Tove Styrke has a long night ahead of her. At her stylist’s high-ceilinged apartment in Stockholm, the Swedish singer is dedicated to finding the perfect “pop princess” look for a video shoot in London tomorrow. “I’m going to be my best, most delicious self,” she says, smiling into the camera that we’re FaceTiming through. Styrke is currently in a get-up that any early-’00s TRL star would envy; she flings herself onto a squishy couch and angles her phone to show off a boxy denim jacket and red PVC pants straight out of the “Oops!... I Did It Again” video. “But we’re not finished yet,” she says, distracted-sounding, playing with a saucer-sized hoop in her left ear. “It’s got to be bomb.”

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At 25, Styrke has been on the margins of pop’s A-list for nearly a decade. With a clutch of recent co-signs, her eccentric earworms are primed to finally get the recognition they deserve. This past spring, Styrke opened up for Lorde on 15 dates of her U.S. arena tour, and the pair teamed up at a Minnesota show for a gorgeous cover of Robyn’s “Hang With Me.” “I loooooove her!” Styrke says of Lorde, clasping her hands to her heart. “She’s been able to keep doing her own thing [without] adapting to a certain framework. That’s super inspiring.” This summer, Styrke will support Katy Perry on a run of European dates; when I ask about it, Styrke launches into a technical breakdown of Perry’s “Teenage Dream” that’s worthy of its own Song Exploder episode.