Gracie Abrams has addressed the “nepo” label and isn’t pushing back against it. The 26-year-old singer-songwriter, who is the daughter of Star Trek director J.J. Abrams and Bad Robot co-CEO Katie McGrath, said, “I think about the privilege there, and it’s like, I had a safety net.”
Gracie Abrams addresses talk around the ‘nepo’ stuff
In an interview with The New York Times‘ Popcast, Abrams, who first garnered attention for the EP Minor in 2020, said, as quoted by NME, “The nepo stuff is obviously in the discourse appropriately. I think about the privilege there, and it’s like, I had a safety net, and that allowed me the ability to experiment and to concentrate, and I had the gift of time to dedicate to doing this thing I loved. I wasn’t growing up afraid financially, and that’s the biggest deal.”
The Grammy-nominated singer added that growing up in a creative setting shaped her artistic perspective and approach to her work. Abrams explained, “The specific household that I was born into, there is just this vocabulary that I’m so lucky to grow up with. So, like, when I see people pointing that out, it’s like, I get it, hard-core. The jokes and things, I understand the tone of the Internet.”
This is not Abrams’ first time weighing in on the nepo baby conversation. In a 2023 Rolling Stone interview, Abrams said she has tried to keep her parents out of her music career. She said, “I know how hard I work, and I know how separate I’ve kept [my parents] from every conversation about anything careerwise, but of course, you can understand what it looks like from the outside.”
Her third album, Daughter From Hell, inspired by her evolving relationship with her mother, is set for release on July 17 via Interscope Records.
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Originally reported by Meenakshi Sengupta on Mandatory
