( Entertainment Weekly ) -- If there were any justice , the divas who 've been trading off the No . 1 slot -- Mariah , Madonna , and newcomer Leona Lewis -- would also be slugging it out with a platinum-blond dark horse from Scandinavia . Swedish singer Robyn performs in London on April 19 . Enter Sweden 's Robyn , who arrives Stateside with `` Robyn , '' an album that 's a veritable parade of Songs of the Summer . After landing a few mediocre teen-pop hits in the '90s ( namely `` Show Me Love '' ) , she 's forsaken her white-soul dullness for hooky dance-pop greatness with help from electro-favoring fellow Swedes like the Teddybears and the Knife . From the girly hip-hop of `` Konichiwa Bitches '' to the Eurodisco defiance of `` With Every Heartbeat , '' she 's developed a real backbone to go with that asymmetrical 'do . Not since Pink 's `` M ! ssundaztood '' has an easily dismissed young thrush made so unexpected a leap to career artist . That comparison starts with Robyn 's first single , `` Handle Me '' -- a less nasty but even hookier version of Pink 's lounge-lizard-repelling `` U + Ur Hand . '' But she hardly sticks to playing a tough cookie : The next song , `` Bum Like You , '' offers an amusing , knowing lesson in How to Fall for a Jerk 101 . Meanwhile , in the pensive , timbales- ' n'-synths-driven `` Who 's That Girl , '' Robyn decries her guy 's impossible standards . `` Good girls are pretty , like , all the time , '' she sings . `` I 'm just pretty some of the time . '' Her album , however ? Fantastic all of the time . EW Grade : A E-mail to a friend . CLICK HERE to Try 2 RISK FREE issues of Entertainment Weekly . Copyright 2009 Entertainment Weekly and Time Inc. All rights reserved .
EW : Singer achieves hooky dance - pop greatness . Robyn had early success in the 1990s with hits such as ` ` Show Me Love '' Her voice and style has been compared to singer Pink .