Gracie Abrams hits the wall with ‘Daughter From Hell”s first single

The chorus is, “Now you can watch me hit the wall.”

The video takes one of the lyrics — “I’m afraid that my fortress is a glass box” — and makes it literal, with Gracie lying down in a glass box.  She’s also shown being examined by doctors, going in and out of doors, and standing in a hallway. At one point, a set of little girl twins appear in the hallway, like in that super-creepy scene in The Shining. The video ends with her singing in front of a burning tree.

Gracie shouts out one of her musical heroes in the lyrics, singing “‘A Case of You’ playing in the hallway/ Hallucinations that I downplay.” “A Case of You” is a track from Joni Mitchell’s iconic 1971 album Blue. Gracie loves Joni Mitchell so much that she even has a Joni-related tattoo.

On Instagram, Gracie’s producer and co-writer Aaron Dessner wrote, “This was the song @gracieabrams and I wrote one day — when we were literally hitting a wall creatively — that broke through and brought everything else into focus. …. Gracie you’re a genius and I’m so grateful for all the trust you put in me to help excavate these songs.”

Daughter from Hell is out July 17.

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