![]() In the Twitter post, the fan praised the “FBI level of shit” that people were able to dig up. Recently, one of her followers uploaded several embarrassing photos of high school-aged Bridgers, which appear to be pulled off some obscure Facebook or Myspace from 2009. “Songs are kind of about you, but it's also kind of about my mom, and then also a little bit about my ex-boyfriend,” she says.ĭue to the brutally personal nature of her music, Bridgers has become a sort of sapphic icon for fellow queer femmes who use her depression bops to soundtrack their TikTok memes about being gay and mentally ill. On “I Know the End,” the closing track, she sings: “Somewhere in Germany but I can't place it/Man, I hate this part of Texas/Close my eyes, fantasize/Three clicks and I'm home.” She likes using this kind of dream logic in songs because of its ability to draw out connections between how she feels across locations, moments in time, and her close relationships. Throughout the project, she captures the monotony of tour by collapsing settings into each other. (If it wasn’t for coronavirus, she would be on the road right now opening for The 1975.)Īs a result, Punisher is about “coping with being gone all the time,” Bridgers says, admitting that she struggles with never being fully content, no matter where she is. After releasing her 2018 EP with boygenius, and then another album the following year with Better Oblivion Community Center, she found herself touring almost non-stop for three years straight. The crowd bursts into laughter and cheers, reacting to a joke that is actually just the truth.Īfter Stranger came out, Bridgers never really stopped releasing music. “This is a song about someone who is in their 40s, loves video games, and hates women!” she grins. On the song, she rips him to shreds with scathing lines like, “Why do you sing with an English accent?” In a January performance of the song in Los Angeles, she introduces it like she’s a standup comedian. People don't like my music because women in music are en vogue right now, and they don't like my music because a man made me gave birth to me.”īridgers wrote about Adams and their relationship on “Motion Sickness,” a standout track from Stranger that captures the dissonance of missing an abusive ex. Any category of shit seems really reductive. “I don't lump Conor in the same category as just ‘men of a certain age.’ And I don't want Julien and Lucy and me compared with every other white songwriter on earth. “Same goes for when they're like, ‘Seems like women in music are really coming back,’” she continues. Why do you think men of a certain age gravitate toward you?’ And I was like, ‘One, they're nothing alike.’ And also, men of a certain age? They're all fucking 40.” It was like, ‘Conor Oberst and John Mayer really like you. ![]() ![]() I'm like, ‘How is it possible for me to be emitting this energy, and not be feeling it in my head?’” I forgot to move the wet laundry to the dryer,’ and there are people crying in the front row of my show. ![]() “I can play somewhere beautiful and literally be thinking about the laundry machine on stage,” she admits with a chuckle. Later, she jokes that it’s astral projection. She’s the only one in the band not wearing color - instead, she’s cloaked in a witchy black sheath dress - and despite the kinetic feel of the song, she limply strums the bass with an empty stare, as if she isn’t really there.īridgers’ thoughts consume her even when she’s performing, she tells me, to the point where she dissociates. In old YouTube videos of them performing, a babyfaced Bridgers is the disaffected foil to Dahl’s explosive energy. During those high school years, Bridgers also started playing bass in a scrappy punk band called Sloppy Jane, whose lead singer, Haley Dahl, would shriek into the microphone with a shock rock flair. ![]()
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