“Lover Girl” by Laufey

"Lover Girl" arrived in June 2025 as the third single from A Matter of Time, the third album from Icelandic singer-songwriter Laufey, and it finds her doing something she'd long sworn off: falling hard. She wrote it in Tokyo on the Bewitched Tour while missing someone, laughing at herself for turning into exactly the lovesick type she used to tease.

Built with co-writer and co-producer Spencer Stewart and cut in Los Angeles, it's a bossa nova with a wink, all offbeat sway and handclaps, Laufey adding her own cello while Katisse Buckingham's flute and Junia Lín's viola flutter around Stewart's piano. The lyric plays being apart from her boyfriend as giddy melodrama rather than heartbreak. She tried it out on a Mexico City stage in May, weeks before the single came out.

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