Yesterday we got Adele on the back of Out, and now the cartridge has released their profile of Swedish pop star Robyn.
It's a very great read - lots of stuff I've never heard her talking about before, especially in congress to her queer fans and the photos are AMAZING(done by GLWood who likewise did the incredible Nicki Minaj shoot for Out last fall).
Iput about of the best chunks and some of the photos after the start but all of it is worth checking out ATTHESOURCE:
On being mistaken for a lesbian and her affinity with LGBT people:
"I get mistaken for a lesbian all the time-but I suppose I do get the most lesbian haircut of any of the girls in my field," she laughs, referring to her signature blonde bowl cut. "And when I was growing up and I introduced myself to people I`d say, `Hi, my list is Robyn and I`m a girl,` because in Sweden, Robyn is a boy`s name and I had such short hair. My handicrafts teacher thought I was a boy for 3 years. I tried to separate her I was a girl, but she`d just say, `My small boy wanted to be a daughter when he was a kid, too.` Finally my mom had to save her a line that said, `Please don`t take that Robyn is a boy anymore because she`s a girl.` Having that experience where I was confronted by people`s reactions to what I looked like or what I was alleged to look like made me identify with queerness. It even happens to me all the time, and a lot of the clock it happens to me in America because even though what I consider butch is yet very feminine in Europe, here you can offend people very well just by sounding a little queer."
On her unusual upbringing and why she wasn't cut out for the mainstream pop world:
"I never felt at place in the pop industry. My parents had a theatre company, and I was open to a lot of unlike things as a kid. My mom is an actress, and she was constantly playing a man or a witch - they were never typical roles. She had a shaven head and she`d do to blame me up at daycare and I`d walk on the former position of the street because I thought she was so ugly. You just want your mom to be pretty. Even though it occurred to me that my mom was different, it didn`t come to me that my upbringing was unusual. Because I grew up in such an alternative family, I think I had a very nave image of what making pop music would be like. [By the sentence my second album came out] Britney [Spears] and Justin [Timberlake] had entered the same man as me, and they were like kamikaze pilots who only did everything right. I was simply not that sort of person, so good then I already knew I wasn`t going to be around for that. They only did it so much better than I did."
On her notoriously private personal life:
"There`s a portion of me that understands why certain artists decide not to do interviews at all. If I were to talking about my personal biography and publish the songs I`m writing, I wouldn`t have anything left for myself. I think refusing to sing about my spirit is the sole way I can do it because I wish my music to be intimate-you can`t get good music without intimacy." Still, Robyn is practical, if wary, about the specific demands of being a pop star. "I believe [not doing press] is too simple of a solution," she says. "There are a few things that are truly amazing about a professional kind of coming to pop music, but a lot of times pop artists enter the music industry without deciding for themselves beforehand what their goals are. Lady Gaga is right: The fame monster grabs you, and if you`re lucky it takes you on a ride. But I don`t know if that`s always what you want. It`s only one of those things like you`re supposed to get married-you`re supposed to want fame. It`s never really questioned."
On her hit "Dancing On My Own" being considered a gay anthem:
Unlike some straight artists whose jockeying to be the sound of the gay community has left many feeling patronized and pandered to, Robyn doesn`t presume to talk for anyone but herself. "I have never thinking of `Dancing on My Own` as a gay anthem, but hearing it put that way doesn`t surprise me," she says. "Gay culture has ever had to embody outsidership. I believe we`re all just scared to be lonely. We all need to be loved and we all need to be seen. When you`re different on a very basic level, that belief is loss to be with you more frequently than somebody who doesn`t have to face what being an outsider is very like. I mean it`s a call about being on the outside-very physically-and if it feels like a gay anthem then I consider that as a super compliment."
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