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Tove Lo
Swedish
Musician
Born:
Oct 29
,
1987
About
Me
Music
People
Think
You
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That's kind of how I am - a roller coaster of emotions.
Tove Lo
Emotions
Roller Coaster
Kind
How
Am
Roller
Coaster
There was this lynx at a zoo that was called Tove, and that I totally fell in love with. It was my dear godmother who decided to call me Tove Lo, after that lynx. It stuck.
Tove Lo
Love
Me
Totally
Stuck
Fell
Call
Dear
Godmother
After
Decided
Who
Zoo
I am an open book, and I'm fine being me: I'm not a perfect person.
Tove Lo
Me
Book
Fine
Perfect
Open
Open Book
Perfect Person
Am
Person
Being
I think there's always a bit of pain in everything that's ecstatic - relationships and love, they always come with pain.
Tove Lo
Love
Pain
Think
Relationships
Everything
Bit
Come
Ecstatic
Always
The thing that I love about pop music is the simplicity and the directness of it.
Tove Lo
Love
Music
Simplicity
About
Pop
Pop Music
Thing
If you say, 'I listen to pop,' you picture this kind of perfect, colorful, polished song. I want to have that, but when you open it, you see this gritty dark - kind of like dancing your tears away. Disguise the sadness in a pop beat.
Tove Lo
You
Song
Dark
Sadness
Disguise
Tears
Picture
Gritty
Dancing
Say
Kind
See
Perfect
Beat
Colorful
Open
Like
Polished
Listen
Want
Pop
Your
Away
I wanted to write about relationships in a more honest, raw sort of way. Get away from all those cliches about how 'time heals' and how you can be the better person. Less sugar-coating and more 'feel the pain.'
Tove Lo
Time
You
Better
Pain
Relationships
Way
Those
About
More
Write
Better Person
Raw
Feel
Heals
Sort
Cliches
How
Person
Get
Wanted
Less
Away
Honest
The very first song I ever wrote was a song called 'Crazy' when I was 11 or 12 with my best girlfriends - we had a girl band. It was about loving a guy who everyone else thought you were crazy for being into.
Tove Lo
Best
Crazy
You
Song
Thought
Girl
First
Band
Else
Everyone
Everyone Else
About
Girlfriends
Guy
Had
Wrote
Were
Very
Being
Loving
Who
Ever
At first, my bedroom had flowers and yellow walls and huge furniture in plastic that was orange and green - and furry green bed cover and everything. Then, I think the day I turned 13, I painted the walls black and put Kurt Cobain on the wall and just changed everything into a dark theme.
Tove Lo
Day
Dark
Walls
Black
First
Think
Changed
Everything
Furniture
Furry
Had
Put
Bed
Bedroom
Cover
Kurt
Kurt Cobain
Yellow
Huge
Wall
Green
Orange
Just
Theme
Turned
Then
Painted
Plastic
Flowers
I can't live just being content. I can't have a routine. I can't be settled because then I just get really frustrated.
Tove Lo
Live
Settled
Content
Because
Get
Just
Being
Being Content
Frustrated
Then
Really
Routine
It means a lot to everyone around me that I look good, and I don't think it should have to. I just think I should look the way I do.
Tove Lo
Good
Me
Think
Everyone
Way
Look
Around
Lot
Just
Should
Means
I've always wanted my music to have that desperation, where you just want to strip your clothes off and run down the highway. I want the feeling where you don't really know what to do with yourself - in the vocals, in the production. Everything.
Tove Lo
Music
You
Yourself
Desperation
Feeling
Clothes
Down
Everything
Strip
Run
Vocals
Highway
Know
Always
Off
Just
Where
Want
Wanted
Really
Production
Your
We lived by the water, and I was a pretty normal kid until my teenage years; then I dyed my hair pink and spiraled out of control.
Tove Lo
Water
Hair
Control
Teenage
Teenage Years
Kid
Out
Pretty
Until
Years
Normal
Pink
Dyed
Then
Lived
I knew when I went to a very hippie high school that focused on music that I wanted to do something in the industry.
Tove Lo
Music
School
Focused
High
High School
Something
Knew
Industry
Hippie
Very
Wanted
I always loved performing and being on stage.
Tove Lo
Stage
Performing
Always
Being
Loved
I was big into grunge, like Nirvana and Hole, when I was younger, which has been a really huge inspiration because of its rawness and honesty.
Tove Lo
Honesty
Big
Nirvana
Has-Been
Inspiration
Like
Because
Been
Huge
Hole
Which
Younger
Really
Grunge
I find it really cool when people have this artist persona they can put on. They can go out and act like this other person; I can't pull that off... I can't censor myself.
Tove Lo
Myself
People
Other
Out
Find
Put
Like
Go
Off
Person
Persona
Artist
Censor
Really
Act
Cool
Pull
A lot of times, I get asked, 'Do you feel you have a responsibility to young girls to be a role model?' I don't see that happening as much to guys. I feel like, just because I'm a girl, I'm supposed to take more responsibility? Is that how it works?
Tove Lo
You
Responsibility
Girl
Young
See
Guys
More
Take
Feel
Like
Supposed
Because
How
Lot
Times
Model
Role
Role Model
Get
Just
Just Because
Happening
Young Girls
Asked
Much
Works
I would never agree to sing something I didn't feel was 100% me.
Tove Lo
Me
Would
Something
Never
Feel
Sing
Agree
When I'm angry, like, if someone gets me really upset, whatever comes into my head, I scream it.
Tove Lo
Angry
Me
Whatever
Someone
Head
Like
Gets
Scream
Upset
Really
I'm always exhausted after a show, even if it's just half an hour.
Tove Lo
Half
Exhausted
Hour
Always
Just
After
Show
Even
It's OK to joke about yourself and have self-perspective, but, like, when you constantly put yourself down to get other people to tell you you're good, that annoys me. Have confidence!
Tove Lo
Good
Me
You
Confidence
Yourself
People
Joke
Down
Other
OK
Tell
Constantly
About
Put
Like
Annoys
Get
I definitely feel I'm outside of the polished pop girl group, which feels right. I don't think I could keep up that polished surface on purpose.
Tove Lo
Girl
Group
Think
Definitely
Purpose
Could
Outside
Feel
Feels
Polished
Surface
Up
Which
Pop
Keep
Right
When I play a song for someone the first time, if I make 'em laugh, I think, 'Yes, I've succeeded.'
Tove Lo
Time
Song
First
Think
Laugh
Someone
Make
First Time
Yes
Succeeded
Play
I've had to learn how to say no to things, and have people around me that don't push me too hard, because I'll go until I just crash. I don't have a stop button.
Tove Lo
Me
People
Too
Say
Push
Had
Until
Learn
Because
Around
How
Go
Just
Stop
Crash
Hard
Things
Button
I don't think I would live very long if I was a rock star.
Tove Lo
Long
Live
Think
Would
Rock
Rock Star
Very
Star
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