So Much It HurtsNiki & The Dove · 2016

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“In "So Much It Hurts," the thieves in the temple have won. Malin Dahlström gets home from dancing alone, and stares out of the window, waiting for the phone to ring, or the front door to open. There's an explicit reference to Prince's 1990 single nestled in her lyrics, but the romantic, buoyant synths (c/o Niki and the Dove's other half, Gustaf Karlöf) hearken back to a slightly earlier era: the t”