Gayle tells Brut the story behind “abcdefu”

Brut America

A bad breakup, a viral TikTok post, and a song topping Spotify’s global chart. “abcdefu” singer Gayle tells us how the song came to be ...

Transcript

00:00♪ A, B, C, D, E, F, U ♪

00:04♪ With your mom and your sister and your job ♪

00:07♪ And your broke a** car and that s**t you call R, f**k you ♪

00:12I started seeing like a lot of videos of just people on TikTok

00:15like coming up with song ideas and then like you go in and put the song.

00:20And so write the song to it.

00:22And so I was like, okay, cool.

00:23I'm gonna make a video that's like, yo, I want song ideas.

00:26Hello, my name is Gail.

00:27I am 17 and I live in Nashville and I make pop music.

00:30And I need your help because your girl has no song ideas.

00:34Literally just go to the comments, put anything.

00:37I literally put, you can put anything you want.

00:39And I will, I will try and turn it into a song because I just need something.

00:43Thank you. Love you. Bye.

00:44I already wrote the song with, before the comment was kind of posted.

00:49It was a song that I just didn't have like production or anything like on it.

00:55And then it like started doing well.

00:57So I was like, you know, I should probably put it out.

00:59And so then I did.

01:00Nothing's getting through, let me spell it out.

01:05A, B, C, D, E, F

01:08You and your mom and your sister and your job

01:12And you broke your car and that's what you call R, f**k you.

01:16I dated this guy and we broke up.

01:19And even when I broke up with him, I wasn't breaking up with him because he was an a**hole.

01:23Like it genuinely just wasn't working out.

01:26But our friendship was like really important to me.

01:29And honestly, it was like too important to me.

01:31He talks s**t on my songs.

01:33He talks s**t on my humor.

01:35He talks s**t on the things that I made when all I did was try and be supportive of it.

01:39And yet I still never got mad until he was talking s**t behind my back.

01:44And I was so mad that it took me that long to get mad.

01:47Like I literally am still getting mad talking about it because it's just like,

01:51It took me that long and I was so mad.

01:53I was so mad that I didn't let myself get mad.

01:56Because I tried for so long and for so hard for what?

01:59For who?

02:00Because apparently he didn't care.

02:02He didn't give a s**t about me.

02:04You know? And so that's how A, B, C was born.

02:07But all of it was like for me.

02:09All of it was to like empower me.

02:12For me to tell my story.

02:14For me to let myself get angry.

02:17And yes, I was thinking about him in the process of doing it.

02:20But it was really more empowering than it was revenge.

02:25You know?

02:27I don't know if he knows it's about him.

02:29I feel like he could figure it out pretty quickly if he cared enough.

02:33I don't know if he cares enough.

02:35You know, he might not.

02:37He probably thinks the song is stupid.

02:39I bet you he s**t talks it to a significant other.

02:43Like it's so crazy just seeing people like sing my songs,

02:47dance to my songs, break plates to my songs,

02:50have Baby Yoda dance to my songs.

02:54Like it's just crazy all of the stuff that people have thought.

Category

Transcript

Recommended