In 2010, a lot of talk resurfaced about how the world will end - some say our sun would burn us, quite possibly, while others narrated the specifics of the world ending in 2012. For a generation whose parents learned to stifle heavy emotions for the sake of saving face and ego, it’s a crucial generational milestone.ĭon’t we all remember our fixation with the world ending? I think if there’s one thing to note about pop music in this decade is that it taught us that emotions can be celebrated, even the most heartbreaking ones.
The secret ingredient of the song that tricks us so much into dancing or bopping or swaying is its play of syncopation - of sadness and joy, the exuberance of a nightclub and the weakening drag of seeing an ex-lover boning somebody on a street corner.Ĭarly Rae Jepsen does this, too. Yet, we’re finding ourselves at the end of a chaotic decade. The infamous SEA Games cauldron which cost us a hell of a buck - for what? Blatant rape jokes from the very mouth of our President smeared all over the television. Numerous kidnappings of women and children in Metro Manila. The Amazon and Indonesian forest fires - literal burning of the Earth which, if you’re not yet alarmed, I don’t know what will. Reminiscent of how we’ve grown forlorn in this decade, following the infinite stream of breaking news about political extremism that borders on Nazism in the United States. After every jab at the chorus, she - regretfully? joyously? - croons ‘oh, oh, ohh…’ Robyn’s Dancing on My Own gives me that intricacy in scathing lyrics wrapped in a 118 bpm tempo. I’ve always believed in the intricate whirlwind of feelings that come at us during our teenage years one of the few things we’ll carry with us even after we’ve moved forward to our twenties. I’ve always believed in the intricate whirlwind of feelings that come at us during our teenage years one of the few things we’ll carry with us even after we’ve moved forward to our 20s.
When this came on, I didn’t exactly know the lyrics, but I was familiar with its rhythmic thump - that which registers even before Robyn sings and then becomes amplified at the chorus.
#ROBYN DANCING ON MY OWN SLOW FULL#
They go with 100 or 200 and expect that to tell a full story of this vast decade of music. I was sweaty from dancing and drinking too much rum. I have seen a few best 2010s songs lists recently, and one problem unites them all - NOT. I first heard this song in late 2017 under cheap colorful halogen lights at a secret disco in Davao City. I don’t know what happened in our collective psyche, but we started to recognize the power and appeal of the original song. īut then, in 2016, it was brought to the forefront when Calum Scott released a piano cover of the song, which steadily climbed the charts. Released at the start of the decade, Robyn’s Dancing on My Own was not an instant commercial success despite its constant appearance in end-of-year song roundups, and being named best song of 2010 by The Guardian. The clarification of a rumor at its most self-aware.
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