Tom Ewing | Give me pop music that leaves adolescence behind

Where is today's pop music for grownups who don't want to be teenagers any more? Abba's icily adult 1980s hits are a good startWhen I first heard Dancing On My Own, Robyn's recent single, I was dismissive – enjoyably chunky pulsebeat – but I'd heard too many songs romanticising rejection to truly care. Then I saw the video, which makes it plain that Robyn is romanticising nothing: she dances self-consciously, embarrassingly, clenching her fists on a bare studio set like a woman whose connect...

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