Just call Professor Swift. Gracie Abrams made her late-night interview debut on Wednesday (May 8) and opened up The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on how to tour with Taylor Swift on The Eras tour felt like she was attending pop star college, culminating in some field experience when the “Anti-Hero” singer invited her to play a duet at one of the shows – an event in which Abrams he says that he “blacked out. ”
“It's a real masterclass to watch her do what she does,” the California native — who has appeared on late-night shows before — told Fallon on his show, where she later performed her new single “Risk.” “I felt like I was in college for this job. I watched every one of her shows that I was lucky enough to open. I watched from every possible place at every stage, just trying to understand how he can do what he does.”
“What she does so incredibly well in these kinds of rooms is, sometimes you feel like you're on Mars and sometimes you feel like the only two people in the stadium are you and her, because she's just so connected to her audience,” Abrams said. . goes on. “It's really magical and being in their orbit for a summer was a crazy dream.”
The musician went on to recall the surreal experience of singing her 2020 breakout hit “I Miss You, I'm Sorry” with Swift during a surprise song segment at one of her shows in Cincinnati in July. Abrams' supporting set had been canceled earlier in the evening due to rain delays, prompting the 14-time Grammy winner to graciously give her opener a second chance to perform a few hours later.
“Even Taylor can't control the sky, apparently,” Abrams joked to Fallon. “My set was canceled for security reasons. Then Taylor texted me saying, “Hey, come with me and do 'I miss you, sorry?' We ran it once in her room and then we did it there. I blacked out.”
Abrams and Fallon also revealed during the interview that they had sat next to each other at the 2024 Met Gala two nights before. “We were dancing the whole time,” the “21” singer told viewers. “You can't sit when Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo are on.”
Grande headlined a short fairytale-inspired concert at this year's event and at one point with Bad actor for a duet of Whitney Houston and Mariah Carey “When You Believe”. “It's quite remarkable to be in the same room with voices like theirs,” Abrams added. “They're just incredible, as we all know.”
Watch Abrams The Tonight Show below.
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