Gracie Abrams performed a song that wasn’t hers at her Los Angeles concert Thursday night (Aug. 7), but her fans still knew every word all too well.
During the B-stage portion of her Secret of Us Tour set at the Kia Forum, the singer-songwriter surprised her audience by covering Taylor Swift‘s “All Too Well (10 Minute Version)” in full — but not before giving her close friend and former tourmate a sweet shout-out. “I was talking to her earlier today,” Abrams said of the pop superstar.
“It just is not lost on me that the reason that a lot of us know each other is because I got to meet many of you through doing the Eras Tour with Taylor,” she continued. “I just feel like I’m forever missing what that experience was. I know we all feel that way … I wanted to sing a song for you that I’ll forever wish I wrote, if you’ve got 10 minutes.”
The California native went on to perform the entirety of the lengthy record-setting Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 hit with the audience scream-singing each word of Swift’s nostalgic verses, fiery bridge and haunting outro from start to finish. “Maybe we got lost in translation, maybe I asked for too much/ But maybe this thing was a masterpiece, ’til you tore it all up,” Abrams sang over the noise of the crowd, accompanying herself on a small red keyboard in the center of the arena.
The performance comes about eight months after Swift’s global Eras trek wrapped after two years in December, with Abrams serving as the opener on the final North American leg. She’d also supported the 14-time Grammy winner at multiple shows when the tour first kicked off in 2023.
While traveling the world together, Abrams and Swift developed a friendship that eventually sparked a collaboration: “Us,” which appears on the former’s breakout The Secret of Us album.
In her Billboard cover story published in April, Abrams told staff writer Hannah Dailey that having Swift in her life has helped her stay grounded as her own star has risen over the past year. “It’s like, I really don’t have it that bad in terms of invasion of privacy, you know what I mean?” she said at the time. “I feel like I learned a lot from her, obviously, but one of the things that I’ve felt lucky to observe is how extreme it can be [for her]. It helps right-size my own s–t.”
Abrams is now closing in on the end of her own headlining tour, with the star having just five more dates on her show calendar before the Secret of Us trek concludes Aug. 27 in Mexico City.
Watch Abrams cover “All Too Well (10 Minute Version)” below.
