GAYLE went through a manipulative and gaslightg boyiend and channeled her anger to the surprise h that was abcfu.
Contents:
- TIKTOK STAR GAYLE ON HER FOUL-MOUTHED H ‘ABCFU’: ‘I WAS PISSED’
- GAYLE ON GOG VIRAL — AND WHAT COM NEXT
- FIVE BURNG QUTNS: GAYLE’S ‘ABCFU’ CONTU ITS CLIMB UP THE HOT 100’S TOP 10
- GAYLE'S PUNK-POP PROWS TRANSCENDS HER VIRAL TIKTOK FAME
- HOW GAYLE TURNED HEARTBREAK INTO A VIRAL CHART-TOPPG SMASH
TIKTOK STAR GAYLE ON HER FOUL-MOUTHED H ‘ABCFU’: ‘I WAS PISSED’
How has GAYLE's "abcfu" reached such stratospheric heights already -- and is she soon due for a send h? Billboard staffers discs. * viral gayle *
On her viral h “abcfu, ” 17-year-old TikTok sensatn Gayle lnch an F-bomb tira agast a shady ex: “F—k you and your iends that I’ll never see aga/Everybody but your dog, you n all f—k off. “When I played that song for my grandmother, I was so nervo, ” Gayle told The Post.
3 on this week’s Billboard Hot 100, buildg buzz for Gayle’s but EP, “A Study of the Human Experience Volume One, ” which arriv March 18. -based sger — whose full name is Taylor Gayle Rutherford — will play two sold-out shows at Mercury Lounge on March 21 and 22.
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GAYLE ON GOG VIRAL — AND WHAT COM NEXT
GAYLE opens up about her viral TikTok song, "ABCDEFU"; her upg bedroom-pop EP; and exchangg DMs wh Olivia Rodrigo. * viral gayle *
The fiery rage “abcfu” was fueled by Gayle’s pent-up emotns after a real-life breakup. But after Gayle found out that her ex was “talkg s—t about me, ” she was done playg nice. Gayle will play two sold-out shows at Mercury Lounge on March 21 and Livgston.
FIVE BURNG QUTNS: GAYLE’S ‘ABCFU’ CONTU ITS CLIMB UP THE HOT 100’S TOP 10
Growg up, Gayle was a fan of CeeLo Green’s 2010 h “F—k You” — or at least the “Fet You” censored versn.
While she started out sgg untry mic, Gayle’s childhood hero was the Queen of Soul. Later, Gayle disvered female rockers such as Joan Jett and Courtney Love, but was another fluential woman — h-makg songwrer and former “Amerin Idol” judge Kara DGuardi — who would prove stmental her velopment.
“I would not be the wrer I am whout her, ” said Gayle. Gayle has been mentored by h-makg songwrer — and former “Amerin Idol” judge — Kara Evans.
GAYLE'S PUNK-POP PROWS TRANSCENDS HER VIRAL TIKTOK FAME
Now Gayle is part of a wave of young female artists, cludg Billie Eilish and Olivia Rodrigo, who are beg open about everythg om mental health to sex — a topic she addrs on new sgle “ur jt horny. And Gayle — who graduated om high school 2020 — don’t re about possibly beg a bad fluence on some children wh “abcfu.
GAYLE, the 17-year-old sger-songwrer who’s h song turned the ABCs to a remptive anthem for tellg her ex to f*ck off, asks if ’s OK to swear durg our terview. ’” Her ey, heavily led wh black eyeler, go wi as she leans slightly to the Zoom mera, phg back her orange and black Cella Vil to “abcfu” GAYLE had ls than a handful of sgl out. She’s like, ‘If we’re gog to do this, we’re gog to do , ’” GAYLE says.
HOW GAYLE TURNED HEARTBREAK INTO A VIRAL CHART-TOPPG SMASH
Two years later, Nashville would bee GAYLE’s home.