Gracie Abrams Talks Daughter from Hell and New Tour, Performs "Minibar" | The Tonight Show

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0:01-Welcome. Welcome back to the show.

0:02-Thank you. -I am so excited.

0:03We're here. The album is officially out right now.

0:06-Yeah. -"Daughter From Hell."

0:07It's out. [ Cheers and applause ]

0:09♪♪

0:11-Crazy.

0:12-And, also, you're on the cover of "Vogue."

0:14Gracie Abrams. Come on, bud!

0:16[ Cheers and applause ]

0:18-Oh. -And I heard

0:20that you're going to start working on a film.

0:23-Yes. -You're gonna be in a movie.

0:25-Yes, sir. -It's all happening soon.

0:27-It's happening. Yes, I leave very, very shortly.

0:30-Wow. -How are you?

0:31-I'm -- I'm great. Yes. [ Laughter ]

0:32I'm great. I want to get into everything.

0:35I want to talk about the album.

0:37Because you work so hard on this

0:39and you wait for the release date.

0:41It's actually here now. Are you relieved?

0:43Are you excited? Are you partying?

0:45What do you feel like doing?

0:46-I feel -- Well, this is so cool to be here,

0:49so thank you for having me and to listen to you guys play.

0:51-We love you so much. -It's so cool for me.

0:53-Oh, The Roots, yeah, yeah. -Hi, everyone.

0:55[ Cheers and applause ] -Yeah. It's just --

0:56-We all love you. -Thank you.

0:58I feel -- yeah, I feel stoked.

1:00It's been nice to be back with the crew and band

1:03and to kind of just, yeah, reunite.

1:05And the people that I made this with, I,

1:08yeah, respect and admire so much.

1:10So it feels like a nice little celebration of all the work

1:13that went into it, really, when something comes out.

1:15-I heard that you're -- you're into drawing right now.

1:18You're also... -Yeah, well -- [ Laughs ]

1:20I'm not remotely skilled.

1:23It's like a -- it's a --

1:25I like to have something to do with my hands.

1:27I'm very fidgety. You know what I mean?

1:28So anytime there's, like, a ring on,

1:30I'm kind of, like, twisting it or, like, playing.

1:31So I've started -- You have a pen and paper.

1:34-Yes, yes, I have pen and paper.

1:36-I've been all --

1:37So, basically, do any of you --

1:38do you ever do blind contour drawings?

1:41[ Scattered responses ]

1:42-Hold your -- yeah, yeah. -Sure. Yes.

1:44-To the one. -What does that mean?

1:45What does that mean? -Okay.

1:47So it means, basically, you don't -- like, this is --

1:49this requires no skill from me, really.

1:51It's just a fun pastime.

1:52Basically, I look at you, and I never look at my page...

1:56-Oh, no. -...and I never lift the pen.

1:58-Oh, Gracie. -So it won't be pretty.

2:00-Oh, man. [ Laughter ]

2:01-This is not a reflection of you.

2:03-All right. -But I'm gonna start.

2:04-You're blushing already. -I know!

2:06-Oh, my God. I met Will Ferrell backstage,

2:08and I haven't been, like, starstruck like that.

2:10So, like, I literally think I turned --

2:11Like, I'm still kind of -- [ Laughter ]

2:13I'm a little flustered! I was like, Buddy the Elf!

2:15-Yes! Buddy the Elf. Of course.

2:17-Okay. I'm gonna -- we can -- -We'll talk about it.

2:20So you love Buddy the Elf. -I love Buddy the Elf.

2:22-Why are you being serious?

2:23-Oh, I'm just trying to -- -Are you in character?

2:25-No. -Do you want me to freeze or no?

2:26-No, keep doing whatever you're doing.

2:28I'm actually -- Oh, you've changed expressions.

2:30-Maybe. Maybe. [ Laughter ]

2:32-Okay. -Do you want me to just stay...

2:33-Mm. [ Laughter ]

2:35-You look like you're on the cover of "Vogue."

2:37-I wish I was on the cover of "Vogue."

2:38Oh, my God. -I don't even --

2:40So at this point, I have no idea what I've done.

2:42-Now, do you know where you are on my face?

2:43-I'm getting to your neck.

2:46[ Laughter ]

2:47And you're in a tie.

2:50-Yes, I'm in a tie. I love wearing a tie.

2:51-Yes. Do you wear a tie when you're not at work, or...?

2:54-Yeah, I love it. On the weekends,

2:55I always wear a tie.

2:56-Aah! This is so bad! Okay.

2:59I'm gonna go back up to the hair.

3:00I forgot your hair.

3:02-Wait. -You're luscious...

3:03-My luscious... This is the best toupee

3:05that you can buy on Amazon.

3:07-Same. -Oh, my gosh.

3:09-Okay. -But where'd you learn this --

3:10this trick of yours?

3:11-Um, just -- I was --

3:13I finished touring, and I was like, "I need to --"

3:15Okay, here we are.

3:17-All right. We've reached this point. Here is me --

3:19-I'm gonna write your name, though.

3:20-Thank you. -Jimmy.

3:22-This is me, drawn...

3:24contoured, drawn? -Blind contour.

3:26-Blind contour drawn. -Do you have a --

3:28do you want, like, Jimmy F.? [ Chuckles ]

3:30-Yeah. [ Laughter ]

3:32I really do. -Jimmy F. down here.

3:35-Yeah, Jimmy F. -And I'll sign it.

3:37-Oh, my gosh. I'm gonna frame this in my office.

3:39Here it is. Me, by Gracie Abrams.

3:42Let me see. [ Laughter ]

3:44[ Cheers and applause ]

3:47Let me see this.

3:50-Do you like it? -It's actually --

3:51It's actually gorgeous. -You like it?

3:53-I love it. [ Laughter ]

3:55You even got my legs kind of in there.

3:57Oh, no, that's the tie. -Oh, that's not -- I --

3:58[ Laughter ]

3:59I can't see your legs from here, Jimmy.

4:01-Oh, sorry about that. Yes, of course.

4:02That is unbelievable. -You know, it's like --

4:04It's, um... -It's like looking in a mirror.

4:05-It's your essence. -It's my aura.

4:08-Yeah, it's your aura. [ Laughter ]

4:10Normally, these are done on, like, pizza boxes.

4:12-Oh, my gosh. -Now I'm doing it on television.

4:15-I'm honored, yeah. -Wow.

4:17-I want to -- I want to ask you,

4:19because you've been on the show a bunch of times.

4:20Thank you for coming back.

4:22But I've watched your career just explode

4:24and go bigger and bigger.

4:26And I listen to you -- I hear your songs all the time,

4:29and I always want to call you and, like, "I heard you again,"

4:31but, like, it would bother you.

4:33But what do you do when you're Gracie Abrams?

4:35I mean, you're at, like, a store and you hear your song,

4:37do you go like, "That's me,"

4:39or do you kind of zone out, or is it weird?

4:41-No, it's so weird. I feel like --

4:43I feel like I have voices in my head often as is.

4:48-Yeah.

4:49-And it's been a very strange experie--

4:52Like, we shot the video for a song on the album,

4:56called "Look at My Life," in Connecticut and in Jersey,

4:58but we were in Connecticut,

5:00and the whole day was basically

5:02me literally extinguishing dumpster fires.

5:04But it was, like, huge --

5:06It was these huge flames, and it was really hot,

5:07and I had to pee so bad.

5:09Anyway, the story is that I had to pee so bad,

5:11and it was the end of the day,

5:13and I kind of had, like, some burns,

5:14and it was just quite brutal.

5:16And I was so tired.

5:18Ran, ran, ran into the nearest smoke shop

5:21to use their bathroom, and my song "That's So True"

5:23was playing, and I legitimately,

5:25I was like, "I have to check myself in to a hospital."

5:28Like, this is not -- like -- [ Laughter ]

5:29-The whole day is weird. -Like, "There's no way!"

5:31We were, like, kind of in the middle of nowhere,

5:32and it was this tiny little smoke shop.

5:34And so in instances like that,

5:36it makes me feel, like, truly unwell.

5:39-Yeah. -But it is a crazy, crazy...

5:42-It's a crazy life. -...pinch-me dream.

5:43-Yeah. Weird. -Well, you also --

5:45I see videos online of all these --

5:47'Cause you have a lot of great fans around the world,

5:49but you also have some very famous fans

5:51that come to see you.

5:52Do you like knowing that famous people or celebrities

5:54are coming to see you?

5:56No. Yeah.

5:57No. No, you're just like, "Don't tell me.

5:59I'm just going to go out and perform."

6:00-When we played Glastonbury last year,

6:03um, it was already such a trip, 'cause that's

6:05kind of like the North Star, craziest dream.

6:09It dream was, like, the best weekend ever.

6:12-Yeah. -Went in.

6:14-Yes. -But we played on the Friday,

6:16and my dad, it was his birthday,

6:18and my brothers had been with him,

6:19and they were in the country,

6:21so they decided to come to the festival.

6:22I was like, "Oh, so lovely. They're not --"

6:24You know, I'm not always in the same place as my family.

6:26-Pretty cool to see your dad.

6:28-Yeah, it was very lovely.

6:29And, um, so we're on stage.

6:31I hadn't seen them before.

6:33And there's like a section that your friends and family

6:34watch from, like, the wings of the stage.

6:36I looked out and I was like, "God, what a beautiful moment."

6:39And I was like, "I gotta go find my brothers and my dad."

6:42And I looked up and it was Paul McCartney up there.

6:45-Paul McCartney was there. -Which was so, uh, nauseating.

6:51-Yeah. -I was like, "No, you're not."

6:53-"No, you're not. I didn't see that."

6:54You can't -- you can't unsee a Beatle.

6:56-It was so... -And the one and only,

6:58the coolest human, Paul McCartney.

6:59But there's actually a video of you the moment

7:02you saw Paul McCartney in the audience. Watch.

7:04Watch this. -So upsetting.

7:05♪♪

7:11♪♪

7:16-You're like... -An I'm like...

7:19-Stay in character. Yeah, holy --

7:21[ Applause ]

7:23-Anyway... -Last year, you wrapped up

7:25a tour that was a huge success.

7:27You started in theaters, and by the end,

7:29you had to move to giant arenas

7:31because so many people wanted to see you.

7:33That's got to feel good.

7:34But now you're about to start another arena tour.

7:36But this time, it's called A Look at My Life Tour,

7:38and this time you're preparing that it's a giant thing, right?

7:42-Yeah, I think it's -- I mean, we, for the last album,

7:46we did start in theaters.

7:47So it wasn't, you know -- the scale was not the same.

7:49And then we kind of -- -Wasn't built for arenas.

7:51-Yeah, and then we adapted to fit arenas, which was a trip.

7:56And this time, we get the luxury of starting square one,

7:59like, wildest dreams kind of, um, stage and design.

8:05And, yeah, I'm really excited.

8:07-And I know that you opened up for Olivia Rodrigo,

8:09you've opened up for Taylor Swift,

8:11and now you're the person

8:13that gets to give somebody their kind of

8:15a little break in the business.

8:17They're your opening acts on your tour,

8:19which I think is super cool. -They're brilliant.

8:21The roster that we have, I can't believe it.

8:23Like, I'm sure you all know their music, but...

8:26-That's cool. -Everyone's so --

8:28Like, Grace Ives and Jake Minch

8:29and Jensen McRae and Japanese House,

8:33and I'm forgetting a million people.

8:35Charlotte Lawrence and...

8:36-You're giving back to these people.

8:38-Well, no, I'm just a fan. I literally like --

8:40These are -- This is, like, my playlist.

8:42This is like the fantasy, like, for me of being like,

8:45"There's no way they would,"

8:46and for some reason, they said yes.

8:48So I'm -- I'm just so selfishly excited.

8:50And for anyone coming to the tour,

8:52I'm really excited that they get to see those artists.

8:55-The album is called "Daughter From Hell."

8:57Uh, are you the -- What is it...?

9:00[ Laughter ] No, you're so not --

9:02Never, never. You seem so nice.

9:05You're nice to everybody. -"You seem nice."

9:06-Yes, you really do. -"You seem nice."

9:08-Thank you. No, I totally was brutal.

9:11-You were? -Yeah.

9:13-So have your parents listened to this and be like, "Yeah"?

9:15-Yeah. I wrote the song, the title track of the album,

9:20that song was the last one that I wrote for the album,

9:22and it was -- it is, like, a,

9:24you know, decades overdue apology to my mom, basically.

9:29-Oh, really? -Sorry, Mom.

9:31Yes, I was just -- I mean, I don't think,

9:33like, I'm a wildly unique case.

9:35I just think the inevitable friction of being a child

9:38and, you know, growing into yourself

9:41and being a defiant person, it, like, can be turbulent.

9:47-Yeah. -And it was.

9:48So this is a thank-you note to her.

9:51-What did -- Aww. -Yeah.

9:52-We love you, Mom. Yeah.

9:54What did -- what did she think when she heard the song?

9:57-She cried.

9:58[ Laughter ]

9:59She cried. So I win!

10:01-Now you win. Ha ha!

10:02-Ha ha ha. -"I win."

10:03-Uh, Gracie Abrams, "Daughter From Hell"

10:06is available right now.

10:07It's out! It's officially out!

10:10-Here with the TV debut of her song "Minibar"

10:13from her new album "Daughter from Hell,"

10:16once again, Gracie Abrams.

10:19[ Cheers and applause ]

10:23-♪ I'm at the party minibar ♪

10:26♪ Came here alone, bet you can't tell ♪

10:28♪ I'll eat the cake and the caviar ♪

10:30♪ Break down the door like a bombshell ♪

10:33♪ I'll start the bit, then I take it too far ♪

10:36♪ Might second-guess it, but oh well ♪

10:38♪ I'm with the girls and the gossipers ♪

10:42♪ Oh ♪

10:43♪ And they're loud, I'm mellow ♪

10:45♪ And I'm gone, but hello ♪

10:48♪ Pedal to the metal ♪

10:50♪ Think I'm high and everybody knows ♪

10:53♪ But I'm always subtle when I'm causing trouble ♪

10:58♪ Hate to burst your bubble ♪

10:59♪ I feel weird, I think I'm gonna go ♪

11:01♪ I'm at the corner mini-mart ♪

11:04♪ Got fifty bucks and a brain cell ♪

11:06♪ Someone perceived me, kind of scarred ♪

11:09♪ Left empty-handed, but oh well ♪

11:11♪ I took the train and I took it too far ♪

11:14♪ Past my house and the motel ♪

11:16♪ I miss the girls and the gossipers ♪

11:20♪ Oh ♪

11:22♪ And they're loud, I'm mellow ♪

11:24♪ And I'm gone, but hello ♪

11:26♪ Pedal to the metal ♪

11:28♪ Think I'm high and everybody knows ♪

11:31♪ But I'm always subtle when I'm causing trouble ♪

11:36♪ Hate to burst your bubble ♪

11:38♪ I feel weird, I think I'm gonna go ♪

11:40♪ I'm mad at a party ♪

11:43♪ Is it just me, or do you feel insane? ♪

11:45♪ Someone's looking lonely ♪

11:47♪ Looking like me, I think I know her ♪

11:50♪ I'm mad at a party ♪

11:52♪ Is it just me, or do you feel insane? ♪

11:55♪ Someone's looking lonely ♪

11:58♪ I-I am mellow ♪

12:02♪ And I'm gone, but hello ♪

12:05♪ Pedal to the metal ♪

12:06♪ Think I'm high and everybody knows ♪

12:09♪ But I'm always subtle when I'm causing trouble ♪

12:14♪ Hate to burst your bubble ♪

12:16♪ I feel weird, I think I'm gonna go ♪

12:19[ Cheers and applause ]

12:22[ Cheers and applause continue ]

12:30[ Cheers and applause subside]

12:32-Do you have -- Do you have -- Do you have --

12:34Do you have favorite -- Do you have favorite --

12:36a favorite song in the album?

12:38-Oh, goodness. -I know.

12:40-You know. -They're all your children.

12:41We understand. [Laughter]

12:42-I love "Afflictions."

12:45-I want to know is humming --

12:46Is there humming in the song "Humming"?

12:47-Humming, yeah there is. Ooh.

12:49-Loads. -Love it.

12:50-Loads of humming. -Loads of humming, yeah.

12:52-Yeah. -So yeah, harmonizing --

12:53-That one is about you. -Oh my God.

12:55Because I do, I do, I do hum every now and then.

12:58-You do, you are famously known for...

13:00-Yeah I always [humming]. -[Humming]

13:02-Yeah, I don't want to do it unless I get paid.

13:03-Yeah. -That's the only way. Yeah.

13:05'Cause that's how famous my humming is, yeah.

13:07Yeah. So, wait, so.

13:09So what was the last song you wrote?

13:10Oh, you told me already. -"Daughter from Hell."

13:11-"Daughter from Hell." -Yeah.

13:12-So you didn't have -- -Just some time on it.

13:14-What was the title of the album going to be?

13:15-No title, well, there was a -- there was a potential title,

13:18uh, kind of synonymous to "Daughter from Hell,"

13:20but it was a nickname I was given by Justin Vernon,

13:22who was a collaborator on the project.

13:24He called me Basement Lady.

13:26[Laughter]

13:27-What are you talking about? -He called me Basement Lady.

13:29He meant kind of like, I think, like, emotionally, like...

13:32-[Laughing] That is the worst nickname ever.

13:35-I know, but it stuck. -Yeah.

13:36-There was no title until "Daughter from Hell."

13:38And I was like, "It should be Basement Lady maybe."

13:40And then when "Daughter from Hell"

13:42came around, I was like, Basement Lady

13:45and "Daughter from Hell"? [Laughter]

13:47-These are the things that you want to get out of your brain.

13:49-Yeah, they're just like, you're both down there.

13:52-Yeah, man. And you're doing it.

13:53-Yeah. -I love it.

13:54Alright. Good. Well, I'm so happy.

13:56Congratulations on everything.

13:57And thank you for doing all this

13:59and talking to us and drawing. -Thank you, Jimmy.

14:00-And doing everything.

14:02You're 1 in 1,000,000. We love Gracie Abrams.

14:04Come on. That's what I'm talking about.

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