TikTok star Gayle on her foul-mouthed hit ‘abcdefu’: ‘I was pissed’
nypost.comher viral hit “abcdefu,” 17-year-old TikTok sensation Gayle launches an F-bomb tirade against a shady ex: “F—k you and your friends that I’ll never see again/Everybody but your dog, you can all f—k off.”But she was worried that her foul-mouthed rant would piss off her grandmother. “When I played that song for my grandmother, I was so nervous,” Gayle told The Post. “And, you know, she told me that I got to say all the things at 17 that she never could.
And that really put things into a different perspective [about] a woman being outspokenly angry at a man.”After getting Grandma’s seal of approval, “abcdefu” has become a cathartic, liberating anthem for fed-up young women everywhere.
The pop-punk single is No. 3 on this week’s Billboard Hot 100, building buzz for Gayle’s debut EP, “A Study of the Human Experience Volume One,” which arrives March 18.
And just a few days later, the Dallas-born, Nashville, Tenn.-based singer — whose full name is Taylor Gayle Rutherford — will play two sold-out shows at Mercury Lounge on March 21 and 22.The fiery rage in “abcdefu” was fueled by Gayle’s pent-up emotions after a real-life breakup. “I went through this relationship where I never let myself get angry.
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