A Celebration of Modern Girlhood, Laufey Brings Jazz to a New Generation
When I sit down to talk to Laufey, it’s been a little over 72 hours since Taylor Swift released her highly anticipated album The Tortured Poets Department, and the ascending Icelandic-Chinese jazz singer admits she hasn’t listened to all 31 tracks just yet. But she’s got a pretty good excuse, one that Swift can probably empathize with. She recently embarked on a world tour in support of her Grammy Award–winning album, Bewitched, and late last month released a dreamy deluxe edition, Bewitched: The Goddess Version, unveiling four new songs that infuse her youthful sensibilities with a timeless genre. Which means that even though she found herself in New Orleans yesterday and Atlanta this morning, she’ll go to sleep tonight, if only for a few hours, in Nashville, after taking the stage at the legendary Ryman Auditorium in a pink cowboy hat, on her 25th birthday no less. But so far the classically trained musician from Reykjavík surmises that Swift’s album is about being a performer on the road, falling in and out of love, and …