Gayle's "abcfu" Is A Vicly Fun Breakup Song

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.

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.

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

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

By December, GAYLE sred her first entry on the Billboard Hot 100 when “abcfu” buted at No. Fueled by her exponential year-end rise, GAYLE is now foced on the year ahead: she’ll perform on The Tonight Show Starrg Jimmy Fallon on Jan. GAYLE, left, and Kara DGuardi photographed Dec.

SUMMER GAYLE SANRS OKLAHOMA

Gayle is gearg up for a by summer. "I have 15 shows wh Taylor, and 15 shows wh Pk, " Gayle said.

Gayle. "Taylor is obvly very experienced the life of jt makg mic and beg the public eye, and obvly 's very different where she is vers where I am, but she's been very helpful and jt very nice, and jt helps me not lose my md sometim, " Gayle said of the Midnights sger. While not preparg for the tour, Gayle — who released three EPs 2022, as she told PEOPLE — is also by the stud.

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