Robyn interview: “Yeah. Always.” An independent Pop star for independent times, interviewed during a video shoot in East London.

It’s a very warm Tuesday. I am in a cab from Barbican to Brick Lane. It’s not because I am lazy (I am lazy), it’s because I really, really don’t want to miss my allotted time with ROBYN. When you’re an international Pop star with 15 years in the business under your belt, you rarely give interviews. You do press time. Meticulously scheduled press time that, of course, all goes out the window on the day. My paranoia having got me to Rough Trade East in plenty of time, I meet Mikael for a coffee in the record shop where Robyn will perform a little later to promote the first chapter of a trilogy of new albums this year, ‘Body Talk Pt.1’. It’s an album I’ve been listening to on repeat these last couple of weeks, in particular lead single Dancing On My Own (download the J-Wow Smoked Summer Remix of it above), which picks up where With Every Heartbeat left off yet still feels as sucker-punching, relevant and exciting as ever. It’s an emotionally honest, dancefloor focused album that confidently shows a myriad of sides to a veteran Pop star who knows herself now better than ever before. If ‘Robyn’ was her breakthrough, ‘Body Talk Pt 1’ is the Swedish artist comfortably hitting her stride. The woman herself is sat outside a café just across from us. She’s eating pizza with a camera crew who are filming a video for Hang With Me, the beautiful ballad on the album. It’s actually only a short wait while one interviewer after the other (all women, funnily enough) get their few minutes with her but it’s enough time to get a little nervous.

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Check out Robyn performing “Dancing on my Own” at Heaven on June 19.

Watch Robyn and I Blame Coco interview each other in a short video from NME.

See Robyn’s performances from 95.8 Capital Fm radio station, she performed “With Every Heartbeat”, “Dancing on My Own” and “Hang With Me” – Watch here!

Big thanks to Ola again for these scans from Swedish magazine NOVELL

As one of the few musicians endorsed by both Perez Hilton and Pitchfork, Robyn holds a special place in the global pop firmament. Sure, she makes pop songs about love and loss and dancing– but there’s a sophistication and melancholy in her music that separates the Swedish star from the Fergies of the world. After scoring a few worldwide hits as a teenager in the late 1990s, Robyn was chewed up by the major label record industry only to return with her 2005 self-titled, self-released album, which was undeniable enough to make our Greatest Albums of the Decade list and reinstate her popularity in Europe and the U.S.

This month’s Body Talk Pt. 1– the first of three planned albums set for this year– finds Robyn once again making inventive pop for the Top 40 radio station in her head. We recently spoke with her over the phone about the new record, Prince, and the quiet beauty of dancing alone:

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Watch Robyn’s performances of “Dancing on My Own” and Alicia Keys cover “Try Sleeping With a Broken Heart” from Radio 1 Live Lounge.

Dancing on My Own

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