Adam Sandler’s 2008 film “You Don’t Mess with the Zohan” is not among the comedian’s most noteworthy hits. The movie, which features a truly head-spinning plot about an IDF soldier moving to America to become a hairstylist and uniting his local Palestinian and Israeli population in the process, received dismal reviews and thankfully faded from the zeitgeist. Perhaps that’s why Swedish pop phenom, Robyn, can’t seem to shake the memory of her OBGYN referencing the film, which she details in her brilliant new single, “Sexistential,” a charged-up and charmingly weird electro-rap song about the IVF process and new motherhood. When her doctor asks Robyn who would be her dream sperm donor, Robyn coyly rhymes, “Well, Adam Driver always did kind of give me a boner.” To her surprise, her doctor replies, “Yeah, wasn’t he great in ‘Don’t Mess with the Zohan’?”
After an intentionally pregnant pause, Robyn’s vocal is chopped and edited into a confused stammer before she resumes the song’s mantra: “I-I-I, I like to go out, wear something nice and push!”
