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Laufey Feels Like She Was Born to Play the Hollywood Bowl, With a Rapturously Received Pop/Jazz/Classical Set: Concert Review
Laufey was joined by the LA Phil at the Hollywood Bowl for a symphonic concert that established just how intergenerational her appeal really is.
This set opened with her most overtly nostalgic and “cute” number — “Dreamer,” the lead track from her 2023 “Bewitched” album — before Laufey mostly settled into the kind of languid, lovelorn material that has been her finest stock-in-trade. Performed with Laufey at the piano, it had the singer wailing rather frankly — to the point of using a not-very-nostalgic F-word — about her experience of feeling used, in a romantic relationship, as a celebrity, and it was the one number of the night in which she deliberately inserted a catch into her otherwise flawless alto, for visceral effect. Assuming the abrupt juxtaposition was purposeful, it was Laufey’s way of establishing her breadth in a nutshell… and maybe also her way of reassuring her fan base that getting a little darker with her confessional material will never crowd out her love for Great American Songbook-style stuff, whether it’s covers or her own original takes on that.
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