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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".
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 Lin, a 24-year-old Icelandic musician and songwriter, is bringing jazz and classical music to Gen Z through her TikTok videos. She has a theory for why classic music works.
Laufey on Bridging the Gap Between Traditional Jazz Singing and Gen-Z Pop: Young Fans ‘Connect More With a Vibe or an Energy Than a Genre’
"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."
"Valentine" addresses Laufey's experiences and continuous reflection of her first love. [4]The song's genre has been described as 50s traditional pop and classical jazz due to its jazz vocals and scat singing, as well as guitar and piano instrumentation joined by light percussion played with a drum brush.
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 can also do songs of requited love, too, and has enough years under her belt now to speak from experience with those. ... old people. (By which we mean, over-30s, and yes, even a good ...