Robyn was in the UK a few days ago doing promo for her Body Talk Pt. 1 where she did a Live Lounge Session over at BBC’s Radio 1. She sang two songs, including a cover of my song of 2009, Alicia Keys’ “Try Sleeping With a Broken Heart.” So how did the cover sound?

Robyn pretty much knocked it out of the park. Besides the lackluster backbeat and her forgetting the lyrics briefly, Robyn took the song and made it her own. The original has such a colossal feel and although Robyn’s version didn’t have all the elements (no pun intended) Alicia’s version did she captures emotion in a near flawless manner.

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