- 2025-11-13
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MUSIC
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Robyn Premieres New Song “Dopamine” on BBC Radio 1
Swedish singer-songwriter Robyn is back. She premiered a new song “Dopamine” on BBC Radio 1's New Music Show with Jack Saunders.
The song is her first solo music in seven years since the 2018 album “Honey”.
She co-produced the song with her longtime collaborator Klas Åhlund.
The song is accompanied by the Marili Andre-directed music video.
Robyn said of the song, “Everyone has a phone where they see their heart rate, and we’re learning how to decode our emotions through the hormones and chemical substances in our bodies. It’s almost like we don’t even accept that we’re human anymore, like we’re trying to shoot ourselves out of it and explain every single thing-which I think is great, but that’s also why the world is shit, this idea that you can figure out and win life or something. The doubleness of ‘Dopamine’ is having an emotion that is super real, super strong, intense, enjoyable or painful, and at the same time knowing that this is just a biological process in my body-and then not to choose religion or science. To just accept that they’re there together and to be able to go in between.”- Robyn told Jack Saunders about the song, “I wrote it a decade ago. I wrote all these songs that I didn't know how to really produce or record or what to do with them for the last album I made. I kind of saved them up. It's kind of a continuation, maybe, of an album I made called 'Body Talk'. I just wasn't in the mood for it when I made my last album. So they had to sit and marinate. I was exploring dance music on the last album I was having. I wanted to make songs that had no course. I wanted to do other things, and this song definitely has a chorus. It's a pop song, which I really know. I know how to write them, and I'm happy I saved it for the right moment. I think it's about falling in love. Like the physical sensation about falling in love. And how crazy it is. How insane it is. And I think maybe that's the one thing that actually stays the same over the years. So it means, it means the same thing now.”
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She continued, “'Dopamine' is a tricky one.It's a real addictive, right? And it's actually, when you fall in love. I think it used to be something much scarier to me. Now, I'm like, when it happens now I'm just like, 'Wow, this is such an amazing feeling.' It's the highest of the high. I think nothing really compares. But also just accept what it is, like, if you get it, like, just enjoy it. It might not happen again. Like, who knows when you're gonna fall in love next time. I think people also are very suspicious of falling in love these days. It's almost looked upon as something like bad, but it's really cool.”
Photo by Casper Sejersen
Background photo by Scandebergs - source : BBC Radio 1
