Gracie Abrams On New Album The Secret Of Us & Touring With Taylor Swift

When Gracie Abrams and I catch up, it has been a minute.

Since she final sat down for a GLAMOUR interview in 2022, Gracie has written a duet and toured with Taylor Swift, launched her sophomore album The Secret of Us and been nominated for a New Artist Grammy.

“I did not win, which is gorgeous,” she says. “It is heaven on earth to lose, particularly once you’re shedding to somebody as f**king iconic as Victoria Monét.” The R&B singer-songwriter took residence the Grammy, and Gracie stays very excited by the success of feminine pop stars proper now, giving one other musician good friend of hers, Sabrina Carpenter, for instance.

“It appears like a very fortunate time to be a girl in music as a result of I’ve so many artists that I get to look as much as,” she says. “Everybody topping the charts, it is all chicks and that is actually thrilling. And Sabrina being primary for one million and a half years feels prefer it’s like solely proper. Love her a lot.”

Feminine solidarity and collaboration within the music business is every thing to Gracie, not simply because she co-wrote her second album The Secret of Us together with her greatest good friend Audrey Hobert, however as a result of she additionally co-wrote a duet for the album, us, with Taylor Swift herself.

A couple of weeks again, the pair despatched Instagram mad with a hilarious video that adopted their songwriting session, which peaked with a really hazardous-looking hearth in Taylor’s kitchen, and ending with the star placing out the fireplace with a hearth extinguisher.

“I do not know the way she’s able to the entire issues she’s able to,” Gracie says of Taylor and their wild evening. “Working a hearth extinguisher, high of the checklist. Deeply impressed.” Earlier than the fireplace and songwriting extravaganza, Taylor had taken Gracie for dinner to have a good time her Grammy nomination. “She was being extremely form and candy… We had been completely over served on the drinks entrance,” Gracie remembers.