Gracie Abrams really “didn’t like” one of her new songs until recently because she wrote it when she was “not feeling good”.
The 26-year-old pop star has admitted she spent six months unable to listen to her track Look At My Life – which features on her new album Daughter from Hell – and she only gave the song another chance following encouragement from her collaborator Aaron Dessner.
During an appearance on the Therapuss with Jake Shane podcast, Gracie explained: “I really didn’t like that song until recently. I wrote it when I was not feeling good … I have recency bias, I think, with writing. Sometimes after writing something, I have to put it away for a while and not acknowledge that it exists …
“Aaron was like: ‘I think this song is really great. Maybe revisit it?’ It took like six months until I could hear it again and not want to rip my eyeballs out.”
However, Gracie admitted she’s relieved she didn’t shelve the track, adding: “I’m very glad that it resurfaced.”
She also confessed she felt the same way about another song, 2021’s Mess It Up, but her fans convinced her to perform it even though she was reluctant.
Gracie said: “There are a few [songs] that I’ve expressed my grievances towards. At shows, my audience will basically [be] like the equivalent of someone standing outside your house with a pitchfork and torches, being like: ‘Play it!’
“And I’m like: ‘Okay, totally’. Mess It Up’ was one.”
It comes after Gracie thanked fans for their support after earning her first ever number one album on the Billboard 200 chart with Daughter From Hell.
The record, Gracie’s third full-length studio album, sold 124,000 equivalent album units in the week ending July 23, meaning the singer achieved her best week ever by units too.
The highest Gracie got on the chart – which ranks the most popular albums of the week in the U.S. – with her last album The Secret of Us was number two, in July 2024.
Following the news of Daughter From Hell reaching the top spot, Gracie took to her Instagram Stories to celebrate.
Sharing Billboard’s announcement of her hitting number one, she wrote: “Whoa, thank you so much. “This is nuts, and entirely your doing!! Thank you.”