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Gracie Abrams shares how Taylor Swift has become her key mentor in songwriting

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<p>Gracie Abrams has nothing but admiration for Taylor Swift, whom she considers a key influence and mentor in her artistic journey.</p><p>In a recent interview with Billboard, Gracie shared how Taylor has helped her grow as a songwriter.</p><p>&quot;Taylor is a great example of someone I’ve been lucky enough to spend a lot of time around and every single time I’m like, &#x27;Tell me everything you know, please. Teach me how to be,&#x27;&quot; she shared in an interview with Billboard. &quot;I want to live fully and do my best to capture what that feels like.&quot;</p><p>The &quot;That’s So True&quot; singer emphasized that she still has much to learn when it comes to songwriting and expressed her eagerness to grow further in her craft.</p><p>&quot;I want to broaden my vocabulary times a thousand. I want to spend the majority of my year reading so that I can do that. I feel nowhere near that level. 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I felt like I was at college for this job. I watched every single one of her shows that I was luck enough to open, I think [I did] 31. I watched from every place possible in each stadium,&quot; she recalled about the experience in a past interview on <em>The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.</em></p><p>She shared that she gained invaluable lessons throughout the tour. &quot;[I was] just trying to pick up on how she&#x27;s able to do what she does and she&#x27;s such a one-of-a-kind person, friend, artist, all the things,&quot; she said.</p><p>The singer went on: &quot;But what she does so unbelievably well and these kinds of rooms is like sometimes you feel like you&#x27;re on Mars and sometimes you feel like the only two people in the stadium are you and her because she&#x27;s just so connected to her audience and the relationship that they have with each other is really magical and to have been in their orbit for a summer was a crazy dream.&quot;</p>

<p>Gracie Abrams discussed how Taylor Swift has helped her grow as a songwriter.</p>