History Music / ToveLo

* NippleAndDimed: Tove's [[JustForPun disco tits]] in "bitches" are covered with golden sticker stars.

Tove Lo (born Ebba Tove Elsa Nilsson on October 29, 1987) is a Swedish singer whose musical style can be best described as what would happen if Music/PaulaCole was an [[Main/{{Synthpop}} electropop]] artist. She gained fame in August 2014 when her song "Habits (Stay High)", previously featured on her debut EP ''Truth Serum'', became a hit on radio. Her debut album, ''Queen of the Clouds'', was released on September 30, 2014.

Tove's next two albums formed two halves of a concept: ''Lady Wood'' came out in 2016, along with two short films to promote it: ''Fairy Dust'' and ''Fire Fade''. Shortly after the release of the latter in 2017, ''Blue Lips'' was released, with its own short film premiering in 2018. Tove focused then on collaborations up until the following year when ''Sunshine Kitty'' sees her [[LighterAndSofter lightening up a bit]].

Discography:

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* AlbumTitleDrop: ''Queen of the Clouds'' is dropped in "Not on Drugs".

[[folder:''Lady Wood'' and ''Blue Lips'' films]]

** ButNotTooBi: Tove ends up chilling with a man in "Vibes", and hangs out with three guys in "WTF Love Is".
*** Ebba spends the latter half of ''Blue Lips'' hanging out with Guy.

* DoesNotLikeShoes: During a number of live performances (and {{lampshade|hanging}}d [[http://pics.wikifeet.com/Ebba-Tove-Elsa-Nilsson-Feet-1645299.jpg in this Good Morning America snapshot]]).

* DreamTeam: Tove Lo, Music/CharliXCX, Music/IconaPop, Elliphant, and ALMA all appear in the single version of "bitches". They all dine on takeouts in the video, too!

* ADateWithRosiePalms: The credits.

* WhamShot: The very end of the film, [[spoiler:where we see '''Lorna''' scornfully watching Tove [[ADateWithRosiePalms masturbating]].]]

* BareYourMidriff: She does this a lot, but especially when she's about to flash.

* {{Gainaxing}}: Running bra-less in slow motion in the video for "Out of Mind."

* AllWomenAreDomsAllMenAreSubs: The video for "bitches" sees Tove and her GirlPosse teaching a sexually frustrated straight couple how to play with this trope.

* ThreeMinutesOfWrithing: Tove took this trope UpToEleven in the ''Lady Wood'' era.

* PoppingButtons: Ebba has difficulty zipping up her jeans, even with Kit's help, and ends up taking it off and putting on more comfortable [[WhoWearsShortShorts shorts]] instead.

* StageName: When she was age 3, Tove couldn't stop staring at a lynx ([[BilingualBonus "lo" in Swedish]], [[ItIsPronouncedTroPAY pronounced like Lou]]) while visiting an animal park with her parents, and so they started calling her Tove Lo ever since.

* {{Mondegreen}}: In "hey you got drugs?" ''you won't save the night for me'' is actually ''you '''all''' save the night for me''.

* DoesNotLikeShoes: During a number of live performances (and {{lampshade|hanging}}d [[http://pics.wikifeet.com/Ebba-Tove-Elsa-Nilsson-Feet-1645299.jpg in this snapshot]]).

* YourCheatingHeart: "shedontknowbutsheknows".

* BiTheWay: ** "bitches", if you interpret the "you" she's singing to as a guy.
** The bridge of "Influence" goes "boy meets boy meets girl meets girl".

* TrickedIntoSigning: In the video for "bitches", Tove presents the couple with [[SafeSaneAndConsensual consent forms]] but then signs both those forms while the pens are in the their hands.

* AWildRapperAppears: Wiz Khalifa in "Influence".

** "bitches", if you interpret the "you" she's singing to as a guy.

* BiTheWay: Tove dances with boys and girls in "Lady Wood". Ebba's partner Kit in ''Blue Lips'' sometimes hooks up with boys, too.

* BiTheWay: Tove herself.

Tove's next two albums formed two halves of a concept: ''Lady Wood'' came out in 2016, along with two short films to promote it: ''Fairy Dust'' and ''Fire Fade''. Shortly after the release of the latter in 2017, ''Blue Lips'' was released, with its own short film premiering in 2018.

* TheHedonist: Some of her songs are about this and Tove Lo herself.

* YouSayTomato: Tove and Mango talk about how her name is pronounced in the "disco tits" [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RQDPwODja4 video]] intro.
** In real life she's quite chill with people pronouncing it the Anglicized way.

* StageName: When she was age 3, Tove couldn't stop staring at a lynx ([[BilingualBonus "lo" in Swedish]], [[ItsPronouncedTroPAY pronounced like Lou]]) while visiting an animal park with her parents, and so they started calling her Tove Lo ever since.

* YourCheatingHeart: Implied in "shedontknowbutsheknows".

* HairContrastDuo: Tove seems to like short dark-haired girls.

* StrawFeminist: The first 3 minutes of ''Fairy Dust'' after the title card is Lina Esco '''embodying''' this trope as Lorna.
** Tove becomes this as well in ''Fire Fade''.

* DiegeticSwitch / IntersceneDiegetic: Instead of playing the songs in their entirety and following the album listing like with ''Fairy Dust'' and ''Fire Fade'', ''Blue Lips'' randomizes its parent album into music which entails liberal use of these two tropes.

* BiTheWay: "bitches", if you interpret the "you" she's singing to as a guy.

* '''IntercourseWithYou''': It's far easier at this point to just list the Tove Lo songs that avert this trope.

* YouSayTomato: Tove and Mango talk about how her name is pronounced in the "disco tits" [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RQDPwODja4 video]] intro. [[note]]It rhymes with "to the loo".[[/note]]

** ButNotTooBi: Tove ends up chilling with a man in "Vibes", and hangs out with three guys in "WTF Love Is", and spends the latter half of ''Blue Lips'' hanging out with Guy.

** ''Blue Lips'': Tove (bleach blonde) and Kit (brunette).

* [[BrosBeforeHoes Chicks Before Dicks]]: Kit sees Guy socialize with Ebba and feels left out, ultimately prompting her to leave the party early. Ebba tries to re-establish this trope with Kit but fails.