Robyn is again. Her first single in seven years, “Dopamine,” is out now, together with a efficiency video directed by Marili Andre. Watch it beneath.
Robyn defined the chemical inspirations behind “Dopamine” in a press launch. “Everybody has a telephone the place they see their coronary heart price, and we’re studying find out how to decode our feelings via the hormones and chemical substances in our our bodies,” she stated. “It’s nearly like we don’t even settle for that we’re human anymore, like we’re making an attempt to shoot ourselves out of it and clarify each single factor—which I believe is nice, however that’s additionally why the world is shit, this concept that you would be able to work out and win life or one thing. The doubleness of ‘Dopamine’ is having an emotion that’s tremendous actual, tremendous robust, intense, satisfying or painful, and on the similar time understanding that that is only a organic course of in my physique—after which not to decide on faith or science. To only settle for that they’re there collectively and to have the ability to go in between.”
Teased for the previous a number of weeks, Robyn’s comeback reunites her with longtime collaborator Klas Åhlund, whose work with the Swedish pop star contains 4 songs on her final album, 2018’s Honey. Åhlund was the primary to tease the brand new music, saying on the podcast Nordmark Pod, in September, “Simply completed a brand new Robyn album that’s popping out. Tremendous thrilling! Very pleased with it.”
Since Honey, Robyn has featured on songs by SG Lewis, Sigur Rós’ Jónsi, Smile, Neneh Cherry, and Jamie xx, in addition to on the Yung Lean–assisted remix of Charli XCX’s “360” from Brat and It’s Fully Completely different however Additionally Nonetheless Brat.
