Tove Lo (from Stockholm, Sweden)

I still feel the same as I did upthread. Like, this is custom-made for my usual taste, but something about it just doesn't strike me. Don't know what it is or why.

my gun / like em young / moments / got love / thousand miles
are legit high points

i shd check this out maybe. habits has been soundtracking my life for a a few months now

i first heard habits a year & a half ago, listened to it obsessively then. when the album finally dropped was kinda like "oh, she made a record finally." only listened once and wasn't like, bowled over by the whole album but deserves another shake

"my gun" rules

Been enjoying this the last few weeks although for some strange reason it's not getting officially released over here (UK) until 2015

ilm is sleeping on this album, like forksclovetofu has said, there are some serious nuggets on this record. it does take awhile to get into it but the rewards are amazing, will be on my list for ILM's annual countdown.

Not On Drugs is probably better than Habits but this is a seriously great album.

Yeah, album is surprisingly solid.

Really like this album. For me it joins Cher Lloyd and Ronika as one of this year's great and underrated pop albums.

Shift K3Y remix of "Talking Body" is brilliant:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-uWeRODF48

Album's now finally available in UK. Listening now. I'm with J Fever on that so far though.

The worst piece of music i have ever heard

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 :)

https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/be82daa8b367069a1f9484c79b43c142137270a6f4e021de5e2802d9463daf9d.gif

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

man…really feelin' "really don't like you"…too bad she (evidently) couldn't afford to do a real video with Kylie…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AD1AZfCWX9w

this is so much better than the last two albums it's unreal

New song: "Bikini Porn"

I am becoming obsessed with her

I went to see her last night and it was really excellent. I had heard a few things about her voice not being up to task but she sounded absolutely fine to me and the energy was unreal. I also should concede that I was wrong upthread about Lady Wood - it's still my least favourite of her albums but revisiting it and it's not the dud I seemed to think it was.

also the show was sold out and she seems to have a super-loyal fanbase of queer teenagers which, personally avoiding Twitter and Instagram, I had totally missed? I mean "pop music is popular with young people" is hardly a surprise but even at the back of the crowd where we were you could see everyone - and I mean everyone - mouthing along to every single lyric. There were a lot of queer couples being openly affectionate and it was wonderful as a guy in his thirties to see young people being so casual and unashamed about holding hands and kissing their partners, it is so far removed from when I was 18 and I would have been terrified to even hold someone's hand in public. I love that her music and her lyrics have helped carve out this idea of pop music as a safe space.

(I mean, obviously, pop music in the past decade has embraced LGBT values/fandom etc, its not exclusive to Tove Lo and she's not even really at the forefront of it or anything, but having her be able to sing a song like "Bad As The Boys" and it be no big deal is just really cheering to me)

man, yr making me feel bad that I couldn't make it to her shows at Brooklyn steel last month… I really would like to hear her songs really loud with her present in a room full of people who love her… I think she's going to around for the long haul…

“no one dies from love” is so good

agree

played it tonight thanks to this revive

was sleeping on her since "disco tits" tbh, the new stuff is amazing

ugh I'm excited

Oh wow, she's playing in Orange County tonight and tomorrow night. I might have to go to this.

Just checked ticket prices and they're around $75 so I think this is not going to happen.

love it.

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

Popcorn by Hot butter!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YK3ZP6frAMc

Here's Tove Lo enjoying Metallica and being cool to fans in front of me at Lollapalooza:
https://i.imgur.com/q0oQSTN.jpg

Popcorn by Hot butter!!!

whoa!

She's going to have one hell of a Greatest Hits comp one day

for sure.

she may never top “moments” imo but “no one dies from love” and “true romance” are both making me very happy rn

New album out today
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K52kfSE4N5U

New single not on the latest album:

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

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.