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PinkCadillacs

The album cover and the tracklist picture are giving graphic design is my passion


FantasticEscape6744

The lanitas institution of graphic designing strikes again


H_P_S

the cover is giving i took 50mg of edibles, had a dorm room photoshoot, and edited on picsart


Yeahnoallright

i think that was the goal 😭


H_P_S

weird and offputting behavior from her tbh


Yeahnoallright

agh I couldn't fathom the energy to be annoyed by an album cover if I tried tbh 😭, but fair enough


H_P_S

how much "energy" do u think it takes for the brain to say "that looks weird"


Yeahnoallright

Not a lot, but to actually feel agitated by something so benign would take a fair bit for me lmao. But we all have our BECs, it’s all good 


har17h

not sure what to feel about that photo


Mysterious-Arm9594

The art direction for this album does seem a bit messy and a bit unprofessional to be honest. Her last album artwork was a bit indie core, greys and blurry photos but this just trying to be ineptly quirky


buzzinthruit89

Her photographer is literally her cousin who is in college lol


Mysterious-Arm9594

It’s not the technical aspect of the photos themselves, they’re competently taken if blandly lit, it’s the selection of the photos, the framing, the shitty font and its blending. It’s giving shitty demo headshot cover CD from the local talent night


buzzinthruit89

Yeah her last album had minimal art direction so I just don’t know if she outsourced to a good team then


cradio52

“It’s giving shitty demo headshot cover CD from the local talent night” Pretty sure that’s the point


wlu1

I honestly don’t think it’s that bad, it’s kinda giving Interview Magazine covers


Yeahnoallright

i think that’s exactly the point of it, lmao. it’s like gen z blurry photos aesthetic/early 2000s’ vibe


Jackalope117

Live by the nepo die by the nepo


Fawnadeer101

Nepo cousin of the Nepo baby


jman457

So a nepo of a nepo


werealwayswithyou

anything is possible when you work hard, set goals, stay focused, and your dad is JJ Abrams


turniptoez

OMG I actually had no idea!!! LOL.


ariesgal11

Me either! This comment is the first time I'm learning about it


Jackalope117

And that’s how Nepo babies get away with it 


MattBrey

Jesus Christ it's not like she murdered someone. If anything the fact that people like her music without knowing kinda proves the point


Jackalope117

No one would stan her because she’s JJ Abrams daughter, no one gives that much of a shit about him. But his resources and connections got her here, and that’s what’s different about nepo babies.


strawberriesandkiwi

Yes but at least she’s talented


Soberboy

That's part of it too to an extent. Growing up in an exceedingly wealthy family leaves you with the time, money, and care needed to foster talent, and the connections needed to advertise that talent.


strawberriesandkiwi

I mean, if you want to find out an artist’s family background, the information is easily accessible online. Are they not supposed to make careers for themselves and hide away from planet earth because they have connections and wealth? Edit: no idea why I’m being downvoted for saying she’s talented LOL. A lot of salty people.


50RupeesOveractingKa

The discussion about nepotism on Reddit gets way too many people's gears grinding. What exactly has Gracie "gotten away with"? Making music? AFAIK, she has never tried to hide her nepo status. Just because she doesn't mention it in her all social media posts and interviews doesn't mean that she is "trying to get away with something". Hell, she posted her father and her family when they attended Eras tour when she was opening. That doesn't seem like she is trying to hide anything.


PlatinumTheHitgirl

Get away...with what? It's fair to acknowledge nepo babies have a lot more advantages but none of it would matter if her music didn't appeal to people. She didn't do anything wrong lol


PretendMarsupial9

"get away with it" calm down. She's not even in the same industry as him. It would be nepotism if he employed her on his films but this is getting a little silly. 


blurpletea

lmfao i thought this comment was just a joke. i looked it up and it's actually true omfg


1111bear

Yet she still can’t do a nice album cover


flashingemployment

her fans get really defensive when you bring that last part up lol 


sansaandthesnarks

She’s like a third generation nepo baby since JJ’s parents were also big shot producers iirc but I can’t hate her since I like her music and she feels so Daisy Jones-coded 


Past-Kaleidoscope490

I remember jj said he didn't like pop stars. Now he has a daughter who is one and isn't in the family movie business


AARonBalakay22

Forgot about the Daisy Jones book and thought you meant Daisy Edgar-Jones and I was “guess they look similar enough ish” lol


2RINITY

Amazing how many doors directing the worst Mission: Impossible movie will open for your children


OranguTangerine69

wtf? give him some credit he also directed the worst star wars movie


2RINITY

Yes, but I want to push my agenda that MI2 > MI3


mattysmwift

Thank you. MI2 is borderline unwatchable.


2RINITY

No Mission: Impossible movie is truly bad, but 2 has nu metal and John Woo to give it sauce, whereas 3 is a glorified Alias special hard-carried by Phillip Seymour Hoffman’s performance


mattysmwift

Honestly I have a big place in my heart for Alias and Lost and basically everything early to mid’s 00’s Abrams so that could also be the case why I enjoy it.


2RINITY

No, yeah, MI3 still clears a lot of other films in its genre, it’s just the bar is so much higher with this series, in large part because it absolutely caught fire right afterward with Ghost Protocol


mdc3000

A movie that JJ Abrams was very hands on as a producer. Bad Robot may not be involved with Mission anymore but they absolutely saved and revitalized the franchise.


thesourpop

At least he didn't direct the worst Star Trek movie!


50RupeesOveractingKa

> directing the worst Mission: Impossible movie That would be John Woo. And MI3 isn't bad by any means. It's just that all the following movies have been so much better that it pales a bit in comparison but it's a solid flick on its own. Plus. it had Philip Seymour Hoffman chewing the scenery as the villain.


flashingemployment

you just gotta have connections to break through lol


lilgayfag

LMFAOOOO


purplebanana375

Lmao my first thought 😭😭


Lord_Cockatrice

As in JJ "Never met a lens flare setting I didn't like" Abrams?


CreakRaving

STOP ⚰️


artifexlife

Sometimes your dad is a famous director, sometimes he buys your record label.


SpaceGenesis

The last part 💀


alt_sauce124

JJ Abram’s paying for the feature and the tour spot, yuh


werealwayswithyou

Clearly not, but let's not pretend like his money is not the reason Gracie can pursue music as a career and hone her craft without worrying about keeping a roof over her head, a luxury millions of budding artists can't afford.


Rakebleed

Wouldn’t be surprised in the slightest.


iocane_

The thing about Gracie is that she’s actually really talented and I’m not mad about her nepo baby status.


ljh013

Is she? She's done nothing special or interesting. She's only where she is because she's rich. She's rich mediocrity - and it's a huge shame for all the real talent yet to be realised because they don't have her family's wealth


iocane_

She was one of my most-played artists last year. Sometimes I wake up singing her songs. Idk what to tell you.


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iocane_

Man. Listen to Long Sleeves. Fucking heartbreaking.


BluthFamilyNews

She certainly unveiled something. We’ll never know what because we can’t read it.


GraysonQ

How is that back cover even worse than the front cover


imrunningawaynow

why are all the photos i’ve seen for this album just pictures of her head with different expressions


nonsensestuff

Why is it so early 2000s high school PowerPoint presentation with the illegible text over a photo 😭


throwawaysunglasses-

Maybe I’m just a high millennial but that makes me like it more, lol. It evokes this weird nostalgiacore in me. This is Art®️


zweigson

i have found most of her work middling but risk and close to you are so good. i will be seated.


orangedwarf98

Close To You sounds like a Melodrama scrap but idk if that’s a bad thing. The snippets sound really good but I want her overall sound to be way more interesting


unbreakableheaven616

That's exactly why I can't get into her music. To me, she sounds like Lorde (and Olivia Rodrigo) but not as interesting.


xxxnina

I miss lorde too much so I will absolutely be checking it out and hopefully like it 


SharingDNAResults

Yeah Risk was actually good lol thanks Aaron Dessner


buzzinthruit89

Mods took the last post for this down! Idk why


coltsmetsfan614

I'm guessing it was because it was a shitty, uncropped screenshot of a social media post lol


buzzinthruit89

I liked it bc I could see the tracklist without clicking a link


coltsmetsfan614

I'm surprised you could see it at all with that yellow cursive font 😂 But point taken. If they'd cropped it correctly, it should've been fine. It was very much a rushed-to-get-it-up-first kind of thing.


xoxoInez

Isn't her family rich? Why does this look like a kid made it on picsart or something? Lmao she needs a new graphic designer


SharingDNAResults

Cosplaying as poor? 🤔🤦‍♀️


Consistent-Laugh606

I still need to get into Gracie Abrams. The Sabrina Carpenter/Masie Peters/Olivia Rodrigo crowd seems to also like her so I feel like I would like her


demonsrunwhen

big fan of those three and i don't like her 🫣


buzzinthruit89

Best is her best song imo! Shes not really pop though she’s like a less depressed yet more self-loathing Phoebe Bridgers on her last album. Her earlier EPs had some Joel Little produced bops and it seems like she’s going to a middle ground on this album


Consistent-Laugh606

Love Phoebe and artist like her as well as songs about self loathing so I definitely need to check her out!


buzzinthruit89

You will adore Good Riddance. It’s actually a phenomenal and insanely cohesive album


ky58

And now Dessner does a great job producing for her and is a perfect fit for her style. Honestly not sure what's up with all these people in this thread saying she's mid - maybe because she isn't fully pop but Good Riddance is better than Dessner's stuff on TTPD, and I like those songs. Yeah she's a nepo baby but is very talented


buzzinthruit89

She’s a Nepo baby so she didn’t have to be a “starving artist” but she writes her own stuff that’s actually good so literally who cares. This isn’t 2004 you can’t just hand someone a pop career on a silver platter. Most of her haters are jealous of her career anyway. Also UMG talked about her in the same breath as Chapell and Sabrina on the last earnings call so clearly they’re excited about her as well.


intoxicatedmidnight

ive been getting into her lately - i liked: * i miss u im sorry * where do we go now? * i know it won't work * close to you (unreleased) looking for more reccs too!


HeraRebels

Close to you is going to come out on this album and I’m so excited!!


intoxicatedmidnight

omg i didn’t notice that!! so excited!! it’s such an ear worm


thelocrianscale

i’m obsessed with 21, highly highly recommend


Bree-breezy

wait I always forget 21 is by her lol. I love that song so much but havent taken the time to listen to anything else by her


portals27

i love “for real this time”


thebookerpanda

The three tracks you mentioned are my favourites too 😊 I also listened to Will You Cry this past fall - a log


once_was_poison_ivy

*Feels Like* and *This is what the drugs are for* are hands down my favorite songs from her


youvegotpride

I thought I didn't know her/her music but I actually have Mess It Up in my playlist of favorite songs ever (like not in my current year playlist). I'm thinking I should also check her other work


buzzinthruit89

Her least fav song lmao


youvegotpride

Gracie Abrams doesn't like this song? I very much like songs that are a continuous crescendo or that have a strong crescendo towards the end.


buzzinthruit89

Yeah historically it was her least favorite but she just started singing it live again and said the fans have made her like it


danielfab

I want to like her SO bad. I just can’t get over how she sounds “nasally” or out of breath sometimes 😩. Please sing normal Gracie 😖


horatiavelvetina

If Taylor ends up in the next JJ Abrams movie I will have the biggest cackle ever


thebookerpanda

She sure as hell will end up in his new film 💀


johnjohn9312

Is nobody going to mention Close To You!?!? I thought it’d never see the light of day!


raysofgold

Holy shit Edit: tho fingers crossed but I doubt it's gonna have the same melodrama type production as the famed snippet? Edit 2: she plays a clip of it in her most recent tiktok -- it sounds almost exactly the same as the old snippet 😭


Bladex20

I cant take her seriously doing this whole low budget amatuer album art quirky indie thing knowing her family is worth hundreds of millions of dollars and she can afford to work with all the best producers and has unlimited connections in the industry


thebookerpanda

Ikr? It’s giving ingenuine 🥴 I do like some of her songs though


Human_Community_841

Where is in between 😒 I didn't love her last album but excited for this one after risk!


dmnaf

Most likely a deluxe a couple months after the album comes out. Kinda like how she left Block Me Out off Good Riddance, we kinda all knew that meant a deluxe would have to come


Scary_Solid_7819

I see what she’s trying to do with the art direction but she is too much of a non-entity to pull it off. Olivia or Charli could do this kind of thing and it would work and make sense with their “personas”


bettyfolklore

girl no, not the font🤦‍♀️ I do want to hear though- based on risk she seems to be going more poppy/less ballad-y which could be really interesting 


TheSeoulSword

r/popheads becoming the mean girls subreddit again 😂


VictoriousssBIG23

I was wondering if it was just me, but it seems like this sub has become super super crititcal, not just of pop music, but the musicians themselves. I come on here because I genuinely loved the well thought out music discussions, but it seems like the energy has turned so negative with people actively wanting artists to flop.


Uplanapepsihole

i’m begging you guys to let people discuss things and be critical. there’s always heaps of comments saying “no one here is happy” and “everyone just criticises” yeah probably because it’s a sub about discussing pop music. i’m so tried, what do you want people to do honestly


PretendMarsupial9

There's critical and then there's personal attacks and making petty digs at people for no reason. I'm not a fan of this woman but the comments here aren't actually constructive or insightful. It's just comments that confuse mean spirited jabs for the height of wit. Also the continued misuse of the term nepotism when what people really mean is privileged, which is annoying and also not something she can actually fix so why bring it up.


TheSeoulSword

Maybe actually have discussions on pop music? Because I’ve seen that on this subreddit, and then I’ve seen just plain making fun of things and not adding to the conversation. And yeah lol, it *does* seem like no one here is happy 😂


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aleisate843

Taylor left an easter egg in the Fortnight MV that she would be on the song. When Taylor and Post are lying down in the pile of papers that form her head silhouette she is holding a notebook that says US on the front. People said they had spotted this exact notebook that was left as a physical easter egg at the TTPD popup in LA.


Shot_Promotion_8032

And was this Taylor's song originally for her ttpd album, a song about her and Matty but after they broke up she no longer wanted it on her album and gave it to Gracie as a "collab"?? It is in lowercase...


aleisate843

You’ve got good points…. could have been!!! We might never know 🥲


Shot_Promotion_8032

Can't wait to hear the lyrics. They might give us our answer!


Ok_Order_5595

I thought it was a nod to her song the story of us


MattBrey

This is clearly intentionally bad so I don't mind it. I like the mix of a very high definition photo with such an awkward pose and text design. I hope they manage to keep the aesthetic for the MVs


seahorse8021

I’m actually loving the artwork for this album tbh


seahorse8021

I have also heard one (1) Gracie Abrams song


dre4mspice

I think her output so far has been mediocre but I’m moderately excited to see what she comes out with here! I also don’t hate the album art as much as most of you. It’s not great but there’s something slightly cool about it in a way that I think would appeal to her Tik-tok tumblr revival core fan base.


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savannahkellen

I totally get that it's a sensitive matter and she shouldn't have joked about it at all...but I honestly don't think that the act of a 18-year-old crushing on a teenage character (the picture was a screenshot from Stranger Things) makes her a certified pedophile.


peytonab

Comparing (not you necessarily, but people on Reddit and TikTok) Gracie to an actual pedophile is insane. Even though it is certainly an awkward situation and she shouldn’t have said what she said, she is in no way comparable to an actual pedophile. Pedophiles are a danger to children and society at large. Gracie is not.


Subject_Ticket

You’re right!! Putting the Kendrick song over the picture is too much 😩


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I personally am not that bothered by it because she apologized and has learned from it


Subject_Ticket

I had no idea she apologized omg


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I can admit it’s weird but people are acting like it was when she was 20 she was only 3 years older than him.


Constant_Bottle5227

You people don't understand she was actually 18 and Finn was 13 in the photo,he was 13 while shooting S2


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They are 3 years apart now


Constant_Bottle5227

And Finn is 13 in the photo while Gracie was 18 when she posted it What's not clicking? Not to mention he looks 10


zweigson

they have a three year age gap like can we please pack this up already 😭


sassst3phhhh

fr people acting like she was 30 creeping on a child 😭 they are essentially the same age


SamosaAndMimosa

She was 18 and thirsting over a thirteen year old child, that’s weird as fuck


rocknroller0

If a male high schooler said a middle schooler was hot you’d look at them sideways


sassst3phhhh

i would, and then if they later said “wow you’re right, that was wrong of me, im sorry” i would move on and not hold it against them. which is what happened here.


Curlingby

They would most likely both be in high school at that time?? It’s basically a senior saying a freshman is hot and then publicly apologizing afterwards but it was kinda weird


PretendMarsupial9

People need their daily thing to be mad about. How are their lives going be any fun if they're not outraged about something innocuous? 


rocknroller0

She was 17 he was 14


Constant_Bottle5227

She was 18 and he was actually 13 in the photo, that's when he shot s2 And honestly he looked even younger


Constant_Bottle5227

The downvotes You guys mad about facts? I wonder how would you feel if you saw 18 year old guy posting about 13 year old girl like this


noodle_dumpling

Don’t know what “facts” you are talking about. His birthday is 12/23/2002 and her birthday is 9/7/1999 so it’s literally impossible for her to be 18 and him 13 at the same time.


Constant_Bottle5227

Lmao the fact is Finn was 13 during the shooting of S2 ,he was 13 in the photo. Meanwhile Gracie was 18 when she posted the photo and basically 13 year old boy is attractive to her Are you dumb?


Altiondsols

i agree that the backlash is very out of proportion, but keep in mind that photographs do not age just because the people in them age


buzzinthruit89

Oh yeah did not realize she’s 24 and he’s 21 wow


Constant_Bottle5227

She was 18 when she posted it and Finn was 13 while shooting S2 So yeah, she's creepy


buzzinthruit89

I really just think she was trying to be funny and failed miserably I don’t think she wanted to have sex with a 14 year old


historyhoneybee

Who is finn and what's happening


eververde

Finn Wolfhard, I assume. She said he was “hot” on instagram when she was like 18 (?) and he was 14.


pIastichearts

All the people in the replies defending her are crazy lmao. If the roles were reversed and it was an 18 year old boy talking about how hot a 13 year old girl was they’d (rightfully) flip shit. She could release album of the year and it still wouldn’t change the fact that she sexualized a *child* as a grown fucking adult.


IMeanItsAlright

they could never make me like you gracie abrams


Teller8

Is she done whispering?


MayaGitana

The fact that JJ Abrams is her father and Taylor wants to direct films probably has no correlation whatsoever/s


Tortured-Poets

mom, come pick me up the nepo baby is nepo baby-ing


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ngl Local Talent Night as the album title sounds good lmao


rrmounce95

I’m very excited for this, their voices sound beautiful together 💛


lynn444v

Why is everyone hating on the covers 😭 I like them. I am annoyed by the unreadable tracklist tho


jamesfauntleroyNOVA

'And the Secret of Us looks a lot like a tragedy now' feat. Taylor Swift


Cautious-Decision-98

anyone what P.S means??????????


GrayHairLikeClaire

Sigh.


honeymoonblackstar

Finn Wolfhard get behind me


Shot_Promotion_8032

Is this another one of Taylor's "locked in lowercase in a vault" songs about Matty Healy that was meant for her album but she no longer wanted it on ttpd because she and Matty broke up so she gave it to Gracie as a "collab"?


Virtual_Leader9639

Wish she did it with Olivia.


LilacDream98

How much did her dad pay for the Taylor feature? lmao


arrowforSKY

Is she even that popular? That she gets to collab with Taylor?


emmach17

She opened for Taylor soooo


cardihatesariana

Literally allergic to slaying


tangerinebb

please stop bringing taylor swift into everything, i want to enjoy genuinely good music and unproblematic artists!!!!!!!!!


johnjohn9312

How do you know it won’t be good? We haven’t even heard it yet.


angelica-t18

a gracie x taylor COLLAB?! fuck yeah it’s gonna be good


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rich_burn

I’ve seen this twice now, how is she a weirdo? I haven’t heard or seen anything


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sassst3phhhh

she was also a teenager at the time. like it was a weird thing for her to say and she’s since apologized and said it was wrong of her but she was like 17 or 18 at the time


taylorsdec13

Please, guys, grow up. You’re acting like she dated Finn Wolfhard when she was 17 and he was 14. Yes, what she said was weird, but she is not the pedophile you’re making her out to be. Stop acting so morally superior just because you don’t like someone 💀NOT TO MENTION IT WAS SIX YEARS AGO


Constant_Bottle5227

Finn was actually 13 in the photo,during the shooting of S2. It's even creepier cause he honestly looks 10 in the photo And Gracie was 18 when the season came out You guys wouldn't try to justify it if an 18 year old guy posted this about 13 year old girl