{babes} Robyn gushes over Snoop Dogg

Snoop Dogg is no music snob -- at least not in Swedish singer Robyn's books.

After appearing on Katy Perry's California Gurls, one of the biggest songs of summer, the L.A. rapper is now featured on Swedish pop-dance star Robyn's song, U Should Know Better, from her latest album Body Talk, Pt. 2.

The two met when the Stockholm-based Robyn was asked to sing vocals on a remix of Snoop's Sexual Seduction hit a few years ago and eventually the unlikely duo was reunited in L.A.

"He's a cool dude of course but also a music lover and an intelligent person and we had good conversation about music and decided it would be nice to try and work together," said Robyn, 31, down the line from a tour stop in Atlanta before shows in Toronto at the Sound Academy on Friday and Vancouver's Venue on Nov. 19.

"So I came back a half year later and we spent a couple of days in the studio and recorded U Should Know Better. You realize when you meet him why he's been in the industry for such a long time. I played him lots of things that I was listening to, like (Swedish group) Teddybears. He's like, 'Oh, my God, I love this.' Like really unexpected things that kind of explained why he's been around for awhile."

Body Talk is actually a three-part trilogy and Robyn said the project meant she could work a lot in the studio in Stockholm and have a normal life for a change.

"I had all these songs written in the middle of last year," she said. "The traditional way of doing it is that you're in the studio for quite a while to make a 15-song-long album and then you release the album and usually tour for a couple of years, maybe three or four years, like I did with the last abum (2005's Robyn). And you end up doing just one thing for a very long period and I don't like being away from the studio."

Bodytalk's Pt. 1 was released earlier this year and Pt. 3 is coming Nov. 22 -- the latter featuring some production by Max Martin, with whom Robyn had big hits Do You Know (What It Takes) and Show Me Love in the late '90s.

"It's the big top finale," said Robyn. "Going back into the studio with Max Martin (was great). He's gone on to become the world's most successful producer, which is great for him. He's somebody I've stayed in touch with over the years even though we haven't worked together, we've always kind of remained friends. I think for both us it's quite nostalgic to do something together again. It was my first kind of success in America but it was also one of his first hits that he had here so going back to that and showing people I'm not distancing myself from roots, where I come from. It was fun to do."

Bodytalk, Pt. 3 will feature five songs from Pt. 1 and 2, and five new ones.

Robin also made a recent appearance on teen soap Gossip Girl, which she said made a difference in her profile in North America.

She also got to tour with one of her early inspirations, Madonna, when she opened for Madge's Sticky & Sweet Tour in Europe a few years ago.

"I think for any woman born in the '70s or '80s or '90s, she's been important. But so have a lot of other people, like Prince, Kate Bush, Cyndi Lauper; but Madonna is one of those people that I grew up listening to and, of course, getting to open up for her was a compliment.

"I wouldn't say we spent time together but I got to meet her. She told me she liked my album, which was nice."