By Jem Aswad
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Executive Editor, Music
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It’s no overstatement to say that a lot of today’s pop music would not sound the way it does without Robyn. Her self-titled 2005 album and its follow-up “Body Talk” paved the way for and contextualized a genre once called “intellipop” — a cringe and condescending term that has aged very badly, but also points up the low regard in which pop music was held two decades ago, and the degree to which it has come to be accepted as an innovative art form rather than high-calorie junk food. There’s no question that songs by artists from Taylor Swift to Charli xcx to Ariana Grande, not to mention entire genres like hyper-pop, would not sound the same without her.
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