On her new single “Risk,” 24-year-old pop singer Gracie Abrams sings about a love interest with such tortured yearning—“I wake up in the middle of the We interviewed Gracie Abrams about her new album, 'The Secret of Us.'
On her new single “Risk,” 24-year-old pop singer Gracie Abrams sings about a love interest with such tortured yearning—“I wake up in the middle of the night / With the light on / And I feel like I could die / ‘Cause you’re not here”—that you do a double take when she gets to the chorus and reveals, “God, I’m actually invested / Haven’t even met him.”
“We would spill every detail of our lives in the time that we had,” she says. “There was a real urgency to our storytelling, and it very naturally led to us songwriting together. We were like, ‘We know how this night went down, but how do we amplify it or make it so dramatic that people want to scream it when we’re all at a show together?’”
There’s a newfound clarity in the production and cohesiveness to the storytelling that reflects their iterative process. Whereas Abrams was often singing through a fog of regret and confusion on, she sounds poised, deliberate, and clear-eyed here. The stories build from tiny details to soaring epiphanies, or masterfully reflect on the entire scope of a relationship with grace, wisdom, and remove. A train ride to Boston becomes a stage set with all the people she has yet to fall in love with.
These songs were meant to excite and engage the kinds of boisterous pop fans Gracie played for on tour. And certainly the music is full of dynamic hooks that shimmer and pirouette. But Abrams wrote the lyrics at a time when silence and introspection was becoming increasingly important to her. Instead of listening to much music while working on, she read the work of feminist authors like Eve Babitz, Melissa Broder, Rebecca Solnit, and Mary Oliver, and reflected on “how little I know.
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