๐ง Episode 167: Robyn (Song Exploder)
Robyn is a Swedish singer and songwriter. Her first album came out in 1995, when she was 16 years old. It went platinum in the US, double-platinum in Sweden. Since then, sheโs been nominated for five Grammys and started her own record label. But there was an eight-year gap between Robynโs album Body Talk, which came out in 2010, and her most recent album, Honey, which came out last October. Time, Rolling Stone, and Pitchfork all named it one of the best albums of the year.
For Song Exploder, Robyn breaks down the song โHoney,โ the title track from that album. The first time the public heard the song was in a 2017 episode of the HBO show Girls, but thatโs not the final version that was released on the album. In this episode, Robyn traces the long history of how she made โHoney,โ a song that The New York Times called โher masterpiece.โ
This is such an important message Fiona. It reminds me of Austin Kleonโs message from Steal Like an Artist:
We however forget about stealing from our past selves.
This is what I like about Song Exploder, where artists break down the birth of an idea.