With the exception of Madonna, who was arguably doing it anyway, pop’s biggest icons have adapted to suit a faster-paced world of reinvention, where genre is increasingly irrelevant. Christine and The Queens and Lorde are perhaps Robyn’s most obvious predecessors when it comes to channelling an outsider’s pain through the glimmer of a disco ball, but in reality, her influence has changed the whole shape of mainstream culture. Post ‘Body Talk’, pop is a home for curveball moves – think of any of the last decade’s most celebrated and influential stars, and they all share a love of rule breaking in common. And flying in the face of past convention, the independently-released, rapidly-created trio paved the way for more experimental, alternatively-minded pop stars to find a place in the landscape in years to come. Released as a trilogy over the course of 2010, the run shook up an increasingly outdated way of putting out music in the internet age and spawned some of the Swedish artist’s greatest songs of all time: ‘Dancing on my Own’ (which NME crowned the best song of the 2010s), ‘Call Your Girlfriend’ ‘Hang With Me’ and ‘Indestructible’ among the biggest hitters. A decade ago, Robyn changed the landscape of pop forever, condensing and building upon her two mini-albums from that same year and unleashing the final instalment of ‘Body Talk’ on her own label, Konichiwa Records.
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