Robyn is getting ready to unveil her new album. Later this month the Swedish icon will release Sexistential, her first full length project since Honey arrived eight years ago. A lot has happened in her life during that time, including becoming a mother for the first time. The record already includes the singles “Sexistential”, “Dopamine” and “Talk To Me”, and now she has shared another taster with the striking new track “Blow My Mind”.
For longtime fans, the song might ring a bell. “Blow My Mind” originally appeared on Robyn’s 2002 album Don’t Stop The Music, but the 2026 version comes back faster, rawer and with entirely new meaning. The beat is sick. This time, the electro funk track is inspired by her three year old son. Robyn explained that she revisited the song during a period when she was constantly by his side: “I was in that early stage when I was with him all the time, and something about that closeness opened the song up to me again. Listening back to the original I thought, ‘I think it’s one of the best songs I ever recorded, and I’m just gonna do it again.’ I rewrote the lyrics and I love this version’s rawness.” The updated lyrics capture the intense emotions of early motherhood, with lines about “unconditional naked devotion” and “your unbearably cute scrumptious little face.” Yet she insists the feeling goes deeper than sweetness: “It’s not cute, because it’s not cute with children. They’re cute, but the experience isn’t. It’s very punk.” On social media she described it as “Messy sensations, contradicting and fighting for attention, CUTE AGGRESSION, total devotion… this time it’s about my son’s tiny soft hands with nails sharp as knifes.”
Hearing this rework feels especially personal to me. Back in 2002 I was already a big Robyn fan, watching the video clip of “Keep This Fire Burning” every morning before heading to school. So seeing “Blow My Mind,” from the same record, come back to life more than two decades later, transformed by a whole new chapter in her life, makes this release feel particularly special. My life has also changed a lot in twenty four years, not gonna lie. But I will never be as cool as Robyn. Listen below.
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