Dancing On My Own

I like that I can't distinguish if its "guy" or "girl". Makes the song fit for everyone, regardless of orientation or whatever. The best songs touch everyone. Everyone can find something to relate to in them. That's why the ambiguity in this song is great. The feeling she is describing goes beyond gender or orientation- we have all felt what she is singing about.

Great song.. an ex coming back to see her former lover has moved on with a new girl

I think she is saying "girl" not "guy" .. it just sounds that way cuz of her accent! Listen to any of her interviews on youtube, she has a pretty strong accent.

As for the gay undertone, I think it could be about 2 girls dancing also..

It's possible Robyn has been deliberately ambiguous with the chorus. I think it's possible to get two different interpretations from the song, depending on whether you hear her singing "girl" or "guy":

The first is obviously from the perspective of a girl watching the person she loves dance with another girl.

The second is from the perspective of a guy. To me it seems like he is in love with another guy (perhaps his friend), who is straight, and therefore unobtainable. The narrator is watching as his love interest dances with a girl. As the narrator is male, the guy he loves will never see him as a potential partner, hence "I'm right over here, why can't you see me?". The narrator realises it's futile and acknowledges that he will not be "the guy" his love interest will be taking home, because his love interest only takes girls home.

Either way I think it's a brilliant and beautiful pop song.

sorry, when I listen to it (which has been many, many times), I'm hearing 'girl' not 'guy'.

For me, the song evokes feelings of "being on the outside looking in" from my dance club days. Quite often I lacked the confidence (courage?) to approach women out of a fear of being rejected. 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. She said "People get drunk and turn into themselves in a way, and they go to experience some kind of emotion. But it's not always about fun. There's a destructive side to it. But I'm more into the empowerment of going out, because it's always been the place where I could be myself and get inspired. Even if I'm sad, dancing is a way to let stuff out."

I a lot of girls have found themselves in this situation at least once in their lives; whether it was at the school dance that one time, or at the club that other night, or that one party ^^ This song just seems really relatable and I think that's why it's so great. I'm so glad I heard it on Gossip Girl ^^

I have a slower version of the song from the BBC live lounge and it sounds a lot more less ambiguous in that version and sounds much more like "girl"

I dont know what any of yall who says its guy. It always have been and is But I'm not the 'GIRL' your takin home. You cant tell because she said "I know where you at I bet she's around.' She talking about her ex bf being with someone else.

I definitely hear it as "guy". I saw it as perhaps an homage to Cyndi Lauper's gender-bending cover of "When You Were Mine" by Prince...

I've listened to a couple versions of this song and I clearly hear her sing guy though until I read some of people's entries here I wasn't sure what she was singing. I think the beauty of this song is being overlooked in favor of debating "guy" or "girl". Robyn does a fantastic job of conveying the hurt one feels when they are not yet over an ended relationship and then seeing that person with someone else. The pain then is only further increased by them having a good time together and showing intimacy toward each other in an otherwise public place.