Robyn now: What happened to Robyn Carlsson, the Swedish pop star behind ’90s hit Show Me Love?

Present me love, present me life / Child, present me what it is all about.

In 1997, Present Me Love by Robyn was a really inescapable pop hit.

The teen singer, full identify Robyn Carlsson, burst out of the Swedish charts and into the worldwide ones, having been signed to a document label on the ripe outdated age of 14 in 1994.

Present Me Love was the fourth single from her 1995 debut album Robyn is Right here. It was successful globally. Though it solely peaked at quantity 34 on the Aussie charts, the observe acquired common radio play and was broadly recognized.

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Robyn wrote the track with now-iconic Swedish producer Max Martin, who’s chargeable for lots of the largest pop hits of the previous 30 years, together with Britney Spears’ Child… One Extra Time and the Backstreet Boys’ I Need It That Approach.

Robyn hit teen pop queen standing lengthy earlier than Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera’s reign.

In actual fact, she unknowingly boosted Spears’ profession by rejecting Jive Information’ try and signal her in america.

When that occurred, the label turned its focus to the younger Spears, seeing her potential as “an American Robyn”.

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Regardless of her success, Robyn quickly bored with all of it.

“It was irritating for me to be a teen star,” she instructed Rolling Stone years later.

“I did not take a look at myself as a task mannequin. I wasn’t prepared for that accountability … [by 1998] it felt like this enormous machine was taking me someplace that I did not determine to go.”

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She launched her second album in 1999.

Then, affected by exhaustion, she cancelled plans for a tour with the Backstreet Boys, returning to Sweden.

Although she stored releasing music, she remained largely out of the highlight, quietly reinventing herself.

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In 2008, Robyn was again on the worldwide stage with a brand new sound and a slick new look.

Her fourth album Robyn, launched in 2005 in Sweden and Norway earlier than being launched internationally in 2007-2008, nicely and actually put her again on the map.

2010 was when Robyn actually exploded again into public consciousness, along with her songs Dancing On My Personal and Name Your Girlfriend changing into a part of the soundtrack of the early 2010s.

Dancing On My Personal memorably appeared within the TV collection Ladies, and in 2021 was named quantity 20 on Rolling Stone’s record of The five hundred Best Songs of All Time.

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She additionally acquired an honorary award from the Swedish Music Publishers organisation for her vital contributions.

In whole, Robyn has launched eight studio albums; the latest was Honey in 2018.

She’s been hailed as an enormous affect on modern pop music.

Final yr, Brat singer Charli XCX introduced Robyn on stage for a efficiency of With Each Heartbeat and an iconic remix of Dancing on My Personal with Romy from the indie rock band The xx.

“To shut out the yr along with Charli and her lovely followers and with my face in her hair singing Dancing On My Personal in HER insainly good present. So glad I acquired be there,” she wrote in regards to the expertise on Instagram.

“Charli, you are beneficiant and funky as all the time, noone deserved this yr greater than you.”

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“Love youuuuuuu!!!!!” Charli replied.

Most lately, Robyn joined numerous different celebrities and followers celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of Saturday Evening Dwell.

She carried out Dancing on My Personal and This Should Be The Place in entrance of a cheering viewers on the SNL 50: The Homecoming Live performance, alongside Speaking Heads entrance man David Byrne.

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