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Robyn's New Song Invites You To Come Get Your 'Honey'

Robyn teased an early version of the song in 2017. The final version of the title track to her forthcoming album, Honey, is warm, persistent and self-assured.
Robyn's new album, <em>Honey</em>, comes out Oct. 26

There's always a hint of transcendence in 's music. It's why "Dancing On My Own" was such a perfect choice to soundtrack a moment ofas two of the titular characters dance around a Brooklyn bedroom, shaking off pain and heartbreak and awkward medical diagnoses. Sure, it's a limited liberation: the kind accessed by straight white girls who can afford health care and Brooklyn apartments. But for these characters, it's everything; for them, Robyn is the sound of liberation.

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