It’s hard to know what to expect when Taylor Swift invites you over for dinner. For one thing, it will probably happen in a $50 million Tribeca loft that has recently housed both Sophie Turner and Travis Kelce. For another, there might be a large fire. That is apparently what happened when Swift hosted 24-year-old musician Gracie Abrams for what sounds like a very Taylor Swift hang that nearly ended in catastrophe.
In a Billboard interview, Abrams, who opened for Swift during the 2023 stretch of her Eras tour, shared that she and Swift co-wrote one of the tracks from Abrams’s upcoming sophomore album during a drunken dinner-and-songwriting session at the older singer’s Tribeca home six months ago. At some point — the timeline is supremely hazy here — they heard a sound that Swift assured Abrams was “one of her cats thumping around.” Later that night-slash-morning — again, unclear when, but they’d already finished writing their collab — they found out the sound had actually been a candle falling over, starting a fire on Swift’s kitchen island. Abrams said Swift grabbed a fire extinguisher — “I don’t know how at this hour or in our state she knew what to do” — and put out the fire, while Abrams, naturally, took a video. For this, Abrams deems her a “legend.”
The fire apparently went out circa 6 a.m., but Abrams says she and Swift “had an insane cough from the fire extinguisher fumes for weeks.” The day after the interview came out, she posted her own footage, where you can hear her telling Swift to never put a fire out with water, and Swift observing that, post-extinguisher, their “purses are ruined.” Honestly, the blaze looks kind of small, but that is of course relative to Swift’s gargantuan kitchen island.
At least this incident didn’t ruin the tour.
This post has been updated.
