Wow! Sofia in Umeå -a.k.a. Hia80- has four must-see home videos of Robyn performing at Skellefteå 2011 last Friday

Robyn - With every heartbeat - LIVE at Skellefteå 2011, July 1, 2011

http://youtu.be/yOv3WnktAQw

Robyn, Sveriges popdrottning! (Robyn, Sweden's pop queen!)

Now THAT'S charisma!

Judging by the evidence, Sofia from up in Umeå looks to have not only scored some very good seats for Robyn's show last Friday in Stieg Larsson's neck of the woods in Skellefteå -near the front of the stage, no less- but she also kindly thought of all the Robyn fans out there in the blogosphere who craved a new video fix of this energetic dynamo, and Sofia has delivered big time.
All the customary moves we've come to expect from Robyn were there, too: the windmill arms, the shadow-boxing, the moon walking...

Sofia has very good audio and video quality, especially considering that she was clearly standing in an enthusiastic crowd of people going nuts.

Sofia's video reminds me of the amazing videos of the crowds at the Paramore concerts in STKHM that I alluded to last October here on the blog, when I compared and contrasted music lovers' lightning-like ability to use technology and share information/video thru YouTube, while the Miami Herald continued insulting their readers by playing second-rate Pony Express, and was NOT even able to get the score or game story for the first game of the 2010 World Series in the Broward edition of the paper the day after the game.
This, even though The New York Times that was printed in Fort Lauderdale and sold at the same places in Broward as the Herald had two pages of games coverage, plus photos.

That November 27th, 2010 post of mine was titled, How a video of Paramore in Stockholm and Razorlight at the Cuckoo Club, London -Friday night- proves the Miami Herald is too damn slow. Iceberg dead ahead!

http://hallandalebeachblog.blogspot.com/2010/11/how-video-of-paramore-in-stockholm.html

My previous six posts on Robyn the past year are right here in chronological order:

http://hallandalebeachblog.blogspot.com/search/label/Robyn

Obviously, what she shot is slightly different than the film quality that you all got used to in my very popular post a few weeks back on Robyn, here, with SVT's amazing video of Robyn's concert in Copenhagen last year and the fascinating and amusing behind-the-scenes documentary at her concert in Stockholm, but it's still damn impressive nonetheless.

Now if only everyone did as good a job as Sofia of not only keeping their cool in the heat of the moment at a Robyn concert and keeping the focus on her -and largely avoiding everyone's hands up in the air!- and NOT blurting out things that get captured on film and distract from what's going on.

Great job, Sofia!

Two big thumbs up from South Florida! :-)

By the way, Sofia is also the very same person who three years ago uploaded the video of Frida Öhrn on SVT's Så ska det låta singing her version of the Dolly Parton classic "Jolene" that just knocked me out. http://youtu.be/aPYBGa_PsLo

Until Friday night when I was preparing this post, I'd completely forgotten that she was the one whose quick thinking was appreciated by so many, including yours truly, SO many miles away.

Robyn - Hang with me - Live at Skellefteå 2011, July 1, 2011

http://youtu.be/jAkgHY7Qcso

Robyn - Indestructible - Live at Skellefteå 2011, July 1, 2011

http://youtu.be/rkyEuy8wfgA

Robyn - Call your girlfriend - Live at Skellefteå 2011, July 1, 2011

http://youtu.be/DKyRhHXRrsE

Robyn's official website: http://www.robyn.com/

Sofia's YouTubeChannel is at http://www.youtube.com/user/Hia80

Check it out and subscribe!

Three helpings of fascinating popstar Robyn: LIVE concert footage, behind-the-scenes and interview -some of it even in Engelska!

SVT video: Klubbland #11 Robyn.
Concert performances and behind-the-scenes with Robyn and her band at the Falconer Salen in Copenhagen, 2010.
http://svtplay.se/v/2224575/klubbland/klubbland__11_robyn

In this 22-minute program, that also has some spoken English conversations and English subtitles, Robyn sings complete versions of Fembot, Dancing On My Own, and With Every Heartbeat.
Just like it says on the Klubbland hemsida, "Gå på konsert varje vecka utan att lämna datorn" - "Go to a concert every week without leaving your computer."

Originally broadcast on SVT November 5, 2010, this video is available on SVT Play until Thursday May 5th, 2011.

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SVT video: -Robyn sings LIVE versions of With Every Heartbeat, and Be Mine at the 2008 Fredspriskonserten (Nobel Peace Prize Concert), Oslo, Norway, backed by a symphony orchestra, December 2008.
http://youtu.be/pkBwlOFM9D0

Wow! That's what crazy amounts of sheer talent performs like at a big-time event: pitch-perfect!

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http://svtplay.se/t/155215/robyn_-_live_i_stockholm
SVT video: Robyn - live i Stockholm (Live in Stockholm)

This December 15th, 2010 concert before 3000 fans at Berns Hotel in Stockholm was the climax of Robyn's 2010 U.S. and European tour, and was rebroadcast on SVT April 15th, 2011.
It's available for watching on the SVT Play website until Sunday May 15th, 2011 and is just under 57 minutes long.

Song order: Fembot, Dancing On My Own, We Dance to the Beat, and The Girl & The Robot

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http://svtplay.se/v/2391666/musik_special/robyn
SVT video: Robyn -Music Special (documentary)

Petra Markgren Wangler follows Robyn's career as teen idol until her amazing worldwide success of today and talks to her about her life as a popular artist and has lots of great behind-the-scenes footage of her tour.

Originally broadcast on SVT April 15, 2011, it's available for watching on the SVT Play website until Monday May 16th, 2011, and is just over 58 minutes long.

Featured songs include: Dancing on my own, With every heartbeat, and The girl and the robot.

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For more info, see Robyn's official website: http://www.robyn.com/

http://www.robynbodytalkin.com/

http://www.konichiwa.se

Her YouTube profile is at:
http://www.youtube.com/artist?a=GxdCwVVULXcVqb6b55ODLpd-r_cAtb0u&feature=artistob#

http://www.youtube.com/user/RobynVEVO

www.svt.se/klubbland

Robyn rocks Malmö at Musikhjälpen 2010 as amazed fans watch her like a goldfish in a glass bowl at Gustaf Adolfs Square

Video that provides an overview of what she was up to that day...

Robyn gästade Musikhjälpen - Skanskan.se video
Reporter: Ralph Bretzer http://bcove.me/thhffpck


Separate complete videos of Robyn singing her two songs are below, but here's the most thorough article on her appearance I've found but it's in Swedish, so use your Google Translate if you don't talar svensk.


Skansen.se
Många ville se Robyn i glasburen på torget
Av Karsten Bringmark
18 DECEMBER 19.24 2010-12-18 19:24:00

MALMÖ. – Skitkul att vara här.
Och det tyckte också många Malmöbor som följde Robyn i Musikhjälpens glasbur på Gustav Adolfs torg.

Jublet dränkte all julmusik efter hennes sång.

Fler hundra flockades framför glasburen när Robyn blev intervjuad, och smickrad av programvärdarna; hennes senaste visit i Musikhjälpen är det enskilt mest visade klippet.

Read the rest of the article at:
http://www.skanskan.se/article/20101218/NOJE/101219397/0/SPORT/*/robyn-gastade-musikhjalpen

This year's theme at the six-day Musikhjälpen 2010, www.Musikhjälpen.se was "Barn är inte till salu!" -Children are not for sale- as funds raised went to groups involved in fighting child labor, child prostitution and child soldiers, the later of which is a particularly serious problem in Africa and Asia.


For more information and compelling videos of these problems in Moldavia and Senegal, please see: http://sverigesradio.se/sida/gruppsida.aspx?programid=3946&grupp=13003

Trust me, the videos will really get to you, too.

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Robyn - With Every Heartbeat, SVT, Musikhjälpen 2010

David Benvenuto YouTube Channel: Robyn - With Every Heartbeat  - LIVE Musikhjälpen 2010. Malmö, Sweden. Uploaded August 23, 2013 http://youtu.be/IrLzKJKjSCo

Max Holmberg YouTube Channel: Robyn - Hang With Me - LIVE Musikhjälpen 2010. Malmö, Sweden. Uploaded December 18, 2010. http://youtu.be/St4cojiZ3bo

My last post on Robyn was from July 28th of this year titled Road-tripping across the U.K in an RV with a Swedish pop star is fun... Robyn - Hang With Me (Official Video) http://hallandalebeachblog.blogspot.com/2010/07/road-tripping-across-uk-in-rv-with.html
Love this!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3a2qoyONVA


Back on November 22nd, the Miami Herald ran a short piece on Robyn on their PEOPLE page in the first section of the newspaper, under the header, Robyn earns Swede revenge.
Really.

And as if that wasn't dopey enough, it used the words "teeny-bop star" in the very first sentence.

I snapped this shot of it that day at the Panera Bread here in Hallandale Beach, mostly to show those of you overseas or at least out of HB, how truly lame the newspaper is when it tries to appear hip.
Or, actually, tries anything these days. #Fail

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For more information:
@musikhjalpen  https://twitter.com/musikhjalpen
webpage: www.Musikhjälpen.se

If you need to catch up on some moments from the festival...
http://sverigesradio.se/sida/default.aspx?programid=3946

One of the best YouTube Channels for music out there, with an ear for what makes really good Scandinavian music POP is this one by Damian, which I subscribe to and urge you to check out: http://www.youtube.com/user/SwedishStereo

Damian's blog is http://swedishstereo.blogspot.com/


Robyn's official record company website is http://www.konichiwa.se

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Updated Wednesday December 22, 2010

I usually try NOT to go back to individual posts days after-after-the-fact, except in rare cases where there's an inadvertent spelling mistake I catch, a dead link someone tells me about, or some mistaken information that might prove troublesome, but I make an exception now and then when I think it's appropriate and today is such a day.

Today, it's specifically because of something that I found out about thru a friend that I think might add to what I wrote above.

Since I initially posted above, a fashion-forward friend in Sweden who read what I wrote -but who wasn't at Musikhjälpen- has sent me an email with a link to an interesting blog that is the handiwork of a really personable, talented -and very cute!- woman in Malmö, one of the world's great university towns, who is a combination student, Ford model, blogger and dancer, and did I mention, DJ?

I think I was looking for someone like her the whole time I was in Bloomington at IU, that is, if blogging technology has existed then.
IF only I had had a blog back then!

Besides, how can you not love a woman who writes at the end of her blog profile: "Pluggar konst på vardagarna och dansar om nätterna. Life is good!"

Lina Sandberg is this blogger's name and her blog is ici: http://lina.metromode.se/
Lina is one of the more popular bloggers on the very popular Metromode.se blog network, which tends to focus on women's fashion and related subjects, a lifestyle and demographic that advertisers desperately want to be simpatico with, whether in the U.S. or Europe.

Well, anyway, Lina actually was at the Robyn concert in Malmö for a bit, and has some photos of her day that are worth checking out. In fact, she even played DJ for a bit before Rebecca & Fiona did their thing.

I hope to have more about the wildly-popular Rebecca & Fiona in an upcoming blog post, but for now, here's the URL for the post Lina wrote about this past weekend:
http://lina.metromode.se/2010/12/19/2210/