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 ...
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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.