A fire broke out in Taylor Swift's kitchen, leading the singer to joke that she might die.
Gracie Abrams posted a video on Instagram of the pair cooking at Taylor's New York City home when the incident occurred.
“What do I do about this?” Taylor, 34, asked, grabbing the fire extinguisher.
“I think we're going to die,” she told Gracie as she searched for the device.
“We're not going to die,” her friend replied.
Finding it but unable to move it, she cried out “Damn it!”
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Taylor eventually deployed a fire extinguisher to put out the fire.
“Our handbags were ruined, my shoes were ruined and I think the whole room was ruined,” Taylor joked, to Gracie's laughter.
Gracie, 24, said she smelled really nice before she started coughing.
Taylor stood there in shock, her stove covered in smoke.
She turns the camera to Taylor's youngest cat, Benjamin Button, who comes into the kitchen looking confused.
“Writing this entire song from 2am to 6am was one of the most fun I've ever had in my life. Now I know how to use a fire extinguisher @taylorswift. I love you,” Gracie captioned the post.
Gracie and Taylor collaborated on the song “Us,” which appears on Gracie's sophomore album, The Secret of Us, which was released on June 21st.
The song ironically includes the lyric, “I can see her through the smoke.”
“She was a legend”
Gracie only posted the video on Friday, but spoke about the fire in Billboard magazine on Tuesday.
She said she had heard a candle fall over earlier that evening but thought her cat had knocked something over.
Gracie Abrams' The Secret of US tracklist
Gracie Abrams has released her second studio album, “The Secret of Us.” Released on June 21, the album contains 13 songs, including a collaboration with Taylor Swift. Here are some of the songs:
- I liked you
- danger
- Blowing smoke
- I love you, I'm sorry
- We (featuring Taylor Swift)
- Let's make it happen
- Tough love
- I know, you know too.
- I gave to you I gave to you
- Normal things
- Good Luck Charlie
- Try it now for free
- Close to you
After enjoying dinner and drinks, the friends were shocked to discover the fire had broken out at 6am.
“She was a legend. I don't know how she knew what to do at this time, in this state,” Gracie told the outlet.
“We both had terrible coughs for weeks because of the fumes from the fire extinguishers.”
Gracie revealed that the fire happened six months after they wrote the collaborative song.
Before the fire, Taylor and Gracie had just finished listening to Gracie's album and other songs from “The Tortured Poet's Department,” both before they were released.
Lying on the floor
Gracie also revealed that she was “singing and dancing like the drama kids” to Taylor's song “But Daddy, I Love Him.”
She also lay on Taylor's floor in disbelief after listening to “The Smallest Man in History.”
They then began listening to instrumentals created by their friend and collaborator Aaron Dessner.
“Something reached our ears so strongly and so quickly at the same time,” she told Billboard.
“So we ran over to the piano and started writing this song… That's what we fantasized about as kids.”
Shortly after the fire, they traveled to upstate New York to record a duet with Aaron, founder of the band The National.
Gracie will open for Taylor on the North American legs of her Eras Tour and will perform with her again on select dates in November and December.