When it comes to popular music, Sweden punches in a different weight class. Think ABBA. Think Roxette, Ace of Base, the late Avicii and Swedish House Mafia. The great songwriter and producer Max Martin is a Swede. Heck, Spotify emerged from Sweden, as did the rogue searchable content index that changed the game, The Pirate Bay.
And of course, there’s Robyn.
The pop icon returns this March with Sexistential, her seventh studio album, and her first since 2018’s Honey.
With the announcement of it Wednesday, Jan. 8, Robyn shared the project’s second and third singles, the shimmering dance-pop anthem “Talk To Me,” and “Sexistential,” which a press release explains is “possibly the world’s first rap about having one-night stands while 10 weeks pregnant after IVF.”
Add to that list of tunes “Dopamine,” which arrived last November and got a remix by Jamie xx, the founder of the Young label, Robyn new label home.
The Stockholm-born star is wasting no time in getting word out. On Wednesday night, the singer and songwriter stopped by Stephen Colbert’s The Late Show for a performance of her forthcoming album’s title track, “Sexistential”.
Her visit to the historic Ed Sullivan Theater in New York City is the latest in a bunch of recent public appearances, which including an intimate live show at Los Angeles’ Fonda Theater on Nov. 19 and a sold-out show at Brooklyn Paramount on New Year’s Eve.
Sexistential drops March 27 and sees Robyn reunite with Max Martin for the first time since they co-wrote her 1997 classic “Show Me Love,” one of her two top 10 appearances on the Billboard Hot 100.
Watch Robyn’s late night performance and check out the Sexistential tracklist below.
Sexistential tracklist:
“really real”
“dopamine”
“blow my mind”
“sucker for love”
“it don’t mean a thing”
“talk to me”
“sexistential”
“light up”
“into the sun”
