Love Ballad and Paradise are both very good. Neither of them appear to be on the album, though.
― Wristy Hurlington (ShariVari), Thursday, 2 October 2014 06:56 (nine years ago) link
This checks all the boxes of things I typically like, but enh...I dunno. Even "Habits," the song everyone seems to gravitate toward, goes in one ear and out the other.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 2 October 2014 06:58 (nine years ago) link
i think i have had the lyrics "High all the time. To keep you off my mind. Ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh." in my head for over a month now. it won't go away, don't mind though.
― Bee OK, Friday, 3 October 2014 01:26 (nine years ago) link
http://www.stereogum.com/1711069/tove-lo-talking-body-live-video-stereogum-premiere/video/
― Kibbutzki (Jaap Schip), Monday, 13 October 2014 16:25 (nine years ago) link
this is pretty underrated imo
― So beautiful cow (forksclovetofu), Friday, 14 November 2014 20:49 (nine years ago) link
or it isn't
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 14 November 2014 20:52 (nine years ago) link
I will rep for pretty much the first half of the album at least as sharp, cynical swedepop with earworm hooks. Tove's voice isn't overly showy but it's entirely serviceable and fits the material nicely.
― So beautiful cow (forksclovetofu), Friday, 14 November 2014 20:55 (nine years ago) link
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.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 14 November 2014 20:58 (nine years ago) link
my gun / like em young / moments / got love / thousand milesare legit high points
― So beautiful cow (forksclovetofu), Friday, 14 November 2014 21:05 (nine years ago) link
i shd check this out maybe. habits has been soundtracking my life for a a few months now
― johnny crunch, Friday, 14 November 2014 21:24 (nine years ago) link
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
― give kawhi his damn eyedrops (slothroprhymes), Friday, 14 November 2014 21:54 (nine years ago) link
Been enjoying this the last few weeks although for some strange reason it's not getting officially released over here (UK) until 2015
― groovypanda, Friday, 14 November 2014 22:19 (nine years ago) link
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.
― 2010, 2012 and 2014 World Series Champions San Francisco Giants (Bee OK), Saturday, 15 November 2014 03:49 (nine years ago) link
Not On Drugs is probably better than Habits but this is a seriously great album.
― boxedjoy, Saturday, 22 November 2014 00:40 (nine years ago) link
Yeah, album is surprisingly solid.
― jaymc, Saturday, 22 November 2014 06:25 (nine years ago) link
Really like this album. For me it joins Cher Lloyd and Ronika as one of this year's great and underrated pop albums.
― Kitchen Person, Tuesday, 25 November 2014 02:21 (nine years ago) link
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.
― Jeff W, Wednesday, 13 May 2015 20:01 (nine years ago) link
The worst piece of music i have ever heard
― saer, Wednesday, 13 May 2015 21:00 (nine years ago) link
And I listened to everything in the EOY poll
― saer, Wednesday, 13 May 2015 21:01 (nine years ago) link
not everything nominated! join me.
― “audience participation” otherwise known as “touching” (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 14 May 2015 02:02 (nine years ago) link
JFC this fucking Habits song, what an involuntary earworm.
not enjoying it being in my head for four days, tbh.
― sleeve, Tuesday, 23 June 2015 22:37 (eight years ago) link
yeah i really dislike that song. "Talking Body" is great though.
― some dude, Tuesday, 23 June 2015 22:39 (eight years ago) link
goddamn, Not on Drugs is an instant earworm, what a chorus
― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Thursday, 22 October 2015 02:12 (eight years ago) link
so "cool girl" is super good
― j. winters (josh), Wednesday, 17 August 2016 19:24 (seven years ago) link
love cool girl, do you think it has summer jam status potential?
― mingalaba, Thursday, 18 August 2016 06:53 (seven years ago) link
it doesn't have much time left but i sure hope it gets bigger
― j. winters (josh), Thursday, 18 August 2016 13:57 (seven years ago) link
― Naive Teen Idol, Friday, 19 August 2016 01:27 (seven years ago) link
i thought it was a somewhat disarming but ultimately great line. do love that song tho, by far the best thing she has done.
― dyl, Friday, 19 August 2016 16:56 (seven years ago) link
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
― art baengels (monotony), Friday, 19 August 2016 22:41 (seven years ago) link
That's the version I listen to as the kids like the song.
― groovypanda, Tuesday, 23 August 2016 19:59 (seven years ago) link
p sure the speaker of Not On Drugs is actually on drugs, which is part of what makes it a good song.
― socka flocka-jones (man alive), Tuesday, 23 August 2016 21:36 (seven years ago) link
it was originally "we love for life" but she thought that was too extreme
― Naive Teen Idol, Thursday, 25 August 2016 00:25 (seven years ago) link
we fuck for SPARTAAAAA!
― mh 😏, Thursday, 25 August 2016 02:01 (seven years ago) link
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.
― socka flocka-jones (man alive), Thursday, 25 August 2016 03:50 (seven years ago) link
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.
― the last famous person you were surprised to discover was actually (man alive), Thursday, 1 September 2016 20:03 (seven years ago) link
latest single from lady wood is so good: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFwIsrzDqMI
― josh, Sunday, 16 October 2016 18:49 (seven years ago) link
I have heard her sing live with no audience and no auto tune and it was AWFUL like not good enough for karaoke awful.
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Monday, 17 October 2016 16:55 (seven years ago) link
like the new song, is there a new album on it's way?
― Bee OK, Tuesday, 18 October 2016 00:39 (seven years ago) link
in less than 2 weeks
― art baengels (monotony), Tuesday, 18 October 2016 00:47 (seven years ago) link
really, nice. i'm now excited about it. i really like the two songs i have heard from it.
― Bee OK, Tuesday, 18 October 2016 00:50 (seven years ago) link
this single is 90% good, but the 10% is where it includes awkward slang
― a self-reinforcing downward spiral of male-centric indie (katherine), Tuesday, 18 October 2016 02:53 (seven years ago) link
like, you have 90% of a gorgeous, heartbreaking pop song, but the 10% is stuff like "I can't hide my feels"
― a self-reinforcing downward spiral of male-centric indie (katherine), Tuesday, 18 October 2016 03:09 (seven years ago) link
I like this song.
― the future is now, Thursday, 20 October 2016 03:59 (seven years ago) link
the new album leaked, sounds like the musical equivalent of the smiling devil emoji (i really like it)
― josh, Thursday, 27 October 2016 04:50 (seven years ago) link
can't find this so will wait.
― Bee OK, Saturday, 29 October 2016 01:54 (seven years ago) link
oh wait, it's there today. this was not on Spotify yesterday.
― Bee OK, Saturday, 29 October 2016 01:55 (seven years ago) link
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"
― Bee OK, Saturday, 29 October 2016 01:59 (seven years ago) link
what's with the o's?
― Bee OK, Saturday, 29 October 2016 02:05 (seven years ago) link
Try harder :)
― ArchCarrier, Saturday, 29 October 2016 06:09 (seven years ago) link
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/be82daa8b367069a1f9484c79b43c142137270a6f4e021de5e2802d9463daf9d.gif
― Spottie, Saturday, 29 October 2016 06:25 (seven years ago) link
This collab w/ Kylie for her upcoming record is a dream come true:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81TXEICHH1E
― winters (josh), Wednesday, 11 September 2019 01:03 (four years ago) link
new album’s great
― flopson, Saturday, 28 September 2019 07:50 (four years ago) link
where my tove hoes at
― flopson, Saturday, 28 September 2019 21:35 (four years ago) link
Never no tears for that suckerOnly one dick, that's a bummerDancing all night, get guys' numbers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qanl1s7K2Kc
this one's a hit imo
― flopson, Sunday, 29 September 2019 23:32 (four years ago) link
i love that song too but find the lyrics excruciating
― sean gramophone, Monday, 30 September 2019 00:34 (four years ago) link
― flopson, Saturday, September 28, 2019 2:35 PM (two days ago) bookmarkflaglink
Oh hey!
― winters (josh), Monday, 30 September 2019 19:56 (four years ago) link
― sean gramophone, Sunday, September 29, 2019 8:34 PM (four days ago) bookmarkflaglink
i love the lyrics but a big fan of the juxtaposition of awkward scando english phrasing and lurid queer slutpositivity in her music. also i first misheard that one line as ‘only one dick that’s obama’ and it still makes me giggle each time
― flopson, Friday, 4 October 2019 01:26 (four years ago) link
man…really feelin' "really don't like you"…too bad she (evidently) couldn't afford to do a real video with Kylie…
― veronica moser, Saturday, 12 October 2019 20:05 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AD1AZfCWX9w
― veronica moser, Saturday, 12 October 2019 20:06 (four years ago) link
this is so much better than the last two albums it's unreal
― boxedjoy, Monday, 4 November 2019 09:06 (four years ago) link
New song: "Bikini Porn"
I am becoming obsessed with her
― totally unnecessary bewbz of exploitation (DJP), Friday, 17 January 2020 20:54 (four years ago) link
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.
― boxedjoy, Tuesday, 10 March 2020 13:15 (four years ago) link
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.
― boxedjoy, Tuesday, 10 March 2020 13:20 (four years ago) link
(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)
― boxedjoy, Tuesday, 10 March 2020 13:22 (four years ago) link
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…
― veronica moser, Tuesday, 10 March 2020 13:40 (four years ago) link
“no one dies from love” is so good
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 15 May 2022 07:59 (two years ago) link
agree
― sean gramophone, Monday, 16 May 2022 00:26 (two years ago) link
played it tonight thanks to this revive
― the cat needs to start paying for its own cbd (map), Monday, 16 May 2022 03:31 (two years ago) link
was sleeping on her since "disco tits" tbh, the new stuff is amazing
― the cat needs to start paying for its own cbd (map), Monday, 16 May 2022 03:50 (two years ago) link
ugh I'm excited
― Swen, Monday, 16 May 2022 04:01 (two years ago) link
Oh wow, she's playing in Orange County tonight and tomorrow night. I might have to go to this.
― Bee OK, Wednesday, 18 May 2022 18:23 (two years ago) link
Just checked ticket prices and they're around $75 so I think this is not going to happen.
― Bee OK, Wednesday, 18 May 2022 18:42 (two years ago) link
love it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUSkZCoGalo
― (grim) pump track (wales) (map), Tuesday, 30 August 2022 19:48 (one year ago) link
Popcorn by Hot butter!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YK3ZP6frAMc
― fpsa, Tuesday, 30 August 2022 21:13 (one year ago) link
Here's Tove Lo enjoying Metallica and being cool to fans in front of me at Lollapalooza:https://i.imgur.com/q0oQSTN.jpg
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 30 August 2022 21:20 (one year ago) link
whoa!
― (grim) pump track (wales) (map), Tuesday, 30 August 2022 21:45 (one year ago) link
She's going to have one hell of a Greatest Hits comp one day
― Bee OK, Wednesday, 31 August 2022 05:04 (one year ago) link
for sure.she may never top “moments” imo but “no one dies from love” and “true romance” are both making me very happy rn
― poster of sparks (rogermexico.), Friday, 2 September 2022 01:04 (one year ago) link
New album out today https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K52kfSE4N5U
― Bee OK, Friday, 14 October 2022 20:40 (one year ago) link
New single not on the latest album:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-oZCzDVx_so
― Bee OK, Monday, 27 February 2023 21:43 (one year ago) link
She does pop music well, hope this means a new album instead of a one off.
― Bee OK, Monday, 27 February 2023 21:44 (one year ago) link
wow --- really coming for tove styrke with this song title (i haven't listened yet to compare the two.)
― blue6ave, Monday, 27 February 2023 21:46 (one year ago) link
Ha, yeah, I was momentarily confused when it came up in my Spotify Discover playlist last week
― groovypanda, Tuesday, 28 February 2023 06:49 (one year ago) link
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
― Bee OK, Friday, 14 April 2023 00:48 (one year ago) link
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
― 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
― danzig, Wednesday, February 22, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvbEAkFbcPo
― Bee OK, Friday, 14 April 2023 00:51 (one year ago) link
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.
― Bee OK, Friday, 14 April 2023 05:36 (one year ago) link
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
― groovypanda, Friday, 5 May 2023 04:20 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5_Jd20TINo
― Bee OK, Friday, 11 August 2023 05:47 (nine months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Pn5OyGgLiE
And this completes Dirt Femme
― Bee OK, Saturday, 12 August 2023 03:46 (nine months ago) link
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?
― Bee OK, Friday, 6 October 2023 21:57 (seven months ago) link
She's a lot of fun.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 6 October 2023 22:08 (seven months ago) link
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.
― boxedjoy, Saturday, 7 October 2023 07:45 (seven months ago) link
I went ahead and bought tickets based on these reply. Note they were cheap,so lucky me.
― Bee OK, Saturday, 7 October 2023 18:05 (seven months ago) link
"Borderline" is great and a 2023 release, note to self
― Bee OK, Sunday, 8 October 2023 01:58 (seven months ago) link
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.
― Bee OK, Wednesday, 11 October 2023 20:09 (seven months ago) link
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.
― Bee OK, Wednesday, 11 October 2023 21:21 (seven months ago) link