robyn – indestructible (a-trak radio edit)

During the “Holidays”, which are clearly just days invented to make non-9-to-5ers like myself feel guilty that working people realize just how little you can do on a weekday, I get even more bored than usual.

So one day, I stumbled into YouTube to watch Robyn perform various versions of my favorite songs off Body Talk – sometimes watching the same video a few times without realizing that I hadn’t managed to click on a different one yet. No matter. She sings with the same inflections, does the same wicked-cool 80’s head toss back with straight arm flings, shows the same facial expressions in each live performance and I loved every second.

She’s what all Pop Stars used to be before the Great Corruption*: always singing live, well-rehearsed but not choreographed to the nano-second with hip-hop-hips and kitten grabbing, dressed cool and not Sexy with a capital Sexy.

She just nails that shit and I’m so glad she’s out there, saving pop music.

*I’m not sure who started it, but you know what I’m talking about. Aguleira, Spears and the ilk.