Tove Styrke - Sunflower

Swedish artist Tove Styrke’s "Sunflower" is soft and tender alt-pop with a wonderfully playful, almost childlike spirit. Big synths lift its gentle melody into a joyous chorus, making for a song that feels both intimate and gloriously open.

With the lyric, “I turn to you like a sunflower turns to the sun,” Tove captures the vulnerability that comes with loving someone deeply. She says:

“‘Sunflower’ lingered in the background for a long time before it finally came into being. Deep down, I knew there was one more song left to write, one that would feel like a long embrace. When we finally set out to explore it in the studio, it was as if the song simply fell into my lap from above. Within a few hours, it existed. I didn’t even understand what it was about until much later, when my partner and co-parent heard it and said, ‘Oh, how beautiful. You wrote a song for our daughter.’”

"Sunflower" arrives ahead of Tove Styrke’s new album I thought this story wasn’t about me, out November 6, a record shaped by an increasingly personal realization: “I thought I was observing the protagonist until I realized I was her.”

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