Robyn
Robyn
Robin Miriam Carlsson, known as Robyn, is a Swedish singer, songwriter and record producer. Robyn first came to the music scene with her 1995 debut album Robyn Is Here which spawned two Billboard Hot 100 top 10 hit singles; "Do You Know" and "Show Me Love". Her second and third studio albums My Truthand Don't Stop the Musicwere only released in her native country. Robyn returned to international success with her fourth album Robynwhich earned her critical acclaim and a...
NationalitySwedish
ProfessionPop Singer
Date of Birth12 June 1979
CityStockholm, Sweden
CountrySweden
Commercial music is music that a lot of people connect to at the same time, but that doesn't mean it has to be something shallow or without personality.
The way I figured it, keeping quiet was safe. Words could betray you if you chose the wrong ones, or mean less if you used too many. Jokes could be grandly miscalculated, or stories deemed boring, and I'd learned early on that my sense of humor and ideas about what sorts of things were fascinating didn't exactly overlap with my friends.
The way I figured it, keeping quiet was safe. Words could betray you if you choose the wrong ones, or mean less if you used too many.
It’s no good to lose touch with people who mean a lot,
In this world of doubt, one thing is certain for me; that I will go on writing songs up to and - I hope, through heavenly means or diabolical - beyond the day I die.
Everyone's talking about how no one is buying records any more, but to me it's quite logical. In the 1990s, music was so hardcore-marketed to a certain group of people that I think a lot of kids felt taken advantage of.
I think I'm always adopting a persona. That's how I look at pop music. I don't feel like I have to be myself. I feel like I have to be true to myself, but I don't have to show an exact picture of who I am.
I didn't mind being in school. But I was usually uninspired and always late. I did what I had to, but not more.
My friends who are not from Sweden tell me that I'm more reserved or maybe more ... I guess the opposite of what a Latin American would be. Maybe because Scandinavians are more careful with their words and I guess it takes a lot to become a friend of a Swede.
When you're 17 and you have an idea, people don't really listen to you. I came out of an environment where my parents were always pushing me to do what I wanted and be creative, and I was not used to the industry's way of thinking.
The music industry used to be able to control a single dance on the very smallest level of when people are supposed to hear it, and when they're supposed to start liking it, and when they're supposed to start buying it. And that's trashed, you know, that big machine that takes control and works albums for a long period.
I think that girls are always expected to have opinions about each other, and maybe I don't have an opinion about some things, you know?
Sure the Internet is the future, but what we do on the Internet is still very primal.
Club culture is always going to be a reflection of youth culture, but I think we're maybe moving into a time when the club is a place where older people can go, too. And it's a place people go to connect to themselves, it's not always about the party. It's also about letting off steam and expressing yourself and connecting to other people.