![]() ![]() ![]() “As much as I’m an old soul,” she volunteers, “I am a 21st century girl at heart. “And then other days I’m speaking in TikTok lingo … but yeah, I definitely think that’s just my rhythm of speech. “I definitely speak sometimes like I’m from a different age,” she agrees, her practised American accent a result of growing up in Washington DC as well as Reykjavik and Beijing. Her conversation is peppered with quaint, emoji-defying turns of phrase such as “if you will”, “whatnot” and “nowadays”. She’s wearing a lace-trimmed floral frock that might once have been called demure. Zooming from her parked car “between engagements” in Santa Monica, the 24-year-old TikTok star, whose debut Australian tour sold out in minutes, conjures a curious collision of old world and new. Something that isn’t just for, you know, your parents or your grandparents. “My passion, my main goal as a musician, is to bring jazz music back to this generation,” she says, “to introduce it as something new to this generation and as something that is ours. She wonders in a different song, by the way, whether the word “pretty” is OK to use - but she and her “Valentine” can’t help exchanging it, so I think we’re good. “I’m on such a mission,” says 24-year-old Laufey Lin Jonsdottir, back home in Los Angeles in between sold-out American club dates. They raise smartphones and voices to sing every word, all but drowning out the pretty girl from Iceland rolling her big eyes and swinging her hollow-body jazz guitar. ![]() The sound is classic circa ’65 bossa nova and the kids are mad for it. ![]()
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