At long last, Robyn has returned. The Swedish dance-pop genius is back with “Dopamine,” her first original solo single since 2018’s Honey.
The buoyant song was produced by her longtime collaborator Klas Åhlund. Like the best of Robyn’s catalog, “Dopamine” is a euphoric dance floor banger that pulsates with a hypnotic beat. In the Marili Andre-directed video, the singer dances her way through the high and the rain.
“Everyone has a phone where they see their heart rate, and we’re learning how to decode our emotions through the hormones and chemical substances in our bodies,” she said in a statement. “It’s almost like we don’t even accept that we’re human anymore, like we’re trying to shoot ourselves out of it and explain every single thing — which I think is great, but that’s also why the world is shit, this idea that you can figure out and win life or something.”
She continued, “The doubleness of ‘Dopamine’ is having an emotion that is super real, super strong, intense, enjoyable or painful, and at the same time knowing that this is just a biological process in my body — and then not to choose religion or science. To just accept that they’re there together and to be able to go in between.”
“Dopamine” potentially cues up a new album from the star, which will be her first since Honey. Though it has been a minute since she’s released a new project, she hasn’t been totally M.I.A. In the time since Honey, Robyn has collaborated with SG Lewis, Channel Tres, Jónsi, Smile, the Lonely Island, Beck, and Jamie XX. She made a guest appearance on Lorde’s Solar Power and had a guest verse on the remix of Charli XCX’s “360” alongside Yung Lean. In 2022, she reimagined Neneh Cherry’s “Buffalo Stance” with Maipei.
This past September, Robyn reissued her self-titled 2005 album via UMR/Island Records. The album featured singles “With Every Heartbeat” and “Handle Me.”
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