• DOWNLOAD | ROBYN “Fembot” (Edit) 2010

I am a self-proclaimed “fanboy” of very few artists, but Robyn inspires that kind of devotion from me. She is — much more so than other, umm, more gregarious pop stars — a realized artist who understands that smart pop music should never sound like “smart pop music.” It takes time and thought to prepare, but once you’re at the party, you’ve got to leave your coat at the door; we can talk about it in the morning.

Robyn spoke with Pitchfork this morning to talk about some of the influences she’s tapped into for the three albums she plans to release this year:

I went back to a lot of things I grew up with, like Technotronic and early acid music. I like a lot of the minimal stuff that’s out now like Booka Shade and Gui Boratto, too, even though it’s a lot slicker than stuff from the 80s or the 90s. And I’ve been listening to Giorgio Moroder and early Prince records where he was doing a lot of disco-sounding music. I feel like the dance world is like the last genre to be really be exploited or commercialized in the right way. It’s really going to have its time now and not just be looked upon as kitsch.

There isn’t another pop star on the planet that knows who Gui Boratto and Booka Shade are — much less understand what it means to be into “early acid” and then produce a single like “Fembot” which could have very well been produced by Juan Atkins back in the day. Which is all only part of the reason this girl is just staggering to me.