Tove Lo’s GTA VI song ‘Blood in Your Eyes’ reunites her with a ‘Habits’ co-writer

Tove Lo has released ‘Blood in Your Eyes’, her song for Grand Theft Auto VI: The Album, and Rockstar Games has already put it to work as the soundtrack of the promotional video for the game’s pre-load. The credits hold the more telling detail. She wrote it with Ludvig Söderberg, one of the two Swedish producers who co-wrote and produced ‘Habits (Stay High)’, the sleeper hit that made her name outside Sweden.

That reunion gives the track more weight than most tie-in songs carry. ‘Habits (Stay High)’ climbed to No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100, the highest placing for a Swedish artist on that chart since Ace of Base took ‘The Sign’ to No. 1, and its mix of bright electropop and bleak lyrics about numbing a breakup became the template for much of her catalogue. A crime story set in a neon version of Miami suits that contrast.

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The third writer is Ilya Salmanzadeh, the Iranian-born Swedish producer credited as ILYA, who co-wrote and produced Ariana Grande’s ‘Problem’ and has six Grammy nominations, three of them for Album of the Year. He and Tove Lo were both among the writers of Ellie Goulding’s ‘Love Me Like You Do’, the film-soundtrack single that brought her Grammy and Golden Globe nominations as a songwriter. ILYA shares the production credit with A Strut, Alex Ghenea mixed the song and Randy Merrill mastered it, according to the credits Atlantic Records supplied to streaming services.

The song is the tenth released from the 34-track album Rockstar is putting out with Atlantic, and the first since Justice, the French duo scoring the game, unveiled ‘Flower in a Hurricane’ with Tame Impala, SZA and King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard in the launch trailer. Earlier singles came from Travis Scott, Morgan Wallen, Rauw Alejandro, Keith Richards, Cardi B and Fuerza Regida. Tove Lo is the second Swedish name on the record after Yung Lean, and she brings an all-Swedish writing team with her.

Several things remain unclear. Rockstar has not said where ‘Blood in Your Eyes’ plays inside the game, whether on one of the in-game radio stations or in a story scene, and that placement decides how often players will actually hear it. At 2 minutes 41 seconds it is also short, closer to a trailer cue than a full pop single. Nor does it point to her next record: the song belongs to the soundtrack, with Take-Two Interactive sharing the copyright with Atlantic, and it lands only weeks after ESTRUS, her most recent album.

The single is on the major streaming services worldwide, but the game launches only on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S, with cloud play on Xbox One and no PC version announced. Many listeners in every market will meet the song on Spotify or YouTube long before they hear it in Vice City.

‘Blood in Your Eyes’ came out on November 10, 2026, the same day the game’s pre-load opened. Grand Theft Auto VI and its album are both due on November 19, physical editions of the album are listed to ship a day later, and 24 of the album’s 34 tracks have yet to be revealed.

Tags: pop, Rockstar Games, Grand Theft Auto VI, Tove Lo, Atlantic Records, Blood in Your Eyes

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