The album’s a showcase for Wolf Cousins, the Max Martin-affiliated songwriting collective that includes Lo and nearly a dozen others, including Swedish writer Ilya Salmanzadeh, Iranian producer Ali Payami and production duo the Struts. It's the line all smart music walks, and Lady Wood walks at album length. “Cool Girl” is equally a pop song, a delivery device for a sassy, stuttery chorus about being a cool girl. I guess it’s kind of like a voice in my heart reminding me that there's nothing to fear”), all but defining “lady wood” on the title track, or addressing the audience on “Cool Girl”: “Now you can’t tell if I’m really ironic,” Lo sings, absolutely correctly. Perhaps knowing this, she practically spells Lady Wood out: putting an explanatory interlude in the outro of “Imaginary Friend” (“I don’t know. Lo certainly leaves herself open to misinterpretation-her Sticky Fingers-via-creepshot album art, her music’s endlessly quotable debauchery. As a student of pop, she knows that her industry parses women's vulnerability as empowerment, their pain as sexiness, their point as pop as usual. As a student of confessionalism, she knows audiences have an endless appetite for scandalous female writers, from Mary McCarthy to Cat Marnell to Fiona Apple to Britney Spears, and that they crave their honesty less than they do their imagined autobiographies, their self-destruction and bare flayed skin. The bluntness of “ Habits (Stay High)” ensured it’d cut through the crowd of anodyne rising pop stars but also ensured that for the next year Lo would field interviews about whether she actually lurked in sex clubs and picked up daddies on the playground. Tove Lo knows a bit about bleakness and misunderstanding she’s courted both from her first single. But why they circulate it is more telling: that in her misanthropy she’s elucidated something very real about relationships, and very bleak. Go ahead, shit on me, I don’t mind, I’m the Cool Girl.” People circulating this quote almost always leave out the fact that the woman delivering this soliloquy is a psychopath who will go on to rack up a body count. Cool Girls never get angry they only smile in a chagrined, loving manner and let their men do whatever they want. Being the Cool Girl means I am a hot, brilliant, funny woman who adores football, poker, dirty jokes, and burping, who plays video games, drinks cheap beer, loves threesomes and anal sex, and jams hot dogs and hamburgers into her mouth like she’s hosting the world’s biggest culinary gang bang while somehow maintaining a size 2, because Cool Girls are above all hot. Note: When you embed the widget in your site, it will match your site's styles (CSS).For the lead single of her second album, Tove Lo chose as inspiration one of the most-circulated and least-understood literary quotes of the past decade, the “Cool Girl” monologue from Gillian Flynn’s Gone Girl: “Men always say that as the defining compliment, don’t they? She’s a cool girl. Get the embed code Tove Lo - Lady Wood Album Lyrics1.Cool Girl (The Knocks Remix)2.Don't Talk About It3.Fairy Dust (Chapter I)4.Fire Fade (Chapter II)5.Flashes6.Imaginary (Chords Remix)9.Keep It Simple10.Lady Wood11.True Disaster (Hyperbits Remix)12.Vibes13.WTF Love IsTove Lo Lyrics provided by So this ain't goodbye (I ain't ready for ya) You are moving on (let it be just my call) So this ain't goodbye (let me keep it simple) How to forget how fucking broken I've beenīut I'm healing, I'm healing, I'm healing You think I want to? No, I hate that he wins I go to bed with you, but dream about him I wish I wanted what you want, not yet free Lie awake and read your sext, I can't sleep 'Cause these words are clinging on for dear lifeīut I'm breathing, I'm breathing, I'm breathing Not a clear sound from my heart or my mind I've been deep down in the dirt for some time
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