Dancing With The Stars will go on as planned, following the WGA reaching a deal.
20.09.2023 - 00:39 / variety.com
Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic Attentive music fans have had some time now to become familiar with who and what the singer Laufey is: a young Icelandic-Asian-American woman whose traditional balladry often recalls the pre-rock era. Still, for a few of us, it might have come as a very slight surprise to see her step onto the outdoor stage of the Ford in Hollywood over the weekend and be reminded that she is 24 and not 124.
If ever we’re tempted to mistake her for a centenarian, anyway, it’s only in the best possible way. Laufey’s ascendency to major-league pop artist is one of the most heartening musical phenomena of the last couple of years… or should be, to anyone who has any particular affection for the sounds and songwriting styles of the Great American Songbook years.
There’s never a complete shortage of talented youngish people who feel some kind of affinity for jazz standards, but one crucial difference with Laufey is, she’s writing her own great American songbook, or at least getting a very creditable start on one. Performing Saturday at the Ford with the LA Philharmonic as her backing band, Laufey did do three covers from the classic era — “I Wish You Love,” “Misty” and “The Nearness of You” – but the other 18 were her own, virtually all of them feeling completely of a piece with the stuff of Hoagy Carmichael.
Or of Astrud Gilberto, given that newly minted bossa nova numbers came up more than once in the set. It’s not unfair to view this as semi-anachronistic stuff.
Yet Laufey is wildly popular, far more so than chart positions would indicate. The Ford show was an instant sellout, with resale tickets generally be offered for $300-600 in the leadup to the weekend… and her two sold-out
.Dancing With The Stars will go on as planned, following the WGA reaching a deal.
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