Gracie Abrams Teases New Music, Says She’s ‘Never Felt This Way About Anything’ She’s Ever Created (Exclusive)

Gracie Abrams is “beyond ready” for her new music to be “Close to You.”

The singer-songwriter, 26, teased impending songs from her third studio album while speaking with PEOPLE for an exclusive interview at the Chanel Coco Crush Dinner Celebration in Los Angeles on Jan. 7.

“I’m beyond ready for it to belong to everyone else. I’ve never felt this way about anything I’ve made before, so it’s definitely driving me crazy in a good way,” the “That’s So True” hitmaker said.

When asked if it’s “scary” to be on the precipice of releasing new music, Abrams explained that she embraces that feeling, instead of being hindered by it.

“I love the feeling. I really like it right now. I think I feel kind of calm about it,” she said. “I’ve been lucky enough to spend a lot of time with it.”

“At the end of the day, it’s all about the people you get to make things with and spend your time with, and that means the most to me right now,” Abrams added. “So, yeah, any day in the studio is a great day.”

Abrams did not detail whom she spent that time with in the studio to produce, co-write or duet on the new songs with her, but she has had some high-profile collaborators in the past.

Grammy-winning co-writer and producer Aaron Dessner was involved with her first two albums, 2024’s The Secret of Us and 2023’s Good Riddance.

She also earned a Grammy nomination in 2024 for “Us,” which featured Taylor Swift, who brought Abrams out during the Eras Tour to perform it.

Other recent live duets for Abrams have been with Robyn on a mashup of “Dancing on My Own” and “Close to You,” as well as with Noah Kahan on their version of “Everywhere, Everything.”

While accepting the Songwriter of the Year Award at Billboard’s Women in Music event in March, Abrams elaborated on her songwriting.

“Songwriting is wild — it’s sometimes wildly embarrassing, wildly informative. Sometimes, it’s like a drug. It’s our prose and our poetry. It is our most-private diary entries and our loudest clarion calls. It’s our hiding places, and sometimes, our very salvation,” the two-time Grammy nominee said at the time.

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Abrams continued, “I have been lucky to learn from and write with some of the most wonderful and talented people.”

“The incomparable Ms. Taylor Swift. I will never stop pinching myself, and I will never stop thanking her for the gift of her pen, which very much raised me,” she then emphasized, before name-dropping Sarah Aarons, Audrey Hobert, Blake Slatkin and Dessner as other important songwriters in her life.