Gracie Abrams says no man has “come near defining popular culture” like Taylor Swift has

Gracie Abrams has declared that no man has “come near defining popular culture” like Taylor Swift has.

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Talking to Cosmopolitan for a brand new cowl story, Abrams was requested in regards to the similarities and variations between herself and her mentor-figure Taylor Swift – who took her out on her record-breaking ‘Eras’ tour on a number of events.

Gracie Abrams – daughter of J.J. Abrams – informed the publication: “I couldn’t be extra completely different from Taylor. We're completely different in all of the ways in which my buddies and I are completely different or that you just and I are completely different. Taylor is an athlete, an excellent businessperson, and a genius author. She’s a grounded human being who makes time for everybody in her life. It’s been actually cool to be within the orbit of an individual like her.”

Abrams continued: “There’s additionally nothing that comes near what she has accomplished. Individuals will nonetheless gaslight her and her capabilities and all this shit. However please level me to at least one man who has come near defining popular culture on this manner. There may be nothing! However persons are not prepared for that dialog.”

Taylor Swift and Abrams have since turn into shut buddies, with Abrams revealing in December that the top of the ‘Eras’ tour had everybody “crying all day”: “It felt just like the final day of college backstage. Everybody was strolling round with their [tour] books, signing one another’s books. We had been all strolling round with Sharpies.”

Abrams’ ‘The Secret Of Us’ scored a four-star overview from NME upon its launch in June: “It’s a second of pure pop catharsis that leans into the nice, dangerous and messy of infatuation. That is the enjoyment of ‘The Secret of Us’: it doesn’t draw back from the advanced or contradictory. Right here Gracie Abrams embraces her rising pains and celebrates enduring the tough moments. She’s by no means sounded higher.”

In December, Abrams carried out with Swift throughout her closing leg of the latter’s blockbuster ‘Eras Tour’, with the two delivering a mash-up of ‘I Love You, I’m Sorry’ and Swift’s ‘Final Kiss’, taken from her 2010 album ‘Communicate Now’.

That they had beforehand teamed up on ‘Us’, taken from Abrams’ newest album. In November, the music was nominated on the Grammys for Finest Pop Duo/Group Efficiency, however finally misplaced out to Woman Gaga and Bruno Mars for ‘Die With A Smile’.

Elsewhere, Abrams not too long ago introduced her 2025 ‘The Secret Of Us’ Asia tour, which can see her embark on dates throughout Singapore, South Korea, Hong Kong, Taiwan, China, Japan and Thailand. Her Asia tour will happen after performing in UK and Europe, set to start in March 2025. Try the full checklist of dates right here.