GAYLE’s ‘abcfu’: Billboard’s January 2022 Chartbreaker – Billboard

Contents:

• CHARTBREAKER: HOW GAYLE SPELLED OUT HER SUCCS WH BREAKUP SMASH ‘ABCFU’
• TEEN HMAKER GAYLE MASTERS THE ABCS OF LANDG A BREAKOUT SONG WH ‘ABCFU’
• FIVE BURNG QUTNS: GAYLE’S ‘ABCFU’ CONTU ITS CLIMB UP THE HOT 100’S TOP 10
• GAYLE SHAR THE STORY BEHD THE X-RAY ON HER 'ABCFU' COVER
• GAYLE TALKS NEW MIC AND THE STORY BEHD ‘ABCFU’
• TIKTOK STAR GAYLE ON HER FOUL-MOUTHED H ‘ABCFU’: ‘I WAS PISSED’
• GAYLE RIPS THROUGH ‘ABCFU ‘TONIGHT SHOW’ DEBUT
• ​ABCFUGAYLETRACK 2 ON A STUDY OF THE HUMAN EXPERIENCE VOLUME ONE AND TWO (VYL VERSN) PRODUCED BYPETE NAPPIA FIANT TAKE ON THE AFTERMATH OF A BREAKUP, “ABCFU” STANDS AS AN EMPOWERG FEMALE ANTHEM. THE TRACK IS THE FIFTH SGLE OF GAYLE’S MIC REER AND THE BUT RELEASE… READ MORE AUG. 13, 20211 VIEWER573.7K VIEWS73 CONTRIBUTORSTRANSLATNSTüRKçEESPAñOLDTSCHFRANçAIS​ABCFU LYRICS[INTRO]FUCK YOU AND YOUR MOM AND YOUR SISTER AND YOUR JOBAND YOUR BROKE-ASS R AND THAT SH YOU LL ARTFUCK YOU AND YOUR IENDS THAT I'LL NEVER SEE AGAEVERYBODY BUT YOUR DOG, YOU N ALL FUCK OFF[VERSE 1]I SWEAR I MEANT TO MEAN THE BT WHEN ENDEVEN TRIED TO BE MY TONGUE WHEN YOU START SHNOW YOU'RE TEXT' ALL MY IENDS ASKG QUTNSTHEY NEVER EVEN LIKED YOU THE FIRST PLACEDATED A GIRL THAT I HATE FOR THE ATTENTNSHE ONLY MA TWO DAYS, WHAT A NNECTNIT'S LIKE YOU'D DO ANYTH' FOR MY AFFECTNYOU'RE GO' ALL ABOUT THE WORST WAYS[PRE-CHOS]I WAS TO YOU, BUT I'M OVеR NOWAND I WAS TRYNA BE NICEBUT NOTHG'S GETTG THROUGH, SO LеT ME SPELL OUT[CHOS]A-B-C-D-E, F YOUAND YOUR MOM AND YOUR SISTER AND YOUR JOBAND YOUR BROKE-ASS R AND THAT SH YOU LL ARTFUCK YOU AND YOUR IENDS THAT I'LL NEVER SEE AGAEVERYBODY BUT YOUR DOG, YOU N ALL FUCK OFFYOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE[POST-CHOS]NA-NA-NA-NA, NA-NA-NA-NAA-B-C-D-E, F YOU[VERSE 2]YOU SAID YOU JT NEED SPACE AND SO I GAVE WHEN I HAD NOTH' TO SAY, YOU ULDN'T TAKE TOLD EVERYONE I'M A BCH, SO I BEME ALWAYS HAD TO PUT YOURSELF ABOVE ME[PRE-CHOS]I WAS TO YOU, BUT I'M OVER NOWAND I WAS TRYNA BE NICEBUT NOTHG'S GETTG THROUGH, SO LET ME SPELL OUT[CHOS]A-B-C-D-E, F YOUAND YOUR MOM AND YOUR SISTER AND YOUR JOBAND YOUR CRAIGSLIST UCH AND THE WAY YOUR VOICE SOUNDSFUCK YOU AND YOUR IENDS THAT I'LL NEVER SEE AGAEVERYBODY BUT YOUR DOG, YOU N ALL FUCK OFF[POST-CHOS]NA-NA-NA-NA, NA-NA-NA-NAA-B-C-D-E, F OFF (F OFF)NA-NA-NA-NA, NA-NA-NA-NAA-B-C-D-E, F YOU[OUTRO]AND YOUR MOM AND YOUR SISTER AND YOUR JOBAND YOUR BROKE-ASS R AND THAT SH YOU LL ARTFUCK YOU AND YOUR IENDS THAT I'LL NEVER SEE AGAEVERYBODY BUT YOUR DOG, YOU N ALL FUCK OFF41EMBEDCANCELHOW TO FORMAT LYRICS:TYPE OUT ALL LYRICS, EVEN REPEATG SONG PARTS LIKE THE CHOSLYRICS SHOULD BE BROKEN DOWN TO DIVIDUAL LUSE SECTN HEARS ABOVE DIFFERENT SONG PARTS LIKE [VERSE], [CHOS], ETC.USE ALICS (<I>LYRIC</I>) AND BOLD (<B>LYRIC</B>) TO DISTGUISH BETWEEN DIFFERENT VOLISTS THE SAME SONG PARTIF YOU DON’T UNRSTAND A LYRIC, E [?]TO LEARN MORE, CHECK OUT OUR TRANSCRIPTN GUI OR VIS OUR TRANSCRIBERS FOMABOUT
• GAYLE’S ‘ABCFU’ HS NO. 1 ON BOTH BILLBOARD GLOBAL CHARTS
• GAYLE ON "ABCFU" BACKLASH, TOURG WH TAYLOR SWIFT, AND TSTG HERSELF
• WHO IS GAYLE? WHAT TO KNOW ABOUT THE 'ABCDEFU' SGER
• BEHD THE MEANG OF GAYLE’S “ABCFU”
• HERE ARE THE LYRICS TO GAYLE’S ‘ABCFU’
• EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: GAYLE SAYS WHAT WE ARE ALL THKG IN ‘ABCFU’ AND WE GOT TO ASK HER ALL ABOUT IT!

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.

TEEN HMAKER GAYLE MASTERS THE ABCS OF LANDG A BREAKOUT SONG WH ‘ABCFU’

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.

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.

FIVE BURNG QUTNS: GAYLE’S ‘ABCFU’ CONTU ITS CLIMB UP THE HOT 100’S TOP 10

’” 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.

GAYLE SHAR THE STORY BEHD THE X-RAY ON HER 'ABCFU' COVER

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.

GAYLE TALKS NEW MIC AND THE STORY BEHD ‘ABCFU’

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.

Gayle penned a reer-lnchg pop phenomenon wh “abcfu” — she jt didn’t know at the time.

“When I first wrote , I hated , ” Gayle lghs over the phone. “My bra was numb om a wrg trip, ” Gayle explas. “Instead of beg, ‘Fuck you and your iends that I’ll never see aga, ’ was origally, ‘Fuck you and your father and your and your brother, ’” Gayle lghs.

TIKTOK STAR GAYLE ON HER FOUL-MOUTHED H ‘ABCFU’: ‘I WAS PISSED’

The platform’s abily to break a song isn’t lost on Gayle. Wh “abcfu” still climbg the Billboard Hot 100, Gayle is already movg on to her next sgle.

’” The answer, Gayle disvered, is hormon. ” It will be her first sce releasg a self-fund EP unr the name Taylor Gayle at age 11.

“A lot has happened sce then, ” Gayle says. One person who didn’t see Gayle as the girl next door is Kara DGuardi. “Kara se you before you see yourself, ” Gayle says of her mentor.

GAYLE RIPS THROUGH ‘ABCFU ‘TONIGHT SHOW’ DEBUT

DGuardi, who signed Gayle to Arthoe Entertament, rells.

” She enuraged Gayle to be more hont her songwrg.

It’s advice that Gayle took to heart. DGuardi se Gayle as one of her generatn’s most important voic. Five Burng Qutns: GAYLE’s ‘abcfu’ Contu Its Climb Up the Hot 100’s Top 10.

​ABCFUGAYLETRACK 2 ON A STUDY OF THE HUMAN EXPERIENCE VOLUME ONE AND TWO (VYL VERSN) PRODUCED BYPETE NAPPIA FIANT TAKE ON THE AFTERMATH OF A BREAKUP, “ABCFU” STANDS AS AN EMPOWERG FEMALE ANTHEM. THE TRACK IS THE FIFTH SGLE OF GAYLE’S MIC REER AND THE BUT RELEASE… READ MORE AUG. 13, 20211 VIEWER573.7K VIEWS73 CONTRIBUTORSTRANSLATNSTüRKçEESPAñOLDTSCHFRANçAIS​ABCFU LYRICS[INTRO]FUCK YOU AND YOUR MOM AND YOUR SISTER AND YOUR JOBAND YOUR BROKE-ASS R AND THAT SH YOU LL ARTFUCK YOU AND YOUR IENDS THAT I'LL NEVER SEE AGAEVERYBODY BUT YOUR DOG, YOU N ALL FUCK OFF[VERSE 1]I SWEAR I MEANT TO MEAN THE BT WHEN ENDEVEN TRIED TO BE MY TONGUE WHEN YOU START SHNOW YOU'RE TEXT' ALL MY IENDS ASKG QUTNSTHEY NEVER EVEN LIKED YOU THE FIRST PLACEDATED A GIRL THAT I HATE FOR THE ATTENTNSHE ONLY MA TWO DAYS, WHAT A NNECTNIT'S LIKE YOU'D DO ANYTH' FOR MY AFFECTNYOU'RE GO' ALL ABOUT THE WORST WAYS[PRE-CHOS]I WAS TO YOU, BUT I'M OVеR NOWAND I WAS TRYNA BE NICEBUT NOTHG'S GETTG THROUGH, SO LеT ME SPELL OUT[CHOS]A-B-C-D-E, F YOUAND YOUR MOM AND YOUR SISTER AND YOUR JOBAND YOUR BROKE-ASS R AND THAT SH YOU LL ARTFUCK YOU AND YOUR IENDS THAT I'LL NEVER SEE AGAEVERYBODY BUT YOUR DOG, YOU N ALL FUCK OFFYOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE[POST-CHOS]NA-NA-NA-NA, NA-NA-NA-NAA-B-C-D-E, F YOU[VERSE 2]YOU SAID YOU JT NEED SPACE AND SO I GAVE WHEN I HAD NOTH' TO SAY, YOU ULDN'T TAKE TOLD EVERYONE I'M A BCH, SO I BEME ALWAYS HAD TO PUT YOURSELF ABOVE ME[PRE-CHOS]I WAS TO YOU, BUT I'M OVER NOWAND I WAS TRYNA BE NICEBUT NOTHG'S GETTG THROUGH, SO LET ME SPELL OUT[CHOS]A-B-C-D-E, F YOUAND YOUR MOM AND YOUR SISTER AND YOUR JOBAND YOUR CRAIGSLIST UCH AND THE WAY YOUR VOICE SOUNDSFUCK YOU AND YOUR IENDS THAT I'LL NEVER SEE AGAEVERYBODY BUT YOUR DOG, YOU N ALL FUCK OFF[POST-CHOS]NA-NA-NA-NA, NA-NA-NA-NAA-B-C-D-E, F OFF (F OFF)NA-NA-NA-NA, NA-NA-NA-NAA-B-C-D-E, F YOU[OUTRO]AND YOUR MOM AND YOUR SISTER AND YOUR JOBAND YOUR BROKE-ASS R AND THAT SH YOU LL ARTFUCK YOU AND YOUR IENDS THAT I'LL NEVER SEE AGAEVERYBODY BUT YOUR DOG, YOU N ALL FUCK OFF41EMBEDCANCELHOW TO FORMAT LYRICS:TYPE OUT ALL LYRICS, EVEN REPEATG SONG PARTS LIKE THE CHOSLYRICS SHOULD BE BROKEN DOWN TO DIVIDUAL LUSE SECTN HEARS ABOVE DIFFERENT SONG PARTS LIKE [VERSE], [CHOS], ETC.USE ALICS (<I>LYRIC</I>) AND BOLD (<B>LYRIC</B>) TO DISTGUISH BETWEEN DIFFERENT VOLISTS THE SAME SONG PARTIF YOU DON’T UNRSTAND A LYRIC, E [?]TO LEARN MORE, CHECK OUT OUR TRANSCRIPTN GUI OR VIS OUR TRANSCRIBERS FOMABOUT

After takg off wh imprsive velocy towards the end of 2021, “abcfu” — the breakout h om 17-year-old sger-songwrer GAYLE — has bee one of the first official smash of 2022. gayle.

GAYLE’S ‘ABCFU’ HS NO. 1 ON BOTH BILLBOARD GLOBAL CHARTS

And is GAYLE soon due for a send h? It’s also different than a lot of the vastatg breakup ballads that we’ve been hearg on the platform lately, so ’s probably rehg for mic fans to hear GAYLE take an angrier, more nfint approach to heartbreak.

GAYLE ON "ABCFU" BACKLASH, TOURG WH TAYLOR SWIFT, AND TSTG HERSELF

Jason Lipshutz: Commercial performance n sometim be stctive of a song’s subtle power: when I first heard Gayle’s “abcfu, ” I thought, “Good song, fun tle, ” and kept movg. Sce the song’s release last Augt, the way which GAYLE and her creative team managed to take such an obv, almost childish ia and turn to a more grown and relatable h ntu to trigue me.

WHO IS GAYLE? WHAT TO KNOW ABOUT THE 'ABCDEFU' SGER

The hook works bee of Gayle’s vol performance, all nervy anger and sneaky assonance, her words blurrg to each other as she nam more thgs that n go to hell. In the wrong hands, that hook would be overly nontatnal or even snotty, but Gayle blurts out her claratns wh a nfince that also don’t ph too hard.

TikTok has both given to and taken om the song’s succs — the latter g when a creator “exposed” the fan msage that supposedly spired the song as havg apparently been sent by someone on GAYLE’s marketg team. If te, do that more seem embarrassg for GAYLE and her team, or more like a succsful/validated marketg mpaign? Jason Lipshutz: Simply put, there is no reason for Gayle or anyone her rner to feel embarrassed, when most artists and teams would kill for a lightng--a-bottle moment like “abcfu.

BEHD THE MEANG OF GAYLE’S “ABCFU”

I hope GAYLE n bounce back and learn om that blunr!

Maybe hurts GAYLE’s credibily a ltle wh some of her re fans, but pop mic, everyone’s gotta play the game a ltle, and I thk most fans unrstand that. GAYLE’s send song is already out the siarly fed-up “ur jt horny.

Rania Aniftos: While I’m not sure that will have the immediate, exponential succs that “abcfu” had — jt bee ’s not as fect — “ur jt horny” displays an edgy artistry and a tge of rock that GAYLE hasn’t shown her fans yet, which I love. Lyndsey Havens: As a re member of GAYLE’s team recently told Billboard  her Chartbreaker feature, the artist is more than her breakout h. And while I’m even more sold on “ur jt horny” as a track that prov GAYLE’s fuller artistic range, I’m skeptil n have a siar kd of chart-toppg succs as “abcfu.

HERE ARE THE LYRICS TO GAYLE’S ‘ABCFU’

” But if “abcedfu” helped GAYLE ga the platform and momentum for a song like “ur jt horny” to have more ey and ears on than would have otherwise — future chart succs asi — then that’s still que a succs. Jason Lipshutz: “ur jt horny” is really good too — the blueprt of chuggg guars and pent-up rage is clearly workg for Gayle, but she also gets the tails right, om provotive l like “Took scissors to your chasty belt” to that exasperated “ugh” right before the first chos. This style is workg very well for Gayle as she kicks off her reer, but there are also signs of a whip-smart songwrer emergg to the mastream.

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: GAYLE SAYS WHAT WE ARE ALL THKG IN ‘ABCFU’ AND WE GOT TO ASK HER ALL ABOUT IT!

I worry this follow up was released too early sce “abcfu” is still holdg on so strong, but I unrstand the label’s sire to start easg fans to more GAYLE mic while the iron is still hot. Gayle’s sgle surged wh populary on TikTok and lnched her to her TV but on The Tonight Show Starrg Jimmy Fallon. “It’s my actual middle fger, ” Gayle nfirmed of the x-ray image, later addg to host Jimmy Fallon that “It was disgtg.