Gracie Abrams ‘blacked out’ while fulfilling dream of singing with Taylor Swift: The songwriter was offered the chance to sing alongside Swift on her Eras Tour

Singer Gracie Abrams says she ‘blacked out’ while singing with Taylor Swift during the superstar’s Eras Tour.

Adams was asked to sing with Swift during her almost never ending world tour, but her dream did not come easy, with weather getting in the way of the initial show. “It will be like maybe my last memory ever. Like it’s burned,” Abrams told Jimmy Fallon on The Tonight Show. “A weather situation came up because even Taylor couldn’t control the sky apparently and so my set was canceled for safety reasons.”

She added, “My best friend happened to fly in for this. She came in for the weekend not really because of me but because there’s this baby hippo at the zoo named Fritz. So Audrey comes in – and Audrey is also my co-writer on Risk and she’s the greatest, Audrey Hobert – so she comes in to see the hippo and then my set.”

After her supporting set was canceled, Abrams was instead asked to sing with Swift. She continued: “So she comes to set, my set gets canceled and we were backstage in our trailer being like, ‘Oh you know bummer, but we’ll go see Fritz again or something.’ “And then Taylor texted me being like, ‘Hey come out with me and do ‘I Miss You, I’m Sorry.’ And so we ran it one time in her room and then did it there. It was just in the middle of her set and I blacked out the whole time.”

Abrams went on to rave about Swift, admitting she watched every one of the shows while supporting the record-breaking singer. “I watched every single one of her shows that I was lucky enough to open – I think I did 31 and I watched from every place possible in each stadium just trying to pick up on how she’s able to do what she does,” she said. “And she’s such a one-of-a-kind person, friend, artist, all the things.

“What she does so unbelievably well in these kinds of rooms is sometimes you feel like you’re on Mars and then sometimes you feel like the only two people in the stadium are you and her because she’s just so connected to her audience. “The relationship that they have with each other is really magical and just to have been in their orbit for a summer was a crazy dream.”