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Tove Lo and SG Lewis’ ‘Heat’ Video Is So Steamy You Have to Be Over 18 to Watch It

Tove Lo and SG Lewis’ ‘Heat’ Video Is So Steamy You Have to Be Over 18 to Watch It

Dildos, pasties, and steamy makeout sessions take over Tove Lo and SG Lewis’ new “Heat” music video. On Friday, the singer-producer duo dropped an EP of club-ready collaborations titled Heat and released an NSFW video for the title track to accompany it.

“We wanted to make something with a similar temperature as Kylie Minogue’s ‘Can’t get you out of my head’…sexy, cool and hypnotic,” Tove says in a press release.


The video takes a snapshot of a gay club with Tove and SG performing in a room filled with queer people getting frisky, drag queens strutting down a runway, and Love playing with dildos onstage. Because why not? (You’ll have to click here to watch it so YouTube can verify your age.)

“With this EP we wanted the visual aspect to reflect the free, open, and sexy energy we’ve put into the music, surrounded by our queer fans who inspired us to make these songs.” Tove Lo said in a statement. “So we reached out to the amazing David Wilson, who’s very much a part of the queer community in London. He had free reign to create an environment, where we would all be feeling ourselves without being censored in anyway. It was honestly the most fun I’ve had at a shoot.”

“Heat” is the first track of the four-song project to get a video and will follow a protagonist named Ali as she goes through Club Heat, a fictional, queer nightclub in London.

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“Each video we shot was a different perspective on ‘Club Heat’; depicting the breadth of experiences in nightlife. The queer nightlife scene in London has fueled and inspired me throughout my whole adult life, so I was beyond thrilled to be selected as the director to bring this to life,” said Wilson in a statement. “This is a depiction of queer London nightlife now: the queer scene in 2024, where the non-binary queer crowd is the predominant force.”

“The aim was to represent queer joy personified, uncensored, and undiluted,” he added.

Tove says she made the project specifically with “drag queens and sassy bitches” in mind, and recreated the “Heat” video’s energy as the singer performed with SG at West Hollywood club Heart during a two-hour DJ set that featured an appearance form drag performer Valentina.

The new four-song EP follows a collaboration with Nelly Furtado on “Love Bites” and a pair of songs from Tove’s 2022 album, Dirt Femme. Lewis produced fan favorites “Call on Me” and the sexy “Pineapple Slice.”

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