Gracie Abrams

Who is Gracie Abrams?

Gracie Abrams is an American singer-songwriter, born on 7 September 1999 in Los Angeles, California. The daughter of filmmaker J.J. Abrams, she built her own name in music with a confessional, diaristic style of indie-pop, and has become one of the most closely followed songwriters of her generation. She records for Interscope Records.

Early releases and rise

Abrams first drew a following by posting music online before releasing her debut EP, Minor, in 2020, followed by This Is What It Feels Like in 2021. Her early songs — quiet, intimate and lyric-driven — connected quickly with a young audience and marked her out as a writer more interested in emotional detail than in polish.

Good Riddance and The Secret of Us

Her debut studio album, Good Riddance (2023), was written and produced with Aaron Dessner of The National, a partnership that has shaped much of her work since. Its follow-up, The Secret of Us (2024), was her commercial breakthrough, featuring "Risk", "Close to You", "I Love You, I'm Sorry" and the hit "That's So True", along with "Us", a duet with Taylor Swift.

Tours and recognition

Abrams has toured widely, opening for Olivia Rodrigo on the Sour Tour in 2022 and for Taylor Swift on the Eras Tour across 2023 and 2024, before headlining her own Good Riddance and The Secret of Us tours. She was nominated for Best New Artist at the 2024 Grammy Awards, earned a second Grammy nod for "Us" the following year, and won New Artist of the Year at the 2025 American Music Awards.

Sound and style

Abrams writes in a raw, first-person voice, often about anxiety, relationships and self-doubt, set against spare, folk-leaning production. Her collaboration with Aaron Dessner gives her records a warm, organic texture that keeps the focus on the words. That directness — the sense of reading someone's journal — is the core of her appeal.

She belongs to a wave of young songwriters who came up online and who prize honesty over gloss, and she is often placed in a lineage of confessional artists that runs back through Joni Mitchell and Elliott Smith. Her fans connect less to a persona than to the feeling that she is describing exactly what they are going through, in plain and specific language.

Daughter from Hell and "Hit the Wall"

In 2026 she announced her third studio album, Daughter from Hell, set for release on 17 July. Its lead single, "Hit the Wall", arrived on 14 May 2026, again written and produced with Aaron Dessner, followed by the second single "Look at My Life". The album continues the confessional writing that has defined her career.

Legacy

In only a few years, Gracie Abrams has moved from posting songs online to headlining tours, earning Grammy nominations and duetting with Taylor Swift. Her rise reflects a wider shift in pop toward intimate, writerly songcraft, and she has become one of its most recognisable young voices.

She has also helped normalise a certain kind of career path — one built first on a devoted online audience and a body of small, honest songs, rather than on a single radio hit — and her steady climb across three albums has made her a reference point for other young artists working in the same confessional mode. With Daughter from Hell, she moves into her most prominent chapter yet.