Gracie Abrams<\/a> (maybe you\u2019ve heard of her?).\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\tThey\u2019d been roommates for about six months when they tried writing a song together. \u201cIt was not preconceived,\u201d Hobert says. \u201cWe barely knew what was happening while it was happening.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
\n\tOne of the songs they co-wrote was Abrams\u2019 most-streamed single, \u201cThat\u2019s So True,\u201d with 1.6 billion and counting on Spotify. It\u2019s got Hobert\u2019s fingerprints all over it: a fast-strummed guitar, lyrics falling out at a breakneck pace, and confusion mingled with self-aware humor.<\/p>\n
\n\tThanks to a nudge from Abrams, Hobert signed a baseline publishing deal to ensure she was compensated properly. Around the same time, the Nickelodeon show she worked for was cancelled. Though she\u2019d never set out to head down the songwriting path, Hobert started showing up to sessions with other artists, a transitional time that lasted about four months. \u201cI kind of never left one of those sessions and felt good about the song,\u201d she says. \u201cI started to write by myself. And then when I started writing by myself, I found it allowed me to think on one sentence for as long as I wanted, which was sometimes up to eight hours.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n
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\n\tSome might say those head-down, solitary spells catapulted Hobert into a genuine flow state. They also equipped her with a sense of possessiveness over her stories. It started with \u201cWet Hair,\u201d the first song she wrote for what ended up being her debut album, Who\u2019s The Clown?<\/em> \u201cI did have the thought that maybe someone else would sing this, and I was like, \u2018Yeah, sure. I don\u2019t know.\u2019 Then three songs later I wrote \u2018Sex and the City.\u2019 And when I wrote that song, I thought, \u2018No, no, I will sing this song,\u2019\u201d she says. Musically, she\u2019s sturdy in the principles, as a musical theater geek, film lover, and avid lifelong consumer of pop music. \u201cI remember having the active thought very early on that there are no rules. I have such an innate knowledge of pop music because I\u2019ve been studying it without realizing it all my life.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\tIn \u201cSex and the City,\u201d our narrator grapples with the discrepancies between what she\u2019s been told the thrill of young adulthood should<\/em> look like, and the vacant disappointment it often turns out to yield instead. Alone in her room, she drags herself to the bar with nonchalance, an \u201cIf I act like I don\u2019t care, maybe it\u2019ll happen\u201d type of chillness. She does end up going home with a guy \u2014 \u201cI guess there\u2019s a God,\u201d she sings, but then reality sinks in. He heats up a pizza pocket for just himself, is a self-proclaimed artist off his meds, has no headboard, leaves the toilet seat up. \u201cIf this is it, then what is it all for?\u201d she sings. The song is a three-minute study in the lengths we go to feel desired, even for one night.<\/p>\n\n\tIt\u2019s a fictional story, Hobert says, but if you\u2019ve been there before, listening to the track is less a walk down memory lane and more so a viscerally skin-crawling flashback. It\u2019s a skill that she\u2019s mastered just one album in, if only because honing in on a very specific strain of discomfort is second nature to Hobert. \u201cSomething that I\u2019ve always been told is that I have a perspective,\u201d she says, mentioning that even in college writing classes, teachers said she \u201cnever had any issues with personal voice.\u201d \u201cIt never felt like I was discovering something new about myself as I was writing these songs or that I was wearing my heart on my sleeve,\u201d she says. \u201cI never wiped a tear when I wrote a line. I was just really trying to hone my craft.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n
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\n\tIn nearly all of her songs, Hobert seems to be performing for some ambiguous voyeur, exhibiting what\u2019s often deemed to be \u201cmain character syndrome\u201d or a symptom of the Internet telling you to \u201cromanticize your life.\u201d The nuance is that she\u2019s meta about it: Because she\u2019s aware there\u2019s an audience, she\u2019s poised to shut down any potential judgment by acknowledging it first, beating you to the punchline. She makes music for maladaptive daydreamers, movie soundtrack bops for the girls who got their escapist tendencies from listening to Kelly Clarkson\u2019s \u201cBreakaway\u201d too much in 2004. If it was easy enough to boil young adulthood down to a linear timeline, Who\u2019s The Clown? <\/em>would land precisely on the volatile soft spot between naive ennui and maturity.<\/p>\n\n\tThat tension is most clearly realized on the album\u2019s standout, \u201cBowling Alley,\u201d a vivid scene of the internal dialogue of whether to go out to a party or stay in, as if the world\u2019s fate hinges on that single decision. Turns out, nobody really noticed that she showed up at all. On \u201cChateau,\u201d which opens with a sunshine-y percussion-only intro that you wouldn\u2019t be blamed for initially clocking as Natasha Bedingfield\u2019s \u201cUnwritten,\u201d Hobert is skeptically grimacing at a star-studded Los Angeles rendezvous. \u201cAre we legally bound to stand in this circle lookin\u2019 around?\u201d she asks. \u201cThirst Trap,\u201d a song about being humiliatingly, debilitatingly obsessed with a crush, ends with a triumphant sax solo, hilariously timed given the song\u2019s head-in-your-hands pathetic sentiment.<\/p>\n
\n\tWho\u2019s The Clown?<\/em> carries a steady, upbeat jauntiness throughout its 12-song tracklist, reflecting Hobert\u2019s rebellion against a certain trope that\u2019s been bestowed upon this generation of female Gen Z singer-songwriters. \u201cWriting that first album, I had such a gripe with \u2018Woe is me.\u2019 I just felt more embarrassed to express a \u2018Woe is me\u2019 thought than I did to express, \u2018I feel like my face is ugly,\u2019\u201d Hobert says. \u201cThey\u2019re both kind of \u2018Woe is me,\u2019 but I just remember being like, \u2018OK, if I\u2019m going to express a grievance, I need to turn it around for myself.’\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\tHobert looks to songwriters who take the listener on unexpected journeys, melodically and lyrically: SZA, Taylor Swift, MJ Lenderman. \u201cI think he is writing pop hooks,\u201d she says about the North Carolina indie-rock wunderkind<\/a>, citing his dry lyricism and \u201canthemic\u201d melodies. \u201cMy favorite feeling with a songwriter, and I feel this with Taylor, is that they don\u2019t make me feel like I want to sit down and write a song like them,\u201d she adds. \u201cThey make me feel like I can sit down and write a song like me.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\tWhen we speak, Hobert is in the middle of a European tour, so she hasn\u2019t been too focused on making new music quite yet. \u201cI\u2019ve been really excited to start writing again,\u201d she says, \u201cbecause I do not feel beholden to making four more \u2018Sue Me\u2019s and six more \u2018Thirst Trap\u2019s or whatever. Whatever it is that I\u2019m going to make next time, I know that my melodic and my structural sensibilities live so deeply in pop that whatever I want to say, hopefully it works.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n
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\n\tHobert is sharp-witted, decisive, and trusts her vision, but most importantly, she doesn\u2019t take any of this too seriously. An October 2025 appearance on The Tonight Show <\/em>where she performed on a bare stage \u2014 dressed down in tank top and jeans, with nothing but a microphone, a couple pirouettes, and a dream \u2014 drew mixed reactions from the public. She\u2019s not worried about it.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\t\u201cI have noticed that some people think I\u2019m doing a shtick or a character,\u201d she says. \u201cThat was me giving it my all. I was like, \u2018I don\u2019t know if I\u2019ll ever do that again. You never know what\u2019s going to happen in this life. So if this is my shot, I\u2019m just going to go up there and be naked\u2026 but also in jeans.\u2019 Naked in jeans. I love that. Yeah, naked in jeans.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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