Gracie Abrams is apparently not interested in keeping up appearances. On her new single “Look at My Life,” the second offering from her forthcoming third album Daughter from Hell, the singer/songwriter pairs existential panic with a visual that quite literally sets the world around her on fire.
The Mitch Ryan-directed video for “Look at My Life,” out now via Interscope, finds Abrams drifting through a series of increasingly surreal Americana tableaux: wandering an empty dance studio, lingering in a convenience store parking lot and traversing a rural landscape while a massive dumpster fire blazes behind her. Later, she takes a baseball bat to a room full of mirrors, shattering her own reflection as the song’s spiraling self-examination reaches its climax. By the video’s end, she has escaped the chaos altogether by floating away in a hot air balloon.
Lyrically, Abrams dispenses with the carefully curated image-making of social media culture in favor of something far messier. “Do I look high functioning? / Is my facade crumbling?” she asks at one point, before delivering the song’s devastating thesis statement: “Look at my life / Bet you can’t tell, but it’s kind of a bad time.”
The track arrives one month after lead single “Hit the Wall,” which marked the beginning of the Daughter from Hell era and helped launch Abrams’ biggest streaming debut to date. The song amassed early 4 million Spotify streams in its first 24 hours and more than 88 million overall streams since release. The album was co-written and produced by the National’s Aaron Dessner, with whom Abrams has enjoyed massive success in recent years.
Dessner wrote on Instagram that “Life” was one of the first songs he and Abrams crafted for Daughter from Hell in the winter of 2025 when his Long Pond studio in upstate New York “was snow bound and Gracie was still very much on tour for The Secret of Us. We didn’t really know if we were even making a record. It wasn’t until much later that we realized it was an important piece of an interrelated puzzle we had to dive very deep to unlock. [The song] feels like a manic sprint through an existential crisis.”
Abrams will support Daughter from Hell with an extensive international tour beginning Dec. 2-3 in Denver.
