The Storytelling of 'Look At My Life' by Gracie Abrams
There are some songs that you enjoy for a while and then there are songs that seem to find a feeling you have been carrying around without quite knowing how to explain it. For me, Look at My Life by Gracie Abrams is one of those songs, but particularly because of the line, “got what I wanted, it doesn’t sit right.” There is something about the simplicity of it that makes it feel even more honest, because sometimes the hardest feelings to explain are the ones where, on paper, everything should be fine. I think we are brought up with the idea that wanting something is the difficult part and getting it is supposed to be the reward. We spend so much of our lives working towards things, imagining what they will feel like when they finally happen, and convincing ourselves that once we reach that particular point, something inside us will settle. We think that the job, the relationship, the friendship, the opportunity, the independence or whatever else we have been waiting for will somehow gi...
