Lately,Gracie Abramshas been itching to move to New York permanently.
Shes a California native, but now at 24, shes feeling like the city matches her energy.
Now, Abrams is gearing up for what looks to be her biggest year yet.
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So Im just excited to all be in the same room.
Abrams knows the feeling of having, well, too many feelings to face the world.
Its the way Abrams has been expressing herself since she was a child.
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I want to be on stage, she says.
I just loved writing and no one else was going to sing my songs.
In many ways, Abramss inner life hasnt changed that much.
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It feels crazy internally.
It feels like a sickness or something.
Its a feeling that she wanted the album to evoke in itsimagerytoo.
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I tell her I love the offbeat imagery and she laughs.
A lot of people hated it, she says.
I fucking love it.
In her mind, the album is also much more extroverted.
It felt mega important and valuable.
So few people get to experience the kind of perspective from which I was able to study it.
She also was surprised to find herself less nervous than she expected her first few shows.
But the way Abrams tells it, the story of us was as organic as it could be.
We were at dinner and we had a lot of Cosmos, she says with a laugh.
And we were talking about our lives and talking about our experiences that fueled our albums.
She was like, we have to go back to the house and listen to everything.
Swift would listen to aSecret of Ustrack, and then Abrams would listen toTortured Poets.
It was the best night ever.
It totally couldnt have been less planned, but it was the most fun.
I feel obviously wildly lucky that she is on this album for many reasons.
But shes growing up, too, and shes ready to bring her fans with her.
