Blue Lips

Blue Lips is the third studio album by Tove Lo. It was released on 17 November 2017 by Island Records. Blue Lips is considered the second half of a two-piece concept album that describe "highs, lows and ultimate demise of a relationship." Its chapters "Light Beams" and "Pitch Black" succeed the chapters "Fairy Dust" and "Fire Fade" from her previous album Lady Wood. Musically, the album has been described as "sharply conceived dance-pop" and it is noted to follow the "hypnotizing electro-pop vein" of the preceding album.

A short film by the same name was released on 19 October 2018 to accompany the album.

Background
Tove's previous album, Lady Wood, was released on 28 October 2016 to positive critical reviews and fair commercial success, with it eventually becoming her highest-charting album in the United States to date. In press interviews in support of the album's release, Tove Lo alluded to another album of thematically similar material slated for release the following year that was tentatively titled Lady Wood: Phase II. In early 2017, Tove Lo began the Lady Wood Tour in further support of the album, and during press interviews she said she was working on new material to be included with the portion that was already recorded during the Lady Wood sessions. She explained to Billboard, "There's a lot of songs that I wanted on [Lady Wood], but I didn't want to cram in 20 songs... so I decided to divide it into a double album, and release the second half a little bit later on".

The Blue Lips track "Bitches", originally titled "What I Want for the Night (Bitches)", was previewed through Tove Lo's short film Fairy Dust in October 2016 and a live version was released through Spotify in November 2016. Tove Lo also previewed the track "Struggle" (then titled "The Struggle") during her performance at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in April 2017.

During the months leading up to the album's release, Tove Lo said that thematically Blue Lips would be a "dramatic" and "highly emotional" sister to Lady Wood, and it would have two contrasting chapters: "Light Beams" and "Pitch Black". The album's official title was announced in conjunction with its lead single "Disco Tits" on 7 September 2017. The album's artwork was released on Tove Lo's social media on 31 October 2017.