Railbird and a 5-Year Plan

by Mark Lalonde | Mar 27, 2019

Grace, for the first time since LoveLoud festival last year on July 28th, 2018, will play a music festival (she may, of course, be announced to other festivals taking place sooner than August 10th, but this is the only concrete date we have so far). The festival is an exciting blend of alt-country/blues and rock acts, with nary a teen sensation to be found, save for our Grace. This bodes well for the respect she is being afforded, and for the types of festivals Team Grace will be booking her on.

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15-Year-Old Pop Star Grace VanderWaal Is Becoming a Style Icon Before Our Eyes

By Amanda Montell | April 23, 2019

Fast-forward three years, two studio albums, a Billboard Women in Music Rising Star award, a lead acting role in Disney’s newest film Stargirl (set for 2020 release), and a one-of-a-kind haircut—an ear-length crop featuring two shoulder-length pieces on either side of her face. Now VanderWaal is looking less like the prim tween we first met and closer to a grown-up artist with an edgy perspective.

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Rolling Stone Magazine’s “Women Shaping the Future” event & Grace’s Red Carpet Look

by Darksome Night | Mar 25, 2019

It’s growing on me.

I wasn’t planning to do an editorial about Grace VanderWaal’s red carpet look for Rolling Stone’s “Women Shaping the Future” event. My first reaction was “that’s a lot of look!” But, compositionally, I’m really starting to get it: Some interesting and non-traditional color blocking – deliberately non-proportional pieces – the hair, the glasses, the laced up platform boots. A nod to anime fashion. It all comes together on the red carpet.

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Graceful Expectations: Managed

by Mark Lalonde | Mar 14, 2019

After the tempest of anxiety and heightened emotions I manifested in my editorial yesterday, exacerbated terrifically by the minefield-ridden interview with Mario Lopez, the longer form, and far more chill, interview on the Zach Sang Show was exactly what the doctor ordered. In fact the interview posted last night with Zach was what I’ve been craving from Grace for years.

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