Hannah Grae

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Hannah Grae
Genres Pop
OccupationMusician
Labels Atlantic Records UK
Member of Loud LDN
Website www.hannahgrae.com

Hannah Grae is a Welsh rock musician from Port Talbot. Several of her works have gone viral online, and she released a mini-album, Hell Is a Teenage Girl, in April 2023. She is a member of Loud LDN.

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Life and career

Early life

Grae was born in Port Talbot, and has a brother. [1] Her parents worked as a drama teacher and in the film industry. [2] Growing up, she was a fan of Hannah Montana, having first developed interest through a shared given name, and found her double life as a schoolgirl by day and a popstar by night aspirational; from her, she became a fan of Taylor Swift. [1] She later became a fan of Justin Bieber when she was ten. She was inspired to make her own music after watching an episode of Friends in which Phoebe Buffay wrote a song; her first work was a song called "The Chicken Song", and her first works were acoustic piano-based songs. [2]

She later took over her father's studio; in a September 2023 interview with Rolling Stone, she stated that her father had built it in her garden seven years earlier, that it started off as his office but turned into a Ninjutsu studio, and that they had to soundproof it after her brother's band took over the cabin and Neath Port Talbot County Borough Council complained. [3] She later diversified into rock-based cover versions and reworkings, [2] such as a version of Olivia Rodrigo's "Drivers License" from the perspective of her ex-boyfriend's new partner. [3] In 2021, she uploaded an anti-sexual harassment parody of Aqua's "Barbie Girl" to YouTube and TikTok, which went viral on both platforms, with commenters treating the comments section as a safe space and sharing their own stories of abuse; moved by the response, she began composing original songs. [2]

Hell Is a Teenage Girl and Nothing Lasts Forever

Grae's debut single, released in September 2022, was "Propaganda", a song about the pressures of social media. [4] In November, she released "Time of Your Life", a song about adolescent issues, alongside a video filmed in a Port Talbot comprehensive school. [5] She then released the singles "I Never Say No" and "Hell Is a Teenage Girl", [6] the latter of which took its name from a line in Jennifer's Body (2009), [7] and then in April 2023, she released "Jaded", an attempt at writing about feelings of inferiority in relationships; all five singles appeared on her mini-album Hell Is a Teenage Girl, [6] which she released later that month, [8] and intended as a riposte to her bullies. [9] After she finished writing Hell Is a Teenage Girl, she took a five-month break, during which time she moved to London, [3] doing so in January 2022; [2] she resumed writing as a way of distracting herself from external pressures. [3]

Her next single, "Screw Loose", was released on 25 August 2023, and was written about feelings of confusion in her new surroundings; [2] the following day, she and Nieve Ella performed at Reading Festival. [10] In September 2023, she then released "It Could've Been You", a pop-punk record [11] about heartbreak which had previously been teased on TikTok and gone viral, and which NME likened to Blink-182's "All the Small Things" with lyrics "similar to Paramore’s "Misery Business"; [12] a music video was filmed at The George Tavern, and was released in October 2023. [13] For Halloween, she released "Who Dunnit?", an experimental song about not being taken seriously accompanied by a music video, [14] and in December 2023, she appeared on Dork's Hype List. [15] She announced her second mini-album, Nothing Lasts Forever, in February 2024, and released "Better Now You're Gone" at the same time, [16] releasing the mini-album the month after. [17] In May 2024, she released "New Temptation", which she wrote towards the end of writing Nothing Lasts Forever, and "Aeroplane Jelly". [18]

Artistry

Hell Is a Teenage Girl was inspired by Paramore, My Chemical Romance, Queen, and Taylor Swift. [2] In an interview with The Line of Best Fit in September 2023, Grae cited the honesty of Alanis Morissette as a "huge influence"; the piece also noted that Grae's music was "littered with female influences, from Swift’s songwriting sentimentalities and melodic prowess to the energy of No Doubt"[ sic ], and sported "a powerful vocal dexterity that, at its highest reaches, carries echoes of [...] Hayley Williams and [...] Demi Lovato". [1] When writing "It Could've Been You", she referenced Bowling for Soup, Green Day, Paramore, American Hi-Fi, Avril Lavigne, Mean Girls and Shrek, [11] and when writing "Who Dunnit?", she was initially inspired by "Heart of Glass" by Blondie. [14] For some of her songs, she writes as her influences, imagining what Swift or Morissette would write about a particular topic. [1] She is a member of Loud LDN, [19] a collective of London-based women and genderqueer musicians founded in May 2022. [20]

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