Gayle Kabaker’s “Summer’s Lease” | The New Yorker

Contents:

• CHARTBREAKER: HOW GAYLE SPELLED OUT HER SUCCS WH BREAKUP SMASH ‘ABCFU’
• GAYLE TEAS UPG TOURS WH TAYLOR SWIFT AND PK AT 2023 GRAMMYS: 'I COULD CRY THKG ABOUT IT'
• GAYLE KABAKER’S “SUMMER’S LEASE”
• THE VICLY FUN BREAKUP SONG THAT PUT GAYLE ON THE TEEN POP-ROCK RADAR
• SUMMER GAYLE PORTFOL
• SUMMER GAYLE SANRS OKLAHOMA

CHARTBREAKER: HOW GAYLE SPELLED OUT HER SUCCS WH BREAKUP SMASH ‘ABCFU’

GAYLE photographed by Grace Rivera on Dec. Chartbreaker: How GAYLE Spelled Out Her Succs Wh Breakup Smash ‘abcfu’. In 2018, Arthoe Mic Publishg CEO Kara DGuardi pulled GAYLE’s name out of a hat durg a songwrg pop-up event Nashville and heard the risg star sg for the first time.

GAYLE TEAS UPG TOURS WH TAYLOR SWIFT AND PK AT 2023 GRAMMYS: 'I COULD CRY THKG ABOUT IT'

Nearly a before GAYLE would sle the Billboard charts wh her breakthrough h “abcfu, ” the Plano, Texas native attend her first ncert — an Aretha Frankl show, when she was jt ne years old — that cemented her own sire for a siar future. “Havg the passn for sgg and performg was rooted Aretha Frankl’s [mic], ” GAYLE tells Billboard, also cg Na Simone and Julia Michaels as her earlit mil fluenc.

GAYLE KABAKER’S “SUMMER’S LEASE”

A year later, she opted for homchoolg to foc on mic, and at the same time, started takg trips to Nashville to work — ultimately leadg to her n- wh DGuardi, who by the end of 2018 signed GAYLE to a rerd and publishg al wh Arthoe. GAYLE photographed Dec. GAYLE built a most followg wh a handful of penntly-released sgl over the next few years, cludg “Dumbass” and “Orange Peel, ” but was her angsty die-pop track “Z” that put her on an ternatnal radar.

THE VICLY FUN BREAKUP SONG THAT PUT GAYLE ON THE TEEN POP-ROCK RADAR

’” GAYLE rells, her voice excedly jumpg up an octave. The tractn led to attentn om Warner Mic’s Korean team, and subsequently, Atlantic Rerds stati — which was already helpg DGuardi wh distributn for GAYLE.

SUMMER GAYLE PORTFOL

In January 2021, Atlantic print, A&R, Pete Ganbarg (who first met DGuardi 20 years prr and doubl as the print of ATCO Rerds) signed GAYLE to a rerd al wh the label that signed Aretha Frankl nearly 60 years ago. “I really love the velopment of Atlantic, ” GAYLE says.

By the summer, GAYLE felt ready. The followg month, September, GAYLE released three addnal versns of “abcfu, ” cludg rendns named after a different vibe (“angrier” and “chill”) as well as s origal mo.

SUMMER GAYLE SANRS OKLAHOMA

“The strategy behd releasg multiple versns of the song me om GAYLE herself, ” Ganbarg says. “Every versn brought somethg different, ” adds GAYLE.