Robyn stepped onto The Late Show stage to deliver a live performance of the title song from her upcoming album Sexistential, marking her first full length release in almost ten years. The Swedish pop artist appeared on the program just hours after revealing the album announcement, with the project scheduled to arrive on March 27 via Young. Performing alone, she gave an energetic and expressive rendition, moving freely to the beat and stretching out across the stage as the song unfolded. The upbeat track finds Robyn rapping about casual encounters while being ten weeks pregnant through IVF. She explained that the idea came after Andre 3000 remarked that nobody would want to hear him rap about having a colonoscopy. “It was my cue,” she said. “I have to do this, I have to write a rap about IVF.”
Sexistential, which Robyn co produced with Åhlund, is her ninth studio album and follows 2018’s Honey. She has described the project as something intense and physical, comparing it to a spacecraft tearing through the atmosphere and crash landing. According to Robyn, the songs reflect a period of pushing far outward emotionally before being pulled back inward, capturing the feeling of returning to herself after a long stretch of searching.
She explained that the album title began as a private joke before she realized how accurately it captured the spirit of the music. “Exploring my sensual life is the same feeling as when I make a good song,” she said in a statement. “It’s such a beautiful kind of sensitive vibration that takes so much work to keep afloat. 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.”
Earlier, Robyn introduced “Sexistential” alongside “Talk to Me,” the record’s first official single, during a New Year’s Eve performance. That night included a show at the Brooklyn Paramount, which followed her appearance in Times Square, where she also performed “Dopamine,” the track she released in November.
