Since opening for Taylor’s Swift’s “The Eras Tour,” musician Gracie Abrams has slowly risen to fame. However, the answer to the question of whether Abrams is truly deserving of fame can be determined by evaluating her music overall–including sound quality, lyrics and more. As I see it, Gracie Abrams is one of the worst “nepo babies” who has gained unsolicited fame. Her songwriting is nonsensical, and her melodies are bland. We need to bring actual talent into light.
All of her songs follow the same generical pattern: two boring and repetitive choruses followed by a fast-flowing bridge, all consisting of lyrics that have no effort put into them. This is present in most of her tracks, including “That’s So True” and “I love you, I’m sorry.” I feel that to be deemed worthy as an artist, you should implement a variation of rhythms into your songs and explore different structures. Her discography is overall very repetitive, from lyrics being repeated throughout the song as seen in “Felt Good About You” to the guitar chords in each track sounding too similar to the other. The structure of Abrams’ music is very predictable. Her voice itself often stays in one register, as if she’s too scared to bring uniqueness to her music.
Her lyrics seem to be written by a 13-year-old. In “That’s So True,” the whole track’s writing makes no sense at all. Random thoughts have been compiled together which is especially evident in the bridge where she sings, “Catch me on your ceiling, that’s your prize,” and in the second pre-chorus, “I’m sorry she’s missing it, sad, sad boy, not my business but had to warn ya.”
In her track “Risk,” we come to the further realization that Abrams desperately needs to diversify her lyrics and use words other than those which are mundane. If the instrumental of her songs was good and the track was played out smoother, simple lyrics wouldn’t be a problem. However, with a boring back track and an even more boring voice, the use of, “and I wake up in the middle of the night with the light on and I feel like I could die ’cause you’re not here and it don’t feel right,” as a pre-chorus is a bad move.
To me, Abrams’ voice sounds like a sped-up audio all the time. She needs to improve her voice by finding her true vocal color–maybe then, her songs would be worthy of fame.
Personally, I feel that the only reason Abrams had a chance at fame is because her dad was involved in the making of “Star Wars.” After opening for Swift’s renowned Eras tour, Abrams’ fanbase is just made up of crazy “Swifties” who blindly follow everything Swift promotes.
While I don’t know how Abrams is as a person, she is most certainly not deserving of fame with the career she’s attempting to pursue. Nepotism certainly brings you fame, but fame doesn’t equal talent. There are definitely far more deserving artists who should actually be brought into the spotlight instead of being overshadowed by someone who should probably improve or pick out a different career path.