The pop singer will release her long-awaited album of the same name in March
Robyn appeared on The Late Show to perform the title track of her forthcoming LP, Sexistential, her first new album in nearly a decade. The Swedish pop star took the late-night show stage only hours after announcing the release, set for March 27 via Young.
The singer performed solo for the dynamic rendition of the song, which saw her dancing along to the rhythmic track and sprawling across the stage floor as she sang. The buoyant track sees Robyn rapping about having one-night stands while 10 weeks pregnant via IVF.
She said was inspired to write the track after Andre 3000 claimed no one would want to hear him rap about getting a colonoscopy. “It was my cue,” she said. “I have to do this, I have to write a rap about IVF.”
Sexistential, co-produced with Åhlund, marks Robyn’s ninth album, after 2018’s Honey. The singer says the material is meant to feel “like a spaceship coming through the atmosphere at a really high speed and crash landing. That’s how I felt, like I’d had all these experiences searching too far out into space, and now I’m crashing back into myself.”
Robyn said the album title was first an inside joke, before she realized how fitting it was. “Exploring my sensual life is the same feeling as when I make a good song,” she said in a statement. “It’s such a beautiful kind of sensitive vibration that takes so much work to keep afloat. I feel like the purpose of my life is to stay horny — it doesn’t even have to be about sex, but it’s feeling sensual and attracted to things that I enjoy, and not letting anything take over that.”
Robyn previously debuted “Sexistential” along with “Talk to Me,” the album debut single, at a show on New Year’s Eve. She performed at the Brooklyn Paramount following an appearance in Times Square, where she showcased “Dopamine,” released in November.
