Tove Lo

One Liner: That "Stay High All The Time" electropop girl
Wikipedia Genre: Electropop
Spotify Says Similar To: Zara Larsson and Lorde
Home: Stockholm, Sweden

Poster Position: 4
Slot: ?

Thoughts:  I reviewed her 2014 album Queen of the Clouds a few years back and liked parts but found the album overall pretty forgettable.  I'm going to steal a part of that old review to mention how disturbing her big hit is.

"Habits" is kind of disturbing - its a song about getting high all the time to keep from missing her honey, she's generally singing about doing sad and gross things because she's alone, including: "Pick up daddies at the playground, how I spend my day time, loosen up their frown, make 'em feel alive, make it fast and greasy, I'm numb and way too easy, you're gone and I got to stay High, all the time, to keep you off my mind."  Wow.  And the video is also a super depressing trip through her sad party time life.

Those lyrics are still disturbingly arousing to me.  Oh wait, did I say arousing?  I mean, uhhh...  The song is now up to almost 475 million streams on Spotify (when combining the original and remix).  Here is the video, with 232 million views on its own.

So depressing and dark!  But don't it just make you wanna dance!  Since that 2014 album, she more recently put out the unfortunately named Lady Wood in 2016.  The hit from that album is "Cool Girl," which clocks in at 222 million streams.

Nope.  That is terrible.  "Imma cool girl.  Imma imma cool girl.  Ice cold, I roll my eyes at you boy."  This is like some Avril Lavigne in 2004 crap here, just with electro beats instead of rawkin' sk8tr guitars.  Ugh.  If that song stays in my mind (which it was likely scientifically created to do) I am going to be pissed.  I gave the rest of the newer album a shot, and it likewise is not good.  Pop dance stuff with super repetitive choruses (chori?  chorusi?).  No thanks.  The fact that this is poster position 4 means that I am either out of touch with the world or the poster maker was high all the time and boning old greasy dudes in playgrounds.

Will I go see her?  No thanks.