Robyn, "Dancing On My Own"

Robyn, “Dancing On My Own”

All I am going to say about the video for “Dancing On My Own,” the sadness-on-the-dancefloor epic by the Swedish pop enigma Robyn, is that it very nearly moved me to tears (twice!) with its simple, yet elegant depiction of the noisy despair spelled out by the song’s lyrics. Emotions! Seriously though this track, which appears on Robyn’s upcoming mini-album Body Talk Pt. 1 and which was apparently inspired in part by Ultravox, is one of the best things I’ve heard in all of 2010, perhaps because it is a bit of a gut-punch every time the first chorus kicks in.