“Remember when they used to say I look too mannish?” Janelle Monáe asks on Django Jane, a song that celebrates “black girl magic” while also acknowledging she has been treated as less-than by a Eurocentric industry. Read our full review 3 Janelle Monáe – Dirty ComputerĪ record about womanhood, and black womanhood in particular. So how would Robyn stay ahead of the game? By making a looser, clubbier album, one which had the intensity of a full-on dance record and a less ruthless approach to melody and which never sacrificed Robyn’s irresistible blend of sadness and euphoria.
But pop moves fast and a new, woozier kind of tune by the likes of Ariana Grande and Dua Lipa has made such coldly strident numbers seem old-fashioned. Soon after Robyn released her era-defining 2010 album Body Talk, similar armour-plated bangers about female empowerment duly took over the charts.
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