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Hello, ‘Girlfriend’

May 28, 2011 1 Comment

Kicking off the long weekend with some extended remixes of Robyn’s “Call Your Girlfriend” sounds like an excellent plan.

An EP collecting retakes of the Body Talk track by Kaskade, Feed Me, and Sultan & Ned Shepard was released earlier this month, and while I think the album version of “Call Your Girlfriend” is a brilliant piece of pop as is, I’m on board with whatever helps Robyn’s “bitchy song, hidden in a cute melody” reach more ears.

Kaskade’s remix of “Call Your Girlfriend” is, not surprisingly, the most traditional club-sounding of the three (and therefore, my favorite). Feed Me dials up a squiggly dubstep makeover, while the Sultan & Ned remix is a stop-start number framed by strums of an electric guitar.

Call Your Girlfriend (Kaskade Remix edit) by robyn

Call Your Girlfriend (Feed Me Remix) by robyn

Call Your Girlfriend (Sultan & Ned Shepard Remix edit) by robyn

The release of “Call Your Girlfriend” as a single now means her most-excellent “Time Machine” is finally on tap for summer, right? Robyn’s tune will sound quite nice on the radio next to tourmate Katy Perry’s “Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.)”. Not a great stretch of imagination to pair the two together, since both songs are co-written by Max Martin, but that’s my well-beyond-teenage dream.

Purchase Robyn – “Call Your Girlfriend” (Remixes) EP via iTunes, Amazon MP3.