“Celebratory and horny”: Tove Lo and SG Lewis’ new EP is for the queers
The duo speak exclusively with GAY TIMES about their first collaborative EP HEAT, a four-track collection of “celebratory and horny” dance anthems for sweaty rainbow people.
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“We’re bad influences on each other,” dildo pop star Tove Lo says of her friendship and creative partnership with British musician SG Lewis. After collaborating on ‘Call On Me’ and ‘Pineapple Slice’ for the Swedish monarch’s fifth album Dirt Femme, the duo are serving some much-needed hijinks of the hedonistic and horny variety with their euphoric first EP, Heat.
In the video for the lead single of the same name, a diverse club of semi-nude rainbow people gyrate upon one another, lick sweat off each other’s bodies and pay homage to the 2013 blockbuster Terrific Rim (the title might need fact-checking) by, well, doing just that. Meanwhile, Tove sings into a dildo (she knows what the queers want) and SG Lewis realises that straight spaces “suck in comparison”. Pride Month might’ve peaked here, to be honest.
An interview with SG Lewis sharing some not-so-controversial opinions on straight clubs, Tove explaining why her dildo line is, well, non existent (!) and both stars celebrating their love for the LGBTQIA+ community awaits. Read below, and stream HEAT now.
GT: Tove, SG, I’m in my pure and virginal era at the moment, but listening to this EP, I just want to get sweaty and fucking disgusting?
SG: That’s exactly what we wanted it to do.
Tove: Yeah, we’re giving you bad advice here.
SG: It’s summertime!
