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Robyn intersects many lines for many people, and takes an atypical place in the heart of many queer women, men, and non-binary folk, which is rare when you examine the fan bases of other, indeed brilliant, gay icons who often sit within much stricter gendered lines.

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Robin Miriam Carlsson[7] (Swedish pronunciation: [ˈrɔ̌bːɪn ˈkɑ̌ːɭsɔn]; born 12 June ), known professionally as Robyn (pronounced [ˈrɔ̌bːʏn]), is a Swedish singer, songwriter, record producer, and DJ. Her debut album Robyn Is Here produced two Billboard Hot top 10 singles: "Do You Know (What It Takes)" and "Show Me Love". American professor David Halperin wrote a book called How to Be Gay. It is not, in fact, a handy manual on homosexuality for beginners – though god knows there’s a market for that.

See, Robyn’s obviously not gay, because she didn’t use the term “futch” where it totally applied. Later on in the interview, Robyn acknowledges that her hit “Dancing On My Own” had become an accidental gay anthem of sorts, and she’s OK with that. Becoming what NME 's Eli Hunt described as the "queen of the misfits," [] Robyn has been described as a gay icon because of the popularity of "Dancing on My Own", itself described as a gay anthem.

[][] Robyn said she "felt connected to the gay audience because there's an element to the culture that you have had to think about or make. Go back in time. Fix yourself on the dancefloor, Cheeky Vimto in hand, there, stuck to the carpet of a regional Revolution, screaming in a feelingless lull as the next David Guetta song blears from the speaker which crackles because too many Vodka Red Bulls have been splashed across its wires.

But — what? But why does it get it? The very name of the genre decrees that pop music must be popular, ergo most of it contains diluted sentiments about ubiquitous experiences: love, breakups, how much we love our mums. Extra points for being great on social media, having multiple reinventions, or a vast and varying array of wigs. And yet Robyn is a full-on gay icon. For Robyn the icon status is earned by the lyrics, the songs, and the unusual emotions she captures through the viewfinder of the outsider.

She gets it. Robyn seizes the exact tension between the agony, and the ecstasy inside the agony. This specificity reaches, also, to where she writes from: heartbreak on the dancefloor, in the midst of rapid time-travel, that liminal agony between best friendship and romantic love. These are the places where queer love lives: behind closed doors, in gazes across a dancefloor, and when, even if just for a night, it finally happens, in other dimensions.

Also Handle Me honestly almost moves me to tears, especially the acoustic version. Finally, the pop fact that she originally sang and released Keep This Fire Burning before giving it to queen of UK soul and queer ally, Beverley Knight, just shows that she had our backs from the get go. Robyn intersects many lines for many people, and takes an atypical place in the heart of many queer women, men, and non-binary folk, which is rare when you examine the fan bases of other, indeed brilliant, gay icons who often sit within much stricter gendered lines.

Robyn sings about being misunderstood, and for so long we felt misunderstood, with no culture to mirror back what that — being queer, being outside — really feels like. Dazed media sites. The Another Man world has moved to AnOthermag.

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