You're listening to Song Exploder, where musicians take apart their songs and piece by piece,

tell the story of how they were made.

My name is Brushie K. She's her way.

Robin is a Swedish singer and songwriter.

Her first album came out in 1995, when she was just 16 years old.

It went platinum in the US and double platinum in Sweden.

Since then, she's been nominated for five Grammys and started her own record label.

So there was an eight-year gap between Robin's album Body Talk, which came out in 2010,

and her most recent album, Honey, which came out last October.

Time, Rolling Stone, and Pitchfork all named Honey one of the best albums of 2018.

For Song Exploder, Robin breaks down the Song Honey, the title track from the album.

The first time the public heard the song was in a 2017 episode of the HBO show Girls.

But that's not the final version that was eventually released on the album.

In this episode, Robin traces the long history of how she made Honey, a song that the New

York Times called Her Masterpiece.

My name is Robin.

Me and Marcus was in my band.

We had a sound check and he had brought this little Casio synthesizer that I was messing

around with.

I don't know if you've heard those little Casios, but they sound amazing.

They sound like video games.

And so he showed me this thing we could hold two buttons and there was something wrong

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