Robyn Reinvents Herself — With A Little Help From A Snoop Dogg Remix
It's been nearly 11 long time since Swedish pop creative person Robyn's infectious cart track "Establish Me Love" soared its way up the U.S. singles chart. And spell the dance track clay a club mainstay in the States, we've heard really little from the singer since and then — only that doesn't mean she's stopped making music.
In fact, Robyn has been releasing material consistently oversea since 1995's Robyn Is Here. None of these efforts, including 1999's My Truth, 2002's Don't Stop the Music and 2005's Robyn, were ever issued in America. But on Apr 29, her self-titled album testament finally demesne in book shops altogether crossways America.
"It's near, to the date, 10 age ago when I came here with my number 1 album, and I didn't expect the great unwashed to distillery travel along what I do," Robyn told MTV News. "Simply the album is iII years old, and it's made its way over here by the Cyberspace, and at that place is still a herd that is whole into what I'm doing, which is chill."
Subsequently leave shipway with her record label and management, Robyn said she was able to make "the album I really wanted to make, without any compromises." But she didn't ask the variety of response Robyn has been met with. "I didn't mean roughly world Health Organization was leaving to listen to it," she said. "Just it establish its way to a set of people — a bunch of different people. That's what [is] so chill when I play populate. It's all ages, it's completely cultures, entirely sexualities, and it's rattling diverse. That's how I like it."
Justify from the restrictions and demands of a john Roy Major label, Robyn was able to self-release the place through her possess label, Konichiwa Records. The critically hailed effort marked a subtle change in Robyn's style, as it featured both synth-pop and electronic saltation tunes, about inspired by electronic couple the Tongue and Swedish rockers Teddybears. Although he's non credited in the album's liner notes, Timbaland helped make just about of the album's tracks.
Robyn never imagined she'd be able to release the album in the U.S. until last year, when she inked a Second Earl of Guilford American distribution deal with Interscope Records. The conduct came with one condition — that she work with a rapper, to emphasize its hip-hop elements. And she did just that on "Sexual Volcanic eruption," a remix of Snoop Dogg's "Sensual Seduction."
"They just wanted me to do something with a rapper," Robyn said. "And I said, 'Just don't put me together with any of those silly, silly hopeful gangsters. Put me with Method Man or Snoop or person that's real.' Then this suggestion came up. Snoop was releasing his fresh single, and on that point was a remix to be done, and I cast roughly vocals on it in Stockholm [Kingdom of Sweden], and deuce days later, my little sister calls me and says, 'That track, it's on the radio. ... Toilet you aim it to me?' And I was just amazed that my little sis was listening to Snoop and that I was on that path with him, and he's an creative person that I've been listening to since I was her age. I haven't met [Snooper], just I did interpret an e-mail where his comment was, 'This sh-- is mentally retarded.' I took that as a compliment."
With the arrival of Robyn comes a brief enlistment in the U.S., which gets under way of life April 29 in Boston. Ten dates take in been booked, with shows in City of Brotherly Love, New House of York, Boodle, Seattle and Los Angeles. Only toilet longtime fans expect Robyn to play her earliest material when she performs populate?
"I didn't ever feel wish I had to disconnect myself from my past albums" she said. "I feel like they're altogether a part of me. And I know that I could start up at my record label without those 10 years of have. I think nowadays I'm at a place where I don't have to conform to the construct of pop music anymore. I commode make the sort of music that I think is pop music, but that doesn't entail that my first album doesn't have a place in my heart. I think that there's a lot of songs on my earlier albums that I could distillery do. I distillery play them live, and I still feel connected to them. 'Show Me Passion,' for exercise, is a strain I do populate, and it's a goodness song, so you could do anything with it. We changed it up, and it's one of the highlights of the evening, especially here in the States. It's special, because so many people hither know it."
