Goddess (Laufey song)

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"Goddess"
Single by Laufey
from the album Bewitched: The Goddess Edition
Released6 March 2024 (2024-03-06)
Genre Jazz pop
Length4:27
Label AWAL
Songwriter(s) Laufey
Producer(s) Laufey
Laufey singles chronology
"Winter Wonderland"
(2023)
"Goddess"
(2024)
"Santa Baby"
(2024)
Music video
"Goddess" on YouTube

"Goddess" is a song by Icelandic singer Laufey. It was released on 6 March 2024 as the lead single from the reissue of her second studio album, Bewitched , subtitled The Goddess Edition.

Contents

Background

Laufey released her second studio album Bewitched on 8 September 2023. [1] She announced the reissue, The Goddess Edition on 6 March 2024 alongside the release of "Goddess", which appears as the fourth and final bonus track (eighteenth on the album overall). [2] The Goddess Edition was released on 26 April 2024.

Lyrics and composition

When announcing the track, Laufey stated, “Goddess is my most honest song yet. I wrote it alone at my piano after feeling like someone had fallen in love with the version of me they’d seen on stage, just to find that I wasn’t what they projected once I was off stage. They deemed me to no longer be a shiny thing when the glamor wore off, reduced to skin and bone.” Lyrically, the song is a conversation with a former partner and explores the emotional turmoil associated with being in a relationship with someone who falls in love with the idea of you, rather than the actual person you are. Laufey talks of how her fame and success has become a blinding factor in her relationships, and repeats the lyric "I'm a goddess on stage / Human when we're alone" throughout the song. [3] [4]

Music video

A music video was premiered on April 11, 2024. The video also served as a short film. It was shot in Brooklyn, directed by Celine Song and stars Laufey and English actor and musician Will Gao as a couple whose relationship begins to fracture. [5]

Personnel

All credits are adapted from Apple Music. [6]

Charts

Weekly chart performance for "Goddess"
Chart (2024)Peak
position
Iceland (Tónlistinn) [7] 26
New Zealand Hot Singles (RMNZ) [8] 12

References

  1. Richards, Will (27 July 2023). "Laufey announces new album Bewitched with title track". NME . Retrieved 8 September 2023.
  2. Jónsdóttir, Laufey (2024-03-06). "Bewitched: The Goddess Edition with 3 new songs will be yours on April 26th". Twitter. Retrieved 2023-11-10.
  3. Ghee, Jessica (April 11, 2024). "Perfection and idolization meets reality in Laufey's new single, "Goddess."". The Post . Retrieved September 20, 2025.
  4. Rose, Joanna (March 9, 2024). "'Goddess' By Laufey Is Heartbreaking In An Old Hollywood Kinda Way". The Honey Pop.
  5. "Watch Laufey's cinematic new short film for 'Goddess'-by Past Lives director Celine Song". nme.com. April 16, 2024. Retrieved May 14, 2024.
  6. "Goddess". Apple Music . Retrieved May 14, 2024.
  7. "Tónlistinn – Lög – Viku 11 – 2024" (in Icelandic). Plötutíðindi. Archived from the original on 16 March 2024. Retrieved 16 March 2024.
  8. "Aotearoa Hot 40 Singles: Week of March 15th, 2024". Recorded Music NZ. Archived from the original on 27 December 2024. Retrieved 15 March 2024.