John Burgess 

Robyn, Robyn

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Robyn, Robyn

Robyn is a former pop puppet (in 1995, she had an international hit aged 14 with Show Me Love) who has cut her strings. Desiring creative freedom, she bought herself out of a major label to set up her own imprint. But far from being deliberately artful or wayward, Robyn remains defiantly pop: the chorus of Cobrastyle even goes "bum, diddy, bum de dang de dang diddy diddy"; and Be Mine! recalls Madonna in her Like a Prayer prime. She deals with her suffocating contractual problems on the synthetic Who's That Girl, penned with fellow Swedes the Knife, and on Handle Me she emits a put-down unlikely to ever come from the mouth of a JoJo clone: "You're a selfish, narcissistic, psycho freaking boot-licking slimy creep." All enough to make you want to holler: go, girl!

 

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