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Robyn returns today with her first new music in over seven years. New single "Dopamine" sees the generational Swedish pop icon teaming up with longtime collaborator Klas Åhlund for one of the decade’s most hotly-anticipated comebacks, and the latest in a long line of era-defining pop moments. Released today via new label home Young, 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. Sonically, the track mirrors that tension and intensity - intoxicating, pulsating, and euphoric, like coming up from the very high it evokes.

On “Dopamine,” Robyn stakes a claim for staying connected to the mysteriousness of desire. “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 success of her 2018's Honey - Robyn's seventh studio album - alongside a more recent run of public appearances that have created huge anticipation and speculation around new Robyn music. Whether performing with David Byrne to celebrate Saturday Night Live's fiftieth birthday, making show-stopping live appearances with the likes of 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,” or soundtracking Acne Studio's 2025 Paris show, Robyn continues to shape and influence popular culture in truly unique ways.