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Robyn, Pop’s Reluctant Pacesetter

Popcast

The New York Times

Music Interviews, Music Commentary, Music

3.61.5K Ratings

🗓️ 2 November 2018

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

With “Honey,” the Swedish star returns to a landscape she’s quietly shaped for over 20 years. Guests: The New York Times's Caryn Ganz; the Guardian's Laura Snapes; Jezebel's Hazel Cills

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to the New York Times

0:02.0

Popcast, your We Don't Need No Damn Max Martin,

0:05.0

of music news and criticism.

0:06.8

I'm your host John Caramonica. Baby it's so real to me now that it's over

0:17.0

The space where you used to be

0:22.0

Your head on my shoulder.

0:28.0

All of the plans we made that never happened.

0:33.0

Now you're saying on my pills,

0:38.0

at least you left me with something.

0:41.0

There's this empty space you left behind. Now you're not here with me.

0:50.0

I can take it through a waste of time with the pictures incomplete.

0:58.0

This is empty space she left behind,

1:03.0

now you're not here with me.

1:06.0

I keep sticking through a waste of time,

1:11.0

but the picture's incomplete. I don't dance on my own anymore. Instead I dance with my best

1:17.0

I dance on my own anymore. Instead I dance with my best friends listening to Robin.

1:23.4

Drop the Robin Popcast.

1:26.8

Damn it.

1:27.8

That's how I feel.

1:29.2

Honey came out last week. If you were close to Karen Gans, Honey is a state of mind that

1:38.1

dominated late summer and fall, early fall of 2018, is only right to bring it full circle onto the

1:46.7

pop cast to have a big old group conversation about Wuguan with Robin.

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