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\n We\u2019ve been \u201cMissing U.\u201d Robyn fans just got their first hit of \u201cDopamine\u201d in seven years. The Swedish pop icon released her first new music since her 2018 album, Honey<\/em><\/a>, <\/em>on November 12. \u201cDopamine\u201d is trademark Robyn. Her clear-as-ice vocals are woven into a hypnotic beat that feels like being on a sweaty dance floor having a personal revelation. \u201cI know it\u2019s just dopamine \/ But it feels so real to me,\u201d Robyn sings in the chorus, wondering if her relationship is good for her. \u201cI\u2019m tripping on our chemistry \/ It\u2019s firing up inside of me.\u201d As the blueprint for much of the pop underground, she takes on the role of a sage in the first verse. \u201cNothing\u2019s ever gonna cut you as deep \/ As the very first time,\u201d she explains to her progeny listening. \u201cNothing\u2019s ever going to taste just as sweet \/ As when it is just out of reach.\u201d<\/p>\n The music video, directed by photographer Marili Andre, sees Robyn dancing on her own again. It opens on a naked Robyn with sparklers in front of a black backdrop. Then, as the song starts, the camera focuses on her face, training on her eyes and mouth as she wistfully performs the track naked, in sweats, and in high-fashion red and white clubwear. As the video progresses, the singer starts to let loose while wind machines blow her hair. Then, rain falls, she really starts to dance, and, as the song climaxes, she parties in the downpour like she\u2019s in a packed club, giving in to the rush.<\/p>\n \u201cEveryone has a phone where they see their heart rate, and we\u2019re learning how to decode our emotions through the hormones and chemical substances in our bodies,\u201d Robyn explained in a statement. \u201cIt\u2019s almost like we don\u2019t even accept that we\u2019re human anymore, like we\u2019re trying to shoot ourselves out of it and explain every single thing \u2014 which I think is great, but that\u2019s also why the world is shit, this idea that you can figure out and win life or something. The doubleness of \u2018Dopamine\u2019 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 \u2014 and then not to choose religion or science. To just accept that they\u2019re there together and to be able to go in between.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cDopamine\u201d is a welcome return for the singer, whose last project, <\/em> Honey<\/em>, capped off over a decade of beloved indie pop music. That run began with her 2005 self-titled album and also featured 2010\u2019s much-heralded Body Talk<\/em>, which Pitchfork called the eighth-best album of the decade<\/a>. These days, she is a legend for being one of the first major pop stars to walk away from a major-label deal with Jive Records, in 2003, and begin her own label, Konichiwa Records. Since Honey<\/em>, she\u2019s shown up occasionally to\u00a0co-sign prot\u00e9g\u00e9s, like Charli XCX\u2019s 2024 \u201c360\u201d remix<\/a>, where she boasted, \u201cStarted so young didn\u2019t even have email \/ Now my lyric\u2019s on your booby.\u201d She also performed an uncredited spoken-word poem on Lorde\u2019s 2021 Solar Power<\/em> track \u201cSecrets From a Girl (Who\u2019s Seen It All),\u201d <\/a>playing a flight attendant. It\u2019s time to remind these girls what happens when she\u2019s in the pilot\u2019s seat.<\/p>\n
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