To any readers out there considering journalism as a career choice: go! for! it! One day, you might spend a balmy Thursday afternoon with a Swedish pop sensation chatting about music, love and her metallic corset and fully-erect golden dildo-assisted trip through the Nevada desert. Get! Into! Journalism! “It’s Wonder Woman with big dick energy,” aforementioned Swedish pop sensation Tove Lo says of the instantly iconic ensemble in the music video for her pulsating club banger 2 Die 4. (Watch it now). It was the “perfect pop bitch moment” says the singer, who released her fifth studio album Dirt Femme in October to rave reviews with fans hailing the pop assassin as “ahead of her time” in her Whitaker-Malem pegging harness and “space babe” couture. “I always want to do things that have an unexpected twist where people are like, ‘Wait, how do I feel about this?’” Tove says. “I want to lure that side out of people.”
Fronted by synthpop anthem How Long, taken from the soundtrack of Euphoria season two, Dirt Femme is one of the boldest and catchiest albums of the year; stacked with experimental pop beats and sing-along hooks accompanied by Tove’s signature mixture of camp and confessional lyricism. Let’s not forget the accompanying visuals in which Tove dons male drag, casually chugs a massive pint of lager, straddles a CGI dinosaur and shatters the heart of a robot in a futuristic world. Speaking with GAY TIMES over Zoom from a “back alleyway in Birmingham” on her 2022 European tour, Tove tells
