Robyn - We Dance To The Beat
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Robyn
“We Dance To The Beat”
I’ve been putting off listening to the new Robyn album—it leaked like a month ago—so that I could review it with fresh ears. It’s getting close to the release, so I thought I’d revisit the album. This is not one of the best songs on the album, but it has one of my favorite lines:
We dance to the beat of bad kissers clicking teeth.
Actually, this is not a bad song at all. The entire album is a little bit more dance-y, which is hard to imagine when the previous album had one (a top-three best song of the year) called “Dancing On My Own” and another song called “Dancehall Queen.” But just, the production on this album is a little less heavy, a little more spangled-sounding—like the radio version of “Dancing On My Own.”
I’m sure glad that Robyn is releasing three albums this year, because that means she’ll be in the news cycle, and how. For my money (not much), she can sing Björk all day. I’ll keep buying her records and writing about them, because they’re vital, good, and pleasuring. Oh yeah, that line. It reminds me of how when you’re first starting with the really heavy making out and you’re kind of smiling while you’re kissing and your teeth hit the other’s teeth. A good observation, that line.
