release date: Oct. 14, 1995
format: cd
[album rate: 3 / 5] [3,04]
producer: Ghost [aka Ulf Lindström & Johan Ekhé]
label: BMG - nationality: Sweden
Track highlights: 3. "You've Got That Somethin' " - 4. "Do You Know (What It Takes)" - 6. "Just Another Girlfriend" - 8. "Do You Really Want Me"
Studio album debut by Robyn (aka Robin Miriam Carlsson) with various producers, although Ghost is credited on 7 of the album's 13 tracks.
The album is a dance-pop and typical American contemporary r&b. Not as such, something I would ordinarily listen much to; however, the second single release "Do You Really Want Me" became a major hit and was played everywhere that year (the first single from the album was track #3), and also "Do You Know (What It Takes)", which was released in '96 got much airplay, so everyone knew Robyn had landed.
My only interest in this is due to her later releases, and I picked it up at a second-hand store around 2011 in order to make it a full discography of her studio albums. It's nicely produced and Robyn already here shows what a talented songwriter she is, and she initiates her formula co-writing her songs with selected songwriters / producers. Ulf Lindström and Johan Ekhé are credited as co-writers on the seven tracks they have produced like is the case for Christian Falk, and the producer-duo Anders Bagge and Harry Sommerdahl.
Most of the songs sound like echoes of American pop by Madonna and her followers, which is really not my preferred music. There's much copying and only little originality.
[ allmusic.com 4 / 5 stars ]
