State of gracie

Pop star Gracie Abrams has built a millions-strong fandom on songs about heartbreak. But she’s a real sucker for romance

WORDS: WILLA BENNETT

Gracie Abrams is swiping through her iPhone photos, which she’s sorted chronologically by Valentine’s Days. There was the one with her first boyfriend. The one she spent with her roommates in their university dorm. The one where she ‘made out with this cute boy at a bar after one of my New York shows’. Then all the Valentine’s Days she chose to just spend working on her music. ‘But I’m not a hater at all,’ she says about the idea of collectively celebrating some form of romantic ideal. ‘What I love about a healthy relationship is that your life doesn’t radically change,’ she continues. ‘You just fit into each other in a way that feels positively challenging and deeply supportive – it’s like a place to land.’ (Even if Abrams won’t…

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Cosmopolitan UK (Digital) - 1 Issue, April/May 2025

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