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Robyn - Robyn
| Ew | | If there were any justice, the divas who've been trading off the No. 1 slot — Mariah, Madonna, and newcomer Leona Lewis — would also be slugging it out with a platinum-blond dark horse from Scandinavia. Enter Sweden's Robyn, who arrives Stateside with Robyn, an album that's a veritable parade of Songs of the Summer....full text |
| | Stylusmagazine | | If there's one European pop star who deserves worldwide success the most, it has to be Robyn. She's been making excellent, relevant, and exciting pop music for the past eight years and her latest self-titled album is her best yet. You may remember her biggest UK and US hit in 1998, the poptastic “Show Me Love.” Being Swedish, she got to work with Max Martin way before Britney, but her new album proves that unlike Britney, Robyn is not just a vehicle for great pop—she's driving!...full text |
| | Allmusic | | "I present to you/unleashed in the east/best dressed in the west/sorted in the north/without a doubt in the south/the queen of queen bees," intones the booming voice on Robyn's opening track "Curriculum Vitae." It's not bragging if you can back it up, and Robyn does just that, channeling all the frustration of her creative differences with her previous labels into a freewheeling, accomplished pop album that is so fresh that it could pass for a debut -- and, as the first release for her own label, Konichiwa Records, it is a debut of sorts. Robyn feels like she crammed everything she couldn't do before into a space that can barely contain it, starting with "Konichiwa Bitches," a sassy hip-pop manifesto with a title that could very well have been the first thing she said to her old bosses once she got her own label set up. On this song and the rest of the album, Robyn sounds equally empowered and irresistible, and doesn't hesitate to tell off labels, trifling boys or anyone else that stands in the way of what she wants....full text |
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