Gracie Abrams is remembering the time that she "blacked out" while performing with Taylor Swift on The Eras Tour.
Recalling the encounter at The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, the "Risk" singer vividly remembers the moment when she was surprised to do a surprise performance with Swift in one of the singer's Cincinnati concert stops of The Eras Tour.
"It will be like maybe my last memory ever-like it's burned," Abrams told Fallon. A weather situation came up because even Taylor couldn't control the sky, apparently, and so my set was canceled for safety reasons."
During Swift's acoustic set, she pulled out Abrams abruptly after extreme weather conditions forced the young artist to cancel her opening act performance hours before.
"My best friend happened to fly in for this," she recalled of the July 2023 performance. "She came in for the weekend not really because of me but because there's this baby hippo at the zoo named Fritz. So Audrey comes in - and Audrey is also my co-writer on Risk and she's the greatest, Audrey Hobert - so she comes in to see the hippo and then my set."
When Abrams thought she wouldn't perform that night because of her canceled set, she hung out backstage in her trailer. However, she was surprised when Swift asked her to do a rather impossible task.
"And then Taylor texted me being like," she remembered. "'Hey come out with me and do "I Miss You, I'm Sorry." And so we ran it one time in her room and then did it there. It was just in the middle of her set and I blacked out the whole time."
Abrams and Swift performed "I Miss You, I'm Sorry," a single from the former's EP, Minor.
The 24-year-old singer described working with and touring with Swift as "the craziest privilege." Notably, Abrams performed a string of concerts on Swift's first leg in the United States for The Eras Tour.
"What she does so unbelievably well in these kinds of rooms is sometimes you feel like you're on Mars and then sometimes you feel like the only two people in the stadium are you and her because she's just so connected to her audience," she raved about Swift and her The Eras Tour.
Abrams is set to return on the road with Swift for The Eras Tour when she performs in Miami Gardens, New Orleans, Indianapolis, Toronto, and Vancouver from October to December 2024.
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