{"id":668287,"date":"2026-10-28T23:28:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-28T23:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/668287\/"},"modified":"2026-10-28T23:28:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T23:28:09","slug":"watch-robyn-cover-tinashes-popstar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/668287\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Robyn Cover Tinashe\u2019s \u201cPopstar\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If there\u2019s anyone who knows about the pop star life, it\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/search\/?q=Robyn\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Robyn<\/a>. On BBC Live Lounge, the Swedish pop singer proved it with a mashup of the Teddybears\u2019 Iggy Pop-assisted \u201cPunkrocker\u201d and Tinashe\u2019s \u201cPopstar.\u201d Watch that all go down below.<\/p>\n<p>Robyn opened the performance with the first verse of \u201cPunkrocker,\u201d giving its iconic hook a new treatment by replacing \u201cpunkrocker\u201d with \u201cpop star,\u201d before transitioning into the title track of Tinashe\u2019s recent pop manifesto.<\/p>\n<p>Read more about why we love \u201cPopstar\u201d in Walden Green\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/reviews\/tracks\/tinashe-popstar\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">review<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If there\u2019s anyone who knows about the pop star life, it\u2019s Robyn. On BBC Live Lounge, the Swedish&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":668288,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[93,61,60,278,644],"class_list":["post-668287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-music","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=668287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668287\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/668288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=668287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=668287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=668287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}