Robyn

Robyn says Los Angeles is ugly but its freedom produces things that exist nowhere else.

“Los Angeles is extremely ugly, but it's because you have this kind of thing that you can do whatever you want”

Good Hang with Amy Poehler: Robyn (Nov 10, 2026) · Listen from 1:04:12

Robyn recounts deciding to return to Sweden and remake her career rather than follow the mainstream pop path.

“I went back to Sweden and I just decided to like, just redo my whole life and make music in a different way”

Good Hang with Amy Poehler: Robyn (Nov 10, 2026) · Listen from 30:19

Robyn credits her parents with protecting her from commercial pressures early in her career.

“I think that's really because of my mom. And I think it's because of my parents and that they kind of just protected me”

Good Hang with Amy Poehler: Robyn (Nov 10, 2026) · Listen from 22:33

Robyn argues that enduring discomfort in the studio leads to more interesting songs.

“the person who can sit with the uncomfortable feeling the longer can probably write the more interesting song, I think”

Good Hang with Amy Poehler: Robyn (Nov 10, 2026) · Listen from 58:56

Robyn describes herself as more of a process-driven artist than an intuitive one.

“so I would I would say I'm more of a process person than than the intuitive like thing”

Good Hang with Amy Poehler: Robyn (Nov 10, 2026) · Listen from 57:55

Robyn traces her fear of single motherhood to her father leaving her mother.

“my dad left my mom. So that was like a very inherent, like fear”

Good Hang with Amy Poehler: Robyn (Nov 10, 2026) · Listen from 43:45

Robyn says having a child alone made her see the song's lesson as a valuable skill.

“I started looking at dancing on my own very differently. Like that's actually a really good skill to have”

Good Hang with Amy Poehler: Robyn (Nov 10, 2026) · Listen from 37:41

Robyn describes Dancing On My Own as being about reveling in loneliness and finding power in it.

“And that's what that song is about, like reveling in this feeling of loneliness and like finding”

Good Hang with Amy Poehler: Robyn (Nov 10, 2026) · Listen from 38:45

Robyn says Dancing On My Own came intuitively and was written quickly.

“Dancing On My Own was very direct, took a short time to write it”

Good Hang with Amy Poehler: Robyn (Nov 10, 2026) · Listen from 16:06

Robyn says Eurovision was great in the era of ABBA and Carola but is now bad.

“Then we had Carola, who is, you know, both me and Zara grew up listening to her. Amazing artist. And then now it's just shit”

Good Hang with Amy Poehler: Robyn (Nov 10, 2026) · Listen from 1:02:09

Robyn explains that in Sweden the doctor chooses the sperm donor to resemble the mother.

“In Sweden, the donor was chosen for me by the doctor and they do it so that the kid looks like you”

Good Hang with Amy Poehler: Robyn (Nov 10, 2026) · Listen from 46:45

Robyn argues that the range of what counts as cringe has narrowed, making it harder to be silly and unfiltered.

“it's very narrow now what is cringe and just being like human and being silly and being unfiltered is not as easy as it used to be”

Good Hang with Amy Poehler: Robyn (Nov 10, 2026) · Listen from 27:28