Taylor Swift, Gracie Abrams release first song together
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Singers trade verses, asking the fateful question: “Do you miss us?”
(Web Desk) - The singer-songwriter duo have released their first song together — “Us,” which appears on Abrams's sophomore album The Secret of Us.
On the track, produced by both Abrams and Swift as well as longtime collaborators Aaron Dessner and Jack Antonoff, the singers trade verses, coming together on the bridge and finally asking the fateful question: “Do you miss us?”
Following the song’s release on Thursday night, Abrams, 24, shared a pair of videos from the night she and Swift, 34, penned the track.
“Writing this entire song from 2am to 6am was some of the most fun I’ve ever had in my life,” wrote Abrams, daughter of Star Wars director J.J. Abrams, on X (formerly known as Twitter) on Friday, June 21. "I love you.”
In addition to the kind words, Abrams treated fans to never-before-seen video footage of the pair attempting to extinguish a fire started by a fallen candle in Swift’s New York City apartment the night they wrote the song.
In the video, Abrams is behind the camera, and Swift jokingly says, “I think we’re going to die” as she frantically fumbles with a fire extinguisher.
After the “Cruel Summer” singer got the extinguisher to work, covering her entire kitchen in a white fog and putting out the blaze, Swift says, laughing, “Our purses are ruined — and our shoes, and the whole room I think.”
“We both had an insane cough from the fire extinguisher fumes for weeks,” Abrams told Billboard in an interview earlier this week.
Even though the night was moments away from disaster, when the “Risk” singer announced the song on the tracklist in May, she had only good things to say.
“I am currently smiling and sweating thinking about it and i’ll never get over the shock of seeing this one on the tracklist,” Abrams wrote of the track in May on X. “you know how i feel.”
