If you are looking for an album to listen to this Valentine’s Day, then Laufey’s debut album, “Everything I Know About Love,” is the one for you. With modernized jazz and classical music, Laufey captures the feeling of being a hopeless romantic.

Before Laufey won a Grammy this year for her sophomore album “Bewitched,” she released her debut album “Everything I Know About Love” in 2022. Laufey told The Line of Best Fit that the album is about dealing with growing up, “It’s also very ‘hopeless romantic.’ All the songs are based on my personal experiences in the past years, but the way I write about them is like fiction,” she said. “I try to create magic out of those moments, whether it’s heartbreak, or having a crush on someone, or never having been in love.”

In “Beautiful Stranger,” Laufey describes a brief encounter she had with someone on a train. The song plays out like a rom-com, as Laufey wonders what would have happened if she had said something to him, “What if I would've stayed on the train?/Dared to stand up and ask for his name/Maybe we would have exchanged a few words/A fairy-tale moment could have occurred.” However, Laufey remains hopeful about seeing this person again, “But my beautiful stranger will have to remain/A stranger until I see him again.”

Laufey talks about the confusion that comes with falling in love for the first time in the song “Valentine.” The track perfectly captures the feeling you get when you realize someone loves you back, as Laufey sings, “How the hell did I fall in love this time?/And honestly, I can‘t believe I get to call you mine/I blinked and suddenly/I had a Valentine.”

“Dear Soulmate” is a song Laufey wrote for her future soulmate. The hopeless romantic in her shines as she wonders who her soulmate is, “Do you have green eyes?/Are they brown like mine?/Do you have a sister too?/Dear soulmate/One day I'll give this song to you.”

Laufey references the jazz musician Chet Baker in the song “Just Like Chet.” This song is sadder than the previous tracks, as Laufey describes how she fell too hard and fast for someone, “Unfortunately, I'm too romantic/Dramatic for that reality/I go ahead and just like Chet I fall in love too easily.”

In the bossa nova influenced song “Falling Behind,” Laufey hopelessly sings about how everyone around her is falling in love except for her. The song went viral on TikTok this summer – teenagers and young adults would make videos to the lyrics, “Everybody’s falling in love/And I’m falling behind,” and describe their own experiences with love.

In the title track, Laufey describes what people told her falling in love would be like. Despite what the title says, Laufey tells her listeners that she does not actually know that much about love, “'Cause that's everything I know about love/Everything I know about love/I don't know that much at all/I trip, I fall every time I try/It's all too much/That's everything I know about love.” Laufey, like many of us, is just figuring love out as she goes.

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