Robyn - Konichiwa Bitches

Robyn - Konichiwa Bitches 2 comments Kleerup feat. Robyn - With Every Heartbeat Robyn - Do You Really Want Me

I have no idea why I like this tune. But it's been stuck in my head all day and I need to share the suffering. If you live in the UK you can't failed to have heard the summer's radio hit "With Every Heartbeat" by some guy called Kleerup but handily packaged with the vocals and physical presence of some girl called Robyn. That last bit was what interested me most, as one of the few tunes I can remember from my younger days along with Sleeper's Sale Of The Century and Peter Andre's Mysterious Girl (though Flava was much better) was a little known tune called Do You Really Want Me that has also stuck in my head since some young blonde school age kid also called Robyn had sung it on a Saturday morning kids show.

Turned out it was the same person. And as much as I'd wish it was Louise Wener topping the music charts 10 years later, you'll have to do with Robyn. But as so often is the case, the UK's deaf music listening public had to be lead to water by Radio 1 as, only weeks before "Heartbeat", Robyn released Konichiwa Bitches and I think it only sold about ten copies 'cos you don't need much more than that to make number 100 and whatever it got to. I mean, it's simple swedish rap with comedic video innuendo; has what little taste and sense of humour the country had left flown permanently south for the winter? Meh. Enjoy the vids: the life and times of some kid called Robyn, 97 to 07. She was much cuter on Fully Booked.

- Christopher ( pepsi_max2k )