropriate permissions. “It’s a great song…that I worked on for a couple of years,” she explains. “It was really cool to be able to be in the studio with him, first because I always was a fan but also because he was really creative and we had so much of an exchange in being there together, both as vocalists. I had an idea and he really got it and got into it, which was awesome. I think it puts Snoop where he’s supposed to be, which is some place that’s very gangsta.”

Robyn says he has “a couple songs” already written for “Body Talk, Pt. 3″ but has not started recording the album out. Nevertheless, she hopes it will be finished and released “before the year is over.” [Billboard]

Source: Pitchfork, Billboard

Robyn will be performing on Friday at the Pitchfork Music Festival – I will be there!