Taylor Swift and Gracie Abrams pulled on our collective heartstrings when they worked together on “Us,” featured on the latter’s 13-track sophomore studio album The Secret of Us that was released on Friday (June 21).
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Upon the release of the project, Abrams took to Instagram to share a video of the duo playfully creating the song while pulling an all-nighter during a girls’ night, calling the evening “some of the most fun I’ve ever had in my life.”
She also included a video of Swift extinguishing an apartment fire as the duo broke out into hysterical laughter. “Now we know how to use a fire extinguisher. I love you,” Abrams wrote.
Abrams previously told Billboard that the talented duo heard the candle fall over earlier in the evening, but Taylor had thought it was one of her cats making noise. Swift put out the fire with the extinguisher before anyone was hurt.
“She was such a legend,” she recalled. “I don’t know how at this hour or in our state she knew what to do.”
She added, “We both had an insane cough from the fire extinguisher fumes for weeks.”
The 24-year-old Abrams spent the summer opening for Swift’s The Eras Tour, a role she’ll reprise on select dates in North America later this fall. She’ll head out on her very own headlining tour of theater-sized venues across the United States, starting Sept. 5 in Portland.
The Secret of Us features the previously-released tracks “Risk” and “Close to You,” which debuted at No. 49 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, and it’s the followup to Abrams’ debut record Good Riddance, which arrived February 2023, peaking at No. 52 on the Billboard 200.
