Tove Lo’s deserted robotic lover is prepared for revenge. On Friday, Tove launched her single “Borderline,” — co-written with Dua Lipa! — and the track’s video, which follows her ex-AI lover, Annie 3000, disguised as a crash check dummy kidnapping Tove and avenging her.
“Borderline is a track about being on the sting of affection. The drama you trigger inside your self and with one other particular person in case you really feel insecure. You check them,” Tove mentioned in an announcement. “This track has existed for a very long time, and I’ve at all times felt it was extremely particular, so attending to launch it now has kind of a full-circle feeling.”
The Nogari-directed video follows a crash check dummy seemingly coming to life to kidnap Tove Lo, who’s seen tied up in a trunk and later taken to a beat-down room. After being fed LSD, Tove Lo dances nude whereas lined in automotive oil earlier than making out with Annie 3000. The 2 drive away collectively however are shortly discovered by the cops. The video ends in a fiery crash.
The video is a continuation of the visible for her Dust Femme lead single “No One Dies For Love,” which adopted Tove falling in love with the robotic. After Tove deserted the robotic, it was seemingly seen self-destructing. However in the course of the visible’s credit, a Mexican girl was seen fixing the robotic, saying in Spanish, “Don’t fear, my love. No one dies from love.”
That’s why we land in Mexico Metropolis: Annie 3000 was resuscitated to be a crash check dummy, the place she discovered Tove Lo and bought her revenge. “I hope my followers love the weird love story that unfolds on this video, it’s my favourite type of factor!” the singer mentioned.
Tove Lo wrote “Borderline” whereas within the studio Dua Lipa earlier than the Albanian singer launched her LP Future Nostalgia. Throughout their writing session, the pair of ladies wrote “Cool” from Dua’s album and “Borderline.”
“The primary day Tove Lo and I bought into the studio we wrote this track and I’m so excited for it to return out into the world!!!” wrote Dua Lipa on Instagram.
“Tons of affection to @DUALIPA for trusting me with this child!!” Tove added on social media. “That is the very first track we wrote collectively and the very begin of our friendship so this feels further particular. Now everyone maintain your breath…”
The only launch comes amid the beginning of Tove Lo’s Dust Femme world tour. She’ll carry out in New York on Friday earlier than making her means throughout the U.S.
“I’ve appeared again on how my femininity has helped and damage me all through my life,” she informed Rolling Stone forward of the discharge of Dust Femme. “And I believe the album has that tone to it. I’m mentioning all these questions and emotions and feelings that don’t essentially have solutions to them. It’s simply extra my present place of marvel.”