Her 2014 collaboration with Alesso, "Heroes (We Could Be)," was another hit, reaching the top of the U.S. and U.K., and the subsequent single "Talking Body" was a similar success. The album was a Top Ten hit in Sweden and a Top 20 hit in the U.S. "Habits" and its follow-up, "Out of Mind," which was in much the same vein, appeared on her debut EP for the label, Truth Serum, in 2014.nn Later that year, her debut album, Queen of the Clouds, arrived, featuring "Habits" - which reached number three on the Billboard Hot 100 - as well as other rawly confessional songs about love and heartache. It was followed in 2013 by "Habits (Stay High)," a dark breakup anthem that generated such Internet buzz that it led to a deal with Universal. In 2012, Lo self-released her debut single, "Love Ballad," a catchy, beat-driven pop track that showcased her powerful voice. to work with fellow Swede and pop songwriting/production supremo Max Martin. After singing in the band Tremblebee, made up of students from the school, and a spell playing one-man-and-his-dog nightclub gigs as frontwoman of a math rock band, she decided to focus on her own songs, spending six months in her shed studio working on a demo.nn At a party celebrating Icona Pop's first record deal, she used the opportunity to foist her demo on a staff member at their label, leading to a publishing deal with Warner Chappell and a trip to L.A. She went on to study at the famous Rytmus Musikergymnasiet - a music-oriented high school comparable to the U.K.'s BRIT School - where she befriended the future members of Icona Pop. Born Ebba Tove Elsa Nilsson on Octoin a suburb of Stockholm, she began writing poetry and short stories at a young age. Crafting an idiosyncratic blend of pop influenced as much by '80s pop as by contemporary EDM and coupled with raw, brutally honest lyrics, Tove Lo made a name for herself as an award-winning performer and Grammy-nominated songwriter.
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