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.

Fontaines D.C. have teamed up with Rosalía for their new collaboration, Where Is Gone?.

The song features on the Irish rock band's forthcoming album, Dopamine Chamber, which arrives on Friday (16.10.26). For guitarist Carlos O’Connell, working with the Spanish superstar is particularly special because of his own Spanish roots.

He explained: “I’ve admired Rosalía ever since her debut album, which I thought was absolutely beautiful.

“What excited me most was the way she continued to preserve Spain's musical traditions, something that felt spiritually connected to what we've been trying to achieve with Irish music. Having roots in both countries, it's been really special to witness. "She's an artist who has continued to amaze me at every point in her career.”

Frontman Grian Chatten has also described the collaboration with Rosalía as one of the most memorable achievements of his career.

He revealed that he felt "humbled" when she agreed to lend her voice to the band's album.

Speaking to NPR, Grian said: “I've always felt there's something almost like a single big idea that I'm personally trying to communicate to the world before I get old and die, if that makes sense. There's one thing I think I'll spend my life trying to express. I have a feeling she has a similar outlook. … I mean, she's an amazing arranger, composer and lyricist. It means so much that she wanted to sing on something we'd put together. It's definitely one of the highlights of my career.”

Rosalía's links to Irish rock music extend beyond Fontaines D.C. She also offered inspiration and helped develop the Spanish lyrics for U2's The Mirror Maker (Rosalía), a track from their forthcoming album, Carnaval de Luz.

During an appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon last week, she spoke about frontman Bono, saying: “I don't know him personally, but he sent me a text explaining that he was working on a new project and had written a song called The Mirror Maker."

Rosalía joked that Bono had invented a few words of his own.

She recalled telling him: “I wasn't sure what to make of it, but I told him he could create his own language if he wanted to.”

She described the opportunity to collaborate with the 66 year old music veteran as a real privilege.

She added: “Bono is a legend.

“It's amazing.”

Bono recently revealed that he was worried about seeming like a stalker when he reached out to Rosalía to ask whether he could name the song after her.

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