With her education in classical and jazz music, and her willingness to break the rules and modernise, Laufey's third album is proof of her future icon status.

"I'm a very sarcastic person," Laufey (pronounced Lay-vay) tells Newsweek. "With the last album [2023's Bewitched ], I showed the light, and I wanted to show a little bit of darkness on this album. I had a lot of fun doing it. It's kind of like an anxious Cinderella."