罗宾依然独自起舞

The queen of poptimism takes up motherhood and midlife desire. By Spencer Kornhaber On her first album in eight years, Robyn is somehow singing the same song—even if the fable it spins seems more fantastical than ever. Once upon the ’90s, a teenage girl named Robin Miriam Carlsson was crowned a pop princess. Her crystalline voice and secretive smile caught the attention of the Swedish record industry, whose producers and songwriters helped her create the swooning global hits “Show Me Love” and “Do You Know (What It Takes).” But Carlsson, first discovered at age 13, realized she didn’t want to be a singing automaton, a mere vessel for the pop machine. She turned down a deal from the U.S. …