Not to be one of those douchey “I live in New York and OMG I get to go to everything” bloggers, but I’d be remiss if I didn’t mention that last night I saw the first American show by Swedish teenpop star-turned-bloggers’ delight Robyn, and my reaction can be summed up by this IM that I got from a friend also in attendance: “Robyn: awesome or AWESOME!!! ?” The answer, of course, is “both, duh!” This surprisingly decent phonecam video of her take on Prince’s “Jack U Off”–part of her three-song encore, which also included a reworking of her 10-plus-years-old hit “Show Me Love”–is a little grainy and there’s some dude who starts jabbering away at 1:46, but it captures the frenzy that she whipped the crowd into pretty well, and I only hope that she becomes enough of a pop star that everyone reading this will someday have the chance to witness this particular spectacle in person as well. [YouTube]
Robyn Will Gladly Jack U Off
February 6th, 2008 // 13 Comments
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I do not OMG live in NY but I made a day trip just for this. It was kind of worth it.
@aluberalles: OMG neither do I and I am so glad I took the trip north!
AAAAAAAAARGH by the time i decided that I OMG needed to go… I had come down with the flu. THIS IS SALT IN THE WOUND.
It’s great to see somebody with real talent reworking a Prince track. Every so often my mind wanders into the scary place where I hear Jordan Knight singing ‘I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man’……..and it frightens me. Kudos, Robyn, kudos!!!
@HONEYBFLY: I don’t know. I always really liked the Pansy Division version of this song….
Did anyone else notice/find it odd that the only track the house DJ played that got any kind of response from the audience was The Outfield’s “Your Love”?
She was undeniably great last night.
That’s a damn fine cell phone camera.
[napoleond] LUCKY! [/napoleond]
I was also there last night. And all my friend and I could say to each other on the subway home was “She is just too awesome.” I’m glad others were left as speechless as we were.
Also: Is it really true that was her first show in the US ever?
Oh wait. you answered that in your post. Me=dummy.
fyi, it’s not a phonecam – it’s the video mode of a nikon coolpix p5000. also, universal/youtube has just asked/demanded that i take this video off youtube, so get all the views you want in asap. the guy jabbering away was the soundman – you might be an “OMG i get to go to everything blogger,” but i’m a “OMG i work at highline and see it for free blogger.” i rest my case.
You people are raving about this? THIS?
Goddamned kids. Get off my lawn.