Taylor Swift’s Latest Chess Move: A Gracie Abrams Collab
In case you haven’t heard, it’s something of a brat summer: pop star Charli XCX is presently dominating the airwaves with her latest hyper-pop album, even enlisting the reclusive Lorde for a new remix.
But the ever-dominant Taylor Swift will always have an answer to challengers in her key arenas. And this week, Gracie Abrams—one of Swift’s plucky Eras Tour openers—released a new song, “Us,” that she co-wrote with Swift, and that even comes with a ready-made viral moment.
According to Abrams (who is the daughter of filmmaker J. J. Abrams), she and Swift had dinner and drinks together last fall and then retreated to Swift’s home to work on music when disaster struck: a fallen candle became a semi-threatening fire on the kitchen island.