![]() Robyn bristled at the suggestion that she ought to make music that sounded like everyone else’s. ![]() The TRL kids made a mint recasting pop music as a parade of squeaky-clean imaging and latent hip-hop style, but that made them seem like product, an impression it would take years of bold creative and extracurricular gestures to shake. Of the international collection of singers and performers who broke out during the mid-’90s ascension of Swedish producer and songwriter Max Martin - a cast that includes megastars Britney Spears, N’SYNC, and the Backstreet Boys - Robyn, the Scandinavian singer whose downtempo breakbeat love song “Show Me Love” breached the Hot 100’s single digit sector in the weeks between Backstreet’s “As Long As You Love Me” and JT and the boys’ “I Want You Back,” has had the strangest and perhaps the most critically buoyant career.
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