Los Angeles (AP) -lank before Icelandic Chinese artist Laufey is recognized worldwide for her neoclassical jazz-Meets-pop music, she was a student and answered a well-known yearbook: “Where do you see yourself in ten years?” Her answer: Move to the US, sign a record agreement and win a Grammy. The 26-year-old man did all three. “I must have been so confident to write it, because I can remember that it was a very sought -after kind of thing,” the musician born Laufey Lín Jósdóttir told The Associated Press. These are not her only achievements: she works with Barbra Streisand, shared the stage with Hozier, Noah Kahan and Los Angeles Philharmonic. Laufey’s third album, ‘A Matter of Time’, is an unexpected not -confronter for the rules of contemporary pop, and takes inspiration from Country and Icelandic Folk Music as well as Classical and Bossa Nova sounds. “My ultimate goal is to introduce young audiences to jazz music, to classical music, encourage them to learn instruments and explore their own sound,” Laufey said. In a recent interview, Laufey discussed her new album, which embraced anger on the record and worked with her twin sister and more. Answers are edited for clarity and concise. Laufey: I knew I wanted the album to have time as a central theme. I was just as fascinated about how it is similar to this one thing that people have no control over, and sometimes we want to slow down faster and sometimes we want to delay, but eventually it is out of our control. And there’s something romantic about it for me. Now it is a bit of a different meaning adopted by being basic that I hinder my soul to the world and impede my soul to a lover. And it’s kind of “a matter of time until you find out about me.” Laufey: for sure. I think I could never embrace anger. I was a very good kid who grew up. I was very polite and very quiet. I used it as a way to show that you can be angry, and rather to show that you can be a soft, spoken person while you still have anger. I think the understanding of women and characters was as much as one or the other. She is so, she is a crazy woman, she is a soft, lovely woman. Like, we’re all. It’s just the freeest I was. I did not follow some kind of compass by not trying to create something as education. I was more so just to make music from the heart. I just approached with a lot more confidence, although the album about anxiety and learning about yourself and uncertainty and deception. And it uses emotions that I might not have dared to use before. This is the most confident I was because I don’t think I would have the confidence to put the music in this album. Laufey: It’s so special. We do everything together. Like she does everything, quite a lot – besides the music, the literal music making – she has her hands in it. All the brands, that’s all her. The album covers, all the creative, like music videos, everything – she is such a part of the project. And then she literally plays violin on some of the songs. I know so many artists who talk about how it can be quite lonely, but I’ve never really been alone. Like, I always did it with my sister. LAUFEY: I grew up in a lot, many others, like Homogenous Icelandic community. I haven’t seen people who looked like me every day. I saw my mother, it was it. And I think I saw my identical twin sister that looked exactly like me. But it is so powerful to see someone who looks like you, that you can look up to. I see more and more representation, but there is still such a long way to go. I’m still a half-white Asian woman, you know? And I don’t want young Asian women to look up and see all the stars in front of them, is also half-white, because what kind of message is the steering? So, I don’t know. Anything I can do to raise voices, create those communities, and empower young Asian artists to do their thing, like, as, in the middle of my philosophy. Laufey: I would like to record a movie or do a theme song for a movie, preferably a James Bond theme, because it’s like my dream. But it’s so hard to say, because I marked all the simple things-many are big, but the ticks. I hope I still make music and I still hope I like it.
Laufeys new album, a case of time, examine anger, love and more
