The duet version of the single follows the deluxe edition of Role Model’s latest album Kansas Anymore
Role Model and Laufey reach the end of the road in the official music video for the duet version of “The Longest Goodbye.” In the black-and-white video, the two musicians share a microphone and the same emotional sentiments. “Now you’re changin’ and movin’, I’ll take my ass to Houston/’Cause I don’t think you love me anymore,” Role Model leans in to sing. Later, Laufey adds, “Instead of blamin’ and bruisin’ and watching what I’m losin’/I don’t think I lovе you anymore.”
“The Longest Goodbye” arrived earlier this year on Kansas Anymore (The Longest Goodbye), the extended edition of Role Model’s second studio album, as a solo entry. “This is a great day because ‘The Longest Goodbye’ just got longer,” Laufey wrote on Instagram.
“The video is actually us recording the take that we put out,” Role Model said in an Instagram Story. “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.”
The pair previously performed “The Longest Goodbye” together during Role Model’s recent headlining tour. “I asked her to come sing it onstage during my L.A. 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,’” Role Model told V Man. “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.”
Speaking about Kansas Anymore, Role Model recently told Rolling Stone, “the one thing I wanted to prove when I first put it out was my growth — my songwriting and my taste in music had matured, and I had also matured as a person. It felt like a big shift in the way I would talk about things and write about them, and a big part of that was just me getting to a place on guitar where I could play well enough that I could write songs by myself on it.”
