Swedish dance-popster Robyn’s guileless performance during her show at Park West often seemed as if one was being afforded a peek inside the bedroom of a teenage girl, performing only for herself and an audience of her adoring stuffed animals (no offense intended to those who braved the rain last night).

Perhaps it’s because Robyn finally seems to have found a persona that suits her. After spending her teenage years cranking out dewy-eyed requests for love, the songs on her self-titled album—available overseas since 2005 but released here just this year—alternate between B-girl boasting (“You wanna rumble in my jungle/I’ll take you on”) and slambook insults (“Tell me why your name is in the dictionary when I look up idiot”). In delivering her digs, she preened and strutted in a black, flowing getup over leather pants that resembled something out of Prince’s “Batdance” video, even stopping to flex her bicep muscles and lovingly kiss her “guns.” If more young girls adopted her giddy, take-no-shit sass, maybe we’d have fewer Miley Cyruses who crack under the strain of being Hannah Montanas.

Many of Robyn’s songs harkened back to the late 80s with their heavy keyboards and Sheila E. drums (“Who’s That Girl,” in particular feels like the best Jody Watley track she never recorded), but the electro-pop beats over them kept everything fresh. Even slowing things down with “Eclipse” didn’t break the show’s momentum, as audience members shushed each other so their girl could sigh over her moment in the torchy spotlight. She also showed she’s come to grips with her past, with a minimalist treatment of “Show Me Love.”

Her current set-closer – a cover of Prince’s “Jack U Off” – felt a little, er, limp in the austere surroundings of Park West. So perhaps that’s why she got called out for a second encore, re-casting “Be Mine!” as a slow piano ballad. As her voice drifted away on the lyric “You look happy, and that’s great,” Robyn proved she isn’t just dangerous on the dance floor; she can also bring emotional resonance to a song, like the best pop singers, even if that emotion was first expressed way back in junior high.

Set list:
“Cobrastyle”
“Crash and Burn Girl”
“Who’s That Girl”
“Konichiwa Bitches”
“Handle Me”
“Eclipse”
“Bum Like You”
“Be Mine!”
“Dream On”
“With Every Heartbeat”
Encore:
“Keep The Fire Burning”
“Show Me Love”
“Jack U Off”
2nd Encore:
“Be Mine!” (Ballad version)