Position Mannequin, Gracie Abrams Rebecca Sapp/Getty Pictures for The Recording Academy;Taylor Hill/Getty Pictures
Charli XCX and Troye Sivan could also be bringing the get together throughout North America with their Sweat tour, however there’s one other dynamic duo touring proper now for a much less club-oriented and extra heartbroken viewers: Position Mannequin and Gracie Abrams.
“It appears like an ideal little match,” Position Mannequin, 27, whose actual identify is Tucker Pillsbury, informed Us Weekly completely. “It’s form of like a healthful Sweat tour.”
Whereas Charli XCX and Sivan’s music has extra of a celebration vibe, Pillsbury and Abrams’ latest releases lean towards melancholia, with themes of heartbreak, homesickness and coming of age.
As one fan’s T-shirt reads in a photograph shared by way of Position Mannequin’s Instagram account: “Therapists hate them.”
Gracie Abrams was a self-proclaimed Swiftie earlier than she really grew to become buddies with Taylor Swift. “Each formative reminiscence in my life is paired with a Taylor Swift track that helped me get by,” Abrams informed Vainness Honest in a July 2023 profile. “My boyfriend the opposite day did the factor the place we shuffled her discography and […]
Pillsbury was gearing as much as announce his personal headlining world tour, No Place Like Tour, in assist of his sophomore album, Kansas Anymore — “it was scheduled and all the things,” he stated — when he bought a name from Abrams, 25.
“She invited me on the tour, and I used to be like, ‘I believe we’ve got to do that. That is unbelievable. I’d love that,’” he stated. “She’s been a pal for years, and I’ve been a fan for years, and so to be touring with a pal like that, it’s fairly fortunate.”
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Pillsbury’s staff was capable of push his tour’s begin date to November so he might be a part of Abrams on The Secret of Us Tour, supporting her album of the identical identify. At a latest present, followers on the venue — after which later, hundreds of thousands of followers who watched the footage by way of TikTok and Instagram — had been pleasantly stunned when Abrams introduced Pillsbury on stage to carry out a duet model of her track “Feels Like.”
“That was insane. Getting on stage together with her was unbelievable. It felt like a really large second for me,” Pillsbury informed Us of their joint efficiency, including it was “the second of the 12 months” for him. “I texted her proper after, and I used to be like, ‘I do know it sounds corny, however that was an honor. For me to be on the stage with you is actually cool.’”
Pillsbury will quickly get the possibility to make some extra solo reminiscences when he embarks on his personal world tour in November. Aptly titled No Place Like Tour, the string of reveals stretch from Dublin to Madrid, throughout Europe and the U.S. earlier than wrapping up within the Pacific Northwest subsequent spring.
Whereas Pillsbury admits he has solely seen The Wizard of Oz as soon as, he feels deeply related to the long-lasting strains “there’s no place like house” and “we’re not in Kansas anymore” and used the musical references to drive house the album’s themes of homesickness and heartbreak.
“The theme [of the album] is nostalgia and looking out again at a spot or individual, however principally a spot that you simply had been in your life that you simply’re attempting to get again to, relive or repair,” Pillsbury informed Us of Kansas Anymore, acknowledging among the confusion the title produced. “Once I introduced the album, everyone thought I used to be from Kansas swiftly, which form of bummed me out as a result of I’m lastly in a spot in my life the place I’m championing New England and the place I’m from.”
Actually, Pillsbury grew up in Maine, and his new folk-tinted sound was closely influenced by the music of his upbringing.
“My primary purpose was to make my very own model of an album that felt like house to me, sonically, that was heat and nostalgic and had some folky sounds in it as a result of that’s form of the music scene in Maine,” he defined. “I like the place I’m from in Maine. You might have my home that I grew up in that my dad and mom nonetheless stay in. There’s an enormous strawberry area throughout the road. My neighbor has a farm with cows and chicks after which you too can stroll down the road and also you’re on the seashore.”
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He continued: “As a result of we’ve got such harsh seasons [in New England], I believe it does one thing to the individuals there the place as quickly as summer season hits you take advantage of out of it. … I believe having such harsh, contrasting seasons is actually good and builds character.”
With lyrics like “I’m the kid of my mom, New England–born and raised / The place the frequent sense is frequent as a nostril job in L.A.,” in “The Dinner,” one can’t assist however consider one other rising artist who sings about his upbringing in New England: Noah Kahan.
“I came upon [Noah] had an EP known as Cape Elizabeth, which is the city I’m from. It’s a small, little city in southern Maine, and I used to be so curious what his connection was,” Pillsbury informed Us earlier than hinting at a possible collaboration between the 2 artists. “Hopefully, we’re going to hand around in October in Maine. … He appears very candy.”
Tickets for There’s No Place Like Tour are on sale now.