Robyn returns after seven years with new track, "Dopamine"
Swedish artist Robyn has teamed up with longtime collaborator Klas Åhlund for "Dopamine" – her first new music in over seven years.
“Everyone has a phone where they see their heart rate, and we’re learning how to decode our emotions through the hormones and chemical substances in our bodies,” she says of her comeback single.
“It’s almost like we don’t even accept that we’re human anymore, like we’re trying to shoot ourselves out of it and explain every single thing - which I think is great, but that’s also why the world is shit, this idea that you can figure out and win life or something. The doubleness of Dopamine is having an emotion that is super real, super strong, intense, enjoyable or painful, and at the same time knowing that this is just a biological process in my body—and then not to choose religion or science. To just accept that they’re there together and to be able to go in between.”
"Dopamine" follows the success of her 2018's Honey - Robyn's seventh studio album – as well as standalone collaborations including performing with David Byrne to celebrate Saturday Night Live's 50th birthday, makin live appearances with the likes of Charli xcx and Gracie Abrams, collaborating with Jamie xx on 2024's crossover anthem "Life", or with Yung Lean and Charli for a version of Brat’s "360", or soundtracking Acne Studio's 2025 Paris show.
"Dopamine" is out now via her new label home Young.
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