Robyn Mashes Up Tinashe & Teddybears In The Live Lounge

Usually, people cover one song when they drop by the BBC Live Lounge. But Swedish cult-pop overlord Robyn can do more things than most people, so she covered two songs at the same time. Robyn is out promoting her 2026 album Sexistential right now, and she has released a ton of remixes since the album dropped. In the Live Lounge, she had the brilliant idea to fuse Tinashe's "Popstar" with the Teddybears' "Punkrocker." "Popstar" is the title track from Tinashe's new LP, which is among the very best albums of 2026. It's the reason we did a cover story on Tinashe. "Punkrocker" is the 2007 song that Iggy Pop made with Swedish dance-rock crew Teddybears, and it had a viral revival last year after it showed up in James Gunn's Superman movie. Robyn is another past Teddybears collaborator, and band member Klas Åhlund has been producing her tracks for decades. It makes perfect sense for Robyn to fuse those two statement-of-intent tracks, since she can call herself a popstar and a punkrocker at the same time if she wants. In their Live Lounge performance, Robyn and her band start off with a frothy, vulnerable take on "Punkrocker" that swaps titular phrase for the term "popstar." Later on, the...