You're listening to Song Exploder,
where musicians take apart their songs and piece by piece tell the story of how they were made.
My name is Rishi K. Shirwe.
Robin is a Swedish singer and songwriter.
Her first album came out in 1995, when she was just 16 years old.
It went platinum in the US and double platinum in Sweden.
Since then, she's been nominated for five Grammys and started her own record label.
But there was an eight-year gap between Robyn's album Body Talk,
which came out in 2010, and her most recent album, Honey, which came out last October.
Time, Rolling Stone, and Pitchfork all named Honey one of the best albums of 2018.
For Song Exploder, Robyn breaks down the song Honey, the title track from the album.
The first time the public heard the song was in a 2017 episode of the HBO show Girls,
but that's not the final version that was eventually released on the album.
In this episode, Robin traces the long history of how she made Honey,
a song that the New York Times called her masterpiece.
My name is Robin.
Me and Marcus, who's in my band, we had a soundcheck and...
He had brought this little Casio synthesizer that I was messing around with.
I don't know if you've heard those little Casios, but they sound amazing.
They sound like video games.