On January 7, the Swedish pop veteran Robyn announced Sexistential, her first studio album since 2018’s Honey, set for release on March 27 via Young. The reveal came after a slow, deliberate return that began in November 2025 with “Dopamine,” a single that leaned heavily on club rhythm and lines that call for a one night stand. The track reintroduced Robyn as a pop writer interested in immediacy, bodies in motion, and physical connection as a lived experience. Its momentum carried quickly, earning remix work from English producer Jamie xx and reestablishing her presence in dance music.
Robyn pushed the album’s direction further during a New Year’s Eve performance in Brooklyn in December 2025, where she debuted two new songs, “Talk To Me” and the title track. The former centers on communication during intimacy, delivered in passionate melodies and paced for the dance floor. The latter track goes further with Robyn’s experience of turning down dating apps and meeting with a hookup “IRL,” pairing blunt lyrics with a steady electropop framework that keeps the focus on rhythm and a voice where Robyn reveals a certain point in her life that she has never mentioned before in lyrics like “I like to go out, wear something nice and push, this shit is existential.”
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Music production by Klas Åhlund, Robyn’s closest collaborator for more than two decades ever since her breakthrough self-titled 2005 album, remains central to the sound. Producer Oscar Holter and songwriter Max Martin also contribute, reinforcing a pop structure that locks in Robyn’s trademark style of upbeat yet emotional songwriting where the production is tight, functional, and avoids clutter.
Some of the lyrics will likely surprise longtime listeners. In “Talk To Me,” Robyn references pregnancy, sex, and pop culture casually, dropping lines that feel closer to an intense confrontation with lines that either “fuck a therapist” or “fuck a Plan B.” In the “Sexistential,” there’s a lyric nodding to Don’t Mess With the Zohan and an expressed attraction to actor Adam Driver. That openness may throw off fans who prefer the emotional distance of earlier records like Body Talk, but it aligns with where Robyn is now as a writer.
“Exploring my sensual life is the same feeling as when I make a good song,” she said in a statement. “It’s such a beautiful kind of sensitive vibration that takes so much work to keep afloat. I feel like the purpose of my life is to stay horny — it doesn’t even have to be about sex, but it’s feeling sensual and attracted to things that I enjoy, and not letting anything take over that.”
The early songs from Sexistential show Robyn writing with more confidence than ever before as she places sex, desire, and connection at the center of the work and treats them as an essential part of daily life. That confidence feels subversive in itself, pushing back against the expectation that age or legacy should slow things down. In doing so, Robyn joins the likes of Lorde and Sabrina Carpenter in making pop music unapologetically sexy again, with the new Sexistential expressing the urgency of someone who refuses to stop dancing.
