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Robyn: Body Shot

Scott McLennan, Rip It Up (Australia), 2009

Robyn's fronting on mighty pop moments such as 'Konichiwa Bitches', 'U Should Know Better' and 'Criminal Intent' have projected the Swedish star as a bad-ass babe big on braggadocio, but her real-life rap sheet is decidedly shorter than these flights of fancy suggest. Her sole run-in with the police was coincidentally the night she met her main musical collaborator and producer, Klas Ahlund.

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