Gracie Abrams is, as the kids say, the moment. Since releasing her first EP—“It’s not been very long, but it feels like a million years”—the singer-songwriter has graduated to opening for Taylor Swift on her Eras Tour. Now enjoying the success of her debut album, Good Riddance, Abrams will be touring again with stops in Europe this fall—all before she turns 24.
HER THIRD-GRADE TEACHER had the class keep “tiny palm-size journals. It wasn’t a grand plan to get us into storytelling, but it did feel very serious to me. I was immediately drawn to this private place where you could talk about anything. I lost the journal and it was my first real heartbreak.”
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