What a curse it is to fall in love

Laufey’s getting vertigo on a high skyscraper in Japan, when she realizes she’s missing someone dear to her. She’s typically known for the music artist who’s falling behind, but now “27 days alone means 20 million ways to cope.” The majority of her music is centered around her unrequited love, but now she’s experiencing what it’s like to be a “Lover Girl.” 

This song wasn’t special to me in any way; it was just another pop song. When I researched it, I learned about Laufey and the meanings behind her tune. Everything is put together down to the cello imitating her voice and the flutes playing beautiful chords. 

Laufey is a famous artist from Iceland whose songs typically fall in the jazz genre. Her success started when she was 15, when she played with the Iceland Symphony Orchestra.. Laufey’s musical experiences include playing the cello since she was 8, and learning piano even earlier, at 4 years old. Her singing career started in 2020 with the number one hit on Icelandic  radio, “Street by Street.”

“Lover Girl” is unique because it features sequences of clapping noises. Laufey said that she wanted to use this as a call-and-response cheer for her fans! I also love how she incorporates flutes into the piece; some trills sound like birds flying through the air. In some of the parts, Laufey is not singing; she is playing the cello, and she says that if she were an instrument, she would be a cello.

Laufey said that songwriting often feels like writing in a journal. This explains the line about having vertigo. The line would not make sense otherwise because most people don’t normally miss loved ones when they’re having vertigo.

So what is it like to be a lover girl? Quite sadly, Laufey says that she never thought she’d be a “lovestruck girl.” She thought she would never fall in love, but now that she has, she has much to write about. One of her lyrics read, “You’ve been hosting parties in my mind, I’m working overtime to have you in my world.” This is a lyrical way to say that her loved one is taking over her thoughts, making it difficult to focus. 

It’s the end of the song, “Think I see you in the wings, God, I’m hallucinating”, but it is okay because, ironically, it cuts back to the main chorus, where Laufey is dancing around. This is the essence of “Lover Girl” by Laufey.