Singer Laufey made sure people knew her name at the 2026 Golden Globes.
Laufey, 26, posed for photos in a figure-hugging orange dress on the red carpet ahead of the awards show on Sunday, January 11. While taking direction from photographers, the musician — whose full name is Laufey Lín Bing Jónsdóttir — noticed that they kept referring to her as “Megan.”
“My name isn’t Megan, so … I don’t know,” Laufey said with a confused look on her face, as seen in a video shared by Pop Crave via X.
The photographers then appeared to realize their mistake, with one shouting, “Oh!” Laufey simply laughed off the mix-up.
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Many fans in the replies suggested that the photographers thought Laufey was actually Megan (full name Megan Meiyok Skiendiel) of the group Katseye.
“Wait bc —,” one user wrote, sharing side-by-side photos of Laufey and Megan to showcase their resemblance.
“I mean I see it they really do look alike, but Megan probably wouldn’t be here without her group so the mistake doesn’t make sense😭,” another person added.
Some fans took a moment to laugh about Laufey’s response to the photographers.
“Lol she’s adorable,” another person added.
One fan said it was “classic Laufey energy.”
Laufey is a jazz pop, classical and bossa nova artist who is most known for her hit “From the Start” and her 2023 album, Bewitched, which won the singer a Grammy Award for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album. Her most recent album, A Matter of Time, is nominated in the same category at the 2026 Grammys.
Laufey’s red carpet moment reminded some fans of Chappell Roan, who went viral in 2024 when she yelled at a photographer to “shut the f*** up” at the MTV Video Music Awards after they first shouted the phrase at her.
“You shut the f*** up. No, not me, bitch,” she said.
Roan, 27, later explained her outburst in an interview with Entertainment Tonight.
“This is quite overwhelming and quite scary,” the “Hot to Go!” singer said. “I think for someone who gets a lot of anxiety around people yelling at you … the carpet is horrifying, and I yelled back. You don’t get to yell at me like that.”
Roan also confronted a photographer at the world premiere of Olivia Rodrigo: Guts World Tour in 2024, claiming that they had been “disrespectful” to her at a previous event.
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“You were so rude to me. I deserve an apology for that,” she said.
Roan and Laufey aren’t the only stars to speak up to photographers on red carpets.
In November 2025, Millie Bobby Brown made headlines when a photographer told her to “smile” on the red carpet at the Stranger Things season 5 premiere.
“Smile? You smile!” she said before storming off.
Meanwhile, Hannah Waddingham responded to someone who told the Ted Lasso star to “show some leg.”
“Oh, my God, you’d never say that to a man, my friend,” she said. “Don’t be a d***, otherwise I’ll move off. Don’t say, ‘Show me leg.’ No. Have some manners.”
