Which Songs Make Tove Lo Cry?

What's going on, guys? David Mendez here. I am accompanied by the beautiful Tove Lo.

Hey.

So, last time we saw you, you were actually releasing Fairy Dust.

Yes.

The release itself with like the carnival and all that was phenomenal. We had such a good time.

It was like my record release, movie premiere and birthday party, all wrapped into one. So, I was just like on the moon.

What inspired that?

Because of like Fairy Dust, uh that was, you know, the first chapter of Lady Wood. It was my first short film of the record. Is about that kind of like sweet escape, no consequences, just having sort of the time of your life in the middle of when things are maybe not great, you know? Like dancing the pain away in a in a bit. So, I figured that party should like kind of represent that, when people just could let all everything else go and just do whatever they want for one night. And, uh, I feel like carnivals and like raves in that way just actually brings that out in people. So.

Are you a big raver?

Yes.

So, you are out here for a new short film, the follow-up to Fairy Dust, Fire Fade.

Yes. It's the the second chapter of of Lady Wood, which is kind of like when the Fairy Dust starts to wear off a little bit and you, you know, the escape isn't that sweet anymore and you It's like the crash.

Yeah. Coming down.

It's the crash coming down. Yeah.

What I what I love about the short films is I always knew that you're a great storyteller, but that kind of just like cemented that thought. Is that something you deliberately do?

I think it was something I really wanted to do for this because I I I love like telling stories. I love having like you know uh a concept and a storyline to my albums and and to my music. And I think even if it is pop, you know, people kind of tend to think that pop is just supposed to be like light, breezy with no message kind of thing. And and I get that it can be that, you know, kind of like you just want it to be like something that you can kind of disappear into that doesn't make you think or just makes you kind of happy and and, you know. But I also think that because of the simplicity of like how, you know, the music is built in pop, it's kind of fun to have like more of a, you know, more layers to the lyrics and the story. And I think I had that in the music with my first record, but with the second one it was like I wanted to create that visually too and like get to all the layers, you know, and tell more of a of a complex story that is there not only like in in me and in like, like everyone has these emotions, they just like rarely talk about them. So, it was just like a to me a very like important artistic thing to get to do.

Your your songs are very raw. They're they're emotional. So, when you perform them for, you know, crowds and all that, is it does it get you back to that headspace of that time and moment? And is it is it hard to transition out of that mindset?

I think it's been kind of weird now actually, like even talking about, you know, Fire Fade, because when, you know, the time from when I like wrote those songs to we shot this film this summer and then now that it's coming out, like I'm emotionally in a very different place now. I'm like like really in love and happy and like, you know, like nothing's wrong in the world kind of like. So, or my world. Yeah. Everything's perfect now. Uh, no, but it's like it for me to tap back into that is interesting to me. It's like, oh yeah, this is really how I felt. Like I got to like remember, like even me watching myself the film again. I'm like, oh wow, like I was really going through something at that time, you know? And it's kind of cool to see even for me to like take a step back because when once I've created it, like recorded it, you know, shot it, like it's done, then I that's when I emotionally move on. Right. So, it's like same thing goes for like when I perform, I feed off the energy of the crowd. Like they and whatever they're kind of feeling Yeah. But I still, you know, I can it's different like it's a different song every time that gets me live. Like it'll be all of a sudden I'll be like, oh my god, I feel like like I'm like kind of building up tears while singing moments. But it's kind of it's easy for me to to tap into it because it's just all based on just feelings and whatever they are, I can use that on stage.

Speaking of raw emotions, uh your music, you have new stuff coming out, Lady Wood phase two.

Yes.

Tell me about that.

Well, it's the final two chapters, uh of this whole Lady Wood Lady Wood era. Yeah. It's coming out later this year and chapters are Light Beams and Pitch Black. Sound-wise for me, Lady Wood was very, uh Lady Wood phase one was very like sonically uh connected and you know, very much like followed a thread like that. I think this part both lyrically and musically is uh, you know, has a bit more drama to it. Yeah. Everything kind of like turned up a bit in terms of emotion in both directions. Both like Pitch Black obviously being like kind of the uh lowest point of the heartbreak and then uh Light Beams is like yeah, up in the clouds.

Okay. And then Disco Tits. I'm curious how you got this title.

Yeah. So, so the person that um Disco Tits is about or it's like, you know, kind of losing control and just having, you know, the time of my life with like my now number one partner in crime. And same Coachella was like, you know, when we just kind of fully uh a couple. Yeah. I was wearing this kind of this top that uh is basically just like it looks like a disco ball exploded on my boobs. And he just looks at me and he's goes, nice, Disco Tits. And I was like, that's. That's it. That's who I am.

That's you and that's this. Tove Lo, it's been a pleasure.

Thank you.

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