"I'm so sorry, Laufey said, her voice dripping with honeyed sarcasm. I try my best. The thought of being confronted by a celebrity you are gossiping about is enough to send most of us into an early grave, and I nervously laugh as Laufey tells me the story one morning in New York. She laughs too, perhaps a little shocked by her ballsiness. I wasn't even trying to clap back, she says."
"The 26-year-old has drawn an obsessive fanbase for winsome love songs that marry her jazz and classical training with sticky pop hooks. Her music is a giddy tumble into a retro-modern world of soft teen romance, with aurora skies, sunset kisses and crushes who leave you on read. It surges with the big feelings of modern young womanhood, swaddling them in tulle and sending them airborne amid cascading orchestration."
"Over the peppy bossa nova of her breakout, TikTok-buoyed hit From the Start, she comes across as an Austen heroine who speaks internet, tortured by the burning pain of listening to a crush blah blah blah-ing interminably about a new partner. Her fans, often young women, are drawn into Laufey-land by her big-sister energy: an edition of her 2023 album Bewitched came with a themed board game."
Laufey, a 26-year-old Icelandic-Chinese singer, confronted critics in a Los Angeles coffee shop with a sarcastic apology after overhearing a dismissive comment. She blends jazz and classical training with catchy pop hooks to create winsome love songs that evoke a retro-modern world of soft teen romance and big feelings. Her breakout TikTok hit From the Start rides a peppy bossa nova beat and frames modern romantic angst with literary charm. Fans, often young women, are drawn to her big-sister energy and theatrical presentation, including a board-game edition of her 2023 album Bewitched.
Read at www.theguardian.com
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