{"id":14486,"date":"2026-07-23T10:00:38","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T05:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=14486"},"modified":"2026-07-23T10:00:38","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T05:00:38","slug":"gracie-abrams-song-death-wish-is-not-about-taylor-swift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=14486","title":{"rendered":"Gracie Abrams Song\u00a0&#8220;Death Wish&#8221; Is Not About Taylor Swift"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script>\r\n  atOptions = {\r\n    'key' : '644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6',\r\n    'format' : 'iframe',\r\n    'height' : 90,\r\n    'width' : 728,\r\n    'params' : {}\r\n  };\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script src=\"https:\/\/www.highperformanceformat.com\/644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"segment-text-only\">\n<p>And Dessener would never ask Abrams<em> or<\/em> Swift, who toured together in 2023 and 2024, to explain their lyrics.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You don\u2019t want to be like, &#8216;Well, you\u2019re talking about this, right?'&#8221; he said. &#8220;It\u2019s more mysterious not to.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Plus, Abrams herself has\u00a0explained\u00a0who\u00a0inspired &#8220;Death Wish.&#8221; When the 26-year-old first debuted the track at a March 2025 show on her<em>\u00a0The Secret of Us<\/em>\u00a0Tour, she told the audience, &#8220;This song is about a friend of mine who recently was dating a mega narcissist.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A sincere friend of mine was recently dating someone who kind of sucked,&#8221; she shared at the time. &#8220;And I was listening to them talk about it a lot, and so this song is about that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Though Swift, 36, was already almost two years into her relationship with<strong> <a href=\"HTTPS:\/\/EONLINE.COM\/NEWS\/TRAVIS_KELCE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer\">Travis Kelce<\/a><\/strong> at that point, it didn&#8217;t stop fans from theorizing.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<script async=\"async\" data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/pl30214220.effectivecpmnetwork.com\/9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<div id=\"container-9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\"><\/div>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And Dessener would never ask Abrams or Swift, who toured together in 2023 and 2024, to explain their lyrics. &#8220;You don\u2019t want to be like, &#8216;Well, you\u2019re talking about this, right?&#8217;&#8221; he said. &#8220;It\u2019s more mysterious not to.&#8221; Plus, Abrams herself has\u00a0explained\u00a0who\u00a0inspired &#8220;Death Wish.&#8221; When the 26-year-old first debuted the track at a March 2025&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14487,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/20260722\/886eb2e0-4fcf-4839-af75-deba4471194d_1784769481.jpg?fit=around%7C1200:1200&output-quality=90&crop=1200:1200;center,top","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-newsweek-trending"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14486\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}