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Robyn - четвертый студийный альбом шведской певицы Робин . Он был выпущен 29 апреля 2005 года [1] на лейбле Konichiwa Records . Альбом представляет собой отход от прежнего городского и R&B музыкального стиляРобин, онисследует синти-поп и танцевальную поп музыку, вдохновленную электронным дуэтом The Knife и рок- группой Teddybears . [2] Это также знаменует собой выпуск первого альбома Робин на ее собственном лейбле Konichiwa Records, который она основала в 2005 году. [2]

Альбом дебютировал под номером один в шведском чарте альбомов в 2005 году, став первым альбомом Робин номер один в чарте. Он был выпущен на международном уровне в 2007 году, через два года после первого выпуска. Альбом был номинирован на лучший электронный / танцевальный альбом на церемонии вручения премии Грэмми 2009 года . Из альбома было выпущено пять синглов: « Be Mine! », « Who's That Girl », песня номер один в Великобритании « With Every Heartbeat », « Konichiwa Bitches » и « Handle Me ».

Фон [ править ]

В 2003 году Робин покинула свой звукозаписывающий лейбл Jive Records из-за отсутствия художественного контроля со стороны лейбла. В прошлом году она выпустила свой третий альбом Don't Stop the Music , но была разочарована попыткой лейбла продвигать ее как следующую Кристину Агилеру в Соединенных Штатах. Робин описала альбом как «большой компромисс» и была расстроена, потому что она «двигалась вспять», а не «делала то, что [она] хотела». [2]

В том же году Робин вернулась домой в Швецию и во время просмотра музыкального магазина открыла для себя дуэт братьев и сестер электронной музыки The Knife . Она была вдохновлена ​​тем, как дуэт самофинансировал и выпускал свои записи, и выкупила себя из контракта на запись с Jive Records. Она была свободна от своего контракта, но не хотела подписывать контракт с другим крупным лейблом, потому что считала, что «это было совершенно нелогично. Зачем мне это делать? Я чувствовал, что либо я бросаю заниматься музыкой, либо основываю собственную звукозаписывающую компанию». [2] Через шесть месяцев после ухода из Jive Records Робин основала свой собственный лейбл Konichiwa Records и начала записывать песни для своего четвертого альбома. [3]

Что касается лирического вдохновения альбома, Робин сказал Питу Льюису из Blues & Soul в марте 2008 года: «Я думаю, что самое большое лирическое вдохновение для этого альбома было у меня в 15 лет, когда я слушал хип-хоп в метро. Тогда - потому что Я не знал многих людей в Швеции, которые знали о рэпе, это было похоже на мой собственный музыкальный мир - где тексты были очень прямыми. Так что я попытался вернуться в то время, когда ты был таким сильным и самоуверенным, признавая при этом в подростковом возрасте иногда бывает очень неуверенно и чувствуешь себя очень хрупким ». [4]

Одиночные игры [ править ]

" Be Mine! ", Первый сингл альбома, выпущенный в Швеции, занял третье место и провел девятнадцать недель в шведском чарте синглов . [5] Песня получила положительные отзывы критиков и была названа четвертой лучшей песней 2005 года журналом Stylus Magazine . [6] Второй сингл " Who's That Girl " достиг тридцать седьмого места в Швеции. [7] В его текстах рассказывается о чувствах женщины, которая была избита непредсказуемостью гендерной и имиджевой политики. [2] Песни " Handle Me " и " Crash and Burn Girl " были выпущены в качестве рекламных синглов только для радио.в Швеции и сопровождались музыкальными клипами, в которых Робин танцует в ночном клубе . "Bum Like You" был выпущен Dolores Records на 7-дюймовом виниле ограниченным тиражом [8].

Главный сингл альбома в Соединенном Королевстве, " Konichiwa Bitches ", получил положительные отзывы критиков из-за его "хип-хоп чувствительности" и способности продемонстрировать "рвение [Робин] к созданию музыки". [10] Песня получила ограниченную трансляцию и достигла девяноста восьмой позиции в UK Singles Chart . [11] " With Every Heartbeat ", совместный с Kleerup , был выпущен как второй сингл в Великобритании. Он занял первое место в британском чарте, став самым успешным синглом Робин в Великобритании. [12] Третий британский сингл альбома "Handle Me", поддержанный ремиксами Soul Seekerz ,достиг семнадцатого номера. [12]"Будь моим!" был выпущен как четвертый сингл альбома 14 января 2008 года [13], достигнув десятой строчки в Великобритании. [12] "Who's That Girl" был пятым британским синглом с альбома, выпущенным 28 апреля 2008 года, и достиг 26-й позиции. [12] " Dream On " был выпущен 17 ноября 2008 года в качестве ведущего сингла из специального выпуска альбома Robyn , достигнув двадцать девятой позиции . [12]

"With Every Heartbeat" был выпущен в цифровом формате 29 января 2008 года как главный сингл альбома в США. [14] Он был обслужен в танцевальные клубы и ди - джеев, в конечном итоге номер пять на Billboard ' s Hot Dance Club Play диаграммы, а также номер двенадцать на Hot Dance Airplay диаграммы. [15] "Handle Me" был выпущен как второй сингл в США 1 апреля 2008 года [16], достигнув пятой позиции в чарте Hot Dance Club Play и четвертой позиции в чарте Hot Dance Airplay. [15] " Cobrastyle ", кавер на песню Teddybears 2004 года, был выпущен как двойная сторона A. single alongside "Konichiwa Bitches" in Australia in September 2007,[17] and peaked at number 17 in Sweden.[18]

Critical reception[edit]

Upon its release, Robyn received general acclaim from most music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 86, based on 17 reviews, which indicates "universal acclaim".[19] AllMusic editor Heather Phares called the album "a freewheeling, accomplished pop album that is so fresh that it could pass for a debut", and viewed it as "the pop tour de force that Robyn has always had in her".[20] Chris Willman of Entertainment Weekly graded the album an A, referring to it as "hooky dance-pop greatness" and "[f]antastic all of the time".[22] Barry Walters of Spin stated that Robyn "flashes lyrical smarts that veer between wisecracking sass and heartbroken eloquence", and that the album "achieves the sort of pure pop perfection that her more mainstream records never did."[29] Rolling Stone's Will Hermes concluded, "Sexy without being pandering, arty without being pretentious, Robyn is a public service: a record that can make indie-minded geeks dance without shame."[27] Priya Elan of the NME opined that the album "manages to piece together many of the elements of her chameleon-like career [...] and come up with what is the most inventive pop album you'll hear all year."[25]

Slant Magazine's Sal Cinquemani expressed that the album is "definitely a slow-burner [...], but it's also everything pop music should be: provocative, poignant, inventive, and fun."[28] Daniel Rivera of PopMatters cited the album as Robyn's "most honest and infectious outing to date" and noted that "the most impressive thing about Robyn is just how timeless it is proving to be."[30] Stylus Magazine's Jessica Popper wrote that the album "manages to combine several of the currently popular music genres whilst still making a perfect pop album [...] It's one of the few Europop albums that not only deserves worldwide domination, but also has a really good chance of achieving it."[31] In a review for the Manchester Evening News, Paul Taylor described the album as "undeniably sexy" and dubbed Robyn "a mini-Madonna in the making".[32] Billboard's Jill Menze commended the album for its "sassy and sweet dance pop gems".[33] In his consumer guide for MSN Music, critic Robert Christgau commented that he was "[initially] disoriented by the hype for 'With Every Heartbeat' [...] But without that add-on, which does grow on you the way pop breakthroughs will sometimes, this 2005 EU release might never have materialized here to prepare the way for Robyn 2010".[24] James Hunter of The Village Voice complimented its "fast electro arrangements tending toward the geometric" and found that "[Robyn's] appeal is questionable when she tries to sound like an American rapper, but on tracks where she just sings [...] she gives Europop a swift Swedish energy and presence".[34] Pitchfork reviewer Jess Harvell felt that Robyn's "pop fun is a bit knowing—she's 26 after all. But trust the Swedes. They know what they're doing with this sort of thing."[26]

Accolades[edit]

According to Metacritic, Robyn was the tenth best-reviewed album of 2008,[35] as well as the best-reviewed pop album of the 2000–09 decade.[36] Slant Magazine listed it as the second best album of 2008.[37] Entertainment Weekly ranked it at number four on its list of the 10 Best CDs of 2008, praising Robyn as "an autonomous, thrillingly eccentric dance diva capable of both wrenching techno ballads [...] and saucy, whip-smart kiss-offs".[38] Pitchfork, on its list of the Top 50 Albums of 2005, placed the album at number thirty-nine on its list and hailed Robyn as "one of the best things that happened to music this year that folks on the wrong side of the Atlantic never heard".[39] Pitchfork also included it at number sixty-eight on its list of The Top 200 Albums of the 2000s and stated that "[n]obody [...] made a more lovable pop album this decade than Robyn", describing it as "an indie-as-fuck fairytale: Freed from proto-Mouseketeer teen-pop servitude and inspired by the Knife, Robyn experiments across genres, emotes from the heart, and gradually amasses a netroots fanbase."[40] Aside from critics' lists, the album received a nomination for Best Electronic/Dance Album at the 2009 Grammy Awards, but lost out to Daft Punk's Alive 2007.[41]

Robyn was listed by Pitchfork as the 68th best album of the 2000s, calling it the most "lovable album of the decade".[42]

Commercial performance[edit]

Robyn debuted at number one on the Swedish Albums Chart, becoming Robyn's first number-one album in her home country.[43] The album spent thirty-six weeks altogether on the chart,[43] and was certified platinum on 6 April 2006 for shipments in excess of 40,000 copies in Sweden.[44] The album reached the number thirty-five in Norway, and remained on the albums chart for one week.[45] Although the album had charted only in Sweden and Norway, it reached number sixty on the European Top 100 Albums chart on the issue dated 21 May 2005.[46] It became Robyn's first album to chart on the UK Albums Chart, where it debuted at number twenty on 19 August 2007, before climbing to number nineteen the following week.[47] On 13 January 2008, the album re-entered the top forty at number eighteen,[48] and eventually peaked at number eleven three weeks later.[49] On 14 September 2007, Robyn was certified gold by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI),[50] having sold 242,000 copies in the UK as of June 2010.[51] The album reached a new peak position of number forty-eight on the European Top 100 Albums chart dated 16 January 2008.[52]

In 2007, Robyn signed a North American distribution deal with Interscope Records.[53] She was asked by Interscope to include a rapper on the album to highlight its hip hop elements. In an interview with Metro Sweden, Robyn said she understood why the label wants her to include a rapper, but did not want to "work with Akon or some other lame rapper. I want to work with someone who's gangsta, like Snoop [Dogg] or Method Man".[54] Robyn was released in North America on 29 April 2008, entering the Billboard 200 at number 100 with first-week sales of 7,000 copies.[55] It would only spend one week on the chart,[56] and had sold 33,000 copies in the US by June 2010.[51] "Dream On" later appeared on the North American release of Robyn without Ola Salo's vocals.[57]

Track listing[edit]

Notes

  • ^a signifies a co-producer

Personnel[edit]

Credits adapted from the liner notes of Robyn.[65][66]

  • Robyn – lead vocals, backing vocals, drums, mixing
  • Klas Åhlund – engineering, mixing, production, string arrangements
  • Christoffer Berg – mixing
  • Patrik Berger – mixing, production
  • Cass Bird – photography (international edition)
  • Björn Engelmann – mastering
  • Mary Fagot – art direction (international edition)
  • Janne Hansson – mixing
  • Mattias Helldén – cello
  • Henrik – mixing
  • Örjan Högberg – violin
  • Michael Ilbert – mixing, vocal mix
  • Frippe Jonsäter – sound effects
  • Andreas Kleerup – mixing, production
  • The Knife – production
  • Johan Liljedahl – co-production, mixing
  • Karin Liljenberg – violin
  • Cecilia Linné – cello
  • Ljunligan – sound effects
  • Blake E. Marquis – design (international edition)
  • Joakim Milder – string arrangements
  • New® – artwork (Swedish edition)
  • Ida Nyman – viola
  • Malin Ny-Nilsson – viola
  • Ollie – mixing
  • Georg Riedel – upright bass
  • Frederik Skogkvist – photography (Swedish edition)
  • Johanna Tafvelin – violin
  • Teddybears – mixing, production
  • Fabian "Phat Fabe" Torsson – mixing, production
  • Erik Wikström – mixing
  • Björn Yttling – grand piano

Charts[edit]

Certifications[edit]

Release history[edit]

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External links[edit]

  • Official website