Released as a surprise drop on Valentine’s Day of 2022, “Valentine” was the lead single for Laufey’s debut album “Everything I Know About Love.”

The song details a sudden relationship that Laufey fell into without warning. Laufey described the song as:

A jazzy little song that I wrote about kind of falling in love for the first time and not really knowing how to feel or how to act.

Laufey has also noted that the overall songwriting and soundscape of the track ties into its lyrical content:

“Valentine” has this funny, off, almost-drunk pacing to it. The last line: “I blinked and suddenly I found a Valentine”, is a resolution. It’s holding for a time, and then it resolves in the end. That resolution feels very satisfying, it feels like something finishing or something making sense.