DIRECTED BY WARREN FU
Video still, credit Warren Fu
April 13, 2026 – Laufey releases the music video for “Madwoman,” featuring “Heated Rivalry” breakout star Hudson Williams, Olympic figure skating champion Alysa Liu, actress Lola Tung from “The Summer I Turned Pretty” and “Forbidden Fruits,” and Megan Skiendiel of the supergroup KATSEYE. You can watch the video, directed by Warren Fu (Dua Lipa, The 1975, Daft Punk), HERE!
The music video was filmed in Los Angeles, leading up to Laufey’s full-set Coachella debut, and features an all-star cast in a Slim Aarons-inspired world where the picture-perfect facade is not what it seems.
“Growing up, I felt a general lack of representation for people who looked like me in music and media. With the ‘Madwoman’ video, I wanted to be that representation”, says Laufey. “The result is what honestly feels like my absolute dream video and exactly what younger Laufey would have loved to see.”
The video embodies a union of Asian and Asian American talent both in front of and behind the camera – with an all-star director, Warren Fu, DP Andrew Truong, production design Evaline Wu Huang, multiple heads of departments, and executive producers Christine Yi and Maiqi Qin of Gold House, Julie Fong of Partizan Entertainment, and Oscar Tang, the co-founder of Committee of 100. The project honors that Asian representation in music, film, sports, and the arts is responsible for some of the greatest stories shaping culture today!
“Madwoman” is off her album A Matter of Time: The Final Hour, which is the deluxe version of the Los Angeles-based Icelandic-Chinese artist, composer, producer, and multi-instrumentalist’s GRAMMY®-winning album, A Matter of Time. The deluxe album features four new songs: “Madwoman,” “How I Get,” “I Wait, I Wait, I Wait,” and “I’ll Forget About You (In Time).” Purchase it HERE digitally and on all physical formats!
The Final Hour adds on to a monumental year for Laufey, who recently played both weekends of Coachella. In May, she will tour through Asia, with stops in Hong Kong, Singapore, Tokyo, Seoul, and more! This run will follow her sold-out UK and European legs with two nights at London’s O2, Paris’ Adidas Arena, Dublin’s 3Arena, and more!
Laufey took home Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album for A Matter of Time at the 68th GRAMMY® Awards earlier this year. This is her second win in the category, following a statue for Bewitched at the 2024 awards, which awarded her the title of the youngest artist to win that honor. A Matter of Time was released to far-reaching critical acclaim in August of 2025, debuting at a No. 4 spot on the Billboard 200 chart and a No. 1 spot on the Jazz Albums chart, where it remains with a spot in the top 5. In January, Lauefy was presented with the Icelandic knighthood, the prestigious Order of the Falcon, by President Halla Tómasdóttir
Set to release on April 21, Laufey’s first children’s book, titled “Mei Mei The Bunny,” via Penguin Random House. She also has a live album, A Matter of Time: Live at Madison Square Garden, set to be released for Record Store Day on April 18.
Laufey – pronounced lay-va – has enchanted an entire generation with brilliant songs of love and self-discovery by displaying her vision of jazz and classical-infused pop music. While being raised between Reykjavik and Washington, D.C., she learned piano and cello as a child and later studied at Berklee College of Music. While there, she wrote her 2021 debut EP, “Typical of Me,” whose single “Street by Street” earned a No. 1 spot in Icelandic radio – the first of many triumphs that now include nearly 8 million global streams, a social media following of 25 million, the biggest jazz LP debut in Spotify History, a growing number of Platinum plaques, a Forbes 30 Under 30 classification, and being named one of TIME’s 2025 Women of the Year. she has sold-out the Hollywood Bowl, Radio City Music Hall, Madison Square Garden, Crypto.com Arena, and London’s Royal Albert Hall; as well as performed back by the LA Phil, the National Symphony Orchestra, and the China Philharmonic Orchestra; shared the stage with artists like Noah Kahan, Hozier, Jon Batiste, and Raye; and collaborated with artists like Barba Streisand, Role Model, Beabadoobee, and Norah Jones.
See widespread critical acclaim for A Matter of Time:
Listen to her conversation on NPR’s Fresh Air HERE.
Watch her profile on CBS Sunday Morning HERE.
“a phenomenon almost without comparison in contemporary pop.”
“…her singular spot in modern music makes A Matter of Time so triumphant: her latest full-length sounds unstuck from sonic or storytelling expectations, and thus, Laufey once again surpasses them.”
“There’s only one singer in the world who has their jazz scat solos sung back at them note-for-note by arenas filled with adoring fans. That would be Laufey, a Gen Z artist who transcends genre and medium.”
“…one of Gen Z’s favorite ‘pop girls’; her genre-defying sound breaks down the barriers between jazz, pop, and classical music.”
LAUFEY—A MATTER OF TIME: THE FINAL HOUR
Deluxe album artwork, credit: Emma Craft
1. Clockwork
2. Lover Girl
3. Snow White
4. Castle in Hollywood
5. Carousel
6. Silver Lining
7. Too Little, Too Late
8. Cuckoo Ballet (Interlude)
9. Forget-Me-Not
10. Tough Luck
11. A Cautionary Tale
12. Mr. Eclectic
13. Clean Air
14. Sabotage
15. Seems Like Old Times
16. Madwoman
17. How I Get
18. I Wait, I Wait, I Wait
19. I’ll Forget About You (In Time)
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