![]() “I think it’s a song about being on the outside - very physically - and if it feels like a gay anthem then I take that as a super compliment.” “Gay culture has always had to embody outsidership,” Robyn told OUT magazine in 2011. It plays regularly in a lot of Philly’s gay clubs, but some have also connected the song’s theme of acute loneliness to the experience of coming out. ![]() Robyn’s “Dancing on My Own” also sits within the queer musical canon. The song has also soundtracked endless pop culture moments about that weird triangle of longing, coming of age, and finding community: Lena Dunham and Allison Wiliams danced to it on “Girls” after a character finds out her lover is gay, Elle Fanning sings it to escape her small town in the drama “Teen Spirit,” and a video of a crowded New York City subway platform harmonizing to it went viral in 2019. British publication The Guardian named it the best song of 2010 and pop megastar Lorde used the single as inspiration for her second album “Melodrama.” Though the original “Dancing on My Own” never cracked the Billboard Hot 100, it developed a cult following over the last decade that has repeatedly cast it on the cusp of the mainstream. ![]()
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