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Album: Tove Lo - 'Lady Wood, Vol. I'
Member Since: 4/20/2012
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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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THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU
I've been struggling to accept that this is the album she released after QOTC. This is just... bland. The instrumentals and most of the production is great, yeah, but where is the EMOTION? The rawness? This is just.. lifeless and.. I don't know.
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Member Since: 1/8/2012
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There is plenty of emotion on this album. Just because the choruses aren't as in your face as QOTC's were doesn't mean there's no emotion. She can do something different.
Every song is amazing imo. The choruses are still euphoric. PS, True Disaster is her next SMASH hit. 
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Member Since: 10/28/2011
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How can you listen to Flashes and say that she has less emotion on this album? 
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Member Since: 1/1/2014
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I'm getting plenty of emotion from this record actually.
More than ever before.
Thing is, some of you were looking for theatrical-burst-y emotion a la Thousand Miles.
LW's emotion is a lot more human, in a reticent almost sinister kind of way.
QOTC was love, rage, longing for freedom, letting your guard down. LW is shame, guilt, loneliness, realization.
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Member Since: 1/8/2012
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Originally posted by SpaceOddity
I'm getting plenty of emotion from this record actually.
More than ever before.
Thing is, some of you were looking for theatrical-burst-y emotion a la Thousand Miles.
LW's emotion is a lot more human, in a reticent almost sinister kind of way.
QOTC was love, rage, longing for freedom, letting your guard down. LW is shame, guilt, loneliness, realization.
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Member Since: 1/1/2014
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I'm definitely team QOTC. It feels more emotional, the lyrics are FAR better, the production is better, the melodies are better. That being said, even though this album isn't a slay cover to cover there's a few songs I really love and I never really expected it to be as good as QOTC. Flashes, Vibes, True Disaster, etc are still really good
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Member Since: 1/1/2014
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I keep wondering If Tove was trying to comically portray a careless f-ckboy-type of behavior in "What I Want For The Night". It's almost funny hearing such lyrics coming from her, since she's very much a feminist.
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Member Since: 11/11/2011
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This album is just as emotional as QOTC in my opinion. There seems to be even more pain here actually. Like every song (even if it's got a happy upbeat theme) still has some kind of dark longing and sadness to it
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Member Since: 11/11/2011
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Originally posted by SpaceOddity
I really like the usage of adlibs in her music, she really knows where and how to work with those.
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Yes!! I love adlibs and hers are always on point.
In the second chorus of Cool Girl when she goes "uhhh" gives me life
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Member Since: 5/27/2016
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this album is NOT better than Queen of The Clouds. But it's really good.
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Member Since: 1/1/2014
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I'm so obsessed with the hand choreography in Fairy Dust during Lady Wood.
( https://youtu.be/abZ0PXadpB0 12:49 ).
Reminds me of the devil horns dance move from Britney's Slave For You.
So stealing it lol.
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Member Since: 5/27/2016
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Originally posted by This Is Acting
this album is NOT better than Queen of The Clouds. But it's really good.
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It is
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Member Since: 1/4/2014
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Originally posted by This Is Acting
this album is NOT better than Queen of The Clouds. But it's really good.
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this.
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Member Since: 12/25/2011
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Maybe if you stopped comparing the albums you could actually start to enjoy Lady Wood? 
or is judging a body of work for itself alone too hard of a concept for some of you?
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Member Since: 2/2/2014
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People are too obsessed with comparing things
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Member Since: 1/1/2014
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I've never heard anyone saying anything about Robyn's Body Talk
Is it just me, or Lady Wood reminds of Body Talk? 
2 volumes, dark dance pop, acclaimed, Swedish
True Disaster is her Dancing On My Own moment
Swedes serving QUALITY as usual 
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Member Since: 5/27/2016
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OH MY GOD Imaginary Friend is perfection  
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Member Since: 8/19/2013
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I love this album!! I think QoTC is better tho. I need to listen some more for sure
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Member Since: 7/15/2012
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Originally posted by SpaceOddity
I keep wondering If Tove was trying to comically portray a careless f-ckboy-type of behavior in "What I Want For The Night". It's almost funny hearing such lyrics coming from her, since she's very much a feminist.
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I don't think so. I think she's portraying that women feel, and have the right to feel the same type of way. Cause usually, they are looked down on for doing that, why guys are not. There is a lot of feminism in that.
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Member Since: 1/1/2014
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Fairy Dust was amazing.
Lady Wood & Vibes were my faves.
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