Laufey talks life on the road, being Delulu and Laufeycore backstage in New York

“Believe [Laufeycore is] “It’s similar to my music, so timeless with maybe a little edge, which is actually maybe a little girly,” Laufey explains. “There are a lot of classic pieces, vintage jeans, cardigans and a lot of ribbons. As for shoes, it’s loafers, Mary Janes and ballet flats.”

For the tour, Laufey worked with her stylist. Amanda Lim to put together a rotating wardrobe of eight outfits that represent an “elevated version” of her everyday style. There are Thom Browne’s “school looks,” like the one he sported in New York, and Sandy Liang to satisfy his bow cravings. They put together some “special” outfits for certain cities, so designers ranged from Chanel and Adeam to Tory Burch, as well as an Oscar de la Renta dress. As for makeup, she likes to go “pretty simple,” focusing on a few products, namely a good tinted moisturizer and mask and Ilia lip color – to achieve something very “blush, bright and somewhat clean”. She explains: “I’m inspired by girls from Iceland, who tend not to wear a lot of makeup and have good taste in the way they do it.”

Once your minimal makeup is done, Laufey is ready to take the stage. She never gets nervous before concerts, as a result of having played classical music in her early childhood. “It doesn’t faze me much,” she explains. “Competitions were a little harder when I was a kid because they had the added touch of judgment, but the kind of music I make now is like mistakes are part of it.” As a pre-show ritual, she takes a moment of silence for herself and brushes her teeth as “something that resets me,” she says. “I tend to forget lyrics, so sometimes I Google my own lyrics for like two seconds before I move on.” Every night after finishing, she likes to eat something sweet (a piece of chocolate or a cookie), text her parents, and go to bed early.

As he rose, Laufey seemed to usher in a growing acceptance of jazz and classical music among younger artists to tell more theatrical stories. Last year he lent his voice and string arrangements to songs with Renee Rappd4vd and Norah Jones, and infused bossa nova into “A Night to Remember,” her sizzling new single featuring with-clairo-writing-songs-for-bff” target=”_blank”>Beabadoobee. As two like-minded female artists, the collaboration was “so surprising and easy,” says Laufey. “What I admire about her as a musician is that she dares to have her own sound and is very honest in her music.”

On “A Night to Remember,” Laufey and Beabadoobee set out to “show a sexier, moodier side of us, and be a little more surprising,” Laufey explains. “I write a lot about guys who reject me and I wanted to reclaim the narrative. I thought, ‘What if we’re the ones who spend a night with a guy and say, ‘Not again?’ “I think that kind of behavior can often be interpreted as vain or too much, although if a guy did that it would just be another song.”

Now that Laufey is changing the pop landscape with his musicianship and increasingly bold songwriting, do you think he’s achieved his much-publicized goal of bringing jazz to his generation? “I don’t think my work is nearly done there,” she responds without hesitation. “I think I’ve only scratched the surface. I want to do projects that lean more towards jazz, maybe more towards classical music, and also continue on the path I’m on now. I think that will be my guiding light until the day I die.”