- 2025-07-10
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MUSIC
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ROLE MODEL Releases New Version of “The Longest Goodbye” featuring Laufey
American singer-songwriter ROLE MODEL joined forces with Icelandic-Chinese jazz singer-songwriter Laufey to release a new version of “The Longest Goodbye” along with a music video on July 9, 2025.
The original version of the song is featured on the extended edition of his sophomore album, “Kansas Anymore (The Longest Goodbye)”, which was released back in February.
This marks the first collaboration between ROLE MODEL and Laufey.
The track was written by Laufey, Mason Stoops, Noah Conrad, and Tucker Pillsbury. Produced by Noah Conrad and Mason Stoops.
The pair performed the song during ROLE MODEL's recent headlining tour in Los Angeles.
ROLE MODEL said of the video, “The video is actually us recording the take that we put out. Ain’t no lip-syncing, no match cutting. We put two cameras in there, because we recorded the original version in Noah’s living room with that mic. Miss Laufey was kind enough to come in and do that. Nothing fake about it, because that’s just super vulnerable and raw and honest of us. That’s what music is about.”- ROLE MODEL told VMAN about the song, “I asked her to come sing it on stage during my LA show, and as soon as I heard her sing the first line of the second verse I was like, ‘Oh, we need to record this’. I couldn’t think of a better voice to sing that song. Her voice is timeless, and that was kind of the word of the day when I was originally writing that song last year. I wanted to end the album with a very sonically timeless and classic song, and her voice brought it there for me.”
- source : Apple Music
