December 12, 2025 • 15 mins
Laufey joins the Mercedes-Benz Interview Lounge to talk about her rapid rise, her multi-generational fan base, dream-chasing, touring, and of course—stealing cereal—before her big performance at Z100’s Jingle Ball.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Live from the Mercedes Benz Interview Lounge tonight.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Of course, here in New York City at Madison Square Garden,
the world famous Madison Square Garden, we bring you Z
one hundred jingle Ball presented by Capitol One. It's gonna
be quite the night of superstars. One of the stars
shining brightly tonight on the stage will be Lave so
much A lot of people do I know. I mean
people in their nineties love Leave's music like the Boston
Nova sound, and kids in their teams.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
My sixteen year old son only watches YouTube loves her.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
It's just a great moment for this era of music.
And here she has to talk about it. Leva think
she comes in by the way, stolem a serial. We'll
get into that. And wow, you don't need those headphones.
I don't. Oh no, not at all. Layve. Welcome to
our show. We're so so happy to have you here.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
Thank you so much for having me.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
And I'll be very honest. We're not this nice to anyone, really, No,
we're very very acidic and awful.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
Even though I stole your cereal.
Speaker 4 (00:57):
We'll get into that, probably because you stole his serial.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
I do truly believe that the music that you are presenting,
not only tonight at jingle Ball here at the Garden,
but to all of your fans and around the world
is a great moment for music because it's proof that
music that sounds like it's from any era is great music.
And you've done it. I mean, are you tired of
talking about how your sound is so different than other
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artists your age? Let's say, no, not at all.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
I mean to me, like, I just sing the music
and make the music that comes most naturally to me,
like I sound. I feel like my voice just sits
the best in that kind of style, this kind of
mid century more like jazz style. So I'm just happy
that I get to do what I love and that
anybody's listening, and especially young people. I think growing up,
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this was the music I loved and kind of felt
like I was the only one who enjoyed it. And
to now get to be a part of a big
community that enjoys the same kind of music as me
is really really cool.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
How many of you in this room grew up with
great parents who had excellent music in the house from
all all generations. Yes, yeah, absolutely, me too, And we
had Bostonova in our house, lots of it, and I
ays thought to my mom and dad, you know, shaking martinis,
and that's why I learned how to shake martinis at
the age of eight. While listening to music that you're
now singing, I feel kind of drunk. Every time they
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hear your music, it's going to Oh.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
Honestly, I'm so happy that it has that effect that
means it like transports you to a different, different place
of drunkness.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
But I will say a lot of people are surprised
at the fact that there are people ages twelve, thirteen,
fourteen years old who are huge, huge fans of your
music and we never ever thought in a million years
they would be locked into it. Do you have an
explanation why this is happening the way it's happening.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
I think maybe older generations just like underestimate the ability
of young people to be able to listen to whatever music.
I think if twelve year olds would have enjoyed it
in the fifties, there's no reason they shouldn't enjoy it now.
It's not like brains have completely changed that at least
that drastically, and that they can't enjoy that music. I mean,
(03:12):
I always thought like, there totally is space in the
gen Z brain for this kind of music. It's just
I don't think we've given young people the space to
even take on that kind of music. It's like we
just expect young people to only like whatever is new
and noisy, Like growing up, I loved One Direction and Bach,
(03:33):
you know, and it's like you can love both.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
My sixteen year old loves you and Kendrick Lamar, so.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
It really exactly.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
I think social media for you has been so huge
because he watches YouTube religiously, my sixteen year old, and
he came to us and was like, oh, I love her,
and that's where he found you. But yet my husband
found you a different way, or my older son found
you a different way. So very interesting.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
So as you're driving to work right now or wherever
you're listening to us, you have been sucked in and
you're wondering who this is. It's lay if you're just
turning us on. If you missed the beginning of this conversation,
you have to go back and listen to us on
the podcast Gandhi, Yes, who met you backstage at the garden?
Speaker 4 (04:11):
Yeah? Uh yeah, you were at the garden not too
long ago, and Andrew and I went to the show
and it was incredible. It was when Lin Manuel Miranda
came on stage with you so great, Which is leading
me to my question, how has this been for you?
Because I know that you've been at it for a while,
but it's sort of been an onslaught more recently of
touring now these huge arenas and a lot more fame
(04:33):
in your face, How is that working out for you?
Speaker 1 (04:35):
It's it's definitely weird. It's odd to have a phone
thrust in your face.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
Yeah, a lot.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
I'm really lucky though. I feel like my my community,
my fan base is really extra kind, even like I
had a pit in my concert, but it was like
I would go on social media afterwards and hear about
how it was like the most respectful pitch and nobody
had been in and yeah, and we hear from the
venues too that there were very low, you know amounts
(05:05):
of people that like people weren't getting in fights or bodysurfing,
nobody surfing, no like physical like very few medical emergencies
like really yeah, which listen, the pit is just a
ton of teenagers and like young people in their twenties,
like it's it is a miracle. And they're standing there
like probably dehydrated, with their knees locked. Like the fact
(05:27):
that they're not passing out as much is like, I
think it's a good I think it's a good sign
people have like a little sense of personal space, which
is nice. But no, it's I feel so so so
lucky every single day to get to do what I love.
It makes me believe in dreams. I know that sounds
so cheesy, but this thing that I wanted to do
growing up, it felt so odd and far sought and
(05:51):
something that didn't happen to people like me. Every night,
when I'm up on stage and I look out into
the audience and I see so many young people with
big I'm like, you gotta at least try. That's like
the one message I want to send out because if
it happened to me, it can happen to anybody else.
Speaker 4 (06:07):
So that was gonna be my other question to you,
because when I said lin Manuel, Miranda, you made this
face like, oh my god, and it was crazy. We
were screaming. I'm sure inside you were screaming a little
bit too.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
That was the loudest guest on the entire tour was it.
Speaker 4 (06:17):
I was going to ask if there was a moment
for you that you kind of had to pinch yourself
because you're like, Wow, this is now happening, and it's
happening to me because of me, I think.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
I mean every night on tour MSG my parents were there,
So that felt very emotional. And I think just the
sheer volume of it was just quite overwhelming. I mean,
I come from a country of three hundred and fifty
four hundred thousand people, so to see that, like two
nights in a row, that amount of people in Marena,
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It's like, that's my entire city, you know.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
And so I think that was really definitely a pinch
me moment.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
I need to go back to something you said before
I forget. You were talking about dreams and this show
is so about you got to have a dream right
at all times. But you said, I can't believe I'm
paraphrasing someone like me is actually watching this dream come true.
What do you mean by that? Like, what do you
mean somebody like you? How do you frame yourself as
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a child, as that person who had that dream and
you can't believe it's coming true?
Speaker 1 (07:19):
First, first off, I'm from Iceland, which.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
Is what's wrong with that.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
We love Iceland, we love Iceland, but Iceland's very far away.
It's a remote island surrounded by ocean, and it has
its own language and is very it's very removed from
the rest of the world. I mean, growing up there,
even sitting in a room like this seemed completely impossible.
And I mean I grew up a classical musician and
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there's nobody that I could look up on stage and
point to and be like, oh, they look like me
or sound like me. I'm a mix of many cultural backgrounds.
It's really hard to describe me in one sentence, Like
you have to use five sentences.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
To say, okay, go, We'll give you room for five
sentences to just describe who you are.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
Where you're from, icelandic Chinese musical theater, jazz obsessed cellist, pianist, songwriter.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
Cerial thief, cereal thief, she stolen cereal.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
You know, I'm a multi hyphen in every single way.
And I didn't have the proof. There wasn't anyone who
looked or sounded like me.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
But look, you had it all along, you had that magic,
and here you are today.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
And that's why I believe so much and dreamed.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
And you bet Bruce Springsteen for a Grammy Award. I
mean that pins me moments. How about that in twenty
twenty four?
Speaker 1 (08:31):
Yeah, I mean that was absolutely crazy. I was not
expecting it at all. I mean a nomination was shocking enough.
And yeah, that was definitely one of those.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
Like is this real life? Lave is here? She'll be
at Z one hundred jingle Ball tonight at the Garden Delighting.
We're gonna light you up.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
Girl.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
He's going to look so.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
Fun like a Christmas How are you going to ask
her favorite cereal?
Speaker 3 (08:55):
I'm waiting.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
Let's talking about that. So as you know serial Killers
Scotty and Andrew, they do them in the Cereal Killers
podcast room as you see right there. But we found
out as took my favorite cereal, Scotty be what cereal
was that she took? That's the caramel corn checks And
I said, she's eating who cereal? What cereal is she eating? Girl?
Speaker 1 (09:15):
Friend?
Speaker 2 (09:16):
Give me that bag? But I went in there and
you look like I was. It looked like I was
watching the Animal Channel where the lions are like eating
a wilderbeast. You had that look in your eye while
you're eating cereal and no milk, milkless.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
I just like needed something really quick and I needed
to be in the scooping zone, you know. Okay, I
love dry cereal, Love dry cereal.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
What's your favorite raisin breas?
Speaker 1 (09:41):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (09:42):
And my question to you was, do you remember my
question you about eating too much raisin bran? Is it
like building condos in your cold?
Speaker 5 (09:52):
Wow?
Speaker 1 (09:53):
Fiber? Well, the kids aren't eating enough fiber these days.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
When they're gonna listen to your music, now you get
them to eat your citare here from Big.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
Five to tell everyone to eat their fiber fiber.
Speaker 4 (10:04):
Big fiber condos and your colon could be a new song.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
Yeah, I'll let you have. It's all good, but yeah,
it tastes so good.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
But see, leave is also a student of foreign cereals.
They just re released banana caramel cheerios. Do you want
to try that caramel?
Speaker 1 (10:22):
Like?
Speaker 4 (10:22):
No, God, get.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
Away from me. You know what I love about America
is like if they have an idea, they execute and
it's like it doesn't always need to be thought out,
but it is always executed, which is really really I
think it makes for a really interesting world to live in.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
You know, something's going to happen at the Garden when
Leve hits the stage, our own Sam producer Sam, are
you bringing her out tonight or what are you doing
to that.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
Question, I'll figure it out.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
I'm just gonna watch say as nervous as hell. I'll
tell you why. All because of All to Beauty, right,
Oh yeah, can you fill me in on this?
Speaker 6 (11:00):
Yes, But the reason is because I'm actually really excited.
All to Beauty is doing something awesome on stage tonight.
It's a whole moment from Madison Square Garden and it's
going to be on social so everybody can see it.
I don't want to give away too much more than that,
but yeah, ALTI Beauty is a huge partner of ours,
and I know fe we get to do something really
cool for them after this. We're going to curate a
gift bag for one lucky winner and it's going to
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have just some of our holiday favorites.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
It's true, so they're making a lot possible.
Speaker 6 (11:26):
My panic attacks some magic for everyone at the garden.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
They do it all Thank you All to Beauty and
there you have it. You know this is gonna happen tonight.
Your friend Darren Chris is bringing you out on stage tonight. Yes,
who's a very dear, dear old friend of mine as well.
Speaker 6 (11:40):
Loved.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
Would you do Broadway? Are you interested in doing Broadway?
Speaker 1 (11:43):
Absolutely?
Speaker 2 (11:44):
I would love just in my dream too. So when
I walk on Broadways, it's as close as I'll ever
get it.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
You're going to do it.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
I buy nuts on Broadway. I just okay.
Speaker 4 (11:51):
So we keep talking about how your music is this
very classical, jazzy, different genre, but you're still writing about
everyday things. You're writing about breakups, very specific breakups, seems.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (12:01):
When you are in the dating world and you write
these songs, do you let someone know ahead of time, Hey,
this is coming. Do you wait for them to just
hear it? And have they reached out?
Speaker 2 (12:11):
No?
Speaker 4 (12:11):
No to all of it.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
Well, I just like, even if they did, I'd say no,
because I think with an every single song, there is
a line of ambiguity, perhaps a little bit of fiction,
a little bit of exaggerating. Sometimes it's toning it down
to save their face, you know.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
Nice.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
So yeah, exactly. So there's no song that's like one
hundred percent accurate in that sense. And I think if
you're dating me, you know what you're getting into.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
But even great relationships have breakups. You can still write
a great thing about someone who maybe screwed you over
or something.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
I can write a full song about an intrusive thought,
So like I could like I could be I'm a
very anxiously attached person and if I have a thought that,
oh my god, they're gonna break up with me, I
could write a whole song about that.
Speaker 6 (13:06):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
Sometimes I'm watching a movie and I'm like whoa, and
then I write about that.
Speaker 4 (13:10):
I picture someone like not doing the dishes and you're
busting out your pad like, well, well, well what have
we here.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
It'll be like me down to sleep and didn't text
good night, and it'll be like it's over now, I'll
never see you again.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
Well, this is where these songs come from. This is
where there's lyrics come from. I mean, I don't I
don't like to use the word trigger, but sometimes things
and life just trigger a thought an emotion and you
write a song about it and you get a Grammy.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
No big deal.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
Oh can I say something about your YouTube page?
Speaker 5 (13:41):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (13:42):
Please?
Speaker 3 (13:42):
I noticed today just put up a little Christmas scene
like kind of like not a yule log, but it's
like a fireplace and a little thing going on, and
it's kind of like you can have it on in
the background and it's all your music, it is. How
did you.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
Find that out? You know everything?
Speaker 5 (13:56):
You're no stalk away, It's yeah, we put up I
am an incredibly indecisive person and I have a really
hard time choosing what music to play.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
I usually need someone to curate something for me. So yeah,
every year we put up like a little you will
log type video that you can just have in the
background and you don't have to decide which Christmas songs
to play, and they're all mine. So hostage exactly my
(14:31):
Christmas hostage.
Speaker 4 (14:32):
Do you have a go to favorite Christmas album.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
Aside from a very live Holiday? Oh my god, I
mean Bing Crosby cover.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
Yes, how do you know he's drunk on the cover
about Justin Bieber.
Speaker 3 (14:52):
That's one of my favorites, Justin Oh.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
My god, I love the Justin Bieber want too that one? Really?
Also newer one that I love is Ariana Andy's Christmas EPs.
Speaker 4 (15:01):
On the duality Bing Crosby arisby Mariana Grande was.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
I think my most play is on Spotify.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
Is year Tonight is the Night of course, is anyone
unders single ball tonight starring Leave? And on the stage,
are you bringing in an entire orchestra on stage with
you tonight? No, you need an orchestra with you at
all moments.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
D It's it's a very very They can sound like
an orchestra. They fill up the room in the same way.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
I can't wait. This is gonna be such a great
performance tonight. And of course Santa Claus is coming to town.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
Ho ho.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
I gotta play that, I gotta play it right now.
Leave having you hear such a gift, Thank you so
much you Santa Claus is coming to town.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
Ho ho ho
Live from the Mercedes Benz Interview Lounge tonight.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Of course, here in New York City at Madison Square Garden,
the world famous Madison Square Garden, we bring you Z
one hundred jingle Ball presented by Capitol One. It's gonna
be quite the night of superstars. One of the stars
shining brightly tonight on the stage will be Lave so
much A lot of people do I know. I mean
people in their nineties love Leave's music like the Boston
Nova sound, and kids in their teams.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
My sixteen year old son only watches YouTube loves her.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
It's just a great moment for this era of music.
And here she has to talk about it. Leva think
she comes in by the way, stolem a serial. We'll
get into that. And wow, you don't need those headphones.
I don't. Oh no, not at all. Layve. Welcome to
our show. We're so so happy to have you here.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
Thank you so much for having me.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
And I'll be very honest. We're not this nice to anyone, really, No,
we're very very acidic and awful.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
Even though I stole your cereal.
Speaker 4 (00:57):
We'll get into that, probably because you stole his serial.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
I do truly believe that the music that you are presenting,
not only tonight at jingle Ball here at the Garden,
but to all of your fans and around the world
is a great moment for music because it's proof that
music that sounds like it's from any era is great music.
And you've done it. I mean, are you tired of
talking about how your sound is so different than other
(01:20):
artists your age? Let's say, no, not at all.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
I mean to me, like, I just sing the music
and make the music that comes most naturally to me,
like I sound. I feel like my voice just sits
the best in that kind of style, this kind of
mid century more like jazz style. So I'm just happy
that I get to do what I love and that
anybody's listening, and especially young people. I think growing up,
(01:45):
this was the music I loved and kind of felt
like I was the only one who enjoyed it. And
to now get to be a part of a big
community that enjoys the same kind of music as me
is really really cool.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
How many of you in this room grew up with
great parents who had excellent music in the house from
all all generations. Yes, yeah, absolutely, me too, And we
had Bostonova in our house, lots of it, and I
ays thought to my mom and dad, you know, shaking martinis,
and that's why I learned how to shake martinis at
the age of eight. While listening to music that you're
now singing, I feel kind of drunk. Every time they
(02:19):
hear your music, it's going to Oh.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
Honestly, I'm so happy that it has that effect that
means it like transports you to a different, different place
of drunkness.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
But I will say a lot of people are surprised
at the fact that there are people ages twelve, thirteen,
fourteen years old who are huge, huge fans of your
music and we never ever thought in a million years
they would be locked into it. Do you have an
explanation why this is happening the way it's happening.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
I think maybe older generations just like underestimate the ability
of young people to be able to listen to whatever music.
I think if twelve year olds would have enjoyed it
in the fifties, there's no reason they shouldn't enjoy it now.
It's not like brains have completely changed that at least
that drastically, and that they can't enjoy that music. I mean,
(03:12):
I always thought like, there totally is space in the
gen Z brain for this kind of music. It's just
I don't think we've given young people the space to
even take on that kind of music. It's like we
just expect young people to only like whatever is new
and noisy, Like growing up, I loved One Direction and Bach,
(03:33):
you know, and it's like you can love both.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
My sixteen year old loves you and Kendrick Lamar, so.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
It really exactly.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
I think social media for you has been so huge
because he watches YouTube religiously, my sixteen year old, and
he came to us and was like, oh, I love her,
and that's where he found you. But yet my husband
found you a different way, or my older son found
you a different way. So very interesting.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
So as you're driving to work right now or wherever
you're listening to us, you have been sucked in and
you're wondering who this is. It's lay if you're just
turning us on. If you missed the beginning of this conversation,
you have to go back and listen to us on
the podcast Gandhi, Yes, who met you backstage at the garden?
Speaker 4 (04:11):
Yeah? Uh yeah, you were at the garden not too
long ago, and Andrew and I went to the show
and it was incredible. It was when Lin Manuel Miranda
came on stage with you so great, Which is leading
me to my question, how has this been for you?
Because I know that you've been at it for a while,
but it's sort of been an onslaught more recently of
touring now these huge arenas and a lot more fame
(04:33):
in your face, How is that working out for you?
Speaker 1 (04:35):
It's it's definitely weird. It's odd to have a phone
thrust in your face.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
Yeah, a lot.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
I'm really lucky though. I feel like my my community,
my fan base is really extra kind, even like I
had a pit in my concert, but it was like
I would go on social media afterwards and hear about
how it was like the most respectful pitch and nobody
had been in and yeah, and we hear from the
venues too that there were very low, you know amounts
(05:05):
of people that like people weren't getting in fights or bodysurfing,
nobody surfing, no like physical like very few medical emergencies
like really yeah, which listen, the pit is just a
ton of teenagers and like young people in their twenties,
like it's it is a miracle. And they're standing there
like probably dehydrated, with their knees locked. Like the fact
(05:27):
that they're not passing out as much is like, I
think it's a good I think it's a good sign
people have like a little sense of personal space, which
is nice. But no, it's I feel so so so
lucky every single day to get to do what I love.
It makes me believe in dreams. I know that sounds
so cheesy, but this thing that I wanted to do
growing up, it felt so odd and far sought and
(05:51):
something that didn't happen to people like me. Every night,
when I'm up on stage and I look out into
the audience and I see so many young people with
big I'm like, you gotta at least try. That's like
the one message I want to send out because if
it happened to me, it can happen to anybody else.
Speaker 4 (06:07):
So that was gonna be my other question to you,
because when I said lin Manuel, Miranda, you made this
face like, oh my god, and it was crazy. We
were screaming. I'm sure inside you were screaming a little
bit too.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
That was the loudest guest on the entire tour was it.
Speaker 4 (06:17):
I was going to ask if there was a moment
for you that you kind of had to pinch yourself
because you're like, Wow, this is now happening, and it's
happening to me because of me, I think.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
I mean every night on tour MSG my parents were there,
So that felt very emotional. And I think just the
sheer volume of it was just quite overwhelming. I mean,
I come from a country of three hundred and fifty
four hundred thousand people, so to see that, like two
nights in a row, that amount of people in Marena,
(06:46):
It's like, that's my entire city, you know.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
And so I think that was really definitely a pinch
me moment.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
I need to go back to something you said before
I forget. You were talking about dreams and this show
is so about you got to have a dream right
at all times. But you said, I can't believe I'm
paraphrasing someone like me is actually watching this dream come true.
What do you mean by that? Like, what do you
mean somebody like you? How do you frame yourself as
(07:14):
a child, as that person who had that dream and
you can't believe it's coming true?
Speaker 1 (07:19):
First, first off, I'm from Iceland, which.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
Is what's wrong with that.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
We love Iceland, we love Iceland, but Iceland's very far away.
It's a remote island surrounded by ocean, and it has
its own language and is very it's very removed from
the rest of the world. I mean, growing up there,
even sitting in a room like this seemed completely impossible.
And I mean I grew up a classical musician and
(07:43):
there's nobody that I could look up on stage and
point to and be like, oh, they look like me
or sound like me. I'm a mix of many cultural backgrounds.
It's really hard to describe me in one sentence, Like
you have to use five sentences.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
To say, okay, go, We'll give you room for five
sentences to just describe who you are.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
Where you're from, icelandic Chinese musical theater, jazz obsessed cellist, pianist, songwriter.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
Cerial thief, cereal thief, she stolen cereal.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
You know, I'm a multi hyphen in every single way.
And I didn't have the proof. There wasn't anyone who
looked or sounded like me.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
But look, you had it all along, you had that magic,
and here you are today.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
And that's why I believe so much and dreamed.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
And you bet Bruce Springsteen for a Grammy Award. I
mean that pins me moments. How about that in twenty
twenty four?
Speaker 1 (08:31):
Yeah, I mean that was absolutely crazy. I was not
expecting it at all. I mean a nomination was shocking enough.
And yeah, that was definitely one of those.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
Like is this real life? Lave is here? She'll be
at Z one hundred jingle Ball tonight at the Garden Delighting.
We're gonna light you up.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
Girl.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
He's going to look so.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
Fun like a Christmas How are you going to ask
her favorite cereal?
Speaker 3 (08:55):
I'm waiting.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
Let's talking about that. So as you know serial Killers
Scotty and Andrew, they do them in the Cereal Killers
podcast room as you see right there. But we found
out as took my favorite cereal, Scotty be what cereal
was that she took? That's the caramel corn checks And
I said, she's eating who cereal? What cereal is she eating? Girl?
Speaker 1 (09:15):
Friend?
Speaker 2 (09:16):
Give me that bag? But I went in there and
you look like I was. It looked like I was
watching the Animal Channel where the lions are like eating
a wilderbeast. You had that look in your eye while
you're eating cereal and no milk, milkless.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
I just like needed something really quick and I needed
to be in the scooping zone, you know. Okay, I
love dry cereal, Love dry cereal.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
What's your favorite raisin breas?
Speaker 1 (09:41):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (09:42):
And my question to you was, do you remember my
question you about eating too much raisin bran? Is it
like building condos in your cold?
Speaker 5 (09:52):
Wow?
Speaker 1 (09:53):
Fiber? Well, the kids aren't eating enough fiber these days.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
When they're gonna listen to your music, now you get
them to eat your citare here from Big.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
Five to tell everyone to eat their fiber fiber.
Speaker 4 (10:04):
Big fiber condos and your colon could be a new song.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
Yeah, I'll let you have. It's all good, but yeah,
it tastes so good.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
But see, leave is also a student of foreign cereals.
They just re released banana caramel cheerios. Do you want
to try that caramel?
Speaker 1 (10:22):
Like?
Speaker 4 (10:22):
No, God, get.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
Away from me. You know what I love about America
is like if they have an idea, they execute and
it's like it doesn't always need to be thought out,
but it is always executed, which is really really I
think it makes for a really interesting world to live in.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
You know, something's going to happen at the Garden when
Leve hits the stage, our own Sam producer Sam, are
you bringing her out tonight or what are you doing
to that.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
Question, I'll figure it out.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
I'm just gonna watch say as nervous as hell. I'll
tell you why. All because of All to Beauty, right,
Oh yeah, can you fill me in on this?
Speaker 6 (11:00):
Yes, But the reason is because I'm actually really excited.
All to Beauty is doing something awesome on stage tonight.
It's a whole moment from Madison Square Garden and it's
going to be on social so everybody can see it.
I don't want to give away too much more than that,
but yeah, ALTI Beauty is a huge partner of ours,
and I know fe we get to do something really
cool for them after this. We're going to curate a
gift bag for one lucky winner and it's going to
(11:21):
have just some of our holiday favorites.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
It's true, so they're making a lot possible.
Speaker 6 (11:26):
My panic attacks some magic for everyone at the garden.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
They do it all Thank you All to Beauty and
there you have it. You know this is gonna happen tonight.
Your friend Darren Chris is bringing you out on stage tonight. Yes,
who's a very dear, dear old friend of mine as well.
Speaker 6 (11:40):
Loved.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
Would you do Broadway? Are you interested in doing Broadway?
Speaker 1 (11:43):
Absolutely?
Speaker 2 (11:44):
I would love just in my dream too. So when
I walk on Broadways, it's as close as I'll ever
get it.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
You're going to do it.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
I buy nuts on Broadway. I just okay.
Speaker 4 (11:51):
So we keep talking about how your music is this
very classical, jazzy, different genre, but you're still writing about
everyday things. You're writing about breakups, very specific breakups, seems.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (12:01):
When you are in the dating world and you write
these songs, do you let someone know ahead of time, Hey,
this is coming. Do you wait for them to just
hear it? And have they reached out?
Speaker 2 (12:11):
No?
Speaker 4 (12:11):
No to all of it.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
Well, I just like, even if they did, I'd say no,
because I think with an every single song, there is
a line of ambiguity, perhaps a little bit of fiction,
a little bit of exaggerating. Sometimes it's toning it down
to save their face, you know.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
Nice.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
So yeah, exactly. So there's no song that's like one
hundred percent accurate in that sense. And I think if
you're dating me, you know what you're getting into.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
But even great relationships have breakups. You can still write
a great thing about someone who maybe screwed you over
or something.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
I can write a full song about an intrusive thought,
So like I could like I could be I'm a
very anxiously attached person and if I have a thought that,
oh my god, they're gonna break up with me, I
could write a whole song about that.
Speaker 6 (13:06):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
Sometimes I'm watching a movie and I'm like whoa, and
then I write about that.
Speaker 4 (13:10):
I picture someone like not doing the dishes and you're
busting out your pad like, well, well, well what have
we here.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
It'll be like me down to sleep and didn't text
good night, and it'll be like it's over now, I'll
never see you again.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
Well, this is where these songs come from. This is
where there's lyrics come from. I mean, I don't I
don't like to use the word trigger, but sometimes things
and life just trigger a thought an emotion and you
write a song about it and you get a Grammy.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
No big deal.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
Oh can I say something about your YouTube page?
Speaker 5 (13:41):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (13:42):
Please?
Speaker 3 (13:42):
I noticed today just put up a little Christmas scene
like kind of like not a yule log, but it's
like a fireplace and a little thing going on, and
it's kind of like you can have it on in
the background and it's all your music, it is. How
did you.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
Find that out? You know everything?
Speaker 5 (13:56):
You're no stalk away, It's yeah, we put up I
am an incredibly indecisive person and I have a really
hard time choosing what music to play.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
I usually need someone to curate something for me. So yeah,
every year we put up like a little you will
log type video that you can just have in the
background and you don't have to decide which Christmas songs
to play, and they're all mine. So hostage exactly my
(14:31):
Christmas hostage.
Speaker 4 (14:32):
Do you have a go to favorite Christmas album.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
Aside from a very live Holiday? Oh my god, I
mean Bing Crosby cover.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
Yes, how do you know he's drunk on the cover
about Justin Bieber.
Speaker 3 (14:52):
That's one of my favorites, Justin Oh.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
My god, I love the Justin Bieber want too that one? Really?
Also newer one that I love is Ariana Andy's Christmas EPs.
Speaker 4 (15:01):
On the duality Bing Crosby arisby Mariana Grande was.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
I think my most play is on Spotify.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
Is year Tonight is the Night of course, is anyone
unders single ball tonight starring Leave? And on the stage,
are you bringing in an entire orchestra on stage with
you tonight? No, you need an orchestra with you at
all moments.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
D It's it's a very very They can sound like
an orchestra. They fill up the room in the same way.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
I can't wait. This is gonna be such a great
performance tonight. And of course Santa Claus is coming to town.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
Ho ho.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
I gotta play that, I gotta play it right now.
Leave having you hear such a gift, Thank you so
much you Santa Claus is coming to town.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
Ho ho ho
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