ROBYNRobyn
(Konichiwa/Cherrytree/Interscope)
**** 1/2 (out of 5)
According to “Curriculum Vitae,” the opening track to the new U.S. version of her self-titled 2005 album, Robyn suckerpunched Einstein, out-superfreaked Rick James, stunt-doubles for Jackie Chan on the weekends, and won the Nobel Prize for “superfoxiest female ever”—twice! Ah, but her heart breaks just like a little girl: by the end of the disc, on “Any Time You Like,” she’s crying herself to sleep in her pink silk sheets, begging the boy she likes to tell her he likes her back.
In between, Robyn delivers one showstoppingly inventive pop song after another, vowing to “kick ass all the way to Hong Kong” on the bubblegum rap song “Konichiwa Bitches,” taunting a cocky record producer on the make on “Handle Me,” proclaiming her freedom over a galloping violin section on “Be Mine!” and then breaking your heart on the simple, vulnerable “With Every Heartbeat.”
She's diva, clown, torch singer, and pop genius all wrapped up in one. By the album’s jawdropping final track, “Dream On,” on which she offers a glitterball benediction on all the “punks and lifers, pigs and snitches, scum and lowlifes” rotting in prison or sleeping in gutters around the world, Robyn’s ascension into pop goddesshood is complete. Watch your back, Madonna: if this girl ever fixes that awful hairdo, you’ll never be able to stop her.
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