I think this album is a lot better than QOTC. I like QOTC a lot and it's a great debut, but it just has too much filler. The EP was SO strong, so that + Got Love, Timebomb, Moments, Talking Body, My Gun, and Like Em Young would've made for a great album. Songs like Crave, Love Ballad, and The Way That I Am just drag.
Lady Wood is just such a high quality body of work. The production is absolutely out of this world and I think her lyrics have only gotten stronger. Don't Talk About It and Imaginary Friend in particular showcase this. She's actually using subtlety in her songwriting, which is not something a lot of others do. In my opinion, there's nothing on QOTC that comes close to DTAI. QOTC is more straight-up pop and it's good, but LW feels very original and very Tove. It's like she's found her own sound and really nailed it.
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Originally posted by danny&thediamonds
Now I am a HUGE Tove Lo fan. Like I consider her one of my top tier favorite artists. Her first album is easily one of my favorites of all time and INCREDIBLY underrated. And all of her features since then have been well on point and I really love that it seems she has made her image very distinguishable from the bottomless pit of mainstream female artists who blare electronic synths and insist that their music is "deep," and I'm VERY happy for her and how far she's come. That being said I'm still failing to see the appeal of Lady Wood.
Queen of the Clouds was FLAWLESS start to finish and had real, RAW emotion with songs like Talking Body, Moments, Thousand Miles, Habits, This Time Around...so many songs that I could really relate to that truly resonated with me. AND it had incredibly catchy melodies to boot. It was perfect. Lady Wood just feels like a ton of electronic noise with no real substance or emotion that I got from QOTC, and this time it seems as if she's just trying way too hard to be sexual and shocking with the title, cover, general surface etc but in terms of actual substance I feel left empty handed. I love Influence and True Disaster, and the title track is growing on me--because they're actually really catchy and I feel like they went really well with the story it seemed she was trying to convey but then you get songs like Cool Girl and Vibes which are really repetitive and kind of annoying, Don't Talk About it which starts off really good but just gets really bland at the chorus, and then songs like Flashes and Imaginary Friend which after the first listen don't really stick with me at all.
Did I think she would actually top Queen of the Clouds? No. But I honestly expected so much better because her first album spoke to me on such a personal level that it had an incredible replayability. Perhaps I'm comparing it too much to QOTC and maybe I'm not giving it a fair chance, and I plan on listening to it again one of these days; I'm just really hoping that Part 2 slams it outta the park because Lady Wood honestly just left me feeling pretty indifferent.
tl;dr I don't like Lady Wood very much at all and perhaps it was bc I was hoping for another QOTC bc that album is bae but I'm really hoping the next one is much better
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I disagree but I totally understand what it's like to love one album so much (especially a debut) that the follow-up just fails to live up to it. The same thing happened to me with Pink Friday > PFRR. And with GGGB > RR.
I hope Lady Wood grows on you!
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she wrote hit songs for other artists so it will keep her afloat. Lady Wood deserves better tho
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I was gonna mention this. Remember Tove makes lots of coins writing smash hits for more
basicaccessible artists like Nick Jonas and Ellie Goulding
She'll be fine.
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She should've replaced Imaginary Friend with Bitches.
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This is blasphemy.
I like Bitches but it doesn't fit on the album. Like, at all. I'm glad it was left off.
It's corrupt as hell. Cool Girl did okay-ish on Spotify thanks to the playlists.
