Gracie Abrams’ Hell Is Other People’s Expectations

Gracie Abrams, for most of her career, has lived inside labels. The LA-based singer-songwriter is a former Taylor Swift superfan and current Taylor Swift protegee. To her fans, she's a generational exemplar of "sad girl" pop; if you Google that, you'll find an impressively long Spotify playlist called "gracie abrams but it gets progressively sadder." And she is, as commenters perennially delight in pointing out, the daughter of storied showrunner J. J. Abrams.