Hi, I'm Tove Lo and I covered
Robyn's ‘Dancing On My Own’ for Like A Version.
♪ Somebody said you got a new friend
I think it’s just the most perfect pop song.
Lyrically, it's so simple, so clear.
You really picture-
You can really see it in front of you.
I don't know, it just stayed with me all these years
and still is such a good song
and makes you want to cry and dance at the same time
which is my favourite thing to do.
♪ I’m in the corner, watching you kiss her
I feel very nostalgic when I hear it, even though I can’t pinpoint
when I heard it the first time.
I just remember that feeling of like frustration and
still hopefulness that's tied into that song somehow.
♪ I know where you at, I bet she’s around
The way that it's like pop, but so sincere and still
with a lot of emotion.
She has a lot of integrity.
She's just really badass and cool as well.
But I think there's just so much feeling there
and still super catchy and I love that.
It’s what I strive to do.
There was the reality of us not having any time to rehearse
to be honest, and flying around touring.
And so
We were kind of talking about
“Well, if we can't get the whole band here
why don’t we do it just piano vocals, really strip it back.”
And I quite like doing that with dance songs
because you usually feel how sad and dramatic
the song actually is
like lyrically and melodically, everything.
So I thought ‘Dancing On My Own’ would be perfect for
that kind of stripped back ballad beauty.
And yeah, I love to sing it. So that was-
It was kind of like, “What song do I do?”
And like instinctively, what do I want to do?
And that was it.
I shouldn't be so starstruck, she's the nicest person.
She's so cool the times that I've met her.
But I'm still always like, “Oh my god.”
Yeah, if she saw this, I hope she'd like it and
want to work with me or something?
I dunno.
I would love to do a song with her at some point.
That would be amazing.
♪ Stilettos and broken bottles
Yeah I love, “Stilettos and broken bottles”
“I’m spinning around in circles”
I'm really just picturing that ‘too loose’ moment
where you're just like sad, where you trying to hide it
with being the loudest and happiest there.
♪ Why can’t you see me? Oh
It's tricky, because when you do it stripped back
like this there’s just so much-
Every little moment matters
like there's so much detail to it.
And I try to not
think too much about pitch or anything like that,
even though I'm not great at pitching all the time.
But I think really making sure that I'm
delivering the emotions of the words.
So, you have to make sure that you really know the words
before you go on and do something like this.
Because you’re going to be thinking about
“Oh, what's the next line?”
You really have to just be delivering the emotion of
the words naturally.
So, I would say I'm very present in the song.
♪ Man I hope you call me, call me
So I did ‘2 Die 4’, which is
to be honest, a very tricky one to do
piano and vocals.
I think I wrote this song a little bit outside of my abilities
as a singer.
But that's a fun challenge to do, and I think
even that one became quite dramatic
and sad naturally, and I quite like that.
I was worried there was going to be a little cheesy
but it just felt really intimate.
Again, like you feel the lyrics a lot more than when you're like
dancing your ass of to it.
♪ I’m in the corner watching you kiss her, oh
Through my whole career, this has been my dream
to get to perform on Like A Version.
I've spent a lot of time in Australia back and forth over the years
and listen a lot to triple j and to the Like A Versions.
So yeah, this is very special to get to be a part of this.
♪ I keep dancing on my own
It depends on your ability as a musician and as a singer.
I think you can adapt as much as you need to make it fit you.
Change the key, change the tempo
change some melodies if they really work for your voice.
And I think like really make it yours
more than worrying about that it
needs to be close to the original.
I think the difference is what makes it special.
♪ I keep dancing on my own.
I was a little bit nervous, because we hadn't
run it through enough times.
I felt like before going in here.
But then everyone here was
just so chill and we could take our time
really get in the flow of things.
So yeah, it was lovely.
I loved it.