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Dancing on My Own is a Dance-pop act. Their sound grew out of Prince, Donna Summer, Giorgio Moroder, Sylvester and Billy Idol. Those roots explain a lot about how Dancing on My Own arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Something Just Like This, Despacito, Locked Away, Ocean Eyes and Shape of You, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Calum Scott and Kings of Leon, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 16 connections around Dancing on My Own, reaching back through Prince and forward to Calum Scott. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
Background
"Dancing on My Own" is a song by Swedish singer-songwriter Robyn, released on 20 April 2010 as the lead single from her fifth studio album, Body Talk Pt. 1 (2010), the first in her Body Talk series. "Dancing on My Own" was produced by Patrik Berger, co-produced by Robyn, and mixed by Niklas Flyckt, with Robyn and Patrik sharing writing credits. The song's stark mid-tempo electropop version from her album was the first version of the single released followed by a layered mid-tempo synth-pop edit designed for radio and a downtempo piano ballad recording for Radio 1's Live Lounge – Volume 5 later that year. It depicts a female protagonist in a crowded club just before last call who is dancing on her own while watching her ex-boyfriend, who she sought out, dancing with and embracing another woman, pondering confronting him for the last time before her time runs out. The song was inspired by situations Robyn observed while on her previous tour then clubbing throughout Stockholm, her favorite "inherently sad gay disco anthems", and the dissolution of her engagement.
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Dancing on My Own grew out of Prince, Donna Summer, Giorgio Moroder and Sylvester, shares an orbit with Something Just Like This, Despacito, Locked Away and Ocean Eyes, went on to shape Calum Scott and Kings of Leon. 16 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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