Robyn returns with new single “Dopamine”

Robyn is back with new single "Dopamine"

Robyn is back with new single “Dopamine”, for the track, the Swedish artist teamed up with longtime collaborator Klas Åhlund Released today via new label Young (Romy). “It’s a song that captures the rush of chemical euphoria that floods your body when you fall in love – that dizzying high when emotion and biology blur. It’s the sound of desire and doubt colliding: the feeling is real, yet you’re aware it’s a hormonal illusion. The single is accompanied by a performance video starring Robyn and shot by photographer Marili Andre, who also shot the “Dopamine” cover artwork.

From Robyn: “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,” she says. “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.”

“Dopamine” follows the release of her 2018’s Honey, as well as a run of public appearances. Whether performing with David Byrne to celebrate Saturday Night Live’s fiftieth birthday, making appearances with Charli xcx and Gracie Abrams, collaborating with Jamie xx on 2024’s crossover anthem “Life,” or with Yung Lean and Charli for a version of Brat’s “360.”