Topless Tove Lo performs in just a pair of glittering cannabis leaf nipple pasties at raunchy album launch
The Swedish singer pulled her top down to expose her breasts during startling performance
NEVER one to be shy, singer Tove Lo hit the stage in London last night and proceeded to strip off.
The Swedish star began her show wearing a satin bomber jacket and cropped corset, which she unzipped to expose her bare breasts as the gig went on.
All that protected her modesty were green glittering nipple pasties in the shape of cannabis leaves.
The star put on a VERY raunchy show as she launched her new album Lady Wood.
The confident star kept the crowd entertained as she crooned and moved in the venue's dim glow.
Fully immersed in her music, the singer danced seductively, even moving her hands down to her crotch.
She took to Instagram today to show how much she had enjoyed the gig.
Posing with drag acts and saucily dressed women she captioned her cheeky pic: “Staying in this play pretend from last night #ladywood #f***trump @sinkthepinkldn"
She told The Sun Online: “Lady Wood is a good way to express balls — and as a woman I don’t have any so Lady Wood describes that. It’s like a girl getting a hard-on.
“It’s about chasing rushes and highs which you can’t have without extreme lows, so it’s an album about those amazing moments when you feel at your most alive, whether it’s taking drugs or being onstage.
“I chose Lady Wood as it stands for doing things that turn me on and terrify me at the same time.”
Like Tove’s breakthrough hit, 2012’s Habits (Stay High), an honest song about drug use to deal with heartache, the feisty singer is as open as she was on first album, Queen Of The Clouds.
In Lady Wood she sings about sex and love and the ups and down of relationships in her usual candid way, an approach that has earned Tove — whose mum is a therapist — a lot of attention.
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The singer says: “I have always been a feminist and very open. With my first album I didn’t realise or understand that people would see it as provocative.
“I had to defend myself so many times for being a woman and singing about sex. I thought that was so weird and why was it even an issue? People sing about this stuff all the time.
“But I realised that it was MEN who sing about this all the time.”
Like Queen Of The Clouds, which was divided into three chapters — The Sex; The Love and The Pain — Lady Wood is divided into Fairy Dust and Fire
Fade, the extremes Tove goes through when she is chasing a rush.
She explains: “I was never going to change just because a number of people thought it was wrong for me to sing about things like this. I still wanted to express myself exactly the way I wanted to.
“There shouldn’t be any difference between what men and women talk about. There are way bigger questions and issues for women all over the world.
Issues that I’ve never had to experience being a white woman growing up in Sweden.
“If I chose to silence myself because I’d offended someone by being a woman, then that would be wrong.”
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