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2018 single by Robyn

"Beloved"
Robyn – Honey single.png
Unmarried by Robyn
from the album Honey
Released 26 September 2018
Genre
  • Firm-pop[1]
  • alternative pop[two]
  • techno[3]
Length four:53
Label Konichiwa
Songwriter(south)
  • Robyn
  • Klas Åhlund
  • Markus Jägerstedt
Producer(s) Joseph Mount
Robyn singles chronology
"Missing U"
(2018) 		"Honey"
(2018) 		"Between the Lines"
(2019)

"Beloved" is a mid-tempo house-pop and culling-pop vocal with techno influences by Swedish singer-songwriter Robyn, released on 26 September 2018 every bit the second single from her eighth studio album of the same name. "Beloved" is produced past Joseph Mount of Metronomy, co-produced and co-written by Robyn and her frequent collaborators Klas Åhlund and Markus Jägerstedt, and mixed by the belatedly Phillip Zdar of Cassius. The song's premiere on 21 May 2018 during her surprise DJ fix at ADVENTURE[s]' Robyn-themed pop-up social club series' 'This Political party is Killing Yous' at the Brooklyn Bowl resolved rampant social media speculation surrounding her team's backbreaking editing of information technology over a year after an early demo of the song, a drastically divergent version sonically, was partially used on 16 April 2017 on the serial finale of HBO comedy-drama Girls (2012-2017) and so a recording of that audio was taken off SoundCloud. Robyn'southward self-described "white whale", the song took over 4 years in total from its formulation to consummate, the longest in her career.[4] [5] [6] [7] [8]

"Dearest" was made available as a two-track unmarried online the same day every bit it'due south accompanying album became bachelor to pre-social club and its radio premiere on Annie Mac's show on BBC Radio 1 on 26 September 2018.[9] [ten] Depicting an abstract clarification of pleasure, sensuality, and peace of mind, some of its lyrics reference The Rolling Stones' "You Can't Always Get What Y'all Want" (1969), flipping its message of what vs. need to a lover to signify her abandonment of optimism. The song was inspired past Robyn's recovery from past trauma, her favorite "hypnotic" songs and her fascination with 'beloved' as a dichotomous concept.

Disquisitional reception was largely laudatory and included The New York Times, who accounted the vocal Robyn'southward "masterpiece" [eleven] [12] and ranked the song every bit one of the greatest tracks of 2018. An accompanying music video, directed by longtime collaborator Max Vitali, was first released on 5 December 2018, meant to show catharsis through movement that would express one'south cocky and/or their sexual liberation. It shows Robyn dancing in a warehouse amongst other dancers she found through a Twitter casting phone call emphasizing many body types and ethnic groundwork diversity.

Background and creation [edit]

After a year in Stockholm starting in roughly mid-2012, "learning production on a non-turn a profit course that she helped to develop farther with her ain tech festival Tekla", Robyn was picking up "hypnotic", "weird" rhythms on some of her music programs and machines. Letting things be "bad-mannered and undefined" in "continuous loops" in a studio by herself "similar the trance and rave tunes she heard out in clubs",[xiii] Robyn was experimenting with her frequent collaborator and touring band fellow member Markus Jägerstedt on a broken Casio synthesizer during a break on i soundcheck in 2013 when she heard the spliced, uneven bassline its glitch created by itself for the first fourth dimension, become obsessed with it and deciding to record it. Not satisfied with the dissimilar techniques Markus tried to layer on it subsequently, she saved it abroad on her hard drive.

Following a flow of personal trauma in 2013 and 2014 including a breakup with Max Vitali and the death of her close friend Christian Falk, Robyn started writing for the album again in 2015 and brought the vanquish to layer on once again. Feeling rhythmically "claustrophobic" afterward the Trunk Talk era and needing to "rewire" her own relationship with rhythm to feel "freer", she spent two months trying rhythms and sounds and freestyling on the crush, inspired past her favorite tracks that required "patience" for a "loftier", such as George McCrae'southward "Rock Your Babe" (1974), Donna Summer'due south "I Feel Love" (1977), Kate Bush'southward "Running Up That Hill" (1985) and DJ Koze'due south "XTC" (2015).[xiv], before finally settling on a melody after working on a chord progression with Marcus that was heading for a feeling of "healing" where she could "calm herself downwards". Initially uncomfortable with the thought of collaborating over again, she finally reached out to Klas Ahlund afterward several weeks, feeling a "freedom" to describe her ideas in a much more "protected" format given she was presenting a song she had built on her own from the ground-upwards. Lyrically, Robyn got "stuck" on the word 'honey', becoming obsessed with it and initially not knowing why. Further on, she thought the concept of the give-and-take was funny every bit information technology was taken to hateful "something you'd call your lover" but was also a "weird", "interesting", "somewhat disgusting substance bees make". Klas and Robyn would write the lyrics together, with Robyn explaining to him she wanted them to be an "abstract clarification of a feeling" and to have the person listening be able to "find their own space where they could associate more freely about pleasance, sensuality, and peace of mind". Finding the writing process "healing", Robyn meant for the song to symbolize finding a sweetness when you dig deep enough into your own by pain, best exemplified by her favorite line, "down in the deep the honey is sweeter".

Having at this point completed a rough demo for the track by early 2017, actress Lena Dunham asked Robyn about music she was currently working on that she could include on her HBO series Girls and of the several demos Robyn sent, Lena picked Dearest. Taking this as inspiration to develop the song past its current phase and include it on her album, she kept the melodic and lyrical structure, removing Ahlund's almost in its entirety to substitute her ain. Brainstorming for new ideas, she reached out to Joseph Mount of Metronomy, one of her favorite bands, and he signed on, starting out by spending a week "playing around" with "string effects" on the song. Finished with this extremely "sparse" and "minimalist" second demo for weeks, Joseph changed his mind, calling Klas and Robyn both back to the studio to start yet once more from scratch, with just Robyn's lyrics and tune and Markus' chord progression and cleaved Casio bassline. Afterward several days, Mount re-emerged having put the string result and melody through a "stupid but fun" business firm filter to follow Robyn'southward vision of "feeling similar you were underwater but then you lot look down and in that location'southward thousands of meters downwards to the bottom of the sea, this feeling of something opening underneath". Dubbed what the team called the "sample sauce", Robyn thought it was amazing simply all the same too "undefined". Aiming for slightly more "hints" of an "actual choral structure", and at to the lowest degree a "simple tune" that could still "leave space for a lot up to the imagination", she was inspired past dance music she listened to growing up that didn't take a definitive showtime and terminate. They eventually added most prominently a "galluping" rhythm together with a boot drum on top of the bassline, and Robyn began experimenting with a relaxed vocal commitment in a different manner than she ever had, Klas pushing her to re-record three times and button its "softness" to its artful limit.

Finally completed with the runway'due south 2nd demo and set for mixing, Robyn had the thought to give information technology to Phillip Zdar, ane half of the band Cassius, considering she felt like the song "needed to be mixed" as a "social club track", and felt Phillip was best known in the industry for his "record delay" vocal takes. Having accepted, she received the concluding production weeks afterwards and was stunned as information technology was the offset fourth dimension in her career she'd got a mix sent back to her that was up to her standard the "commencement time she heard it". Robyn's many vocal sessions were done throughout Sweden, Paris, and Los Angeles, simply the majority of its production and recording was washed at Ahlund'due south studio in Stockholm and its mixing in Paris at Phillip Zdar's studio.[15] Robyn admitted after its release to Dazed's Anna Cafolla there were upwards of "twenty versions" of the track past the end of its mixing process from across the most year and a one-half of its recording,[16] and years afterwards she explained to Song Exploder 's Hrishikesh Hirway her "perspective" on its pregnant had inverse, in similar manner to her hindsight on "nearly" of her past tracks, becoming much more emotionally cathartic, especially following the death of Phillip to an accidental fall in Paris.[17] Robyn later explained to Time 'due south Sam Lansky that she "spent more fourth dimension on" 'Honey' than "on whatever other slice of music in [her] whole life," wanting the song to "be more than mood" but a "physical feeling" and "make certain [it] explained" when yous "well-nigh" "go through large changes" and "have those experiences that are fundamentally changing, or spiritual" such as a death or "break-up" that "destabilizes you in this intense way", further revealing the "years she spent feeling lost changed her indelibly" and she wouldn't likely "'be able to go back to feeling the security that [she] felt before'" given her renewed sensation of how "'unstable the world is'" including "'the things nosotros take for granted'".[18]

Composition and release [edit]

"Honey" is a midtempo firm-pop[nineteen] and techno[xx] song, keeping a tempo of 116 bpm in mutual fourth dimension and a key of B modest.[21] The song was compared in mood, product, and tempo to clubs' "sunrise" playlists typically played long after last phone call in anticipation of closing, becoming softer. Its production most prominently features a "pounding boot drum [...] loud and upfront" that is "side-chained to the pulsating synth", which is designed to brand the track sound similar it is "breathing", fabricated predominantly with a vintage modelling remake of the rare 1980'due south Soviet analog Polivoks synthesizer, the Sawer synthesizer.[22] [23] Filling out the rest of the track'southward product are synths and filters from numerous machines and digital controllers belonging to herself, her co-producers and co-writers including but not limited to DAW and MIDI sequencer Logic Pro, an "old counterpart" LinnDrum, and others Robyn said she "collected over the years", specifically from belatedly friend Christian Falk. [24] The "woozy", "languid", "gauzy" and "sensual" production including a "seductive", "aching" claw is meant to "amplify a sense of anticipation", with a "beat that buzzes and rolls somehow synesthetically", and the song was written "rhythm-first", with verses described as existence sung "most rapped" for their cadency, speed, and relaxed song quality, over a "backdrop" that "thumps neatly" and "cooly". Rolling Stone described the soundscape and songwriting every bit "deceptively serene" with a "vortex of beats" amidst a "golden-colored and opaque" "sea" that included "vintage synth stabs recalling the timbral signature of Kate Bush's "Running Upwards That Loma", and "a rippling electronic phrase" following her line "the electric current is stronger" that "drives that point home", feeling that "It'southward hard non to drown in it as she promises: 'No, yous're non going to get what you lot need/Baby, I take what yous want/Come up get your dearest'" as "Information technology'south an enticing promise only tastes more than bitter than sweet, like a siren calling sailors to their death".[25] [26] Stylus ' Alfred Soto made comparisons of its "aqueous beat" to "tardily nineties echos" of Madonna'due south Ray of Light (1998) and Sasha & Digweed, and the publication's Katharine St. Asaph felt it evoked "about obviously Róisín Murphy", earlier clarifying that information technology still sounded "similar zilch else in the alt-popular earth, which is a goddamn accomplishment."[27] Time 's Sam Lansky found the track "layered and psychedelic, like a Balearic trip the light fantastic toe party - more than tactile than sonic."[28]

The vast array of engineering used on the track was due largely to an arduous writing and product process from Robyn's high standards, "perfectionism",[29] and final say with her collaborators, a procedure that lasted over a year and half with infamously over "20 versions" of the track, "driving Klas and Joseph crazy". While unofficial credit is spread across most of her collaborators for their shared contributions in various measures to many facets of the vocal, which follows Robyn's well-established preference of artistic process, on a granular level, according to a lengthy analysis with Song Exploder 's Hrishikesh Hirway, she specified who contributed the most to each. The song's chord progression was thanks largely to Markus Jägerstedt, it is early pop format'due south "cleaved Casio" "split bassline" that inspired the final version thank you to Markus and Robyn, its melody, tempo, and chorus came more often than not from Robyn, its lyrics and song production split between Klas Ahlund and Robyn, its rhythmic furnishings largely cheers to Klas, its "underwater" house "special sauce" filter and drowning-in-honey revamp including string effects largely thanks to Joseph Mount, and its mixing entirely credited to Phillip Zdar. Robyn clarified to Pilerats ' Hayden Davies later on that "neither Joseph or Klas" were "social club heads", and so she felt like she "had to protect" the "single'south rhythm" that she "found herself captivated past" as "Dear transformed fourth dimension and time again – up to just weeks earlier release. 'Considering I don't know how to produce very well, information technology just took longer than what I've ever washed before. I had a actually item idea, and I wanted it to exist what I had heard and experienced.'"[30]

Conceptually, the vocal balances multiple metaphors, most predominantly making use of the dichotomous concept of honey as an expression to call your lover notwithstanding also its belongings equally a "weird" and "mucilaginous" substance. Numerous critics praised the analogy insofar equally the love she describes in the vocal could be "fleeting" similar honey that escapes through your fingers, and/or be a substance that "sucks you in" like a hand in its jar or the early on stages of a relationship yous then realize too late is stuck.[31] [32] The song follows a familiar bittersweet songwriting template for Robyn of upbeat and/or uplifting production with sad lyrics, with its "show-stopping maelstrom of ethereal pulses and kicks" encapsulating Robyn's vision of "the inherent human demand for contact, warmth, dear and music; battling difficult against the rocky shores of heartbreak," resembling beloved'southward belongings equally a "thicker, slower, and subtler version" of the "pop sugar" rush that came much more quickly from the songs in her Torso Talk era.[33] [34] [35]

On 20 June 2020, Robyn released "Beloved" on limited edition 12" vinyl, which featured remixes of the vocal. It was released as role of a Beloved Remix vinyl series, alongside of "Always Again", "Babe Forgive Me" and "Betwixt The Lines / Beach2k20", as function of the Dearest Record Stores Day 2020 event. Only 500 copies of each vinyl were manufactured.[36]

Critical reception [edit]

'Honey' received near unanimous praise from music critics globally. The New York Times ' Caryn Ganz described it every bit "glowing" while she and Time 'southward Sam Lansky deemed the song Robyn's "masterpiece". Lansky and MTV 's Madelin Roth both chosen it "transcendent", and Roth farther described it as a "sweet slice of pristine pop with vocals that are equal parts beatific, enticing, and agonized", feeling information technology was Robyn "at her near bloodshot — arguably her best zone".[37] [38] [39] The Cut 'due south Jessica Hopper called it "flawless",[40] and Rolling Stone called "Honey" a "languid" "bout-de-force"[41] "that could run for 72 hours straight and never feel entirely unwelcome."[42] Pitchfork named "Honey" the 2nd best vocal of 2018.[43]

Atwood Magazine 's Matthew Tordoff felt 'Honey' marked a "newer, more optimistic shift" in the "tone of Robyn's discography", noting the residuum the song struck between its "overtly sexual", "sure, cocky challenge" to its subject and its "innocence", "vulnerab[ility]", and "honest[y]", praising the "deliberate" structure, "airy" vocals and poesy "placement", likewise equally its "previously un-explored themes" and "unlike audio" which didn't "meander" simply didn't "rush along, as you would expect from a stereotypical pop song, either" that had clearly "been in the works for a while".[44] Intrigued its "sensual lyrics" still "examin[ed] how female sexuality has been commercialised", Esquire 's Olivia Ovenden called it "one of many tracks" in her career "fixat[ed] with never letting her music stand still long enough to just be ane thing".[45] Highsnobiety 's Douglas Greenwood called 'Dearest' a "remarkable cutting of strong, visceral club music" that "recklessly plays with intimacy, taking united states of america to a desolate trip the light fantastic floor with each listen."[46]

Live performances [edit]

Robyn performed "Honey" in full for the first fourth dimension at the Brooklyn Bowl.[47]

Usage in media [edit]

A version of "Beloved" was originally featured in the terminal season of the HBO series Girls in 2017.[48] "Dear" was too used in Swedish-Georgian 2019 film And And so We Danced.[49]

Track listing [edit]

Charts [edit]

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