Gracie Abrams Is Embracing Her Delusions

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has been itching to move to New York permanently. She’s a California native, but now at 24, she’s feeling like the city matches her energy.Like the city that never sleeps, Abrams feels like, during the past year, she too hasn’t stopped, After years of slowly building a fanbase for her unique style of soulful yearning ballads that some call “sad girl” music, her career has hit a crescendo with the frenetic energy of a wave that hasn’t yet crested thanks in part to the fact that she was selected for literally the biggest stage in the world: ’s tour.

She opened several shows for Swift across the country in 2023, an experience which she compares to a crash college course in performing, and capped off the year with a Grammy nomination for Best New Artist.Now, Abrams is gearing up for what looks to be her biggest year yet.

Her sophomore album, The Secret of Us, which is out today, has already spawned her first top 40 hit in the UK, ,” and contains “us,” a much anticipated duet with Swift.Earlier this month, Abrams announced her first headlining tour, which spawned some Swiftian levels of excitement from fans, who raced to Ticketmaster and posted online their screenshots of dreaded hours-long waiting rooms to snag a ticket.

Abrams has already added additional tour dates to keep up with demand, a scenario she says she never had imagined.“I did not expect people to care to this degree, and I'm really grateful that they do and I really care this much as well,” she says. “So I'm just excited to all be in the same room.”If there’s anything a Gracie Abrams song evokes, it’s a specific feeling that is immediately recognizable to anyone that’s been a teenage girl.