Robyn has returned with “Dopamine,” her first new solo single since the release of her 2018 LP Honey. Out now via Young, the track finds the singer teaming up with producer and frequent collaborator Klas Åhlund on an electrifying and bubbly electro-pop cut that features the singer trying to rescue herself from this era of over-optimization.
“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,” Robyn shared. “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.”
Check out the performance video for “Dopamine” below.
