{"id":538000,"date":"2026-07-07T19:52:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T19:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/538000\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T19:52:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T19:52:13","slug":"olivia-rodrigo-gracie-abrams-address-past-careless-songwriting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/538000\/","title":{"rendered":"Olivia Rodrigo & Gracie Abrams Address Past ‘Careless’ Songwriting"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tAfter first connecting more than half a decade ago on Instagram, Gracie Abrams<\/a> and Olivia Rodrigo<\/a> \u2014 who have since become stars in pop music \u2014 just reunited to talk about their friendship, lives and careers for a Spotify conversation posted Tuesday (July 7).<\/p>\n

\n\tAnd though the friends and former tourmates had plenty to discuss, they of course spent much of their time together chatting about one of their favorite things: songwriting, including ways they\u2019ve felt \u201ccareless\u201d in how they handled a subject or struggled to capture love in the past. With Abrams\u2019 new album Daughter From Hell dropping in a matter of days, Rodrigo was bursting with compliments and shared that one of her favorite songs on the upcoming record is \u201cAfflictions.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIt feels pure, but also very mature,\u201d the two-time Grammy winner remarked, with Abrams noting that it\u2019s the only straightforward love song on Daughter From Hell. \u201cIt feels like the love is very deep and not superficial.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIt is,\u201d Abrams agreed, revealing that she finds it difficult to write about love. \u201cI can\u2019t write about it much. When I\u2019ve tried to write about it before, it kind of diminishes what it actually feels like. But that [song] is super real for me.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tFrom the sound of it, \u201cAfflictions\u201d is likely about Abrams\u2019 relationship with Paul Mescal, whom she\u2019s been dating for about two years. In her recent Vogue cover story, she opened up about<\/a> feeling \u201csecure and stable\u201d with him in a way she hasn\u2019t in previous relationships.<\/p>\n

\n\tOn the other side of the coin, the Hal David Starlight Award winner talked with Rodrigo about the more negative relationships she examined on Daughter From Hell, explaining that she approached them differently than in the past. \u201cI was careful about writing about conflict and pain from less of a place of pointing fingers and more so of having been on both sides, like, of both the protagonist and the antagonist of each song,\u201d Abrams said. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThere\u2019s songs about tough friendships or a kind of a breakup \u2026 I was careless in the past writing music about how it might impact the subject, and I don\u2019t like that,\u201d she continued. \u201cI wish I could go back and fix it. And I feel like moving forward, with this album \u2014 I think there\u2019s a way that you can write music about people and be as honest as you want and need to be and deliver it without cruelty.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIt does have a lot of restraint in a way that I find so beautiful,\u201d Rodrigo agreed. \u201c[That\u2019s] so hard to pull off. When I\u2019m writing songs, too, I\u2019m like \u2014 the knee-jerk reaction is just to be like, \u2018Bleh, here\u2019s everything.\u2019 You just put it so beautifully and tactfully.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe video comes just nine days ahead of the release of Daughter From Hell, which will mark Abrams\u2019 first album since her breakthrough sophomore LP, The Secret of Us, reached No. 2 on the Billboard 200<\/a>. So far, fans have heard two tracks from the project: lead single \u201cHit the Wall,\u201d which peaked at No. 34 on the Billboard Hot 100<\/a>, and \u201cLook at My Life,\u201d which dropped June 25. <\/p>\n

\n\tAs the two ladies reminisced at the beginning of their Spotify chat, Abrams and Rodrigo \u2014 whose own new album, you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love, recently spent its first two weeks on the Billboard 200 at No. 1 \u2014 they go way back. The former Disney Channel star has been open about how Abrams inspired her to write and post her own future Hot 100 hits on Instagram, and the \u201cThat\u2019s So True\u201d singer ended up opening for Rodrigo on her Sour Tour in 2022.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cShe gave me such a shot,\u201d Abrams said in her 2025 Billboard<\/a> cover story of Rodrigo. \u201cI adore her with my whole heart for forever and ever.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cGracie has such a singular voice when it comes to songwriting,\u201d Rodrigo added at the time. \u201cI think it\u2019s rare to be so young and already have developed your very own lane. You can hear a song and instantly know if it\u2019s a Gracie Abrams song even if she wasn\u2019t singing it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tWatch Abrams\u2019 full conversation with Rodrigo above. <\/p>\n


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