Dirt Femme

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Dirt Femme
Tove Lo - Dirt Femme.png
Studio album by
Tove Lo
Released14 October 2022 (2022-10-14)
Genre Dance-pop [1]
Length39:40
Label
  • Pretty Swede
  • mtheory
Producer
Tove Lo chronology
Sunshine Kitty
(2019)		Dirt Femme
(2022)
Singles from Dirt Femme
  1. "How Long"
    Released: 26 January 2022
  2. "No One Dies from Love"
    Released: 4 May 2022
  3. "2 Die 4"
    Released: 27 July 2022
  4. "Grapefruit"
    Released: 12 October 2022

Dirt Femme is the fifth studio album by Swedish singer Tove Lo. It was her first to be independently released by her own label, Pretty Swede Records (under Mtheory), on 14 October 2022. [2] The first two singles, "How Long" and "No One Dies from Love", had been released earlier that year. The first was featured on the soundtrack to the second season of the American TV series Euphoria . She collaborates with artists First Aid Kit, SG Lewis, and Channel Tres. An "extended cut" edition was released on August 11, 2023, promoted by the singles "Borderline", "I Like U", and "Elevator Eyes". [3]

Contents

Background

Tove Lo released her fourth studio album, Sunshine Kitty , in September 2019. It received positive reviews from contemporary music critics and had a moderate commercial performance. In May of the following year, after touring across Europe and North and South America, the singer reissued the album with the subtitle Paw Prints Edition, including four additional songs and four remixes. [4] Two years after Sunshine Kitty, Lo started teasing via social media the release of a fifth album; by September 2021, the record was "taking shape". [5] Earlier that year, in April, fellow singer Charli XCX revealed she worked with Lo in "making the best music ever" in Palm Springs, California. [5] The two previously collaborated on "Out of My Head", from XCX's 2017 mixtape Pop 2 , and on the 2018 remix of "Bitches", from Lo's 2017 album Blue Lips .

In May 2022, Lo announced Pretty Swede Records, her own record label under artist development company Mtheory. [6] Being independently released, Dirt Femme marks the first time Lo had complete creative control over an album's development process. Although she recognizes the importance of her former contract with the Universal Music Group, which was "crucial" for her to breakthrough worldwide, Lo "like[s] to make these intricate stories that don't help the algorithm and maybe aren't the most commercial way to do pop releases and how you put out pop music". [7] The album's making was compared by the singer to a "emotional bungee jump" because its development process was the first since her debut, Queen of the Clouds , to not happen in between touring. "This almost felt like I was back to starting completely new again", she accounted. [6]

Promotion

Lo's first solo effort in almost two years and Dirt Femme's lead single, "How Long" was released on 26 January 2022 as part of the soundtrack from American television series Euphoria . [8] The song was also featured on the fourth episode of the series' second season, "You Who Cannot See, Think of Those Who Can". [9] An accompanying music video directed by Seattle filmmaking duo Kenten premiered on 10 February. [10] Alongside the announcement of Pretty Swede Records' founding on 3 May 2022, Lo issued "No One Dies from Love" as the album's following single and the first material released under the newly founded imprint. [11] [12] The song's music video premiered the same day [13] and was directed by Brazilian duo Alaska Filmes, with whom Lo previously worked with on "Are U Gonna Tell Her?". [14] That day, the singer also announced a concert tour, scheduled to start on 29 October and visit Europe and the United Kingdom. [12] On 21 June 2022, Lo officially revealed the album's title to be Dirt Femme, as well as its track listing, artwork and release date of 14 October. [6] The same day, she released the record's third single, "True Romance". [6] The fourth single, "2 Die 4", was released on 27 July. [15] [16]

On 5 May 2023, a seven-track acoustic EP was released called Dirt Femme (Stripped). [17]

Artwork

In the album's artwork, Lo wears a metallic, robotic scorpion stinger—a reference to her astrological sign, Scorpio—attached to her back while her vagina-inspired logo lies on the side of her hip. [7] According to the singer, her use of scorpion-related imagery reflects the album's approach of femininity: "I just love the fact that the female scorpion eats the male scorpion after mating. I’m in a very lovely relationship now where we have a good balance of crazy between us. But I get told that I draw people in and I consume them". [7]

Composition

In a June 2022 interview with Rolling Stone , Lo stated that her fifth album would "be a very beautiful visual and sonical[ sic ] journey" and that she created a "new world" for it. [7] Describing the record's lyrics as "extremely personal", she highlighted their inquisitive nature: "It's all my feelings, thoughts and questions put together in under 50 minutes with no answers". The result is a body of work encompassed by songs that "will contradict each other, will probably upset some of you, will make you want to dance, cry, fuck, and drive your car really, really, fast". [18] The album's inspiration came from a moment of introspection during the COVID-19 pandemic as she reflected upon her 10-year career, her femininity and her pansexuality in the midst of her marriage to Charlie Twaddle. She stated: "I'm bringing up all these questions and feelings and emotions that don't necessarily have answers to them. It’s just more my current place of wonder". [7] Lo further explained:

"When I started out as a writer and an artist, I used to view my feminine traits as weaker and would enhance my masculine traits to get ahead in life. I feel a big energy shift in my environment since then and this album reflects the various ways my feminine side has both helped and hurt me. I’m a pansexual woman married to a straight man. I believe masculine and feminine lives on a spectrum in all humans. There are so many more interesting nuances than most people want to accept." [18]

Lyrics of "Suburbia" address "never wanting marriage, not wanting children, and not feeling like that's a life that I want" and were inspired by the fact that some people get offended by Lo's indifference towards having children of her own. [7] "2 Die 4" samples Swedish character Crazy Frog's 2005 cover of Gershon Kingsley's 1969 song "Popcorn"; it was described as a "nostalgic wet dream" by Rolling Stone's writer Tomás Mier. [7] Lo stated that "True Romance" was recorded in a single take and was "really fun" to make due to its more "dramatic" and narrative tone in comparison to most of her works. [7] Inspired by Tony Scott's 1993 film of the same name, "True Romance" is a love song that uses the film's plot to introduce a new story, "one of the most destructive, beautiful, overdramatic spins-out-of-control love stories". [7] Since its lyrics are "very dirty" and play "over a really sexy beat", Lo described "Pineapple Slice" as a mix of "Disco Tits" and "Bitches", both included of her 2017 album Blue Lips. [7]

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
AnyDecentMusic? 7.6/10 [19]
Metacritic 77/100 [20]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [21]
DIY Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svg [22]
Gigwise Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [23]
The Independent Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [24]
The Line of Best Fit 9/10 [25]
NME Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [26]
Pitchfork 5.4/10 [27]
Rolling Stone Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [28]
The Skinny Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [29]
Slant Magazine Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [1]

Dirt Femme received positive reviews from contemporary music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalised rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album has an average score of 77 based on 14 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews". [20] Aggregator AnyDecentMusic? gave it 7.4 out of 10, based on their assessment of the critical consensus. [19]

AllMusic's Heather Phares praised the album's musical direction, writing, "Lo is maturing but holding onto the most important parts of herself. Dirt Femme gives the confessional, sexual, and danceable sides of her music equal time and offers a fuller portrait of her music than we've heard before". [21] The Line of Best Fit writer Sam Franzini poined out that "confidence and unadulterated passion for being herself comes together on Dirt Femme, a much darker album than its predecessor Sunshine Kitty , but truer to Nilsson with its pulsating beats and slinky jams" and also described the album as "sexy, smart, and most importantly; fun" [25] Emma Swann of DIY writes that Dirt Femme sees Lo juxtapose elements ingeniously. [22] Gigwise writer Jordan White described the album as "hot-bodied" additionally stating that is "overtly camp and doesn't shy from its playful side". [23] NME 's Nick Levine giving it four out of five stars, named the album as "spiky, surprising and not quite cohesive, but never ever boring." [26]

In a mixed review writing for The Skinny , Tara Hepburn identified this album as "pandemic baby" lamented that this project "is a mixed bag as the singer explores new paths for herself". [29] Thomas Bedenbaugh from Slant Magazine criticised the album because of its lack of the sing-along hooks that have made Lo's past efforts, especially 2016's Lady Wood , so memorable, while describing the album as "a collection of slightly melancholic, occasionally catchy dance-floor filler". [1] Pitchfork 's Peyton Thomas dubbed the album "the first Tove Lo album you can play for your grandparents", claiming that she lost "a lot of her spark in the process" of pivoting to tamer themes and giving more lethargic performances. [27]

Select year-end rankings of Dirt Femme
PublicationListRankRef.
Stereogum The 10 Best Pop Albums Of 2022
4
PopBuzz The Best Albums of 2022
20
Rolling Stone The 100 Best Albums of 2022
28
The Line of Best Fit The Best Albums of 2022 Ranked
39
The Guardian The 50 Best Albums of 2022
49

Tour

Tove Lo announced first leg of her Dirt Femme Tour on May 3, 2022 which took place in Europe. Tickets went on sale on May 6, 2022. [35] [36] Tove Lo announced her second leg on October 3, 2022, which took place in North America. Tickets went on sale on Oct 7, 2022. [37] Additional tour dates and music festivals appearances were announced later on. On October 29, 2022 Tour began in Dublin and ended on October 14, 2023 in Austin. [38]

DateCityCountryVenueOpening Act
Europe
29 October 2022 Dublin Ireland 3Olympia
1 November 2022 Glasgow Scotland SWG3
2 November 2022 Manchester United Kingdom Academy
3 November 2022 Birmingham O2 Institute
5 November 2022 London Roundhouse
10 November 2022 Paris France Le Bataclan
12 November 2022 Luxembourg Luxembourg Den Atelier
13 November 2022 Amsterdam Netherlands Melkweg
15 November 2022 Berlin Germany Astra
16 November 2022 Warsaw Poland Klub Stodoła
18 November 2022 Copenhagen Denmark Vega
19 November 2022 Oslo Norway Sentrum Scene
21 November 2022 Stockholm Sweden Berns
22 November 2022
North America
6 February 2023 Nashville United States Ryman Auditorium Slayyyter
8 February 2023 Richmond The National
9 February 2023 Philadelphia The Fillmore
10 February 2023 Queens [39] Knockdown Center
13 February 2023 Montreal Canada MTELUS
14 February 2023 Toronto The History
20 February 2023 Denver United States Mission Ballroom
21 February 2023 Salt Lake City The Union Event Center
23 February 2023 Seattle Paramount Theatre
25 February 2023 Portland Roseland Theatre
27 February 2023 Oakland Fox Theatre
2 March 2023 Los Angeles Wiltern Theatre
3 March 2023
South America
17 March 2023 [40] Buenos Aires Argentina Hipódromo de San Isidro -
18 March 2023 [40] Santiago Chile Parque Bicentenario de Cerrillos
20 March 2023Teatro Teletón
22 March 2023 Bogota Colombia Royal Center
24 March 2023 [41] Briceño Centro de Eventos Briceño 18
26 March 2023 [42] Sao Paulo Brazil Autódromo de Interlagos
28 March 2023Audio Club
Latin America
26 April 2023 Zapopan Mexico Guanamor Teatro Studio-
28 April 2023 Mexico City Auditorio BlackBerry
29 April 2023 [43] Cuernavaca Jardines de México
North America
13 May 2023 [44] Dana Point United States Doheny State Beach -
16 May 2023 Miami Beach North Beach Bandshell Slayyyter
17 May 2023 Lake Buena Vista House Of Blues
19 May 2023 [45] Gulf Shores Gulf Shores Public Beach-
21 May 2023 Austin Stubb's Bar-B-Q Slayyyter
22 May 2023 Dallas South Side Ballroom
24 May 2023 Phoenix The Van Buren
25 May 2023 San Diego SOMA
27 May 2023 [46] Napa Napa Valley Expo-
29 May 2023 Vancouver Commodore Ballroom Slayyyter
Europe
15 June 2023 [47] Oslo Norway Sofienbergparken -
17 June 2023 [48] Landgraaf Netherlands Megaland
18 June 2023 Cologne Germany Live Music Hall ALMA
19 June 2023 Brussels Belgium Ancienne Belgique
21 June 2023 Vienna Austria Arena
22 June 2023 Munich Germany Backstage Werk
24 June 2023 [49] Prague Czech Republic Výstavište -
26 June 2023 Milan Italy Circolo Magnolia Gaia [50]
28 June 2023 Hamburg Germany Fabrik ALMA
29 June 2023 [51] Roskilde Denmark Dyrskuepladsen -
Australia
19 July 2023 Melbourne Australia Forum Theatre Blusher
21 July 2023 [52] Adelaide Adelaide Showground -
23 July 2023 [53] Byron Bay North Byron Parklands
25 July 2023 Sydney UNSW RoundhouseBlusher
27 July 2023 Auckland New Zealand Auckland Town Hall
Europe
10 August 2023 [54] Gothenburg Sweden Slottsskogen -
12 August 2023 [55] Helsinki Finland Suvilahti
23 August 2023 [56] Saint-Cloud [57] France Domaine national de Saint-Cloud
24 August 2023 [58] Zurich Switzerland Glattbrug
North America
5 September 2023 St. Paul United States Palace Theatre Upsahl
6 September 2023 Chicago The Salt Shed
8 September 2023 Detroit Royal Oak Music Theatre
10 September 2023 New York Pier 17
12 September 2023 Boston Roadrunner
14 September 2023 Washington The Anthem
15 September 2023 The Atlantis
17 September 2023 [59] Atlanta Piedmont Park -
7 October 2023 [60] Austin Zilker Park
9 October 2023 Los Angeles The BellwetherLadies Of Leisure
10 October 2023 Santa Ana The Observatory
14 October 2023 [60] Austin Zilker Park -

Track listing

Dirt Femme track listing
No.TitleWriter(s)Producer(s)Length
1."No One Dies from Love"
A Strut3:06
2."Suburbia"
  • Nilsson
  • Söderberg
A Strut3:19
3."2 Die 4"
Görres3:04
4."True Romance"
 Timfromthehouse 4:06
5."Grapefruit"
  • Nilsson
  • Söderberg
  • Nelson
  • A Strut
  • Timfromthehouse
3:51
6."Cute & Cruel" (featuring First Aid Kit)
Elvira3:00
7."Call on Me" (with SG Lewis)
3:18
8."Attention Whore" (featuring Channel Tres)
A Strut3:11
9."Pineapple Slice" (with SG Lewis)
  • Nilsson
  • Lewis
SG Lewis2:55
10."I'm to Blame"
Payami3:20
11."Kick in the Head"
  • Nilsson
  • Nelson
Timfromthehouse3:12
12."How Long"
  • A Strut
  • Timfromthehouse
3:18
Total length:39:40
Dirt Femme (Stripped) track listing
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Borderline" (Stripped in Brazil)
  • Nilsson
  • Dua Lipa
  • Jakob Jerlström
  • Söderberg
3:13
2."Call on Me" (Stripped at SG's) (with SG Lewis)
  • Nilsson
  • Lewis
  • Higginbottom
2:53
3."No One Dies from Love" (Stripped in France)
  • Nilsson
  • Söderberg
3:42
4."Pineapple Slice" (Stripped in Norway)
  • Nilsson
  • Lewis
3:11
5."Suburbia" (Stripped in UK)
  • Nilsson
  • Söderberg
3:16
6."Grapefruit" (Stripped at home)
  • Nilsson
  • Nelson
  • Söderberg
3:26
7."How Long" (Stripped at home)
  • Nilsson
  • Nelson
  • Söderberg
  • Redžep
3:14
Total length:22:56

Dirt Femme (Extended Cut) track listing
No.TitleWriter(s)Producer(s)Length
1."Elevator Eyes"
Little2:58
2."I Like U"
  • Nilsson
  • Nelson
Timfromthehouse3:11
3."Borderline"
  • Nilsson
  • Lipa
  • Jerlström
  • Söderberg
 The Struts for Wolf Cousins Productions 3:42
4."No One Dies from Love"
  • Nilsson
  • Söderberg
A Strut3:06
5."Suburbia"
  • Nilsson
  • Söderberg
A Strut3:19
6."2 Die 4"
  • Nilsson
  • Görres
  • Kingsley
Görres3:04
7."True Romance"
  • Nilsson
  • Nelson
Timfromthehouse4:06
8."Grapefruit"
  • Nilsson
  • Söderberg
  • Nelson
  • A Strut
  • Timfromthehouse
3:51
9."Cute & Cruel" (featuring First Aid Kit)
  • Nilsson
  • Anderfjärd
Elvira3:00
10."Call on Me" (with SG Lewis)
  • Nilsson
  • Lewis
  • Higginbottom
  • Lewis
  • Dinosaurs
3:18
11."Attention Whore" (featuring Channel Tres)
  • Nilsson
  • Söderberg
  • Castille
  • Young
A Strut3:11
12."Pineapple Slice" (with SG Lewis)
  • Nilsson
  • Lewis
SG Lewis2:55
13."I'm to Blame"
  • Nilsson
  • Payami
Payami3:20
14."Kick in the Head"
  • Nilsson
  • Nelson
Timfromthehouse3:12
15."How Long"
  • Nilsson
  • Redžep
  • Söderberg
  • Nelson
  • A Strut
  • Timfromthehouse
3:18
16."No One Dies from Love" (Extended)
  • Nilsson
  • Söderberg
A Strut3:22
17."No One Dies from Love" (Jacques Greene Remix)
  • Nilsson
  • Söderberg
A Strut3:22
18."2 Die 4" (Jax Jones Midnight Snacks Remix)
  • Nilsson
  • Görres
  • Kingsley
2:35
19."I Like U" (Dorian Electra Remix)
  • Nilsson
  • Nelson
2:35
Total length:22:56

Notes

Personnel

Charts

Chart performance for Dirt Femme
Chart (2022)Peak
position
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders) [61] 86
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia) [62] 167
Finnish Albums (Suomen virallinen lista) [63] 34
Irish Albums (IRMA) [64] 95
Lithuanian Albums (AGATA) [65] 41
Norwegian Albums (VG-lista) [66] 11
Spanish Albums (PROMUSICAE) [67] 59
Swedish Albums (Sverigetopplistan) [68] 11
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade) [69] 50
UK Album Downloads (OCC) [70] 9
UK Independent Albums (OCC) [71] 50
US Billboard 200 [72] 153
US Independent Albums (Billboard) [73] 24

Release history

Release dates and formats for Dirt Femme
RegionDateFormatVersionLabelRef.
Various14 October 2022Standard
  • Pretty Swede
  • mtheory
 [74] [75] [76]
5 May 2023
  • digital download
  • streaming
Stripped [17]
11 August 2023Extended Cut

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Lady Wood is the second studio album by Swedish singer Tove Lo, released on 28 October 2016 by Island Records. Lady Wood is considered the first half of a two-piece concept album that describe "highs, lows and ultimate demise of a relationship." Its chapters "Fairy Dust" and "Fire Fade" precede the chapters "Light Beams" and "Pitch Black" from her following album Blue Lips (2017). It was recorded between July 2015 and May 2016, which Lo commented was a quicker turnaround than the "whole life" she was afforded when creating her previous record Queen of the Clouds (2014).

<span class="mw-page-title-main">How Long (Tove Lo song)</span> 2022 single by Tove Lo

"How Long" is a song by Swedish singer-songwriter Tove Lo, released on 26 January 2022 as the lead single from her fifth studio album Dirt Femme. It also appears on the second season soundtrack of the HBO series Euphoria. The song was produced by A Strut and TimFromTheHouse. The music video was released on 10 February 2022 and directed by Seattle filmmaking duo Kenten.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">No One Dies from Love</span> 2022 single by Tove Lo

"No One Dies from Love" is a song by Swedish singer-songwriter Tove Lo, released on 3 May 2022 as the second single from her fifth studio album Dirt Femme. It is the first release by Lo's record label Pretty Swede Records, an imprint of Mtheory. Lo co-wrote this song with Ludvig Söderberg, who is also known as A Strut. The song was produced by Söderberg. The music video was released on the same day and directed by Brazilian filmmaking team Alaska Filmes.

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