![]() ![]() She’s a fan of the Golden Age of musicals: Singing in the Rain, An American in Paris, The Wizard of Oz, and The Sound of Music. Now, aspirations skew more cinematic: One of Laufey’s biggest goals is to score a film one day, as well as to write a musical, perhaps something like La La Land. Over the summer, Laufey attended the Eras Tour, which she declares “a masterclass in performance.” (Her favorite eras? Speak Now and Fearless, “but only by a tiny, tiny margin.”) This year, Laufey embarked on her own 29-city tour, many of which sold out in minutes. It told such a good story, and I thought that was just the most clever thing in the world, and I wanted to be like that.” I remember she had this song called ‘Mary's Song’ on her first album. When I listened to her as a kid and she was writing songs about heartbreak, I was getting so emotional over it, even though I hadn't even thought about a boy,” Laufey says. Laufey’s immersive storytelling evokes the high priestess of pop herself - and one of Laufey’s idols: Taylor Swift. I feel like I've found a community of kids that feel the same way.” The roots of my music come from jazz or classical music rather than pop, but we are all kind of linked together by the content of our songs.” “I always say I became the musician who I wanted to look up to when I was younger, somebody who had a classical and jazz sound, but was also just a very modern girl. “I'm very clearly a girl that spends a lot of time on the internet, just like every other sad girl. “I think this sad girl thing is about lyricism, relatability, and appearance,” Laufey says. Her music is cinematic, sincere, and earnest, rejecting the self-protective irony many contemporary musical sad girls employ. Laufey tells love stories in a rich, alto voice with the tinge of a vibrato that sounds equally appropriate for a dark and smoky jazz club as on the Broadway stage. Laufey’s first album, Everything I Know About Love, catapulted her to fame in the last year, but Bewitched is her grand, confessional, coming-of-age work. 10 it was nominated for a Grammy for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album. Released in September, it was the biggest debut for a jazz album in Spotify’s history, and on Nov. The Chinese-Icelandic composer, multi-instrumentalist, and singer excavated it all earlier this fall with her second album Bewitched, a romantic, timeless jazz album filled with big feelings: the thrill of a crush, the vulnerability of rejection, the all-consuming joy that makes you want to dance in the street. I felt a need to let it out, and it came out in my songwriting.” ![]() So I think when they all hit me at once, all of a sudden I had all these feelings and thoughts about love and dating. I wasn't rejected on the playground by someone in fifth grade. “It hadn't been dispersed across many years. “I didn't know how to deal with these emotions,” she says. When Laufey began dating for the very first time in college, she had some questions for the universe: Does everybody feel like this? Does it always hurt this much? What the hell? ![]()
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