Ava Valianti shares new single 'Laugh Track'

Ava Valianti taps into the surreal tension between identity and performance on her latest single 'Laugh Track' — a biting, vulnerable exploration of what it means to constantly feel like you’re playing a role rather than living your life.

Leaning into dark humour and poetic introspection, Valianti frames her experience like a sitcom — complete with invisible cameras and a laugh track that makes her question whether people are laughing with her or at her. Drawing clever references from The Truman Show to How I Met Your Mother’s Ted Mosby, she captures the strange comfort of flawed TV characters while reckoning with the fear of being stuck in someone else’s narrative.

“I wrote Laugh Track as a way to process the feeling of always being ‘on’ — like I’m performing even when no one’s watching,” Valianti shares. “I’ve always had this weird sense that my life is being observed, like I’m in some kind of TV show where my mistakes are the punchline. This song is me stepping back and asking, ‘Am I in control of my own story, or am I just playing a part?’”