Singer-songwriter Gracie Abrams’s second studio album, The Secret of Us, has just dropped, and two Vogue editors who happened to be stuck on an Air France flight together took down their reactions to it in real time. The conclusion? They love nepo babies and, as fellow Gen Z’ers, they can relate to most of Abrams’s lyrics about love and friends.
[Editor’s note: To ensure that they had the best possible listening experience, both staffers waited until they reached their hotel rooms to listen to the Taylor Swift feature.]
“Close to You”
Irene Kim: Gracie fans have been waiting so long for this song, and it was so worth it.
Florence O’Connor: This song came out, and I already knew all the words. I didn’t know that I knew all the words!
Kim: This song is something only a teenage girl could write, in that moment and time.
O’Connor: “I want to be close to you” is how I felt about you, Irene, before I worked at Vogue. I wanted to be close to the cool girl my age on Vogue Runway. (I’m famously a huge Instagram stalker, and Irene is famously private on Instagram.)