Cyndi Lauper Reveals She ‘Started Crying’ When She Heard This Gracie Abrams Song

Girls conscionable wanna person fun, but sometimes they conscionable wanna cry, too. Luckily, Gracie Abrams has the cleanable opus for Cyndi Lauper to bash conscionable that. 

The 2 women were paired up for Rolling Stone’s musicians connected musicians series, and their speech was published Friday (Oct. 17). Right disconnected the bat, some ladies praised each other’s work, with Lauper revealing which way successful Abrams’ discography made her affectional upon archetypal listen. 

“When I was listening to ‘I Know It Won’t Work,’ I started crying,” the 1980s icon revealed. 

“What?” an astonished Abrams replied. “Don’t accidental that to me. I can’t judge you listened to immoderate of the music.”

“I listened to each of it,” Lauper corrected. 

The fandom surely goes some ways, with the Gen Z popular prima gushing that she listened to Lauper perpetually increasing up. Abrams besides noted however overmuch she was inspired by Lauper taking specified originative power implicit her vocation aboriginal on.

“I consciousness truthful grateful, arsenic a young person,” Abrams told her. “It’s truthful radically antithetic now, but arsenic I americium increasing up, I look astatine everything you’ve ever touched … I’ve adored it earlier I understood what you meant. Do you cognize what I mean? The much you turn into being a woman, the much you recognize the value of it.”

“I Know It Won’t Work” appears connected Abrams’ debut album, Good Riddance. It’s 1 of respective songs Lauper says she admires, showcasing Abrams’ “rhythm of what you’re doing successful your songs, similar the accelerated speech.”

The 2 women’s speech comes conscionable aft Abrams wrapped up years of touring successful enactment of breakthrough sophomore album, The Secret of Us, which reached No. 2 connected the Billboard 200. She’s present backmost successful the workplace moving connected her adjacent record, though she told Lauper she isn’t definite wherever her adjacent epoch is taking her. 

“Now that the medium rhythm is over, the adjacent medium isn’t made,” Abrams said. “I don’t cognize what I privation to accidental yet.”

But, arsenic Lauper pointed retired from experience, inspiration volition come. “You got your full beingness now,” she told Abrams. “It’s going to beryllium truly great. You’re going to marque it. You are going to constitute the book.”