When you think of frequent Scandinavian collaborators Röyksopp and Robyn, you probably imagine thumping club beats, or maybe even lighter, more ballad-like fare. Point is, you might not expect the Norwegian Electronic music duo and Swedish singer team to score the music of a revolution. But in their latest video for "Do It Again," they do. In black-and-white cinematography that recalls silent film, the song features a quartet of scenes showing different people rebelling against tyranny, and follows a group of rebels storming a castle, a pair of lovers on the floor, and a woman struggling out of a hospital bed.
"Do It Again," the lead single and the title track of "Do It Again" EP, is a throbbing electropop song on which Robyn contemplates resuming an on-again, off-again relationship, while incorporating fluttering synths and slamming drums. Röyksopp and Robyn wrote the track after an epic night out of partying in Bergen, Norway, resulting in what the trio calls an accidental pop song. Robyn recalled to The Sun: "We were thrown out, but all these simple ideas were tossed together, about wanting more. And it turned into that track."
Röyksopp and Robyn's buoyant "Do It Again" may be the perfect track for a carefree night out, but the video... well, it's a little heavier than that and will make you want to start a riot! A theatrical six minutes long, the visual is the story of a rebellion - a story of defiance meant to inspire you to do more than dance. But despite the weight of it all, there's still sex, there's still romance, and there's still plenty of dancing. This is still Robyn, after all. Speaking with Dazed & Confused magazine, who premiered the clip, Danish director Martin de Thurah said the clip, was shot in Mexico, is meant to capture the pursuit of something unattainable. "The stories we worked on and the world we created was much more interesting and captivating than just to focus on (the artists') performance," he said, in putting "Do It Again" to film. "I worked with the idea of 'what is our heart's desire?' and I realized that no one in the world truly gets to live out their passions. We are all under some construct, whether you're an atheist living in Denmark or a gay person in Russia."
"Do It Again," the lead single and the title track of "Do It Again" EP, is a throbbing electropop song on which Robyn contemplates resuming an on-again, off-again relationship, while incorporating fluttering synths and slamming drums. Röyksopp and Robyn wrote the track after an epic night out of partying in Bergen, Norway, resulting in what the trio calls an accidental pop song. Robyn recalled to The Sun: "We were thrown out, but all these simple ideas were tossed together, about wanting more. And it turned into that track."
Röyksopp and Robyn's buoyant "Do It Again" may be the perfect track for a carefree night out, but the video... well, it's a little heavier than that and will make you want to start a riot! A theatrical six minutes long, the visual is the story of a rebellion - a story of defiance meant to inspire you to do more than dance. But despite the weight of it all, there's still sex, there's still romance, and there's still plenty of dancing. This is still Robyn, after all. Speaking with Dazed & Confused magazine, who premiered the clip, Danish director Martin de Thurah said the clip, was shot in Mexico, is meant to capture the pursuit of something unattainable. "The stories we worked on and the world we created was much more interesting and captivating than just to focus on (the artists') performance," he said, in putting "Do It Again" to film. "I worked with the idea of 'what is our heart's desire?' and I realized that no one in the world truly gets to live out their passions. We are all under some construct, whether you're an atheist living in Denmark or a gay person in Russia."
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