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Tove Lo Feat. Hippie Sabotage
Why we feature this artist Stay High: the remix changes the distance from the voice The Hippie Sabotage remix of Habits gives Tove Lo’s vocal a different kind of space. Commonly presented as Stay High, the 2014 recording slows the emotional movement and places…
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Stay High: the remix changes the distance from the voice
The Hippie Sabotage remix of Habits gives Tove Lo’s vocal a different kind of space. Commonly presented as Stay High, the 2014 recording slows the emotional movement and places a familiar voice inside a more suspended electronic atmosphere. The singer remains recognisable, but the arrangement changes how close or far away each phrase seems to be.
A remix role made explicit
The original Universal credits identify Hippie Sabotage as producer and remixer, with Jeffery and Kevin Saurer credited for arrangement. Tove Lo remains the vocalist and a writer alongside Jakob Jerlström and Ludvig Söderberg. The joint title therefore describes a particular treatment of her song, rather than a newly formed singing group.
The remix makes repeated fragments feel like remembered thoughts. The beat leaves more air around the vocal, and instrumental details can linger after a line has ended. That treatment does not remove the song’s unease; it gives the feeling a different pace and a less direct route to the listener.
The same song can hold two different moods
Universal’s Queen of the Clouds editions include the Hippie Sabotage version, while the official video release explicitly calls it the Habits remix. Following those version names is useful because the original song and this recording do different things with the same central material.
Where the song’s melodic writing provides a clear line to follow, the remix is interested in what happens around that line: the space after a phrase, the altered weight of a repeated word, the way a beat can keep moving while the singer appears caught in the same thought. That tension gives Stay High its particular identity.
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Stay High — Habits remix
Hippie Sabotage’s production reshapes Tove Lo’s song into a more spacious, suspended electronic recording.