“Snow White” feels like a natural progression from Laufey’s recent singles, yet it is different.
Released August 7, 2025, the track arrives six weeks after Lover Girl and several months after Tough Luck, showing a new dimension to her artistry. 459,000 YouTube views in 24 hours. People noticed.
Where Lover Girl explored the chaos of unexpected infatuation with bossa nova rhythms and self-aware humour, Snow White strips away the whimsy entirely.
Lover Girl found Laufey laughing at herself as she became everything she once mocked, “Love-struck girl, I’d tease her. Thought I’d never be her.”
That song was a tongue-in-cheek diary entry about long-distance obsession, set against Tokyo streets and temple steps.
Now, with Snow White, the humour is gone, replaced by raw vulnerability.
Tough Luck showed another side of Laufey entirely, a fiery, no-nonsense breakup anthem where she declared “Tough luck, my boy, your time is up / I’ll break it first, I’ve had enough.”
That track revealed her “angrier side,” as she called it, with tempo shifts and biting wit.
It was her version of “crashing out” after a toxic relationship, complete with sarcastic bite and theatrical edge.
But Snow White isn’t about someone else. It’s about herself. And that makes all the difference.
“I never want to send a bad message out there,” Laufey confesses about the song, which features lines like “The world is a sick place, at least for a girl.”
Tough words from an artist who just showed us her angry side and her lovestruck side. “But how could I tell everyone to believe in themselves when I don’t even believe in myself?” There it is. The uncomfortable truth we dance around.
The music video? Iceland. Of course. Directed by her twin sister Junia Lin (who also directed the Lover Girl video in Japan).
This time, Laufey wanders through snow in a white dress and green rain boots. Why the boots? That’s the detail that sticks with you.
Practicality meeting fantasy. The visual metaphor works almost too well; vulnerability with just enough protection against the elements.
“Snow White is about the never-ending chase for perfection that comes with being a woman,” Laufey explains. Simple. Direct. Devastating. We’ve all been there. Standing in front of mirrors. The voice that whispers: smaller, fairer, better. Always better.
The production, crafted with Spencer Stewart, feels sparse. Almost minimalist. Just guitar, subtle strings, that voice.
No bossa nova rhythms here. No tempo shifts or theatrical edges. The naked quality makes you want to look away. But you can’t.
The fan reactions poured in. Laufey noticed. “Reading all your messages and comments about ‘Snow White’ is making me sob,” she posted on Instagram. “How hard it is to see the beauty in ourselves. There’s such comfort in knowing we’re not alone in our feelings. I love you.”
The comments section became exactly what the song describes, a place where people could admit their shared insecurities.
The fairy tale metaphor. Snow White. Defined by her appearance. Her skin “fair as snow.” The original story was published in 1812. We’re still having the same conversation. Why? That’s what the song asks without asking.
This isn’t the Laufey of Lover Girl laughing at her own infatuation. This isn’t the Laufey of Tough Luck crashing out on an ex. This is something new. Something harder to categorise.
Aaron Dessner worked on some tracks for the album. You can hear his influence in the emotional rawness. The willingness to sit in discomfort rather than resolve it.
The video’s final shot stays with you. Laufey alone in the vast Icelandic landscape. Small against the elements. That’s what good art does. It doesn’t offer answers. It poses questions. It sits with you.
“A Matter of Time” drops August 22. The tour has already sold over 250,000 tickets. Multiple sold-out arena shows. People are showing up for this new, more vulnerable Laufey. The one who’s willing to show the cracks.
The power of Snow White lies in its honesty. No “but you’re beautiful just the way you are” moment.
Just the uncomfortable truth that sometimes we can’t talk ourselves out of how we feel. Sometimes the mirror wins.
The song works because it’s honest. Brutally so. It’s rather easy for artists to present polished versions of themselves, but Laufey shows us the unfiltered thoughts we rarely admit. She’s not trying to be inspirational. She’s just telling the truth.
And sometimes? That’s exactly what is needed.
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Laufey Snow White Lyrics
Verse 1
Can’t help but notice all of the ways
In which I failed myself, I failed the world all the same
I don’t think I’m pretty, it’s not up for debate
A woman’s best currency’s her body, not her brain
Chorus
They try to tell me, tell me I’m wrong
But mirrors tell lies to me, my mind just plays along
The world is a sick place, at least for a girl
The people want beauty, skinny always wins
And I don’t have enough of it
I’ll never have enough of it
Verse 2
Sometimes I see her, she looks like Snow Whitе
She’s everything I am, but my wrongs arе turned to rights
Her body is smaller, skin is so fair
She’s achieved everything I’ve dreamed of
And it’s all that I can think of
Chorus
They try to tell me, tell me I’m wrong
But mirrors tell lies to me, my mind just plays along
The world is a sick place, at least for a girl
The people want beauty, skinny always wins
And I don’t have enough of it
I’ll never have enough of it