- It's literally getting hot in here,
so take off all your clothes.
How I'm feeling sweating in front of the camera right now,
I'm like literally, look, can you tell? Ew.
Hey, I'm Gracie Abrams and I'm here today
to play a game of song association with Elle.
So I'll be given a word and then 10 seconds
to sing that word in a song.
I was nervous driving here today as all.
I hope I will do well.
(Gracie blowing raspberries)
Okay. Feel.
Ugh, okay.
♪ This is what it feels like ♪
There's a song called "This is What It Feels Like,"
that I wrote.
I wrote that song about my best friend, Audrey and I,
on a day that we went from
New York to Fairfield, Connecticut
to watch the Harry Styles fan fiction movie
because that was the closest movie theater
that was playing it.
It's funny to write songs about people in your life
because it's totally weird and sensitive
and I don't know that I've like nailed the process
of letting people know that a song
is either about them or not.
Luckily, with this, I was like,
"Dude, I'm writing a song about about that time
we went to see the Harry Styles movie."
Me.
(timer ticking)
Oh.
♪ Me ♪
(Gracie humming)
It's a Taylor Swift song called "Me"
and it was on "Lover" and it was a single
and there was a video for it
and we all watched it, didn't we?
My feelings about going on tour
with Taylor this year, I can't believe it.
I'm so lucky to like learn from her from any distance
but up close in this way I think is like, holy (beep).
Good.
♪ You were there all the time ♪
♪ You are the worst of my crimes ♪
♪ You fell hard ♪
♪ I thought good riddance ♪
This song is called "Best" from my new album, Good Riddance,
which I'm touring very soon.
Pre show rituals, I spend a lot of time
like sprawled out on the floor,
like I feel like that's a common complaint I get
from my lovely crew and band is
why are you on the floor again Gracie?
Taste.
Why do I feel like there's gotta be
like taste in a Harry Styles song?
♪ Taste like Strawberries on a summer evening ♪
Harry Styles, "Watermelon Sugar".
Stay.
Oh, oh yeah, it's like,
♪ Could you hold me without any talking ♪
♪ You should try to go by ♪
♪ Don't even have to (laughs) stay ♪
♪ Don't even have to stay ♪
The most difficult part about writing a song
kind of is like the, after I've written it,
feeling like it's too much to put out.
I'm working through the nerves after the fact
and just like being okay with what it is
instead of getting caught up about the way
that some other people might react.
And I was lucky enough to have Aaron as my partner
in the whole process being like, "Literally, shut up."
Where.
I feel like just holding it.
♪ Where do we go now ♪
My single off the album called "Where Do We Go Now?"
This song was one of the ones that
I was like, can't do anything with it maybe
because of how personal and scary it felt to write.
But it's one of my favorite songs ever.
And honestly, making that one was
like a kind of a turning point
in terms of like finding the sonic identity of the album.
We both felt so good about that day
and as we were building it in real time we were just
really drawn to every single choice that we made.
And it was just like one
of the most energizing days of my life.
Run.
(timer ticking)
♪ Run fast for your mother and fast for your father ♪
Florence, who's such a legend and has recently been like,
I don't know if I have been speaking
about her into like the ether but
like has been on my TikTok a lot recently.
I've seen a lot of videos of her
and being so cool with her audience.
Obviously she's such a legend, but I really admire her.
I want to hug her someday.
Hot.
Hot,
(timer ticking)
hot.
Does anyone know a song with hot
in it? (alarm buzzes)
- [Staff] Is it that Nelly song?
- Oh my God, literally, it's literally getting hot in here
so take off all your clothes.
How I'm feeling sweating in front of the camera right now.
I'm literally like, look, can you tell? Ew.
Look.
Oh, look what you made me do.
By our girl, by our queen.
Somebody.
Oh my God.
♪ Now you're just somebody that I used to know ♪
♪ Somebody ♪
That's one of the best songs ever written in my opinion.
Time.
Um,
Um, time, time, time, time, time.
Time?
Time.
(alarm buzzes)
Well, it is about damn time for me to stop sweating
because I'm panicking playing this game. (giggles)
Love.
♪ And I swear to God I'd kill you if I loved you less hard ♪
I think like there's so many songs that
I've written that haven't gone anywhere yet.
And even if I really like a song,
sometimes it's hard for me to take it
out of the context of when I wrote it.
I feel like I do use songwriting
as a tool to just process everything in my life.
And so I struggle sometimes to make songs
like relevant again after I've already kind of,
they've served their purpose for me.
Watch.
Oh, what's, oh, oh my God, it's a Phoebe song.
♪ Watch me ♪
I can't even do it
♪ Fall if I could ♪
She like has this whole crazy thing.
It was "In Georgia" though by Phoebe Bridgers.
I feel very inspired by, I have forever by Phoebe,
just in finding her music when I was little
like made me feel super interested
in being the person that would sing my songs.
I think I wanted to be a songwriter really badly
and when I found her music,
she's coming from such an sincere and emotional place
with such kind of like a rock quality to her words.
And I always like loved Joni Mitchell growing up so much
and oddly finding Phoebe's music
after being so obsessed with Joni Forever,
who felt inaccessible just in that
she came from a different time
and I felt so kind of far away from that.
Sing.
Ugh, sing,
sang, sing,
♪ Sing, singing in the rain ♪
My grandmother was obsessed with
"Singing in the Rain" and growing up
that was a kind of,
I actually haven't thought about that in a very long time.
I love her and miss her very much
and that was like a very fond childhood memory
kind of singing that song with her.
Talk.
♪ We've been doing all this late night talking ♪
♪ about anything' you want until the morning' ♪
"Late Night Talking", Harry Styles.
I'm also like, album of the year, come on.
Can we all just?
My Morning was filled with anxiety
knowing that I was coming here
to potentially ruin my reputation as a music fan.
Thank you for letting me sing to you today
and I hope that you pick up Good Riddance
and listen to it top to bottom.
(lips smack) Love you.