Goddess (Laufey song)

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.

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]

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]