Tove Lo looks back on 10 years of ‘Queen Of The Clouds’: “I was such a mess when I wrote these songs, but I still feel 100 per cent that this album is me today”
Tove Lo looks has reflected on 10 years of her debut album ‘Queen Of The Clouds’.
The Swedish pop star dropped her first studio record back in 2014, which included top 10 hits ‘Habits (Stay High)’ and ‘Talking Body’.
To celebrate the milestone, the singer has reflected on the album with a tribute to Instagram, including 10 “truths” for fans to learn more about the LP a decade later.
“Nothing could have prepared me for the way this album changed my life,” she wrote in the caption. “I was such a mess when I wrote these songs but I still feel 100% that this album is me today.”
She continued: “I wanna write this long heartfelt thank you to everyone involved in the process and to all my amazing fans who’s been with me for a decade but I can’t really find the words. So I hope thank you and I love you from the deepest part of my heart is enough. The nostalgia is hitting hard even though it feels like 5 seconds ago! Love all you babes.”
The artist also teased that she will be doing “something special” around the anniversary, hinting that it will land this Friday (September 27).
Among the new facts she shared with fans was that ‘Habits’ took her around three years to finish and had about five different choruses, until she finally decided on “the sad one”.
She also revealed that the year the album dropped was “the hardest year of my career despite it being my most commercially successful”.
Among her other confessions was that she “had no idea how to play the industry game and messed up a lot of opportunities by being too blunt or honest”.
Tove Lo’s most recent album was 2022’s ‘Dirt Femme’ – her first as an independent artist – which was awarded four stars by NME. The review described the record as “spiky, surprising and not quite cohesive, but never ever boring. Tove Lo was always much too interesting to be a slave to the algorithm.”
This year she also dropped the ‘HEAT’ EP with close collaborator SG Lewis, telling NME it was made “for the queer dance floor”.
Over the summer she featured alongside Bebe Rexha on Kylie Minogue’s single ‘My Oh My’, with the pop trio giving the track its live debut at BST Hyde Park in July.
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