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Tove Lo

Tove Lo Unveils Video For “Mateo” Off Her New Album, Sushine Kitty

GRAMMY® Award nominated, multiplatinum-selling artist Tove Lo has released the highly anticipated video for “Mateo,” a clear fan-favorite off her critically acclaimed fourth studio album, Sunshine Kitty. Filmed in while in quarantine and edited by Garrett Guidera, the video features nearly 1,000 of Tove’s fans from all over the world, each one dressed to the nines in every color of the rainbow, showcasing their unique personalities– a true testament to the dedication and passion of her loyal fanbase.

Speaking about the video, Tove reveals, “Since ‘Sunshine Kitty’ was released, ‘Mateo’ has been a fan favorite. I always knew I wanted to do a visual for it. We had shot footage for the lyric video at a beautiful venue in Manchester called Albert Hall in early March, right before we had to cancel the European shows and fly home due to COVID. So much of the last few months has been about what can’t happen, doing the quarantine karaoke challenge was a way to still connect with my fans and give everyone something to safely do while locked down. I was so overwhelmed by all the submissions, there were just about 1000 and everyone was so fun and creative with it. I wish the song could be 10 times longer so we could have fit all in!” GRAMMY® Award nomination for Best Recently, Tove debuted an exclusive Music Video. The critically acclaimed fullperformance of her song “sadder badder length joins Tove’s already growing catalog cooler,” for CBS’ The Late Show with of Golden Globe Award nominated and Stephen Colbert’s #PLAYATHOME series. GRAMMY Award® nominated multiplatinum hits. The song was taken from the recently released Paw Prints Edition of Sunshine Kitty; In other news, Tove Lo recently DJ’ed a 22-track expanded version of the album quarantine phenomenon Animal Crossing’s which includes all fourteen original tracks, first ever ‘Live Virtual Party,’ DJing a short plus her two FINNEAS-produced songs, set and interacting fans via her own avatar on “Bikini Porn” and “Passion and Pain Taste (YouTube influencer) Nintentalk Island. The Same When I’m Weak,” remixes, live During the recent pandemic, Animal Crossing recordings and more. Talking about “sadder has emerged as a pop-culture phenomenon badder cooler,” Tove Lo details: “Elvira becoming the best-selling Nintendo Switch Anderfjärd and I wrote sadder badder cooler title. after going deep about how every heart break kind of chips away a little piece of you, but it Talking about her experience, Tove also gives you power if you let it. And how gushed, ““It was so cool to be part of the first breaking it off with someone who’s bad to you show in Animal Crossing! I got real hooked is always a mixed feeling of sadness, anger on this game while in quarantine, the world is and big relief. This song to me is full of glitter so charming and magical. And while being and power and I hope it hits heavy with my starved of interaction with my fans and show fans.” jitters this was such a great thing to do! I’m so impressed and grateful to Nintentalk for Sunshine Kitty is a collection of helping make this happen! And my fans made empowered and enigmatic pop gems and the coolest outfits and an awesome stage!” features a top-rated cast of collaborators and guests including Kylie Minogue, Jax Jones, ‘Sunshine Kitty’ (Paw Prints Edition) ALMA, MC Zaac and Doja Cat. The album’s is out everywhere now. lead single, “Glad He’s Gone” received a September 2020 • Rock and Blues International 51