Pop pioneer Robyn breaks down every track from her freshly baked new LP.
There’s a brand‑new episode of Capital Buzz’s “Making The Album,” and this one hands the mic to pop pioneer Robyn, who arrives with humor, honesty, and a creative fire that’s been simmering for seven years.
She dives straight into Sexistential, her euphoric, addictive, and yes — proudly horny — new album. Robyn laughs about how the title started as an inside joke, only to become the truest expression of the project after she paused recording to have a baby and returned two years later with a sharper sense of self and sound.
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The episode opens with a track‑by‑track breakdown, beginning with “Really Real,” a song she describes as capturing the exact moment a relationship fractures — that surreal space where two people share a room but not a reality. She talks about the anxiety, the absurdity, and the Prince‑style guitar that mirrors the emotional static she wanted to explore.
Robyn reveals how the album’s sonic identity came first, long before the lyrics. She and longtime collaborator Claes worked from riffs and rock‑leaning structures — “like trying to write a Bruce Springsteen song but dressing it in pink latex instead of leather,” she jokes — creating a playful, subversive twist on classic songwriting.
She opens up about “Dopamine,” a song she began a decade ago and refused to let go of. She calls good songs “sculptures of frequency and tension,” explaining how this one grew more relevant over time as our culture became increasingly addicted to screens, stats, and self‑measurement.
There’s a tender, surprising moment when she discusses reworking “Blow My Mind,” originally a sensual love song from 2002, into a track about the overwhelming, contradictory emotions of early motherhood — a swirl of exhaustion, closeness, and what she calls “cute aggression,” that instinct to squeeze something you love so much it almost hurts.
Throughout the episode, Robyn reflects on duality — sadness and euphoria, desire and fear, control and surrender — the emotional palette that defines her music. She talks about writing from the edge of life’s contradictions, whether it’s dating during IVF, navigating isolation, or chasing the spark that makes a song feel alive.
It’s Robyn at her most candid and creatively charged, offering a rare look into the architecture of an album built on lust, longing, humor, and the messy truth of being human.
Dig it all out below: Watch Robyn Break Down Every Track on ‘Sexistential’
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