TOVE LO - COOL GIRL
- chwern
- Aug 24, 2016
- 3 min read
One month away, I am back and I am hungry. Or at least there is a very good reason for me to come back here. Tove Lo - Cool Girl.
Most people including those who don't listen much of Scandinavian Pop would not not know who is Tove Lo. She's possibly the most succesful Swedish Pop Act since ABBA (excluding all the DJs of course). Short intro. Ebba Tove Elsa Nilsson, a Swedish native not just known for her monster hits like Habits and Talking Body but better known with her songwriting skills for monster hits too. Example? Icona Pop's sophomore album, Alesso's Heroes ( which she's also featured in), Love Me Like You Do....just to name a few. Wikipedia even has a page solely dedicated for all her songwriting credits.
It's been almost 2 years since her solo music "Talking Body" was released. Within that time frame her name still floats around radio airwaves with features on other artists music like Nick Jonas, Flume and Years and Years. Before "Close" dies away from radio, Tove Lo bounces back strong with "Cool Girl", gearing up for upcoming second album, "Lady Wood".
"Cool Girl" was described as the "Gone Girl" inspired song. Rosamund Pike narrates in the monologue, "He loved a girl who doesn't exist. A girl I was pretending to be. The Cool Girl... Being Cool Girl means I am a hot, brilliant, funny woman who adores football, poker and dirty jokes, who plays video games and chugs beer." It is dark. It is fierce. It is ice cold. It is Tove Lo.
As dark as the tune can get, the song's bouncy beats can't get away from being, as Lorde tweets it, "the song of the summer." The moment the beat drops and loops throughout the whole song is the moment you realized Tove Lo's sheer brilliance. It is catchy, it is simple, and the song is nothing without it.
Tove Lo is a genius with her songwriting skills. The lyrics in "Habits (Stay High)" was direct, relatable yet not repetitive. Going down on the note when she sings "High", that irony is simply brilliant, and it's where it caught my attention of Tove Lo the songwriter, not singer. This time around with "Cool Girl" Tove Lo impressed with the music production rather than the lyrics. Once again, her talents in song writing and music producing is irrefutable.
Speaking of song writing, I can't help but wonder does Tove Lo and Max Martin know each other? Max Martin is the father of all the pop songs of almost these 3 decades. Name any hits from Britney Spears to Backstreet Boys to Katy Perry to Demi Lovato, not any of them who doesn't have hits penned by Max Martin under their belts. He is hands down the man who shaped the pop music industry today.
Anyway before I get carried away. When you know Max Martin, you will know Shellback, his protege. So apparently Tove Lo and these boys plus other producers make up a songwriting team known as Wolf Cousins. Imagine the Swedish king and queen of pop put together with other awesome song writing gods. Go ahead, blow your mind.
To read more on Wolf Cousins you can check out the interview with Tove Lo by Complex and Rolling Stones.
Now excuse me while I get my Cool Girl mode on.
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