December 6th 2021

On IG live for almost 5 hours

Performance Details

Grace was on IG Live for almost 5 hours, for the first 3 hours and 20 minutes with Olivia. (We have the video of this live, but because Grace and Olivia listen to music during the live, YouTube has blocked the video for copyright reasons)
Grace said that she had stopped doing lives for a while because she was embarrassed about it, “But now I don’t give a fuck anymore".

In the second live (without Olivia), Grace performed two covers, played a new song from her Soundcloud, and played parts of a sketch for another new song. Before presenting the Soundcloud track, she talked about how she had been making beats and “like little EDM songs" for a while “And I feel like I am starting to see improvements and getting better". She said that she has just made an Odessa-inspired song “and I am really fuckin proud of it". And she played (from Spotify) “Good Kisser" by Lake Street Dive. “I am going to cover this on tour – even though it sounds like country – which it isn’t".
You can find a link to this live on the performance page (even though she also plays recorded music here, the video is not blocked for some reason)

On learning to play the piano
" I decided recently that I am going to get really good at the piano. And this is a goal that I know I am going to reach. I am so determined. It’s something I SO want to do. So, I am asking for a keyboard [for Christmas – and she got it]. I don’t really want to learn how to read music or anything. I am really lazy. I just want to be self-taught. I feel like if I just do it all the time, I am just going to slowly figure it out and like memorize chords because that’s what happened with all my other instruments. I really want to be fantastic at the piano, and I am going to start now."

About Don’t Assume What You Don’t Know"
DAWDN is the most creative project I have ever done. I was just looking at the photoshoots and the videos and all these things, and I am so proud of that, and I feel like it didn’t get enough attention. I think that is the best song that I have ever made, my favourite song of all time that I have ever, ever done. I think that it is the best social role out I have ever done. The music video is so fire and I was like – it’s so crazy that I have never performed this song live or Repeat, and it gets me so excited for tour.

The next EP
"The last song for the EP just got finished, and now they are talking about releasing stuff and about the publicity and social role out and tour."

On being an upcoming singer
I don’t know. I feel so bad answering that question because. I never went on the grind of a struggling artist, and I feel really guilty about that a lot. I went on a talent show, and that makes me incredibly privileged because I immediately had people walk me through everything. But this is my advice. As an artist, I have been stuck in this limbo of like the brink of breaking for years. I’m perfectly content with it, I am happy, and I’m making a living, and that’s really all I need.

On the writing process
I get asked in interviews a lot, “What is the writing process like? I literally take a video and riff on chords for a really long time, and then I re-watch the video and find the parts that I really, really like, and I try to find the syllables that I am singing, and then make words [of/from] them. I kind of listen through the gibberish and write what it sounds like to me. And then I changed it to be better. I don’t transcribe everything. Another thing I do is I go to ratpad.com, it gives me a bunch of rhymes

About her relationship with her mom
For a long time, I felt disconnected from my dad and Jacob. But me and mom had a fantastic time. She kept going out to dinner with me, and we had incredible conversations. But we did have a hard time for a while. Me and my mom have been through a very long journey. And a big part of that was that I got famous as a child and I felt guilty, and she felt guilty, she had to come with me everywhere, and I was working all the time. No one should be with one person all the time. And that was a big reason why we went through so much. It wasn’t your normal teenager wanting independence. My life was so chaotic, and her life was so chaotic, and so it just merged into really a terrible explosion, and all we had was each other so we just took it out on each other. But I love Mom, and we had such a good time.

About feeling disconnected from herself – and how music helps
It is probably, she thinks, a trauma response to all the things that happened when she was young, “I feel like I don’t feel my feelings the way that I should feel my feelings. I don’t even really feel feelings. A couple of times a year I get really angry, and then sometimes I just feel random feelings and I don’t know what they are about, and I can tell they were built up over something else. That I don’t know. I feel like I am really out of touch with my feelings. That is why I love art so much and why I love writing songs. When I write songs, it taps into like my subconsciousness, and it pulls out the feelings that I have a hard time finding and that is why art is such a beautiful thing. I am feeling a lot and I can tell that it is built up and I don’t know why, that is what inspires me to write a song, and then when I write it and it is about some weird fucking thing, I’m like – oh damn, I DO feel THAT.

On missing New York and finding friends
I’ve been having a really hard time finding really real friends. I don’t go to school, and I don’t go to a job here, and those are the places where you meet people. I am lonely here, and I miss New York so badly. I miss my old life. I have been getting so homesick lately, specifically for friends. I really miss my social life in New York.

No, I am not on drugs
Someone online said that she looks like she is on drugs. “I was born that way". She talks about the amount of internet and even high school rumours that she was on drugs. "I don’t really know what about me makes people think that. But I have experienced that my entire life."