“Risk” by Gracie Abrams

Gracie Abrams opened the campaign for The Secret of Us, her second album, with "Risk", which Interscope put out as the lead single on May 1, 2024. She and her friend Audrey Hobert wrote it in August 2023, and she co-produced it with Aaron Dessner, her regular collaborator, cutting it at his Long Pond Studio in the Hudson Valley and in Los Angeles. Dessner plays a small army's worth of parts: acoustic and electric guitars, bass, piano, synths, shakers and some of the drums. Serban Ghenea mixed it.

It's a crush song sung like a breakup song, a racing ballad about falling hard for a man she has never actually met, all strummed guitars, strings and nervy vocals. Hobert sings backup and directed the video too, and Abrams took the song to The Tonight Show and onto Taylor Swift's Eras Tour.

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