TOVE LO’S SUNSHINE KITTY
A Sexy Electropop Dream
Tove Lo got her big break with her single “Habits (Stay High)” in 2014. You know the one. Going to sex clubs, throwing up in the bath tub, coping with a breakup with all kinds of bad habits. The Swedish pop artist has continued to be a voice of fierce and sexy edginess in pop music since.
Tove Lo’s latest album, according to her, is a play on “pussy power.” Sunshine Kitty, her fourth album which released earlier this month, is dripping in shameless feminine sexuality. It’s heavily electronic, with lots of digital production that makes it sound a whole lot like clubbing music. The majority of its 14 tracks include some of the overt sex talk that’s gradually become more commonplace for female artists, particularly in the past few months. Tove Lo even features Doja Cat on one track, one of several female rappers who blew up during Hot Girl Summer.
Despite its insist partying aesthetic, at times, Sunshine Kitty is also extremely vulnerable. Tove Lo is raw and honest about relationships with men and women, navigating heartbreak and love affairs gone wrong with lyrical eloquence. You might have to listen closely through the pounding bass line and in-your-face electronic melody, but the depth is there and it’s beautiful.
