Gracie Abrams is the brand new number 1 singles in the UK with ‘That’s So True’. It is the first time that the Californian artist has achieved such a feat. The topic has risen to the top after 3 weeks of travel, and is also advancing in a market as complicated as Spain, where it rises from position 95 to 85 this week. What may be an even bigger success than ‘I miss you, I’m sorry’ and ‘I Live You, I’m Sorry’ is being anticipated for this friend of Taylor Swift.
‘That’s So True’ is the portrait of a love triangle in which Gracie Abrams laughs at her ex, specifically at his image directing pedantic compliments from a sofa, and warning: “you’re an idiot, now I know, I have to tell her.”
With this line, the artist tries to draw a line of complicity between her ex’s new girlfriend and herself, although at one point she realizes that she should not go too far. “I think I like her, she’s so funny / Wait, I think I hate her, I haven’t matured that much.”
Without a doubt, ‘That’s So True’ is one of Gracie Abrams’ most pop songs. Despite the co-production credits of Aaron Dessner of The National, he is related to the most accessible Taylor Swift, that of ‘Red’. The meta also refers to Taylor, that is, the references to other songs on the same album.
‘That’s So True’ presents the deluxe edition of ‘The Secrets of Us’, the album that the artist published this year. Located as track 15, it succeeds ‘Cool’ in the sequence, a song with which it is related through the reference to that sofa, which in ‘Cool’ is accompanied by a glass of wine (“you sit back down on your sofa with a glass of wine.
Gracie Abrams thus builds a microuniverse in which TikTok has a lot to do with it. The song has gone viral on this social network, especially as an anthem of survival through that bridge in which she decides to “come out alive” after having “gone crazy”: “I said it was fine, from the very coffin,” recalls one once the bad drink is over.
