Tove Lo (from Stockholm, Sweden)

And I listened to everything in the EOY poll

not everything nominated! join me.

JFC this fucking Habits song, what an involuntary earworm.

not enjoying it being in my head for four days, tbh.

yeah i really dislike that song. "Talking Body" is great though.

goddamn, Not on Drugs is an instant earworm, what a chorus

so "cool girl" is super good

love cool girl, do you think it has summer jam status potential?

it doesn't have much time left but i sure hope it gets bigger

yeah i really dislike that song. "Talking Body" is great though.

i thought it was a somewhat disarming but ultimately great line. do love that song tho, by far the best thing she has done.

xp I remember watching a video interview where she explained the process of writing that song and it was originally "we love for life" but she thought that was too extreme

That's the version I listen to as the kids like the song.

p sure the speaker of Not On Drugs is actually on drugs, which is part of what makes it a good song.

it was originally "we love for life" but she thought that was too extreme

we fuck for SPARTAAAAA!

yeah it is a weird line -- does it mean marriage? Lifetime fuck buddy privileges? Strange thing to say in a song that's mostly just about lust too.

Talking Body came on when I was in the gym today and it sounded weirdly generic to me -- the way her voice is produced in particular. Also, the line is changed to "love for life" in the radio version.

latest single from lady wood is so good: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFwIsrzDqMI

I have heard her sing live with no audience and no auto tune and it was AWFUL like not good enough for karaoke awful.

like the new song, is there a new album on it's way?

in less than 2 weeks

really, nice. i'm now excited about it. i really like the two songs i have heard from it.

this single is 90% good, but the 10% is where it includes awkward slang

like, you have 90% of a gorgeous, heartbreaking pop song, but the 10% is stuff like "I can't hide my feels"

I like this song.

the new album leaked, sounds like the musical equivalent of the smiling devil emoji (i really like it)

can't find this so will wait.

oh wait, it's there today. this was not on Spotify yesterday.

http://static.idolator.com/uploads/2016/08/tov-lo-lady-wood-compressed.jpg

1. "Fairy Dust (Chapter I)"
2. "Influence" (featuring Wiz Khalifa)
3. "Lady Wood"
4. "True Disaster"
5. "Cool Girl"
6. "Vibes" (featuring Joe Janiak)
7. "Fire Fade (Chapter II)"
8. "Don't Talk About It"
9. "Imaginary Friend"
10. "Keep It Simple"
11. "Flashes"
12. "WTF Love Is"

what's with the o's?

Try harder :)

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A 30-minute video album!

http://www.vevo.com/watch/SEUV71600223?isrc=SEUV71600223&share_location=ingestion

this album is really not that good. i was expecting more but all it really is is throwaway pop.

I love the second half, particularly "Don't Talk About It" and "Flashes".

I never tried "lady wood" though I loved the first album a lot; anybody wanna convince me to try it? the lack of buzz here is not heartening.

spotify's image for her tour is kinda porny and i'm getting the impression that's how she's being marketed/is self marketing now?

http://i.scdn.co/image/4af87dee5a9b28848a37b835e810a1ada15378f7

well yeah look at the album cover

the album is precisely what i imagined it to be: full of serviceable bops, perhaps less fragile than its predecessor yet no less worthy

i like that song about staying high all the time

i made a terrible poll about it

Her voice seems to have lost all its urgency and energy. There's some great songs here - "True Disaster" especially - but her delivery makes everything seem so monochromatic. It made me think of the Liz Phair self-titled album: it's meant to be pop and it's meant to be sexually empowered and feminist, but it doesn't quite come off.

and I was really sad because the debut was one of my favourites of recent years.

My kids were also sad as they really liked the first album and there's maybe two on this one that they can listen to #pottymouth

I mean, the whole point is that there's no urgency and energy. everything sounds monochromatic because it's portraying everything *feeling* monochromatic, but fortunately the current version of What Max Martin Sounds Like works pretty well alongside that, in a dead-eyed '80s way (there are a lot of similarities, sonically and otherwise, to the weeknd album)

I totally get what she's going for! And I really respect that, at the point in her career where she could have really blown up, she chose to make this album and send the message it does. But I wish there was a way that the things I like about the first album - eg the desperation of Habits, the blissful cravings in Not On Drugs - could exist within this.

i love this album, it speaks to me

tove lo's lyrics are hilarious, she always sounds like she just stepped off the plane from sweden, learned some american slang and wants to awkwardly shoehorn "feels" and "zero fucks" into her lyrics

August 25th. #firefade pic.twitter.com/07mjJc3tuf

— Tove Lo (@ToveLo) August 18, 2017

New single

https://lnk.to/DiscoTits

this is OK.

This is excellent.

She does pop music well, hope this means a new album instead of a one off.

wow --- really coming for tove styrke with this song title (i haven't listened yet to compare the two.)

Ha, yeah, I was momentarily confused when it came up in my Spotify Discover playlist last week

Still surprised that "No One Dies From Love" made it all the way up to #8 in the ILM 2022 Singles poll. I now see that it was mentioned in this thread but not talked about that much. I did post the video in the campaigning thread but there was no reaction to it, so I thought it wouldn't even make the Top 77 lol. The best part of the song is "I miss all the cool things we'd do, but what I miss the most is watching movies with you" which is not on the album or first video of the song. Bringing this all up because of the CVS heard out in the wild thread.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSG9zKkzjcU

From our Top 77 Tracks from 2022 thread:

Very happy this made it, didn't think it had a chance of placing. Not the best song on the album that would be "True Romance" but voted for this as I thought it would have the best chance to place...

― Bee OK, Wednesday, February 22, 2023

pleasantly surprised to see Tove Lo in the top 10 given she narrowly missed the albums list. Agree with Bee OK that "True Romance" is the highlight the way that "Moments" was on her debut.

― danzig, Wednesday, February 22, 2023

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvbEAkFbcPo

From the first post in that YouTube posting:

I made True Romance together with my roommate Tim From The House. We both had a need to write something different and dramatic. It took me three days to get the lyrics right but I recorded it in one take. The lyrics are based on the movie True Romance, destructive cinematic love at its best and worst. We shot this scene for it in one take in the desert earlier this year. Kenny Laubbacher has always captured the emotional journey of the song perfectly in this scene.

You’ve asked me for an acoustic album so I thought… why shouldn’t I give you what you want?? These are all emotional one takes recorded all over the world… at soundcheck, at home or elsewhere. #DirtFemme (Stripped) is out now.https://t.co/TlJk5LoFm4 pic.twitter.com/vA1Ym1PV6v

— Tove Lo (@ToveLo) May 5, 2023

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5_Jd20TINo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Pn5OyGgLiE

And this completes Dirt Femme

Tove Lo is coming here to Orange County on Tuesday, Monday in Los Angeles. Anyways, should I go? Has anyone that reads this seen her live?

She's a lot of fun.

100% would recommend, although the crowd I was part of skewed very young - it was sold out but I doubt there were more than a dozen people there under 25. She is charismatic, fun and committed on stage, with everything feeling very urgent and breathless. Also: very popular with the queer kids, so it was a joy for me in my 30s to see people half my age out expressing themselves through fashion and social moves in a way that I would never have been able to do when I was that age.

I went ahead and bought tickets based on these reply. Note they were cheap,so lucky me.

"Borderline" is great and a 2023 release, note to self

Show was so much fun. I think It was all gay, or seriously it seemed like half of the people there were with their same sex partner. Thanks to those who recommended me going.

The place was packed and she has a very dedicated fan base. She also said it was the last date of her current tour.

She also flashed us, lol.

https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/tove-lo/2023/the-observatory-santa-ana-ca-ba375f2.html

Her songs are very sensual and the biggest cheer probably came from "No One Dies From Love" but could also be expected since it closed the show.

I don't know how she doesn't have whiplash from her spinning her ponytail around all night. What energy.

Very young crowd and would love to see her again in the future.

New songs with SG Lewis are peak frociaggine danceteria

Pride
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TX5t3xVwvFk-

(Dear Mr, YouTube everyone on ILXor can handle Adult content including Rim jobs in a music video.)

She is unbelievable:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhAaIvmZxZw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwEj_b74r9k

Beautiful song. The refrain sounds so familiar.

tove lo co-wrote the lisa/rosalia single, love it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxXY_hR_wzo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Tanj42oBXw

this is exceptional - her and SG Lewis work their way through the new EP and play some other excellent music in a hybrid performance/DJ set. It's like she's seen Brat Summer happen and decided to have a go at doing it better herself.

Best pop star

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Estrus is set to be released on 18 September 2026, through her independent record label, Pretty Swede Records.

Tracklist:

a lot of feelings, no solutions
I’m your girl right?
if I could I would
des fleurs x stromae
DNH
F.A.M.T
I’m the cake
the bad one
die for my art with a lonely heart
are we on a break
idiot
roomie
source of life

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERn_e8fiFPs

Song is a banger, Dirt Femme is, by far, the best thing she has done. Looking forward to see what's next.