New song with Ritual
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uG4BkxvcF2g
― groovypanda, Tuesday, 12 February 2019 15:27 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKVsvcF0QL8
There's a little bit of English scattered about this song, but this seems like she might have given up on trying to break outside of Sweden.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 4 December 2020 05:23 (three years ago) link
^^ I wouldn't be so concerned - this is a cover of a song from 1987, recorded for a Swedish TV program called "Så mycket bättre", the premise of which is (according to Wikipedia) "that each artist attempts to do their own version of another artist's well-known songs, with each person getting an episode featuring all of their songs being performed by the other musicians".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMRiFt9p-hY
― monotony, Friday, 4 December 2020 05:49 (three years ago) link
Ah ok
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 4 December 2020 05:49 (three years ago) link
She posted a a message to her socials basically saying that she's aware this might alienate her English-speaking fans but it won't be forever
― boxedjoy, Friday, 4 December 2020 07:53 (three years ago) link
I became aware of Så mycket bättre through this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4c2xI4WGVE
(Petra Marklund, when she was still September, doing a pop cover of a Swedish rap classic. Warning Tove Styrke fans: not long after she would trade in English for Swedish as her main performing language)
― fat ass deep state operative (breastcrawl), Friday, 4 December 2020 23:59 (three years ago) link
I'm just always on edge about it because artists I liked that tried to break in the UK and US in the 00s have often just resorted to singing in their native Swedish/Danish/Norwegian after it didn't go, and that's if they're still releasing work at all.
― Johnny Fever, Saturday, 5 December 2020 04:13 (three years ago) link
New song!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8-X0tAhO-Q
― groovypanda, Friday, 18 June 2021 07:22 (two years ago) link
with all the goodwill I have towards her I'm really disappointed by this - it feels like a sketch that nobody could figure out how to write a bridge for so they just abandoned it, I was surprised that it finished so quickly. And there's none of the muscle that she brought to previous stuff, she sounds unconvincing as a "bad bitch" which is alarming when she's such a charismatic presence on Kiddo and Sway.
― boxedjoy, Friday, 18 June 2021 10:16 (two years ago) link
yeah absolutely, doesn't bode well at all unfortunately
― ufo, Friday, 18 June 2021 10:21 (two years ago) link
Quite enjoying the new (very short) album
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M__gkNlczHw
― groovypanda, Friday, 10 June 2022 09:14 (one year ago) link
Relistening Kiddo and Sway this morning. She had so much potential. Ego alone should’ve been a worldwide chart hit.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Saturday, 23 September 2023 14:39 (seven months ago) link
I think in retrospective the artist she reminds me the most of in path and style is Mø, but Tove never had her “lean on” moment.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Saturday, 23 September 2023 15:01 (seven months ago) link
Feel like her potential actually WAS achieved on those records. They're really great!
Sure, nobody gave a fuck... and, sure, she kinda started ironing off idiosyncrasies by the end of the Kiddo campaign with things like the Brit cover (though Sway was still a great record even though it was seemingly purpose built for providing only the most efficient pop possible). The last record has bits that I enjoy, but also a bunch of faceless/tasteless whatever. I feel like she went so far down the road of paring everything down that what she/we was/were left with was ultimately quite hollow.
Feel like she has more great music in her though.
― mr.raffles, Saturday, 23 September 2023 17:29 (seven months ago) link
You’re right. The potential of her music was achieved. The frustrating part is the missed chart potential. With a more savvy team behind her she could have been at a higher level of recognition.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Saturday, 23 September 2023 18:05 (seven months ago) link
Agreed! I have on idea why those records didn't connect. Kiddo in particular got played more than just about anything in this house!
Saw her at a small club on the Sway tour - was a helluva show - what a set list:https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/tove-styrke/2018/the-red-room-at-cafe-939-boston-ma-3be96070.html
― mr.raffles, Saturday, 23 September 2023 21:02 (seven months ago) link
*NO idea
― mr.raffles, Saturday, 23 September 2023 21:29 (seven months ago) link