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Release Date
13 October 2022
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Length
12 tracks
Dirt Femme is the fifth studio album by Swedish singer Tove Lo. It was released on October 14, 2022, by her own label Pretty Swede Records. The album was announced alongside the release of the single "True Romance" on June 21, 2022.
The album was the first to be released independently under her own record label Pretty Swede Records after she fulfilled her contract with the Universal Music Group.
Having complete creative freedom, the Swedish singer’s main inspiration for Dirt Femme was her relationship and journey she had with her femininity, describing the album in her own words as “extremely personal.” Written and recorded throughout the course of the pandemic, she worked with a longtime collaborator Ludvig Söderberg, as well as with the new ones, including producers SG Lewis and Tim Nelson in addition to featured rapper Channel Tres and folk duo First Aid Kit.
Tove launched the album cycle in January 2022 with the release of “How Long,” her first solo song since 2020. It was originally part of the soundtrack for the second season of the HBO’s show Euphoria, until it was later also included on the album.
By replying to a comment under one of her TikTok videos, she announced that the album would be released in the fall. A few weeks later, she replied to a comment on another one of her videos, revealing that the album’s title consists of two words: the first beginning with a letter “D” and the second with an “F.”
On May 3, 2022, “No One Dies from Love” was released as the album’s first official single, that being Tove’s first ever independent release.
After two years without stepping on a stage, she kicked off a spring tour in May 2022, on which she debuted “True Romance” and “2 Die 4” before their official release. In June, while still touring, a band member was seen wearing a t-shirt that had “Dirt Femme” printed onto it, revealing the album’s title only days before its official announcement and the official release of the second single “True Romance.”
“2 Die 4” and “Grapefruit” followed as the album’s fourth and fifth single, respectively.
Besides the accompanying music videos for all of the singles, Tove Lo produced visualizers which she calls “scenes” for all of the songs on the album, with them altogether comprising the Dirt Femme short film.
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