Gracie Abrams on touring with Taylor Swift

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    Gracie Abrams sat down on Jake Shane's Therapuss to talk about touring with Taylor Swift. She called it a master class and the biggest tour in the history of the human race. The workforce was equivalent to a city where every single job was essential. There were summer camp vibes with everyone smiling and showing generosity of spirit. Gracie noted she learned that the show always goes on no matter what, citing Taylor's ability to perform with grace and warmth even when sick or heartbroken.

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    And what was it like touring with Taylor? Oh, goodness. Just what did you learn? Really, like, it's so easy to talk about because it was like the master class. Yeah, I can't even imagine. What did I learn? Obviously, the biggest tour in the history of... Tours. Tours in the history of the human race. And so you get to watch like this titan of the industry top down make the experience for every single person who ever attended, but every single person who works to make it happen, like the best version of the experience that it could be. And it's basically like there's like, the number of people working on that tour, it's like the equivalent of a city. Like there are so many people. And what's amazing about touring is like, not one single person is on tour if they don't have to be there. It like everyone job is essential And when you see everyone like generosity of spirit be the way it is everyone's smiling all the time. It, like, felt like the equivalent of, there was something very, like, summer camp vibes about it. And she is, we're trying to think, like, really, like, what I learned. like I learned everything, but I, but I learned on like a personal level that it's like, she, like the show always goes on no matter what. You would never know if she was sick. You would never know, like you would never know if her heart was aching for something. Like she's just giving it everything and, um, doing it with like grace and, uh, warmth and, um, yeah, like she's just this like fiercely brilliant like singular kind of like alien but she's a person you're like what the hell is going on and um and it's pretty amazing