Jazz singer Laufey
Or perhaps they are spontaneous, full of energy, but also incredibly quirky, like Ella Fitzgerald. If a more contemporary figure is needed, then perhaps Norah Jones – reserved, simple, a little shy, and indie.
But when you look at Laufey's TikTok account – the jazz singer born in 1999 whose album A Matter of Time recently entered the top 10 of the Billboard 200 chart – you don't see any of the styles mentioned above.
Laufey is a true Gen Z.
They're not afraid to appear with very carefree, even sometimes senseless, entertainment content. But just listen to A Matter of Time, and you won't believe that the person singing these songs and the person on TikTok are the same person.
The musical atmosphere of A Matter of Time transports listeners to the fairytale world of Disney films from decades ago, with the main character being a beautiful singing princess who constantly dreams of love.
Laufey says she was inspired by both Ella Fitzgerald and Taylor Swift. Don't frown just because you think the two are unrelated. After all, both are definitions of romance in their own era, and their love songs, though belonging to different genres, represent the language of love for women in their time.
Their repertoire is a dictionary of emotions (especially romantic emotions) for women. And you'll find something close to that when you step into Laufey's musical castle, from Bewitched, which won Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album at last year's Grammys, to A Matter of Time this year.
Laufey's dictionary of emotions includes the blindness of love when falling for a man who already has a "white moonlight" in his heart, the infatuation of a young girl who has just fallen for a stranger and feels like she's transformed into someone else, jealousy and envy towards other women, and all sorts of other emotions.
Laufey - A Matter of Time, Snow White, Clean Air
An unsolvable mystery
Both are about love, but while Taylor Swift's music is heavily influenced by realism with very ordinary, realistic stories, Laufey's music sometimes has a touch of fantasy and mythology. For example, in "Forget-me-not," she incorporates lyrics and elements of Irish folk music to evoke a vast, desolate natural landscape.
A nomadic, free-spirited atmosphere, without anchors to any particular place; a lonely soul amidst a vast and icy world.
The melancholic and poignant tone of the song also brings to mind the classic lieds of composer Schubert.
Even when Laufey sets the scene in her song "Lover Girl" with the most modern possible backdrop—a towering Tokyo skyscraper—the lyrical persona doesn't seem to be living in real time like everyone else, but rather lost in her own fantasies. Love drives her crazy, making her feel like she's living in a movie.
In a world where even love has been turned into a science, dissected like any other physical object, the music of artists like Laufey offers a much-needed respite.
I breathe a sigh of relief that there are still people in this world who see love as it truly is. An unsolvable mystery. We rush into it wildly, excessively, irrationally, without knowing why. It's certainly not because we have any mental illness or trauma. It's simply because we love.
Laufey's classical voice seems to come from another era—an era where people lived in castles, loved princes, and believed in fairies. Of course, this princess is far more complex than any Disney princess.
Source: https://tuoitre.vn/laufey-nang-jazz-the-he-z-20250928083122933.htm
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