And it’s no coincidence that it has emerged in the wake of Olivia Rodrigo, whose work with producer Dan Nigro nabbed a shout-out in a recent Gayle interview. It reminds me a bit of Kesha, who Nappi has worked with, and of the vast ecosystem of sorta-rap-adjacent blackbear types who have carved out a new lane in mainstream pop. Although guitar is the primary instrument, the steady strums end up submerged in a slow-creeping programmed beat and a dense swell of blown-out synth sounds designed to translate to the radio. Sonically the track exists in that extremely trendy space where alternative rock signifiers crossbreed with mainstream pop sparkle. The song cuts straight to its refrain, with Gayle’s voice floating over churning guitar chords, reducing her former lover to dust: “Fuck you and your mom and your sister and your job/ And your broke-ass car and that shit you call art/ Fuck you and your friends that I’ll never see again/ Everybody but your dog, you can all fuck off.” Later recurrences are preceded by a promise to “spell it out” in case the clueless rube isn’t picking up what she’s putting down in the more delicately worded verses, so that each return to the chorus ramps up with a shout-along “A, B, C, D, E, F you!” As if this takedown was not already brutal enough, at one point she switches things up by dissing “your Craigslist couch and the way your voice sounds.” Gayle (no last name provided as of yet) cowrote “abcdefu” with fellow Nashville up-and-comers Sara Davis and Dave Pettinger, and they ought to be proud of their work. And given that it channels an ultra-relatable premise into a huge anthemic chorus, how could it not catch on? It’s only a matter of time before it makes its American chart surge too. Although it remains on Billboard‘s “bubbling under” chart just below the Hot 100, the song is a smash hit on Spotify (#29 this week in the US) and YouTube (nearly 10 million views) and has already climbed to the upper reaches of the pop charts in several European countries. “abcdefu” is a rapidly rising single from Gayle, a 17-year-old singer from Nashville who has spent her adolescence in the major-label trenches - as in, she’s signed to Atlantic Records, counts music industry veteran and former American Idol judge Kara DioGuardi as a mentor, and is working with fame-adjacent figures like “abcdefu” producer Pete Nappi, best known as the drummer for Samantha Ronson’s band Ocean Park Standoff. And fuck you, I’m out!” I thought of this scene upon hearing “abcdefu.” Chappelle and SNL actor Jim Breuer were billed as the two leads of Half Baked, but for my money the movie’s most iconic moment belongs to Guillermo Diaz, whose character Scarface memorably quits his fast food job by announcing over the restaurant P.A., “Fuck you! Fuck you! Fuck you! You’re cool.
A lifetime ago, before he was a culture war figurehead posing for photos with Elon Musk and Joe Rogan, before he asked Michel Gondry to film his all-star block party, before he helmed his short-lived but generation-defining Comedy Central series, Dave Chappelle and his creative partner Neal Brennan wrote a stoner comedy called Half Baked.
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