{"id":223011,"date":"2026-01-08T09:57:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T09:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/223011\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T09:57:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T09:57:08","slug":"robyn-sexistential-talk-to-me-track-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/223011\/","title":{"rendered":"Robyn: \u201cSexistential\u201d \/ \u201cTalk to Me\u201d Track Review"},"content":{"rendered":"

We know how to meet Robyn<\/a> on her terms now: Her goofiness and her brazenness, her crystalline wisdom, the distinct sense that she still hits the club four nights a week. She can pull off maneuvers\u2014forays<\/a> into dancehall<\/a>; a Snoop Dogg team-up<\/a> that follows, roughly, the narrative structure of \u201cSympathy for the Devil\u201d; a slice of breezy Balearica<\/a> about a \u201ccute place on the beach\/They do really nice food\u201d\u2014that might get another singer laughed out of the room.<\/p>\n

\u201cFuck a Plan B baby, it\u2019s no big deal,\u201d Robyn raps on \u201cSexistential,\u201d the title track from a newly announced album<\/a>, her first in more than seven years. \u201cI\u2019m already 10 weeks in maternity.\u201d For the next two minutes, over twitchy, minimal house-pop, she recounts the unique travails of trying to get laid during IVF treatment. At one point, her doctor asks who her \u201cdream donor\u201d would be; Robyn answers, \u201cWell, Adam Driver always did kind of give me a boner,\u201d riotously closing the loop on her shared<\/a> history<\/a> with Lena Dunham\u2019s Girls. \u201cSexistential\u201d\u2019s slightness befits the remixes that are sure to follow (paging Honey Dijon<\/a>), but there\u2019s real heft to these subjects\u2014sex after 40, single motherhood\u2014that are rarely addressed in pop music or just music, period.<\/p>\n

\u201cSexistential\u201d is one of two new songs out today, neither of which quite match the heady rush of lead single \u201cDopamine<\/a>.\u201d \u201cTalk to Me,\u201d an ode to phone sex and healthy communication, is a co-write with Max Martin, who produced Robyn\u2019s 1995 debut. Together they return to the bulletproof, almost mechanistic synth-pop of 2010\u2019s Body Talk<\/a> and their collaboration on its song \u201cTime Machine.\u201d The hook doesn\u2019t soar like \u201cAll I want is a Delorean,\u201d but I\u2019ll end up playing \u201cTalk to Me\u201d several thousand times this year anyway. Robyn isn\u2019t shy about stripping down or swinging for the rafters; she\u2019s having her cake and smearing the frosting all over her body.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We know how to meet Robyn on her terms now: Her goofiness and her brazenness, her crystalline wisdom,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":223012,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[156,157,111,139,69,9202,1251],"class_list":{"0":"post-223011","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-music","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-newzealand","12":"tag-nz","13":"tag-tracks","14":"tag-web"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223011\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}