Large, medium and small ties. Ties everywhere: in the hair, as stamped on clothes and as a complement to earrings and rings. An accessory that has already become the personal seal of Gracie Abrams (Los Angeles, 25 years old) and with which her followers – mostly girls – flooded the surrounding and inside the Vistalegre Palace in Madrid. Do not take them makes you look like a stranger, someone outside the wave of fanaticism generated by this young woman, and that she wears in the dress chosen for a great night. The Spanish capital was the first of the stops of its tour The Secret Of Uswith which it will travel other European countries in the coming weeks, such as France, Portugal or Germany. That has not prevented followers from arriving from all parts of the continent, to make their bags to come to the start of a series of concerts that promise to be their confirmation as a phenomenon of current pop.
The nerves for the beginning of Sunday’s concert were palpable in the environment. The 8,500 attendees prepared the throats for what was yet to come with the songs that sounded as a prelude to the protagonist’s repertoire – Taylor Swift (her mentor) or Billie Eilish. To try to calm that state of generalized impatience, Gracie Abrams’s team placed on stage, strategically, incense rods with the aim of creating a unique, special and relaxing environment.
The lights went out, the screams rumbled in the environment, the band appeared on the stage and the mobiles automatically prepared for the exit of the American, daughter of the famous producer and film director JJ Abrams. The artist’s voice sounded, but there was no trace of her on stage. The eyes of those present moved from one place to another to search where the voice came from. Then the lights illuminated the center of the decoration and a shadow gained prominence interpreting Felt Good About Youthe first of the 24 songs that sang, without rest, during the almost two hours of show.
The connection with his audience was immediate and the weather became an intimate and close space. Abrams’s songs, where he tells each of his experiences and feelings, emulate a conversation with herself, but also with their followers, who have already made them their own. From that moment on, there was only the artist and the 8,500 souls – who chanted the letters even higher than her – that accompanied her. He does not need eccentricities because she alone, and her inseparable variety of guitars, are enough to dazzle a dough that she wants and needs more of her.
If Abrams is characterized by something, in addition to the sensitivity of his lyrics, it is because of the proximity to his audience. A fundamental characteristic in these times where rapid musical consumption can make one day at the top and the next one no one remembers you. He looked into his fans’ eyes, interacted with them, greeted the stands again and again and sent them kisses constantly. “Hello. I am Gracie, ”he appeared as if no one of those present knew who he is and did not have been waiting for this day. “This city is very important because I feel very dear. You are singing very high, ”he explained after playing the first four songs.
His voice is hypnotic, almost like a whisper. He knows what he generates and also knows that his followers have found in his lyrics a shelter to go. “I have created a space in which we can feel everything. They will be two hours where we will be together or connect with the feelings we have, distract ourselves from life, dance, sing or cry. This is a safe place for it, ”he wanted to remember his followers.
Although the madness for Gracie Abrams broke out in 2024 thanks to the album The Secret Of Usthe composer has been launching her songs since 2019. Part of this success is due to Taylor Swift, who trusted her to be the peel of her tour The Eras Tour And with whom he has collaborated in Ustheme that has been nominated for the Grammy Awards. On this tour he interprets the songs that have given him fame, but also remembers the compositions that opened the doors to the music industry. When the chords of 21, Cam o Rockland “Some of her first songs,” they began to sound, the crowd broke out in a drowning shout that confirmed that he not only wanted to hear his last successes.
He did not speak in Spanish, he only said “I love you”, “I love you” and “I love” his audience in English. But no more was needed. The emotion flooded again both the protagonist of the evening and her followers. There was also time to collect some of the gifts that attendees prepared for her. “Is this for me? What’s your name? ”He asked a girl who was in the first rows and, therefore, had been waiting for hours. Always attentive and pending, he was so natural that he surprised even those who claim to know her as if it were a friend.
The reality is that he has managed to create a brotherhood that unites people who apparently have nothing to do, beyond their musical taste. The end of the track, where were the fans who were looking to have a good time without the burden of the hustle to listen to the notes of the desired song.
After taking a tour of his short discography, he moved to the second stage, located in the middle of the track and where a room emerged – that of his adolescence, where he composed the first songs. This was where the heat of the public could feel more closely and also served to immortalize in three polaroids What has lived that night. Following one of Swift’s identity signs on her last tour, she also wants each concert to be different and interpret a new song in each of the citations in an acoustic set.
But nothing looks like The Eras Tour, And he doesn’t try either. It shows that there is no need for constant changes of costumes to surprise, nor an incredible scenario, nor a game of lights typical of the great events. She wants her concerts to be something intimate and special.
The most anticipated songs, how could it be otherwise, interpreted them at the end of the concert. Us, Free Now, That’s So True —To who owes his success thanks to viralize in Tiktok, and Close To You They put The end point to an evening that was like a roller coaster of emotions and where there was time to dance, cry and feel. The viewer not only managed to get out of there with a beautiful feeling of freedom, but also to have seen live a star that has just been born and still has a lot of potential to demonstrate.