VOGUE’s Summer Cover is Gracie Abrams!

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For VOGUE’s Summer issue, Brittany Spanos sat down with Gracie Abrams to discuss her upcoming album, living in London with boyfriend Paul Mescal, songwriting, and more. 

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On writing her upcoming album:

After her last album, Abrams wasn’t sure she had much else to say, telling Vogue, “I felt talked out.” She had spent her career writing about being insecure within relationships, channeling her feelings into songs. (Prior boyfriends, she says, typically heard her honest thoughts only as song lyrics.) Now, in her relationship with Mescal, she was talking more openly, communicating in a healthy way. Was there anything left for songwriting? “I was worried feeling secure and stable was threatening my drive to write music,” Abrams says. “It freaked me out.”

On the music-filled London home she shares with Paul Mescal:

Mescal bought Abrams a 1960s reel-to-reel and helped her record on it. Mescal is a capable guitar player and has gotten better prepping to be Paul McCartney in Sam Mendes’s planned Beatles biopics. “So much better than I’ve ever been,” she admits. “Every room in their home is filled with instruments, including a Bechstein piano that Abrams would start most mornings with.

On what she wants for her future: 

“I’ve had such a rampant imagination about the rest of my life. It’s more than just album, tour, album, tour. I want consistent time to be with my people. I want to be a mom, eventually.”

VOGUE’s Summer 2026 issue is available on newsstands nationwide on June 23rd. 

[Photo Credit: Larissa Hofmann for Vogue]

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