Long Time" gave the band another Top 5 hit on the US Billboard Dance chart, their second from this album. From the title on down, Blondie makes it clear that Pollinator, their 11th album, is full of outside ideas—only two of its 11 songs were co-written by Harry and Blondie’s longtime guitarist/Harry’s songwriting foil Chris Stein. Great album, as good as their classic albums of the late 70's and early 80's which I bought as a school boy.

But Pollinator transmits that freshness of his 1978 album "Parallel Lines" mainly in his cut "Long Time" clear nods to "Heart Of Glass". Fragments", released for streaming only, is a song originally written and performed by Canadian YouTuber and musician Adam Johnston, who releases music under the name An Unkindness, that gained much attention during the Australian tour and was released as a promo track on YouTube.

In summer 2017, Blondie undertook a co-headlining tour of the US with the band Garbage, in which Debbie Harry appeared onstage in full Honey Bee regalia. El último track “Fragments”, fue el que más me agradó: es crudo en letras, en arreglos y en voz (es la canción dónde oímos a Debbie Harry prácticamente sin filtros), fue perfecto para cerrar el álbum. Fellow New Wave lifer Johnny Marr penned the muscular, urgent “My Monster,” one of the album’s highlights. it Kicks off with Doom or Destiny a Harry/Stein penned song featuring Joan Jett the songs rips along at a great pace brilliant opener Then we are into Long TIme the second single just a Brilliant song showing off Debbies Vocals Already Naked (naughty) and Fun a Number 1 on the Billboard Dance Chart are next followed by Johnny Marr's My Monster another Stand out track!

To have a collaboration between Blondie and the sublime Laurie Anderson is such a treat, with the song Fragments having several phases, including a short break in the middle of its nearly 14 minute running time. Collaborators include of-the-moment gurus like Dev Hynes and Dave Sitek as well as pop workhorses like Sia and Charli XCX; keyboardist Matthew Katz-Bohen, who joined the band in 2008, also co-wrote a pair of tracks, while John Congleton ( St. Lead guitarist Chris Stein stated in an interview with Mojo, "We thought to ask people because there's so much good music swirling about", rather than it being a result of running thin on ideas. Heart of Glass” added disco’s bounce to the band’s guitar crunch; their cover of the rocksteady classic “The Tide is High” made plain the Caribbean influences that were infiltrating rock in the late ’70s and early ’80s; “Dreaming” was an urban-cowboy sigh reclining on a cloud of glitter; and Harry’s downtown-blasé, Fab 5 Freddy-saluting bridge on “Rapture” led to it becoming the first rap video to appear on the white-breadiest, earliest iteration of MTV. In the United States, the album debuted and peaked at number 63 on the Billboard 200, also the band's highest charting album in their native country since 1999.

It was released on a limited edition 7" vinyl, as was "Fun", backed with non-album track "The Breaks".