Role Model Says Tour With Gracie Abrams Is ‘Like a Wholesome Sweat Tour’

Charli XCX and Troye Sivan may be bringing the party across North America with their Sweat tour, but there’s another dynamic duo touring right now for a less club-oriented and more heartbroken audience: Role Model and Gracie Abrams . “It feels like a perfect little match,” Role Model, 27, whose real name is Tucker Pillsbury, told Us Weekly exclusively. “It’s kind of like a wholesome Sweat tour.

” While Charli XCX and Sivan’s music has more of a party vibe, Pillsbury and Abrams’ recent releases lean toward melancholia, with themes of heartbreak, homesickness and coming of age. As one fan’s T-shirt reads in a photo shared via Role Model’s Instagram account: “Therapists hate them.” Pillsbury was gearing up to announce his own headlining world tour, No Place Like Tour , in support of his sophomore album, Kansas Anymore — “it was scheduled and everything,” he said — when he got a call from Abrams, 25.

“She invited me on the tour, and I was like, ‘I think we have to do this. This is incredible. I would love that,’” he said.

“She’s been a friend for years, and I’ve been a fan for years, and so to be touring with a friend like that, it’s pretty lucky.” Pillsbury’s team was able to push his tour’s start date to November so he could join Abrams on The Secret of Us Tour , supporting her album of the same name. At a recent show, fans at the venue — and then later, millions of fans who watched the footage via TikTok and Instagram — .