"Too Much" is a song recorded by Norwegian singer-songwriter

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from her second studio and debut major-label album ''

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'' (2024). The song was released on 9 February 2024 through

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as the

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from the album. A

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song written and produced by the artist along with

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, it marked her first music material released in a two-year period, since her 2022 single "October Passed Me By". In parallel, a music video was also released.

Background

released a song titled "October Passed Me By" in 2022, which served as the sequel of to her 2018 single "We Fell In Love In October", and as the follow-up of her debut studio album ''

If I Could Make It Go Quiet ''If I Could Make It Go Quiet'' (stylized in all lowercase) is the debut studio album by Norwegian musician Girl in Red, released independently through AWAL and her own World in Red label on 30 April 2021, after being delayed due to the COVID-19 ...

'', released on 30 April 2021. At the beginning of 2024, she confirmed that she was working in new music material, for the first time in two years, by sharing an snippet of a track in a video of her on a set dancing to an unreleased song, which she labeled "the song of the summer". On 29 January, she posted another snippet of an audio file on her social media accounts. On the following day, she confirmed that it was part of "Too Much", when she announced its release alongside her second album, ''

''.

Composition

"Too Much" is a

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song, described by ''

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'' as a "kiss-off to a lover who just cannot understand he artist'sidiosyncrasies". It contains a

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guitar blast and a "pumping" dance beat. While describing the song as epic and empowering, writing for ''

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'', Liberty Dunworth interpreted that she "explores the theme of being in love with someone who is emotionally unavailable, and the empowerment that can come by embracing your vulnerability and releasing your self worth". According to '' Clash'', it is a song about "being pushed into a corner, about being told their your emotions need to be minimised, or in some cases not heard at all". About the inspiration behind the track, girl in red stated:

Music video

A music video for "Too Much", directed by Fiona Jane Burgess and produced by Smuggler, was released on 9 February 2024. In the "artsy" video, the singer "is seen getting increasingly frustrated as she tries to reason with a cruel partner, even taking her pleas to the theatre stage".

Charts

References

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