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Speaker 1: You're listening to the Saturday Morning with Jack team podcast

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Speaker 1: from News Talks at b.

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Speaker 2: This is Robin. The song's called Talk to Me. It's

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Speaker 2: from six Essential, her first album in eight years, hotly anticipated.

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Speaker 2: Our music reviewer Chris Schultz is with us this morning.

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Speaker 2: He's been listening. Good morning, sure to Jack.

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Speaker 3: I'm very happy to be talking about Robin with you today.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. I feel like, do you know what you know

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Speaker 2: how they say that the music you listen to in

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Speaker 2: those kind of formative years, from the time you're about

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Speaker 2: seventeen to the time you're twenty five, is the music

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Speaker 2: you will listen to for the rest of your life.

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Speaker 2: I just I still go back and listen to Body Talk.

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Speaker 2: You know, Robin's Body Talk that amazing. It was like

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Speaker 2: twenty ten, twenty eleven, maybe that album.

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Speaker 3: Was She's just classic.

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Speaker 2: It's just an a classic.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it so is. But she had already had a

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Speaker 3: career up to that point. They really tried to turn

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Speaker 3: her into this like Britney Spears style, like a real

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Speaker 3: kind of you know, over sex sort of teenage type

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Speaker 3: of musician, and it didn't work. She rejected at all.

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Speaker 3: I read this incredible interview with her in the New

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Speaker 3: Yorker recently and it sort of said she threw a

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Speaker 3: tantrum in America and just went, no, that's not for me.

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Speaker 3: I'm going to do this my way or I'm not

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Speaker 3: going to do it at all. And that's why we

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Speaker 3: ended up with that album, and that's why we've ended

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Speaker 3: up with this new album yesterday. Sex Estential. Yeah, a

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Speaker 3: great title for an album.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Well, I was going to say, give it. Given

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Speaker 2: what the record company tried to turn her into Once

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Speaker 2: upon a time, what does Sexistential achieve?

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Speaker 3: It's her version of that.

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Speaker 1: Right.

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Speaker 3: She's forty four now, she is a single mum, she's

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Speaker 3: got a four year old at home. She did IVF

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Speaker 3: during COVID. She was actually trying to do it in

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Speaker 3: America and called a flight to Sweden and that's when

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Speaker 3: lockdowns happened and she couldn't get back to continue the treatment.

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Speaker 3: So she started all over again in Sweden and that's

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Speaker 3: where this album came from. So it's it's her doing that,

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Speaker 3: dancing on my own thing in nine different ways. There's

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Speaker 3: nine songs on this album, and she's sort of repeating

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Speaker 3: that trick. These songs are about like loneliness and about

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Speaker 3: raising a kid on your own, but still wanting connections,

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Speaker 3: still wanting love, still wanting attention, and they're bangers. These

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Speaker 3: are these are just euphoric classics. Honestly, I've been listening

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Speaker 3: to this since it came out yesterday and it is

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Speaker 3: the It's the best pop album easily this year. So

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Speaker 3: it's been a rough year for pop. I think, yeah,

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Speaker 3: you know, Harry Styles album is probably the best we've had.

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Speaker 3: And even that reaction was a little muted, it felt

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Speaker 3: like a very vibes the album. Bruno Mars didn't quite

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Speaker 3: land it with his album, and Jack Harl made an

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Speaker 3: awful R and B album that we shouldn't even mention,

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Speaker 3: but this is going to be I think this is

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Speaker 3: like she got in the studio with daft Punk and

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Speaker 3: decided to make nine like instant classics. I love this album.

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Speaker 3: It just has this pulse to it, this heartbeat. It

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Speaker 3: feels alive, like you're standing in the middle of a

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Speaker 3: dance floor and she's whispering like really personal intimate thoughts

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Speaker 3: since your ear. It somehow manages to do that to

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Speaker 3: be huge and euphoric and powerful and still be really intimate.

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Speaker 3: It's a really clever trick. That she's nailed.

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Speaker 2: Oh, that's so good. So I think the last album

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Speaker 2: was Honey, right, which was a kind of so if

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Speaker 2: you go back to body Talk, which was twenty ten,

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Speaker 2: I've just double checked it was that had that real

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Speaker 2: kind of edgy electronic sound to it, and then her

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Speaker 2: last album, Honey kind of took away some of that edge.

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Speaker 2: It was a bit softer, still kind of a bit

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Speaker 2: of a housey vibe to it. Where does this sit

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Speaker 2: on the continuum do you think it? Does she have

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Speaker 2: that kind of that that edginess that she had.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a strange album about.

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Speaker 2: What's good about her that like, she is a bit strange.

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Speaker 2: That's the thing that is interesting about her, you know.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, there's a there's a song on here. The title

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Speaker 3: track is a is a rap song about breastfeeding your

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Speaker 3: child while scrolling dating apps. That's how strange this is.

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Speaker 3: But but that's what makes it special. You're right, it's

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Speaker 3: it's it's the most robin album I think she's ever made.

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Speaker 3: It feels the most her and it also fits in,

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Speaker 3: I think with those albums that we've all loved recently,

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Speaker 3: you know, the Charlie h c X brat the Lord Virgin.

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Speaker 3: It's it's so raw and just it's unfiltered. Like you know,

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Speaker 3: you look at those big pop albums by like Sabrina

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Speaker 3: Carpenter or Katy Perry or whatever, and there are like

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Speaker 3: ten or twelve or fifteen different producers, you know, they

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Speaker 3: work with all of these different songwriters, and this is

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Speaker 3: just Robin in the studio, the same person that she

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Speaker 3: wrote Body Talk with and most of her records with.

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Speaker 3: It's just the two of them, and I think that's

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Speaker 3: why it's it's special. It's it's her on her turns,

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Speaker 3: doing what she wants to do and expressing herself in

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Speaker 3: her way, and it's genius. It's just brilliant.

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Speaker 2: I'm so pleased to hear that. There's honestly made my day.

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Speaker 2: I've carved out some time when I'm planned to sit

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Speaker 2: down and listen to it end to end, so very

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Speaker 2: much looking forward to sex Estential. Have you given it

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Speaker 2: a rating for us this morning?

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Speaker 3: Chris? Look, I've only had this for a day. I'm

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Speaker 3: going to go out here and say this is going

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Speaker 3: to be the pop album, the pop experience of the year.

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Speaker 3: I'm going to go up five stars.

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Speaker 2: So good the stars for.

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Speaker 3: Not coming to New Zealand. She's playing Australia in November.

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Speaker 3: I do know people who are going to those shows. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 3: it'll be special. It's a shame she's not coming here.

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Speaker 3: But we've got the album and the album is.

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Speaker 2: Great, fantastic, all right. Sex Estential is the album. Robin

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Speaker 2: is the artist. You can hear more from Chris of

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Speaker 2: course on his sub stack Boiler Room, and we will

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Speaker 2: have a bit more of a listen to Robin a

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Speaker 2: couple of minutes for.

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