Gracie Abrams - Good Riddance (February 24th, 2023) • Page 2

this is just. wow.

 

Amazing

 

This album is going to rule.

 

Was personally invited by Gracie's team to hear the album in full tomorrow in Chicago for a listening party, ill be back tomorrow night with how I felt!

 

God I wish I could go to that as a Chicago resident

 

heard the album. here are my thoughts of it that I wrote down on my notes app.


This record is nothing short of a masterpiece and some of the best work of music I’ve heard from any musician or artist. Good riddance is nothing short of incredible. After listening to it just once, I can’t get (happily so) any of the music out of my head or the themes discussed within the songs out of my head. I had to pull over a couple times from my four hour drive back home from the listening party, just to think and jot down thoughts and feelings just with how everything made me feel. I truly think Good riddance is nothing short of a masterpiece. The album starts out in a similar vein to tiwifl, Best is nothing short of just an incredible huge sounding intro to the world of good riddance, it also introduces some of the similar themes and scenarios that you’ll become familiar with while listening through the record. I feel like Gracie even explores some new sounds within this album, like on Full machine, where I feel a more gritty hard hitting very in your face song which truly had my jaw on the ground. Some stand outs for me include The blue which is a very dreamy song and I remember it being very gorgeous in production and almost truly dreamlike. But I would like to talk about Right now for a second. I’ve never in my entire life connected to a song so immediate as I did Right now. From the get go you’re thrusted in with an incredible production build up, seemly stemming from a Brian eno sample? (the big ship) and you get right into some of the most heartbreaking and emotional realization lyrics Gracie has ever written in a song. I was of course sobbing, there’s one line in the song that I won’t share just yet, but I connected with it so much it simply just won’t leave my head. Anyways, Good riddance is like a warm hug for the broken mind. A reminder that everything is gonna be okay. An emotional rollercoaster of a reflection piece of the growth of one’s life, rather it be within themselves, with other people or with their surroundings. It’s about acceptance and moving on and being okay with it.

 

Thanks for sharing your thoughts! Excited to hear this.

 

High praise. Really interested to hear this.

 

Wish her dad was as good at making star wars as she is at music

 

Yeah, so this is superb.

 

listening to this over and over and over and god it just gets better with every listen

 

album out now :)

 

How is there not a million posts in this thread

album rules

 

Damn, Spotify. This is the album that really made you ask?

 

Haven’t listened to this yet. Have a drive ahead of me this morning and can’t wait to dive in.

 

All the songs are great, but "Amelie" remains the knockout punch, IMO. Such a special song.

 

Found this to be fine enough, but I feel like she doesn't really bring anything unique to the table

 

This is very solid, but almost a bit too one-note. Enjoyable, but don't see myself returning to full listens very often (unless she blows me away opening for Taylor).

 

I think she does the best job of any artist I've heard of combining the Taylor/National/millennial indie-folk-pop aesthetic with that more conversational Gen Z/TikTok style of songwriting (think Olivia Rodrigo, Conan Gray, etc). That's what I'd say feels unique about her.

 

Couldn't have said it better myself. I'm kinda sick of the whisper singers but she makes it work and then some with the wonderful production and songwriting and I FEEL her emotions through the songs. Really digging this.

 

Haha wow, I hear NONE of this. Nothing Taylor, Olivia, Conan related at all here except for just production from Aaron. I guess lyrically but as you mentioned, Gen z songwriting style like this is everywhere

 

Man, I hear a ton of Taylor. It feels completely like a cousin to evermore to me. And then Olivia, a lot of this reminds me of the more ballad-y tracks from SOUR.

 

Yeah, I'm definitely ready for some belting from these Gen Z songwriters, haha.

 

I wish I heard what you're hearing haha, I guess I just find her voice to be completely nonspecific, I've listened to everything she's put out multiple times and I don't think I could pick her voice out of a lineup

 

Hahaha exactly! Belt it out like P!nk did on her latest album!