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Between February and July 2022, Laufey announced the release date for her debut studio album and released the album's first four singles. On 11 August 2022, when releasing "Falling Behind", Laufey explained why she wrote the bossa nova inspired song: "I felt like all the people around me were falling in love and I couldn’t help but feel like I was falling behind".
Including the four singles and three other songs, many of which were written in her college dorm room, Typical of Me was released on 30 April 2021, the year Laufey graduated from Berklee College of Music. [2] The EP eventually received attention from musicians such as Billie Eilish and Willow Smith, and was praised by some music critics. [3]
Laufey described Everything I Know About Love as a "hopelessly romantic" album of personal growth. She said the songs were based on her experiences, but were written as if they were fiction, and that she tries to create magic out of difficult or bleak moments. [3]
Laufey can also do songs of requited love, too, and has enough years under her belt now to speak from experience with those. Into that category fell the surprised-to-be-in-love “Valentine ...
Laufey songs are comforting yet mischievous, indebted to her background in classical music, with deep vocals that dive effortlessly into those roaring low registers of female jazz icons before her.
Laufey (pronounced Lay-vay) is captivating Gen Z by writing and singing music that almost sounds like it could be from Gen WWII.Go figure, and go marvel. But the 24-year-old has always ...
Laufey achieved a breakthrough in her career in 2023 with her second album Bewitched, which reached the top twenty in seven countries, topped several jazz album charts around the world and featured the moderately successful single "From the Start".
"From the Start" was released after Laufey's performance with the Iceland Symphony Orchestra, A Night at the Symphony in 2023. [2] Lyrically, the song is about the unrequited love between a protagonist and her best friend, describing it as "a playful mix of old sounds with modern lyrics."