Welcome again to “Your Friend, the ’90s”—your one-stop shop for the best of ’90s pop! And for all of the pop princesses that showed up in the late ’90s, one that never quite reached her popularity potential was Swedish sensation ROBYN. While popular (then and now) overseas, she hit it big in the states with two top ten hits in ‘97, and was opening for the Backstreet Boys—until she was diagnosed with exhaustion and shipped back to Sweden. Aaaaaand… that pretty much killed her career here. (Just think: if she’d pushed on through the exhaustion, she could’ve ended up just like Britney!)

Anyhoo, here’s my fave song of Robyn’s—a great R&B groover from 1996 entitled, “DO YOU KNOW WHAT IT TAKES.” She has a really amazing voice, and could’ve easily given Christina Aguilera a run for her money!