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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".
"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."
Laufey wrote the song on Valentine's Day and "posted it on TikTok for fun", after which it went viral; the attention prompted Laufey and producer Spencer Stewart to finish, record, and release the song. In Consequence of Sound, Laufey stated that the song was about "being in love for the first time and not quite knowing how to react to it ...
By the same token, you certainly have written dead serious songs. I don’t know if it portended a new direction or not, but the song “Goddess” you did as a sort of semi-title song for the ...
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.
Yet Laufey is wildly popular, far more so than any chart positions would indicate — although her new album, “Bewitched,” has racked up stats like most-streamed jazz debut on Spotify ever.
Laufey Lín Bīng Jónsdóttir was born on 23 April 1999 in Reykjavík, Iceland's capital.Her father is Icelandic and her mother is Chinese, hailing from Guangzhou. [4] Her mother is a classical violinist and her maternal grandfather, Lin Yaoji [], was a violin educator at the Central Conservatory of Music in China, which Laufey credits as partly inspiring her love of music.
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 ...