{"id":223304,"date":"2026-01-08T14:09:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T14:09:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/223304\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T14:09:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T14:09:14","slug":"watch-robyn-showcase-new-single-sexistential-on-colbert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/223304\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Robyn Showcase New Single &#8216;Sexistential&#8217; on &#8216;Colbert&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The pop singer will release her long-awaited album of the same name in March <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/robyn\/\" id=\"auto-tag_robyn\" data-tag=\"robyn\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Robyn<\/a> appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/the-late-show\/\" id=\"auto-tag_the-late-show\" data-tag=\"the-late-show\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Late Show<\/a> to perform the title track of her forthcoming LP, Sexistential,\u00a0her first new album in nearly a decade. The Swedish pop star took the late-night show stage only hours after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/robyn-new-album-sexistential-talk-to-me-1235494442\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">announcing the release<\/a>, set for March 27 via Young. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tThe singer performed solo for the dynamic rendition of the song, which saw her dancing along to the rhythmic track and sprawling across the stage floor as she sang. The buoyant track sees Robyn rapping about having one-night stands while 10 weeks pregnant via IVF. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tShe said was inspired to write the track after Andre 3000 claimed no one would want to hear him rap about\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/why-andre-3000-stopped-rapping-1234880754\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">getting a colonoscopy<\/a>. \u201cIt was my cue,\u201d she said. \u201cI have to do this, I have to write a rap about IVF.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tSexistential, co-produced with \u00c5hlund, marks Robyn\u2019s ninth album, after 2018\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-album-reviews\/review-robyn-lets-the-grooves-take-over-on-the-excellent-honey-746778\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Honey<\/a>. The singer says the material is meant to feel \u201clike a spaceship coming through the atmosphere at a really high speed and crash landing. That\u2019s how I felt, like I\u2019d had all these experiences searching too far out into space, and now I\u2019m crashing back into myself.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\t\tTrending Stories<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tRobyn said the album title was first an inside joke, before she realized how fitting it was. \u201cExploring my sensual life is the same feeling as when I make a good song,\u201d she said in a statement. \u201cIt\u2019s such a beautiful kind of sensitive vibration that takes so much work to keep afloat. I feel like the purpose of my life is to stay horny \u2014 it doesn\u2019t even have to be about sex, but it\u2019s feeling sensual and attracted to things that I enjoy, and not letting anything take over that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tRobyn previously debuted \u201cSexistential\u201d along with \u201cTalk to Me,\u201d the album debut single, at a show on New Year\u2019s Eve. She performed at the\u00a0Brooklyn Paramount following an appearance in Times Square, where she showcased <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/robyn-dopamine-new-song-video-1235463954\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cDopamine,\u201d<\/a> released in November. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The pop singer will release her long-awaited album of the same name in March Robyn appeared on The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":223305,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[156,17758,157,111,139,69,3876,5459,17759],"class_list":{"0":"post-223304","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-late-night-tv","10":"tag-music","11":"tag-new-zealand","12":"tag-newzealand","13":"tag-nz","14":"tag-robyn","15":"tag-stephen-colbert","16":"tag-the-late-show"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223304","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=223304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223304\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}