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{{short description|Swedish singer (born 1979)}}
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| birth_name = Robin Miriam Carlsson
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1979|06|12}}<ref>{{cite news|title= Today in history |work= [[ABC News (United States)|ABC News]] |date=12 June 2014 |url= https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/today-history-24100059?singlePage=true |archive-url= https://archive.today/20140615172344/http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/today-history-24100059?singlePage=true |url-status= dead |archive-date= 15 June 2014 |agency= [[Associated Press]]}}</ref>
| birth_place = [[Stockholm]], Sweden
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| occupation = {{hlist|Singer|songwriter|record producer|DJ}}
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| instrument = Vocals
| label = {{hlist|Ricochet|[[Ariola Records|Ariola]]|[[Bertelsmann Music Group|BMG]]|[[RCA Records|RCA]]|[[Jive Records|Jive]]|[[Konichiwa Records|Konichiwa]]|[[Island Records|Island]]|[[Cherrytree Records|Cherrytree]]|[[Interscope Records|Interscope]]}}
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'''Robin Miriam Carlsson'''<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ratsit.se/BC/ReportSmall.aspx?ID=TcVIAMfwj_pmlqLpIbhp4qB14hIQGnwCMzIMKr7HpTc |title=Robin Miriam Carlsson LiljeholmsvДgen 8 A 2 tr Stockholm |website=Ratsit.se |date=12 June 1979 |access-date=28 May 2014 |archive-date=18 March 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120318015117/http://www.ratsit.se/BC/ReportSmall.aspx?ID=TcVIAMfwj_pmlqLpIbhp4qB14hIQGnwCMzIMKr7HpTc |url-status=dead }}</ref> ({{IPA|sv|ˈrɔ̌bːɪn ˈkɑ̌ːɭsɔn}}; born 12 June 1979), known professionally as '''Robyn''' ({{IPA|sv|ˈrɔ̌bːʏn|pron}}), is a Swedish
Robyn returned to international success with her fourth album, ''[[Robyn (album)|Robyn]]'' (2005), which brought a [[Grammy Award]] nomination. The album spawned the singles "[[Be Mine! (Robyn song)|Be Mine!]]" and "[[With Every Heartbeat]]" – the latter of which topped the charts in the United Kingdom. Robyn released a trilogy of mini-albums in 2010, known as the ''[[Body Talk (Robyn album)|Body Talk]]'' series. They received broad critical praise and three Grammy Award nominations, and produced three top-10 singles: "[[Dancing On My Own]]", "[[Hang with Me]]" and "[[Indestructible (Robyn song)|Indestructible]]". Robyn followed this with two collaborative EPs: ''[[Do It Again (EP)|Do It Again]]'' (2014) with [[Röyksopp]], and ''[[Love Is Free (album)|Love Is Free]]'' (2015) with [[Robyn & La Bagatelle Magique|La Bagatelle Magique]]. She released her eighth solo album, ''[[Honey (Robyn album)|Honey]]'', in 2018 to widespread acclaim.
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Robyn released the single "[[Be Mine! (Robyn song)|Be Mine!]]" in March 2005. Her fourth album, ''[[Robyn (album)|Robyn]]'', was her first number-one album in Sweden when it was released a month later. Influenced by electronica, rap, R&B and [[new-age music]], ''Robyn'' was critically praised and earned the singer three 2006 Swedish Grammy Awards: "Årets Album" (Best Album), "Årets Kompositör" (Best Writer, with Klas Åhlund) and "Årets Pop Kvinnlig" (Best Pop Female). The album evoked global interest in Robyn, who was recognized for co-writing the song "Money for Nothing" for [[Darin Zanyar]] (his debut single). She released three more singles—"Who's That Girl?", "[[Handle Me]]" and "[[Crash and Burn Girl]]"—from the eponymous LP, which was popular in Sweden. Robyn appeared on the [[Basement Jaxx]] track "[[Hey U]]" from their 2006 album, ''[[Crazy Itch Radio]]'', and contributed "[[Dream On (Christian Falk song)|Dream On]]" and "C.C.C" to [[Christian Falk]]'s ''People Say'' (his second album) that year. In December 2006, Robyn released ''[[The Rakamonie EP]]'' in the UK as a preview of her more-recent material; this was followed by the March 2007 release of "[[Konichiwa Bitches]]". A revised edition of ''Robyn'' was released in the UK the following month, with two new tracks—"[[With Every Heartbeat]]" (a collaboration with [[Kleerup]]) and "[[Cobrastyle]]" (a cover of a 2006 single by Swedish rockers [[Teddybears (band)|Teddybears]])—with slightly altered versions of the original music.
The second single from the release in the United Kingdom was "With Every Heartbeat" with [[Kleerup]], which was released in late July 2007 and topped the [[UK Singles Chart]], becoming the second single by Swedish artists to top the charts in Britain during the 2000s decade after [[Eric Prydz]]'s "[[Call on Me (Eric Prydz song)|Call on Me]]" in September and October 2004. Robyn appeared on [[Jo Whiley]]'s [[BBC Radio 1]] showcase show, ''[[Live Lounge]]''. In Australia, where ''Robyn'' reached the top ten of the [[iTunes Store]]'s album chart, "With Every Heartbeat" received attention on radio and video networks. Robyn contributed vocals to [[Fleshquartet]]'s single, "This One's for You", from their ''Voices of Eden'' album that year. Konichiwa Records signed an international licensing deal with [[Universal Music Group]] to distribute Robyn's music globally, and her UK recordings are released by [[Island Records]]. ''The Rakamonie EP'' was released in January 2008 by [[Cherrytree Records]] (a subsidiary of [[Interscope Records]]), and the US version of ''Robyn'' was released in April of that year. "With Every Heartbeat", "Handle Me" and "Cobrastyle" were top-10 club singles, and "With Every Heartbeat" received airplay on US pop and dance radio stations. Robyn provided backing vocals on [[Britney Spears]]' 2007 single, "[[Piece of Me (Britney Spears song)|Piece of Me]]", and appeared on the Fyre Department remix of "[[Sexual Eruption]]" by rapper [[Snoop Dogg]]. She made a brief US tour to promote ''Robyn'', and was the supporting act for [[
=== 2010–2013: ''Body Talk'' ===
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== Artistry ==
Robyn has a [[soprano]] vocal range.<ref name=":0">{{Cite news |last=Jones |first=Preston |date=October 16, 2019 |title=Robyn’s First North Texas Show in 8 Years Is a Glittering Pop Party |url=https://www.dallasobserver.com/music/singer-robyn-spoke-through-her-euphoric-pop-on-tuesday-at-irvings-pavilion-at-toyota-music-factory-11781872 |access-date=October 2, 2024 |work=[[Dallas Observer]]}}</ref> The ''[[Dallas Observer]]''<nowiki/>'s Preston Jones described her music as "electro-pop confections, with their gleaming, sexy, sophisticated surfaces, each laced with sharply observed lyrics capable of leaving a bruise or breaking your heart"
Writer and musician [[Sasha Frere-Jones]] called Robyn "remarkably adept at producing pleasurable, accessible pop that, like some kind of graphite alloy, is light but strong, able to carry humor and emotional weight".<ref name=":5" /> Her lyrics sometimes reference female empowerment and independence;<ref name=":5" /> Frere-Jones said her "wheelhouse is a classic subset of the dance song: a number that moves ahead quickly, with juicy chord changes, while the lyrics crack open with pain".<ref name=":5" /> According to Jake Hall of [[i-D]], the term "sad banger" has become virtually synonymous with Robyn since she released "[[Dancing on My Own]]".<ref>{{Cite news |last=Hall |first=Jake |date=February 28, 2019 |title=tracing robyn’s most iconic music video looks, in her own words |url=https://i-d.co/article/tracing-robyns-most-iconic-music-video-looks-in-her-own-words/ |access-date=October 4, 2024 |work=[[i-D]]}}</ref>
While writing her eighth studio album, ''Honey'', Robyn found that she was no longer interested in creating "tidy pop songs", exploring music she described as hypnotic "that didn’t have a beginning and an end" unlike her previous work.<ref name=":1" /> She attributed this shift in approach to lacking the "killer instinct" to attempt to replicate her hits.<ref name=":1" /> Laura Snapes of ''The Guardian'' described the album as "exploratory dance music that reflects the hopelessness and ecstasy that informed her time away from the spotlight".<ref name=":1" /> Robyn has said she that she prefers writing with other artists instead of independently, but finds it frustrating that people expect her as a woman "to have written the lyrics and the guys to have made the music".<ref name=":4">{{Cite news |last=Friedman |first=Ann |date=2014 |title=Robyn – The all-singing, all-dancing Swedish pop genius |url=https://thegentlewoman.co.uk/library/robyn |access-date=October 2, 2024 |work=[[The Gentlewoman (magazine)|The Gentlewoman]]}}</ref> Her collaborators have said that she "was as involved in the technical work as they were".<ref name=":4" /> Caryn Ganz of ''[[The New York Times]]'' called her writing process "designed to wring out truths", while songwriter and producer [[Klas Åhlund]] called it a series of “intimate, open and sort of confessional conversations", in which they would share details they wouldn't with others.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Ganz |first=Caryn |date=September 21, 2018 |title=How Robyn, Pop’s Glittery Rebel, Danced Her Way Back From Darkness |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/21/arts/music/robyn-honey-interview.html |url-access=subscription |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240513215135/https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/21/arts/music/robyn-honey-interview.html |archive-date=May 13, 2024 |access-date=October 2, 2024 |work=[[The New York Times]]}}</ref>
== Personal life ==
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==Legacy==
Various publications have nicknamed Robyn the "Queen of Sad Bangers".<ref>{{Cite news |date=November 25, 2019 |title=The Best Albums of The Decade: The 2010s |url=https://www.nme.com/features/nme-best-albums-of-the-decade-2010-2019-2580278 |access-date=November 13, 2024 |work=[[NME]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Locke |first=Amie-Jo |date=October 1, 2024 |title=Later… With Jools Holland: 21 of the best performances to watch right now |url=https://discover.ticketmaster.co.uk/music/best-later-with-jools-holland-live-performances-to-watch-right-now-62924/ |access-date=November 13, 2024 |work=[[Ticketmaster|Ticketmaster UK]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Hoang |first=Anna |date=April 21, 2019 |title=REVIEW: Teen Spirit (2018) dir. Max Minghella |url=https://bostonhassle.com/review-teen-spirit-2018-dir-max-minghella/ |access-date=November 13, 2024 |work=[[Boston Hassle]]}}</ref> Robyn's debut, ''Robyn Is Here'', was instrumental in helping launch [[Max Martin]]'s career in pop music, and creating demand for "white girl [[R&B]] singers, from [[Mandy Moore]] to [[Billie Piper]]." When Robyn turned down [[Jive Records]]' attempt to sign her in the United States, the label shifted their focus to a young artist named [[Britney Spears]], with the head of Jive calling Spears "an American Robyn – a [[Europop]] teen queen, with an added dash of '[[girl next door]].{{'"}} Martin ended up producing much of Spears's debut album ''[[...Baby One More Time (album)|...Baby One More Time]]'', and she was seen as "easier to control than the 'forceful' Swedish teenager."<ref name=":1" />
''Robyn'' (2005) has been cited as a foundational pop album of the 2000s, cementing the validity of "[[poptimism]]" in music critics circles that "[made] indie nerds lighten up."<ref name=":1" /> It gained significant acclaim from indie magazine ''[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]]'', which had only covered a few pop albums prior. Their acclaim "placed synthpop on the same level as earnest, artsy acts such as [[Arcade Fire]] and [[Sufjan Stevens]]." She was seen as "a bellwether for rock getting less rigid in introducing non-guitar sounds and for pop music becoming more dance-driven and experimental."<ref name="CoS">{{cite web|last=Moulton|first=Katie|date=25 October 2018|title=10 Ways Pop Star Robyn Was Ahead of Her Time|url=https://consequence.net/2018/10/10-ways-pop-star-robyn-was-ahead-of-her-time/|website=Consequence|access-date=22 December 2020}}</ref>
Robyn helped shape contemporary [[pop music]] by taking creative control, introducing [[indie music|indie]] elements to mainstream pop, and including feminist and other political themes in her music long before it became acceptable for popstars to do so.<ref name="CoS"/> ''[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]'' attributed her work as a "savant" and "pioneer" upon going independent to the accelerated prominence of the [[Alternative rock#Alternative pop|alternative pop]] genre starting in the late 2000s.<ref name="YoungArtists">{{cite web|date=14 September 2021|title=Robyn Inks With Young Artists Management|url=https://variety.com/2021/music/news/robyn-young-artists-management-1235063569/|website=Variety|access-date=21 December 2021}}</ref> According to El Hunt of ''[[NME]]'', the ''Body Talk'' project "paved the way for more experimental, alternatively-minded pop stars to find a place in the landscape in years to come" and pioneered "a different kind of pop".<ref>{{Cite news |last=Hunt |first=El |date=November 24, 2010 |title=“She breaks the mould”: how Robyn’s pop classic ‘Body Talk’ changed the game |url=https://www.nme.com/features/robyn-body-talk-10-year-anniversary-charli-xcx-kleerup-2821453 |access-date=October 2, 2024 |work=[[NME]]}}</ref>
== Discography ==
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[[Category:Swedish singer-songwriters]]
[[Category:Swedish pop singers]]
[[Category:Swedish women pop singers]]
[[Category:Swedish women in electronic music]]
[[Category:Synth-pop singers]]
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