Ok, so it happened: I found some Robyn that I actually like
This is such a 3am “last song played in a set by Superstar DJ X” where the “x” is intentional jam, and not at all the Knife ripoffs that most of the rest of this stupid record is. On the whole, I just don’t understand the Robyn phenomenon, other than-seriously, other than-that schnawsagely awesome tinkly re-imagining of that song that really should have been done by Pink, “Show Me Love”.
Robyn: Show Me Love (acoustic or something)
This song is old as hell, or old as Clap Your Hands Say Eh!, but cut me some slack here. I mean, seriously, this is your new young pony(club)?
Robyn is a geriatric male lesbian with a Flock Of Seagulls fetish that probably killed some fat chick named Bethulah or something for the cash to start a label. But probably not really, because her attempts at thuggish ruggish
are really embarassing. Even on “Be Mine”, that little spoken-word bridge where she, like, recites the lyrics to “Missing” or whatever the hell she says about a train/rain/in vain (and can you imagine if Everything But The Girl had tried that shit being as ugly as her? Fuck, you never would have bought that copy of that one album that was totally boring except for the Todd Terry remix, and how lame is that that TODD TERRY did something we’re all still talking about like a decade later?), she attempts to end it all “yo, I’ma mutha-flippin, who’s the mutha-flippin”, and it’s like “listen, honey, where you come from the only fucking thing you could have ever jacked is a
Does this look gangsta to you?
So maybe when Robyn’s singing about something never being hers, she means, like, a glock. Or Lil Wayne’s awesome facial tatts. Or the ability to not look like Abe Vigoda with a blonde triangle in the middle of his fucking forehead. I dunno. It’s a great song, though-pretty much perfect pop music.
You ain’t widdit, Resonator. Robyn is the bomb. You’re just too jaded to get it.
I can’t see why I like Robyn either. I just finished watching a few of her older music videos and she has changed quite a bit. I like her new style, but she was cuter back then, but weren’t we all?