{"id":3040,"date":"2010-10-14T14:28:54","date_gmt":"2010-10-14T18:28:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/2010\/09\/20\/"},"modified":"2010-10-14T14:28:54","modified_gmt":"2010-10-14T18:28:54","slug":"robyns-body-talk-part-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/?p=3040","title":{"rendered":"Robyn’s Body Talk: Part Two"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, here we are again, talking about Swedish pop star Robyn. That must mean only one thing, \u201cBody Talk Pt. 2\u201d has released! I feel it\u2019s safe to say now that we\u2019re three Robyn albums reviewed in here at The Buffet (here<\/a> and here<\/a>) that I can officially declare I have a total fangirl crush on Robyn. There, I said it. I\u2019m not ashamed.<\/p>\n

So what does \u201cBody Talk Pt. 2\u201d bring to the table that has got me so darned excited? A whole heck of a lot! Let\u2019s dive right in because despite being only 8 songs, we\u2019ve got a lot of ground to cover!<\/p>\n

The album opens with \u201cIn My Eyes\u201d. This is pure, straight ahead, pop. It\u2019s not revolutionary by any means, but it\u2019s upbeat, you tap your foot to it, there\u2019s some classic synthesizer and drum machine work going on. Next up is \u201cInclude Me Out\u201d which again is danceable pop. \u201cIn My Eyes\u201d flows nicely into this track. With only 8 songs I value album flow greatly. I enjoy the occasional schizophrenic album that goes in a zillion different directions, but for the \u201cBody Talk\u201d discs and their limited number of songs, I appreciate a solid fluid selection of songs.<\/p>\n

Okay, now that we\u2019ve warmed up with the opening two tracks, here is where the ass kicking truly begins in earnest. Remember how I commented in my review of \u201cBody Talk Pt. 1\u201d<\/a> that \u201cRobyn slows it down for the last two tracks, \u2018Hang With Me\u2019 and \u2018Jag Vet En Dejlig Rosa\u2019. Both songs are lovely. Robyn has such a delicate, light, airy voice that is well suited for the material, but I have to admit after Robyn kicking your ass for 6 songs, it is a little hard to switch gears.\u201d Well for \u201cBody Talk Pt. 2\u201d Robyn presents us with the revamped, techno laced, version of \u201cHang With Me\u201d. What started out as a catchy ballad tinged with melancholy has become, in my eyes, a happy upbeat song about two friends trying not to be in love with each other. <\/p>\n

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After \u201cHang With Me\u201d we\u2019ve got \u201cLove Kills\u201d. \u201cIf you\u2019re looking for love, get a heart made of steel \u2018cus you know that love kills. Don\u2019t go messing with love, it\u2019ll hurt you for real, don\u2019t you know that love kills?\u201d I adore it when pop music viciously attacks love, don\u2019t you?<\/p>\n

Here we are at \u201cWe Dance to the Beat\u201d. This is a very techno\/trance kind of song. The best way to describe it is, it\u2019s as if The Android Sister, who performed satirical speak songs in the audio series \u201cRuby the Galactic Gumshoe<\/a>\u201d, got polished and repackaged for the dance clubs. This is The Android Sisters<\/a>, and this is \u201cWe Dance to the Beat\u201d, <\/a>you be the judge.<\/p>\n

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Get ready for some real booty shaking because we\u2019re at \u201cCriminal Intent\u201d. Can a night out on the dance floor represent criminal intent? It can when Robyn invites producer Diplo to join her on a track. This song packs some serious bass and is hands down the club song for this album. If anyone happens to have the ear of the folks who license music for the USA Network show \u201cBurn Notice\u201d, pass this song along to them please. This song is tailor made for the show, especially if they cut to black with just the end of the distorted voice saying \u201ccriminal intent\u201d lingering for a moment before the commercials kick in. I expect to hear this song in the new season USA!<\/p>\n

Again, referencing my review of \u201cBody Talk Pt. 1\u201d, you may remember me expressing disappointment in the lack of a new \u201cCurriculum Vitae<\/a>\u201d on that album. The smack talking intro that touted the vast accomplishments of Robyn, including, but not limited to, being \u201clisted in section 202 of the United Nations Security Act of 1979 as being too hot to wear tight sweaters in international airspace.\u201d She makes up for that with \u201cU Should Know Better\u201d featuring Snoop Dogg. As I said before, \u201cRobyn creates Swedish pop music that contains a hip hop swagger<\/a>,\u201d and she holds her own effortlessly with Snoop Dogg. The hip hop swagger runs rampant on this track as she explains that the French, the Vatican, the Russians, the CIA, the Prince of Darkness, and in fact, the whole industry should know better than to f@#k with her. Noted, will not f@#k with Robyn. Check!<\/p>\n

This brings us to the final track of the album \u201cIndestructible\u201d. This is labeled as the acoustic version, which leaves me hopeful that I\u2019ll be hearing an awesome remix of this song on the third \u201cBody Talk\u201d album, as this was how it went with \u201cHang With Me\u201d. Again, just like \u201cHang With Me\u201d, the song is beautiful and perfectly suited for her voice. Lyrically the song is wonderful, \u201cI\u2019m going to love you like I\u2019ve never been hurt before. I\u2019m going to love you like I\u2019m indestructible.\u201d It\u2019s fantastic, and it\u2019s solid enough that with it being the end cap to the album, it doesn\u2019t feel like it drags things down. I guess \u201cJag Vet En Dejlig Rosa\u201d was just one slow song too many on the last album. Here \u201cIndestructible\u201d soars and then lands perfectly to complete the album.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t always agree with the music reviews in Rolling Stone magazine, but they categorized both \u201cBody Talk Pt. 1\u201d and \u201cBody Talk Pt. 2\u201d as albums you should buy now, and I can\u2019t agree more!<\/p>\n

Update:<\/strong>
\nIn the gap between writing this review and actually publishing the review Digital Spy <\/a>confirmed my hopes, the next single out will be an alternate version of “Indestructible”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Snoop Dogg, The Android Sisters, Rolling Stone magazine, and Burn Notice all make appearances in my review of Robyn’s latest cd “Body Talk Pt. 2”. Check it out, it’ll be a good time!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18,27],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3040"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3040\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}