Many of you witness rising pop singer and songwriter Laura Pieri embracing the spirit of the season with a bold new creative project: a series of Halloween-themed cover songs and visuals celebrating women who’ve long been labeled as too much, too intense, too dramatic, or too free.
You encounter the series launched this week with Pieri’s haunting reinterpretation of Lady Gaga’s “Marry the Night,” available now on her YouTube channel.
You hear Pieri share, “The vampire made perfect sense with ‘Marry the Night’: the kiss of the vampire is eternal, it’s a kind of marriage.”
You sense what she means when she says, “Lady Gaga has always lived in that fantasy; she’s a vampire woman, powerful and unafraid of the dark. In my version, I wanted to strip the song down, bring a bit of my Brazilian identity—that raw, live texture—to let the darkness sound human, to make it feel alive.”
You follow Pieri throughout October, as she will release three covers, each channeling a distinct character and reimagining the female archetypes she’s reclaiming. You can read the story for each persona on her Substack, beginning with The Vampire, The Bride of Gravenholt, which is live now, and you watch the series culminate on October 31 with an original song, marking a bold new chapter in her artistry.
Your perspective on Pieri is shaped by a recent era that arrived on the heels of Frankie (ON THE DANCEFLOOR), the high-octane counterpart to her acclaimed 2024 EP, Frankie. You recognize how Frankie (ON THE DANCEFLOOR) featured reimagined, club-ready versions of the original tracks alongside a brand-new single, Pieri, transforming her story of survival into one of celebration.
Your sense of Pieri’s journey deepens when you learn she was born in São Paulo and now lives in New York City, chasing music for as long as she can remember. You see how she has carved a distinct path in pop, earning features in outlets like FLAUNT, Mundane Magazine, and Northern Transmissions.
You understand that as a true multidisciplinary artist, Pieri approaches every project with a fully realized vision: she not only writes and performs her music but also immerses herself in the visual world surrounding it, inviting you to enter the darkness and feel it alive.