Robyn Declares the ‘Purpose of My Life Is to Stay Horny’ as She Announces Sexistential, Her First New Album Since 2018

After a long wait, Robyn’s next album is coming.

On Wednesday, Jan. 7, the Swedish pop star unveiled the title, cover, tracklist and release date for her upcoming album Sexistential, which marks her first full-length body of work since 2018’s Honey. She also shared two new songs, the Max Martin co-written “Talk to Me” and the album’s spicy title track.

In a statement, Robyn explained the high-energy sound of Sexistential is meant to feel “like a spaceship coming through the atmosphere at a really high speed and crash landing.”

The “Dancing on My Own” singer, 46, who revealed in July 2023 that she became a mom to son Tyko, continued of the album, “That’s how I felt, like I’d had all these experiences searching too far out into space, and now I’m crashing back into myself.”

Robyn mainly worked on Sexistential with longtime collaborator Klas Åhlund, and the album’s title stemmed from an inside joke. “Exploring my sensual life is the same feeling as when I make a good song,” she noted. “It’s such a beautiful kind of sensitive vibration that takes so much work to keep afloat.”

The Grammy-nominated artist then declared, “I feel like the purpose of my life is to stay horny — it doesn’t even have to be about sex, but it’s feeling sensual and attracted to things that I enjoy, and not letting anything take over that.”

“Talk to Me,” a steamy dance banger, marks Robyn’s first collaboration with Max Martin since the 2010 Body Talk track “Time Machine.” They first worked together on her debut album, 1995’s Robyn Is Here.

“I wrote it during the pandemic when there was no way to be physical,” she said of “Talk to Me,” which arrived alongside a music video directed by Casper Sejersen. “I like talkers, that turns me on.”

Robyn’s sexuality is even more prominent on “Sexistential,” on which she raps about having one-night stands while 10 weeks pregnant following IVF: “My body’s a spaceship with the ovaries on hyperdrive / Got a whole universe inside that exists in between my thighs.”

The “Call Your Girlfriend” musician also raps on the song about a meeting with her doctor, during which they discussed Robyn’s ideal sperm donor: “Well, Adam Driver always did kinda give me a boner / She like, ‘Yeah, wasn’t he great in Don’t Mess with the Zohan?'” [Editor’s note: the 2008 film You Don’t Mess with the Zohan stars Adam Sandler, not Driver.]

“Sexistential” was born as a response to André 3000 claiming no one wanted to hear him rap about undergoing a colonoscopy, as Robyn would’ve loved listening to that song. “It was my cue,” she recalled. “I have to do this, I have to write a rap about IVF.”

The album will also feature Robyn’s recent single “Dopamine,” which she performed on CNN’s New Year’s Eve Live with Anderson Cooper and Andy Cohen. She’ll perform “Sexistential” on the Jan. 7 episode of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.

Sexistential is set for a March 27 release via Young.