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Days before Los Angeles fled to the California desert for Coachella, the city had a festival of its own with H&M \u2014 only this one was open to the public and stationed downtown, but still packed with performers and DJs that kept the party going well into the morning. <\/p>\n
Headliners included PAPER<\/em> cover star Doechii<\/u><\/a>, PinkPantheress and Jamie XX, who brought out Swedish pop icon Robyn to sing their track \u201cLife,\u201d before she unleashed her classics \u201cDancing On My Own\u201d and \u201cHang With Me\u201d onto the screaming crowd (fans were clacking, drinks were flying). <\/p>\n VIPs like Alex Consani, Gabbriette, Tyla, Tinashe and Lisa Rinna<\/u><\/a> all stopped by, floating in-between stages to celebrate H&M\u2019s Spring 2025 collection<\/u><\/a> and kick off the new season.<\/p>\n Prior to her performance, PAPER <\/em>sat down backstage with Robyn, who wore H&M\u2019s exaggerated-hip mini dress<\/u><\/a> over a black oversized t-shirt.<\/u><\/a> We talked about her relationship to LA, collaborating with Charli xcx and Yung Lean<\/a>, and what it\u2019s like being back in the studio now as a mother.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n It\u2019s a whole festival in here, basically, but just Downtown LA. Do you come to this city often?<\/strong><\/p>\n No, I don’t. I haven’t been here since 2020, but I’ve lived here, so I’ve spent lots of time here. I just haven’t been back since the pandemic, actually \u2014 I\u2019ve been in Sweden. <\/p>\n When did you live here? <\/strong><\/p>\n Well, never permanently, but I spent a lot of time here over the years. I had periods when I was touring, when I didn\u2019t go back to Sweden, I stayed here instead with friends.<\/p>\n I feel like the pop capitals are Sweden and LA. <\/strong><\/p>\n Yeah, it’s true, but I never really made a lot of music in LA. I always made music in Sweden and then I just stayed here because of friends. It\u2019s maybe the city I\u2019ve spent the most time in except for Stockholm. <\/p>\n Oh wow, that\u2019s kind of crazy.<\/strong><\/p>\n Yeah, it is kind of crazy.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Well, I think what\u2019s amazing about you is you\u2019re kind of an enigma. You\u2019ll pop up and do an event like H&M\u2019s, then disappear for a while. That\u2019s kind of rare, especially in music today. When you\u2019re not doing moments like tonight, what keeps you inspired? <\/strong><\/p>\n I’m in the studio a lot at the moment working on music. That’s what I’ve been doing for the last two years, but I’ve also had a baby, so my life has been very domestic and Stockholm-based. But inspiration, for me at least, comes from my life, just living, so it’s been really good to be at home and have time to work on music. Also, inspiration is this thing you have to work for. Sometimes it happens by itself, but most of the time inspiration comes, if you spend a lot of time doing the same thing over and over, it starts taking on its own life. So I think being in the studio, actually, is inspiring, although not always. Sometimes it\u2019s just\u2014<\/p>\n Difficult?<\/strong><\/p>\n Yeah, you just have to power through. A lot of times you get the reaction of like, What do you do? I make music. Oh, that must be so fun<\/em>. And I\u2019m like, No. [Laughs] <\/em>It is fun and liberating and my favorite thing to do, but it’s also sometimes a struggle. Yeah, it can be really uncomfortable, as well. So having a routine and, you know, I\u2019m a nine-to-five person. I have that kind of work ethic. <\/p>\n I would imagine having a baby has also impacted the way that you are thinking about and making music. <\/strong><\/p>\n Yeah, now it\u2019s vacation. [Laughs]<\/em> It used to be work, now it\u2019s like time off.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Right, like, Please get me to the studio<\/em>. <\/strong><\/p>\n It actually made me more excited about making music again because it’s my own space. It’s funny how many things become really exotic and interesting again when you have a baby, like just going to the store and having five minutes to yourself when you’re going grocery shopping is kind of amazing.<\/p>\n <\/span>But also seeing the world through your kid\u2019s perspective.<\/strong><\/p>\n Yeah, all of those things, for sure.<\/p>\n So many people were excited to see you working with Charli xcx, because there are a lot of parallels between you two as disruptors in the pop space. How did you get connected, and what was it like working with her on the \u201c360\u201d remix with Yung Lean<\/u><\/a>? <\/strong><\/p>\n Well, we’ve known each other for a long time. We’ve known each other since we were on the same tour [15 years ago] doing festivals in Australia. We had this moment where we connected at an after party, hanging out. I was really young, like 30 and she was 20. Whatever little experience I\u2019d had I was able to share with her, and she was very inspiring to me. We just stayed acquaintances. She spent a lot of time in Sweden, but we never really hung out that much. Whenever we did see each other, it was very special. I just always really loved her mind and I think it was very obvious, even when she was 20, that she was a smart girl. I was challenged by our conversations, and I always was a fan. <\/p>\n Then she started taking on this new energy. You could see her ramp it up over a few years. I think it’s interesting, it usually takes quite some time to get to that point, and I really recognized it like, She’s gonna do something soon, I can feel it<\/em>. So when she called me, she was in Sweden and she wanted me to work on something, I was like, Yes, whatever<\/em>, it just feels so exciting. I didn’t know that she was making a new album, but she asked me to do this remix for the remix project with Jonatan [Yung Lean], who’s someone that I love, as well. I think it really shows her genius that she put us together on the same track. Me and Jonatan actually have a lot in common, too.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Really?<\/strong><\/p>\n It’s a very particular experience that we share being from Sweden and having a career from [age] 16, so it was cool.<\/p>\n It was such an exciting trio and you\u2019re right, it just made sense.<\/strong><\/p>\n I think we always knew that we liked each other and that there was a connection. It was just very obvious. It never felt constructed or weird, just very natural. We were in the studio, [Charli] came to my house and we had dinner. She told me everything about Brat<\/em>, it was right before it all exploded. I think it\u2019s gonna be called Brat<\/em>, and she played me a lot of songs. She\u2019s such a cool chick, she\u2019s always been like that. <\/p>\n<\/h3>\n
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