Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter Gracie Abrams has released “Look at My Life,” the second single from her highly anticipated third studio album Daughter from Hell, via Interscope Records. Out now on all major streaming platforms, the track arrives with an official music video that is as kinetic and restless as the song itself, and together they make a compelling case that whatever Abrams has been building toward is very nearly here. YouTube
The release comes barely a month after lead single “Hit the Wall” introduced the new era with considerable force. Following its release, “Hit the Wall” debuted at No. 35 on top 40 radio and No. 38 at hot AC, while earning Abrams’ highest Spotify streaming debut to date with 3.9 million streams in under 24 hours. Since then, the track has surpassed 88 million streams, building momentum for Daughter from Hell ahead of its July 17 arrival. “Look at My Life” steps in as the follow-up with something a little rawer, a little more exposed, and perhaps more revealing of who Abrams actually is beneath the mounting acclaim. YouTubeJust Jared
The Road as a State of Mind
Directed by Mitch Ryan, the video finds Abrams racing through a rural town on a road trip with vignettes of her in an empty dance studio and a convenience store parking lot, before she escapes in a hot air balloon. The visual logic tracks perfectly with the song’s emotional undertow. There is an urgency to the movement throughout, a sense of someone going somewhere without being entirely sure why or what they are running from, and yet the tone never tips into desperation. The dance studio sequence is especially arresting, placing Abrams in a space built for performance but completely empty of audience, which feels entirely deliberate given what the song is actually about. YouTube
The video made its broadcast premiere on MTV Live, MTVU, and on the Paramount Times Square billboards. YouTube
What She Is Actually Saying
The chorus of “Look at My Life” does something that very few pop songs attempt and even fewer pull off: it presents success and disarray as the same feeling. Abrams sings about a new spiral every night, putting on a brave face while quietly unraveling, getting exactly what she wanted and finding that it does not sit right. In conversation with The New York Times’ Popcast, Abrams reflected on the year she spent at Barnard College before taking a leave of absence, wondering what she may have missed in terms of development as a person beyond just her career, and simultaneously grappling with the fact that so much beyond her wildest dreams has unfolded in the years since. YouTubeYouTube
That tension between ambition fulfilled and the quieter questions that follow is precisely what makes the song feel larger than a simple confession. It is the kind of writing that earns its place in a catalog, the kind that listeners will return to when their own version of that feeling arrives.
The Album Taking Shape
Written and produced by Abrams alongside longtime collaborator Aaron Dessner, Daughter from Hell arrives July 17, two years after the release of The Secret of Us. That album was a landmark for Abrams in every measurable way. It became her first No. 1 album in the UK, Australia and the Netherlands, and debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard 200. The deluxe track “That’s So True” reached No. 1 on the US Spotify chart, entered Spotify’s Billions Club with over 1.5 billion streams, and became her first Billboard Hot 100 top 10 hit. YouTube + 2
Daughter from Hell will now have to answer that momentum, and what has surfaced so far suggests Abrams is not interested in repeating herself. The album title alone signals a willingness to go somewhere more turbulent, more unguarded. “Look at My Life” confirms she means it.
A Year That Keeps Expanding
Beyond the music, 2026 has positioned Abrams as one of the more genuinely multidimensional figures of her generation. She recently graced the cover of American Vogue’s Summer double issue, shot by Larissa Hofmann, and was featured on the latest episode of The New York Times’ Popcast. She is a house ambassador for Chanel, having fronted the brand’s Spring-Summer 2025 Pre-Collection campaign and serving as a muse for its COCO CRUSH collection. She is also set to make her acting debut in an upcoming A24 film titled Please. YouTubeYouTube
The next major chapter, though, belongs to the road. Later this year, Abrams will take the new era on the road with The Look at My Life Tour, a 64-date arena run beginning December 2 in Denver, including stops in Boston, Chicago, Toronto, Los Angeles and Brooklyn before continuing across Europe through May 2027, including four nights at London’s O2 Arena. Just Jared
For an artist who sold out her debut headline tour in under an hour and opened for Taylor Swift on the Eras Tour, that itinerary feels less like a milestone and more like a natural next step. Abrams has been building toward something for years, and Daughter from Hell, beginning with this song, is where she finally arrives.
