About this episode
DJ Louie is joined by The New Yorker's Jia Tolentino to talk Niche Pop Icon, Robyn. Louie and Jia explore Robyn's early breakthrough during the teen pop boom of the late '90s with her Max Martin-produced hit, "Show Me Love", before going deep on her re-emergence nearly a decade later as pop's most beloved iconoclast. They break down the contours of her reinvention on her self-titled album in 2005, dig into tracks like "Be Mine!" and "With Every Heartbeat' to pinpoint what exactly constitutes a Robyn song, the crowning achievement of 2010's venerated Body Talk series, the ways "Dancing on my Own" and "Call Your Girlfriend" both define and subvert pop in its' purest form, and how Robyn has reimagined embodying sexuality as a female pop star. Finally, Louie and Jia assess what tier Robyn belongs in in the Pop Pantheon and explore the notion of creating a new tier for artists like her, whose success and influence is somehow greater than traditional pop metrics can measure. Read Jia's piece on Robyn and "Honey" in the New Yorker : https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/honey-reviewed-robyn-has-returned-and-she-has-what-you-want Follow Pop Pantheon on Instagram : https://www.instagram.com/poppantheonpod/ Follow Pop Pantheon on Twitter : https://twitter.com/PopPantheonPod Follow DJ Louie XIV on Instagram : https://www.instagram.com/djlouiexiv/ Follow DJ Louie XIV on Twitter : https://twitter.com/djlouiexiv Follow Jia Tolentino on Twitter : https://twitter.com/jiatolentino