When Gracie Abrams and I catch up, it’s been a minute.
Since she last sat down for a GLAMOUR interview in 2022, Gracie has written a duet and toured with Taylor Swift, released her sophomore album The Secret of Us and been nominated for a New Artist Grammy.
“I didn’t win, which is beautiful,” she says. “It’s heaven on earth to lose, especially when you’re losing to someone as f**king iconic as Victoria Monét.” The R&B singer-songwriter took home the Grammy, and Gracie remains very excited by the success of female pop stars right now, giving another musician friend of hers, Sabrina Carpenter, as an example.
“It feels like a really lucky time to be a woman in music because I have so many artists that I get to look up to,” she says. “Everyone topping the charts, it’s all chicks and that’s really exciting. And Sabrina being number one for a million and a half years feels like it’s like only right. Love her so much.”
Female solidarity and collaboration in the music industry is everything to Gracie, not just because she co-wrote her second album The Secret of Us with her best friend Audrey Hobert, but because she also co-wrote a duet for the album, us, with Taylor Swift herself.
A few weeks back, the pair sent Instagram mad with a hilarious video that followed their songwriting session, which peaked with a very hazardous-looking fire in Taylor’s kitchen, and ending with the star putting out the fire with a fire extinguisher.
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“I don’t know how she’s capable of all of the things she’s capable of,” Gracie says of Taylor and their wild night. “Operating a fire extinguisher, top of the list. Deeply impressed.” Before the fire and songwriting extravaganza, Taylor had taken Gracie for dinner to celebrate her Grammy nomination. “She was being incredibly kind and sweet… We were totally over served on the drinks front,” Gracie recalls.