{"id":539990,"date":"2026-07-23T07:55:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T07:55:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/539990\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T07:55:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T07:55:13","slug":"gracie-abrams-song-death-wish-is-not-about-taylor-swift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/539990\/","title":{"rendered":"Gracie Abrams Song\u00a0“Death Wish” Is Not About Taylor Swift"},"content":{"rendered":"

And Dessener would never ask Abrams or Swift, who toured together in 2023 and 2024, to explain their lyrics.<\/p>\n

“You don\u2019t want to be like, ‘Well, you\u2019re talking about this, right?'” he said. “It\u2019s more mysterious not to.”<\/p>\n

Plus, Abrams herself has\u00a0explained\u00a0who\u00a0inspired “Death Wish.” When the 26-year-old first debuted the track at a March 2025 show on her\u00a0The Secret of Us\u00a0Tour, she told the audience, “This song is about a friend of mine who recently was dating a mega narcissist.”<\/p>\n

“A sincere friend of mine was recently dating someone who kind of sucked,” she shared at the time. “And I was listening to them talk about it a lot, and so this song is about that.”<\/p>\n

Though Swift, 36, was already almost two years into her relationship with Travis Kelce<\/a> at that point, it didn’t stop fans from theorizing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"And Dessener would never ask Abrams or Swift, who toured together in 2023 and 2024, to explain their…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":539991,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[156,157,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-539990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=539990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539990\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/539991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=539990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=539990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=539990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}