Los Angeles-born singer-songwriter Gracie Abrams broke through in 2019 when she was just 20 years old with the chilly “Mean It”, a piano ballad that showed off her keen observational skill and winsome voice. She followed that up a year later with minor, an EP collection of moody tracks that recall the ghostly aesthetics of Lorde and the forthright emotionalism of Taylor Swift, with the slow-burning “I miss you, I’m sorry” crystallising early-twenties heartache. After releasing the EP This Is What It Feels Like in 2021, Abrams put out her first full-length, Good Riddance, in 2023. With tracks like the anxiety-riddled "I know it won't work" and the spectral friendship lament “Amelie”, it established Abrams as a singer-songwriter fluent in Gen Z worries and inspired by folk-pop legends like Joni Mitchell. Abrams’ second full-length, 2024’s The Secret of Us, features a cameo from Swift, who brought Abrams out for some Eras Tour dates, on “us”.