Robyn [Explicit]

First, let me say that i bought this on a whim....I was just looking for something interesting, as i often do, and saw this CD and thought i would take a chance....And it was a good choice....2nd let me say that i dont like, enjoy, encourage, or purchase rap music....I dont think its music,i dont think its clever, and fortunately ive not been Trained by MTV or VH-1 to accept that it is worth my time or my money$$$....If you have been so trained then you have my sympathy.....Now, with that being said., and as i mentioned i had NO IDEA what "Robyn" music would be like, and as it turned out, its rap music, but with a very fine style....Its White-Swedish rap music.....but, i can report that this girl is talented, has a very charming voice and unlike most of the ethnic rap that annoyingly blasts out of limo tinted low riders at red lights in the daytime, this girl's music is NOT mindless rhyme set to simple drum beats and little else.....The rap is "musicial" and is obviously influenced by Euro artists like Sasha and not american ethnic artists....So, i can recomend this CD to anyone who finds rap to be simpleminded, simplistic, and very non-musical....In other words, what Robyn has created is not just lowbrow ghetto rhyme bathed in repetitive pounding beats...but something Euro, something clever, and something original...and i bet her next CD breaks her big time in the US.

I have listened to this cd so many times, and I never get sick of it. Robyn, you are amazing!

When comparing it to the Robyn of the past she's almost unrecognisable, she is a woman with a great voice and an ear for innovation. With this album, it has some amazing tracks such as "Bum Like You" and "With Every Heartbeat" in these tracks she displays just exactly why we fell in love with her music in the first place. It was original, yet she didn't go insane with trying to sound so different that she actually sounded much the same of other such musicians.

There is a gripe I have with Robyn and this album, however, and that's it spews musical arrogance. She's insisting upon her own talent and saying to the world "Look I'm a great singer and I can rap too" but the response I have to that is no, Robyn you can't rap and it actually makes you sound ridiculous. I've always had a problem with British or other European artists thinking they can rap by using very Americanised words. She's so confident in her apparent rapping abilities that she's managed to destroy what had the potential to be album of the year.

Skipping songs along the same lines as "Konichiwa Bitches" in which she displays her rapping "Talent", this is actually a very good easy listening album.

Now don't get me wrong, I like this album; it's got some really good songs, but I can't help but feel there's a certain arrogance in her music. The main problem I have with the album as a whole is the attempt at giving us a diverse sounding album. We're given such good songs like "Bum Like You" and "Every Heart Beat." They're great, but then they're canceled out by Robyn's attempt at "rapping" in songs like "Konichiwa Bitches" and "Cobrastyle." Listening to her attempt at putting on an American rap style voice to deliver such childish lyrics, make me bow my head in shame.

This isn't right and really destroys what could have been a 5 star album for me. It saddens me to give it 4 but there you go. If you like Robyn's past work, then I promise you will love this. And hell, maybe you'll even enjoy her rapping, I certainly didn't.

WOW! her sound is beyond amazing!!!!great artist and there music is always under appreciated!