She has to suffer the torment of watching this new romance blossom before her eyes at the club, something to which she willingly subjects herself: “Yeah, I know it’s stupid, I just gotta see it for myself.” “Dancing On My Own” depicts the narrator on the outside looking in, figuratively at least, as her former boyfriend finds a new love. “All these people with their hopes and their dreams about their big nights out, ‘look at me I’m dressed up and dancing.’” “I think ‘Dancing On My Own’ is totally from me just being in clubs and going out and dancing a lot, and seeing people and thinking, ‘What are they doing here?’” she said. As she told Pop Justice, the clubbing experience fired up Robyn’s imagination. The idea of grouping artistic output into years and decades is quite an odd one. She said 'People get drunk and turn into themselves in a way, and they go to experience some kind of emotion. Robyn’s ‘Dancing On My Own’ changed the sound of pop, indie and dance, argues Dave Fawbert. 1 and co-written by Robyn and Patrik Berger, “Dancing On My Own” tells the story of someone who might seem to be blending in with the rest of the bouncing bodies at the club but is, in actuality, falling apart on the inside. In an interview with Pitchfork Media, a Chicago-based daily Internet publication focusing on independent music, Robyn said her song is about feeling lonely in a club. Released in 2010 on the Swedish singer-songwriter’s album Body Talk Pt. Done correctly, such a song can engage the heart as much as it moves the feet, as Robyn’s “Dancing On My Own” proves in wonderful fashion. If, however, you throw a couple of minor keys in there along with a little bit of melancholy in the lyrics, you can create an entirely different animal. This is how she’s approached the song in all her concert dates this summer. Most people equate dance music with good times and partying, a way to unwind by cutting loose inhibitions amidst pulsing bass and a thumping backbeat. When Robyn left it to the crowd to sing the chorus of Dancing On My Own without her, alone but altogether I don’t think I’ve experienced as magical a moment in my life as that.