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It seems like Robyn is taking over everything lately: the music industry, gays, my dreams, and pretty soon, the world. In a exclusive interview with Out, the Swedish former teen pop star (circa “Show Me Love”) robyn bad ass dance/electro-pop messiah talks fame, Body Talk and, yes, the gayness that she just doesn’t possess.

When she raises the stand with profound ease after humping it on the ground, whipping it around and around through the air with propellant force, we are reminded of Robyn's status as a singular supernova still staking out her own slice of solitary sky in a galaxy of flashy pop stars.

There's a tradition with the gay community gravitating to music that is melodic and melancholy, maybe in the same song. You know what I think? Maybe that's why there seems to be this strong, kind of pure bond between me and that part of my fan group.

If you're not a Robyn fan, you're not gay. Or on a New York City subway platform after a Robyn concert, which happened in March when a passel of devotees convened while waiting for the E train, exuberantly belting out "Dancing On My Own," a diverse chorus of voices joined together by shared human emotions.

I think questioning yourself or questioning the context you're in comes natural to this community, and for me that's something that I feel connected to or that I feel that I can understand. I wouldn't say that all LGBT and queer people are the same, so for me it's maybe a little awkward to assume that all people that are LGBTQ have the same views of what I do, but I can recognize myself in the LGBTQ community in the sense that I think they are people who question what being a human being is about because it has been naturally incorporated in being different or feeling different, or maybe not being conventional or living in a conventional way.

Whatever people connect to in my music, if it's there for them, then that is a natural connection. The album spawned the singles "Be Mine!" and "With Every Heartbeat" – the latter of which topped the charts in the United Kingdom. The rest of my Skype conversation with Robyn was spent talking about why she thinks it's important artists understand the queer references they use in their work, the precise reason she's proud "Dancing On My Own" became a gay anthem, and how her current post-tomboy femininity is, for her, "almost like dragging.

I told Robyn about this POV from the gay Twitter collective when I called her direct on Skype recently — it was remarkably human of the pop goddess to answer, with no publicist listening gay nude celebs — and with a titter she said: "Well, that particular, uh, viewpoint is maybe a little extreme, in my mind.

You can robyn it in ABBA, you can hear it in the tradition of British gay bands and gay artists that have always championed this way of singing about emotions, whether it's like Erasure, or even Queen. In the decade since gay Talk," when the late-'90s artist reemerged a cult force in the aughts, the gay icon has culled a gay of underground outsiders and outcasts by cutting through pop-culture excess with the rarest of pop-star features: her desire to be human first, pop artist second.

She tells me she doesn't see herself like we see her — this, after I tell her how lucky I feel to be Skyping her it's Robyn! You grew up with parents who owned a theater company. We, the misfits, move with her and are moved by her in the quiet solitude of our private sanctuaries the bedroom too, the lights down low, hearts broken but not beyond healing — Robyn's music at its emotional, queer-relatable core.

Yeah, I'm sure. A true pop music heroine. Same goes for a Robyn concert, perhaps the closest thing to a gay nightclub that's not an actual gay nightclub.

Robyn intersects many lines for many people, and takes an atypical place in the heart of many queer women, men, and non-binary folk, which is rare when you examine the fan bases of other, indeed brilliant, gay icons who often sit within much stricter gendered lines.

Robyn returned to international success with her fourth album, Robyn (), which brought a Grammy Award nomination. You look at her, writhing, gyrating, moving in tandem with only herself as her guide, like a leader among us, and think: of course she is among the Gods.

In non-Robyn minds, of course, that hyperbolic reach illustrates the electro dance queen's embedded place in queer culture, explicable underneath strobe lights inside a queer club where her shimmering dance-pop anthems register as euphoric elation and communal catharsis.

I'm happy I can do that for you," she said, in a voice that intoned a steady softness that made me wonder what Robyn sounds like when she's shouting — can be read as reluctantly appreciative later, she tells me why. Robyn released a trilogy of mini-albums inknown as the Body Talk series.

There's a tradition there within gay music culture that I always felt was something that I connected to. Or so they say. On her own!