Audrey Hobert: Photos From the Billboard Chartbreaker Shoot

A fewer months ago, erstwhile speaking to Billboard for a cover story astir her person Gracie Abrams, Audrey Hobert pulled unfastened her Notes app and work aloud the lyrics to 1 of the archetypal songs the 2 ever wrote together: a parody mentation of Smash Mouth’s “All Star.”

“Hey now, shingle your ass off/ Get immoderate substance now, propane/ Hey now, creation your ass off/ Break it down now, dilatory mane/ All that glitters is gold/ Even sexy ogres, they get old,” she sang to the tune of the signature Shrek soundtrack hit. After reciting the chorus, she instantly covered her look arsenic the cringe of her college-aged self’s antics washed implicit her.

The puerility besties wrote the opus astir 4 years agone successful Abrams’ basement arsenic a joke. Now, the popular satellite is taking some singer-songwriters precise seriously. In 2024, Abrams’ album The Secret of Us made Hobert a chart-topping co-writer, acknowledgment to the runaway occurrence of Billboard Hot 100 apical 10 deed “That’s So True,” which the brace crafted portion drunk 1 nighttime connected the extortion of Electric Lady Studios successful New York City. This year, Hobert has leveraged that whirlwind entranceway to the euphony manufacture into her ain solo career, formally introducing herself successful May with pb azygous “Sue Me” — an uber catchy dance-pop opus astir hooking up with an ex — earlier dropping her boisterous debut medium Who’s the Clown? successful August.

Read the afloat Billboard interrogation with Audrey Hobert, September’s Chartbreaker, here.