Editing Robyn (section)

== Artistry ==
Robyn has a [[soprano]] vocal range.<ref name=":0">{{Cite news |last=Jones |first=Preston |date=16 October 2019 |title=Robyn's First North Texas Show in 8 Years Is a Glittering Pop Party |url=https://www.dallasobserver.com/music/singer-robyn-spoke-through-her-euphoric-pop-on-tuesday-at-irvings-pavilion-at-toyota-music-factory-11781872 |access-date=2 October 2024 |work=[[Dallas Observer]]}}</ref> The ''[[Dallas Observer]]''<nowiki/>'s Preston Jones described her music as "electro-pop confections, with their gleaming, sexy, sophisticated surfaces, each laced with sharply observed lyrics capable of leaving a bruise or breaking your heart",<ref name=":0" /> and characterized by "lovelorn lyrics or her synth-sweetened hooks".<ref name=":2">{{Cite magazine |last=Morris |first=Alex |date=26 October 2018 |title=Robyn Reborn |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/robyn-honey-interview-747460/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230129212855/https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/robyn-honey-interview-747460/ |archive-date=29 January 2023 |access-date=2 October 2024 |magazine=[[Rolling Stone]]}}</ref> Alex Morris of ''[[Rolling Stone]]'' described "the [[euphoria]] of heartbreak" as a unifying theme underlying most of her albums.<ref name=":2" /> Robyn debuted as a mainstream [[Contemporary R&B|pop-R&B]] singer during the 1990s,<ref name=":1" /> but felt limited by the artistic constraints of working for a major record label.<ref name=":2" /> Andrew R. Cho of [[NBCNews.com]] described her earlier work as "cookie cutter 1990s R&B out of the [[TLC (group)|TLC]] playbook".<ref name=":3">{{Cite news |last=Chow |first=Andrew R. |date=12 August 2018 |title=With her new single 'Missing U,' Robyn reclaims her place as one of pop music's most influential artists |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/her-new-single-missing-u-robyn-reclaims-her-place-one-ncna899736 |access-date=2 October 2024 |publisher=[[NBC News]]}}</ref> By the time she reinvented herself as an independent artist in 2005, she had pivoted away from R&B and adopted an experimental electronic and [[synth-pop]] sound.<ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Werthman |first=Christine |date=21 November 2019 |title=Songs That Defined the Decade: Robyn's 'Dancing on My Own' |url=https://www.billboard.com/music/music-news/robyn-dancing-on-my-own-songs-that-defined-the-decade-8544230/ |access-date=11 December 2024 |magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]}}</ref><ref name=":1" /><ref name=":3" /> Her fourth album, ''[[Robyn (album)|Robyn]]'', retained some influences of American R&B and hip hop, but "largely stuck to the sound and feel of electronic gadgets, manipulating them to sound like other genres".<ref name=":5">{{Cite magazine |last=Frere-Jones |first=Sasha |author-link=Sasha Frere-Jones |date=28 June 2010 |title=Dancehall Dream |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2010/07/05/dancehall-dream |url-access=subscription |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230410193159/https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2010/07/05/dancehall-dream |archive-date=10 April 2023 |access-date=2 October 2024 |magazine=[[The New Yorker]]}}</ref>

Writer and musician [[Sasha Frere-Jones]] called Robyn "remarkably adept at producing pleasurable, accessible pop that, like some kind of graphite alloy, is light but strong, able to carry humor and emotional weight".<ref name=":5" /> Her lyrics sometimes reference female empowerment and independence;<ref name=":5" /> Frere-Jones said her "wheelhouse is a classic subset of the dance song: a number that moves ahead quickly, with juicy chord changes, while the lyrics crack open with pain".<ref name=":5" /> According to Jake Hall of [[i-D]], the term "sad banger" has become virtually synonymous with Robyn since she released "[[Dancing on My Own]]".<ref>{{Cite news |last=Hall |first=Jake |date=28 February 2019 |title=tracing robyn's most iconic music video looks, in her own words |url=https://i-d.co/article/tracing-robyns-most-iconic-music-video-looks-in-her-own-words/ |access-date=4 October 2024 |work=[[i-D]]}}</ref>

While writing her eighth studio album, ''Honey'', Robyn found that she was no longer interested in creating "tidy pop songs", exploring music she described as hypnotic "that didn't have a beginning and an end" unlike her previous work.<ref name=":1" /> She attributed this shift in approach to lacking the "killer instinct" to attempt to replicate her hits.<ref name=":1" /> Laura Snapes of ''The Guardian'' described the album as "exploratory dance music that reflects the hopelessness and ecstasy that informed her time away from the spotlight".<ref name=":1" /> Robyn has said she that she prefers writing with other artists instead of independently, but finds it frustrating that people expect her as a woman "to have written the lyrics and the guys to have made the music".<ref name=":4">{{Cite news |last=Friedman |first=Ann |year=2014 |title=Robyn – The all-singing, all-dancing Swedish pop genius |url=https://thegentlewoman.co.uk/library/robyn |access-date=2 October 2024 |work=[[The Gentlewoman (magazine)|The Gentlewoman]]}}</ref> Her collaborators have said that she "was as involved in the technical work as they were".<ref name=":4" /> Caryn Ganz of ''[[The New York Times]]'' called her writing process "designed to wring out truths", while songwriter and producer [[Klas Åhlund]] called it a series of "intimate, open and sort of confessional conversations", in which they would share details they wouldn't with others.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Ganz |first=Caryn |date=21 September 2018 |title=How Robyn, Pop's Glittery Rebel, Danced Her Way Back From Darkness |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/21/arts/music/robyn-honey-interview.html |url-access=subscription |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240513215135/https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/21/arts/music/robyn-honey-interview.html |archive-date=13 May 2024 |access-date=2 October 2024 |work=[[The New York Times]]}}</ref>