Gracie Abrams Accepts the Songwriter of the Year Award | Billboard Women In Music 2025

Gracie Abrams accepts the Songwriter of the Year Award at Billboard Women In Music 2025.

Gracie Abrams:

First of all, ladies and gentlemen, Victoria Monét! Seriously, this incredible artist is, at a minimum, a quadruple threat. She’s an insane writer, unparalleled vocalist, inventive producer, and amazing dancer. I’m just in awe of you every day. Thank you so much for this—you’re a talent for the ages. I’m so grateful to be up here with you. Thank you. Hi, everyone. I’m so honored—and even more gobsmacked—to be receiving this award tonight. My deepest gratitude to Billboard for even considering me for this. Songwriting is wild. It’s sometimes wildly embarrassing, wildly informative, and sometimes it’s like a drug. It’s our prose and our poetry. It’s our most private diary entries and our loudest clarion calls. It’s our hiding place and, sometimes, our very salvation. I’ve been lucky to learn from and write with some of the most wonderful and talented people. The incomparable Miss 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. Sarah Aarons—I looked up to Sarah’s writing for ages before I ever met her. I was 19 when we first worked together, and she didn’t need to be as kind to me as she was, but she was, and I will cherish that forever. To my best friend and the most clever Audrey Hobert—for every single reason, I am me because of you. And our album is what it is because of you. Having never written a song prior to The Secret of Us, you helped me translate every single feeling I was itching to articulate on this album. 

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