By: Natalia Peña Phoebe Bridgers, a Los Angeles-based singer/songwriter with a dreamy and hook-filled indie pop heart, soon rose to international popularity because of her smart literary viewpoints, achingly beautiful compositions, and powerful melodies. Bridgers appeared from what seemed to be out of nowhere in 2015, and within a few years, she had millions of admirers. Bridgers' solo albums received widespread acclaim and attention, with a strong debut giving way to darker tones on the Grammy-nominated "Punisher" in 2020. She began playing guitar and composing songs at the age of 11, and by the time she was a teenager, she was routinely performing around Los Angeles while attending Los Angeles County High School for the Arts during the day. Bridgers released her debut 7" single, "Killer," in 2015 on Ryan Adams' Pax AM label. In early 2017, she released three buzzworthy singles: "Smoke Signals," "Funeral," and "Motion Sickness" in advance of the release of her first LP, "Stranger in the Alps," later that September. "Stranger in the Alps," Bridgers' debut studio album, was released to tremendous acclaim in 2017. "Punisher," her second album, was released in 2020 to critical acclaim and public prominence. Bridgers got four Grammy nominations, including Best New Artist, at the 63rd Annual Grammy Awards. The song that brought most of the world's attention to Bridgers is the second track on her album “Stranger In The Alps,” “Motion Sickness.” In this song, Bridgers' is writing about being on a roller coaster of emotions. She describes a relationship where she has been built up and broken down thousands of times and says it was like she had motion sickness from all the ups and downs in the relationship. In the song, she illustrates many moments and feelings where she felt as though she was being manipulated and thrown around. You may have heard this song on the social media app “TikTok” when an audio snippet of the lyrics, “I Hate You For What You Did And I Miss You Like A Little Kid” had been used in relatable videos now has over 100,000 videos under the sound. Since releasing her sophomore album "Punisher" in 2020, musician Phoebe Bridgers has made a habit of wearing a set of skeleton-print pajamas that more or less resemble a children’s Halloween costume. Phoebe is known for her strong, darker aesthetic and, most especially, a particular skeleton suit that she’s often seen wearing during live performances and press appearances. She explained to media sources "The Ringer," “I put on the skeleton suit, and it’s like, ‘. . . this is comfortable.' So I think being a character is funny but it also is rooted in reality. Like I really have been wearing the same pajamas for like two months. I wash them every three days, and I tried to get another pair online, but they’re sold out.” Phoebe Bridgers is known to be a very unproblematic and talented artist so she was asked to perform at SNL to sing her songs "Kyoto" and "I Know the End." Midway into the performance, Bridgers’ made headlines about it when Bridgers then screamed into the mic, the audience cheering and trumpets blaring, and in proper grand finale fashion, smashed a Danelectro guitar into a fake sound monitor. Every moment of the song had been building up to this point, upon which expectations were blown into sparks, quite literally. Ultimately, it was not the guitar or sparking monitor that caught fire, but the internet. . . One SNL viewer stoked a fire on Twitter after writing, “Why did this woman, Phoebe Bridgers, destroy her guitar on SNL? I mean, I didn't care much for the song either, but that seemed extra.” However, it was David Crosby, co-founder of The Byrds and one third of the folk trio Crosby, Stills & Nash, who injected the most visible criticism of Bridgers’ performance. When asked by a fan on Twitter what he thought of her guitar smashing, he wrote “Pathetic,” to which Bridgers responded in her witty humor. Many supporters came to Bridgers’ defense, poking fun at the unnecessary controversy and echoing Bridgers’ own witty and blunt internet presence. Founder of the Foo Fighters and former Nirvana drummer David Grohl offered his support of Bridgers, saying that his days in Nirvana were filled with drums with holes in them. Along with Bridgers’ solo talent, she has a very well known collaborative song with singer/songwriter Taylor Swift titled “Nothing New” that was a vault track from Taylor’s Swift re-recording of her album “Red”. During an interview on Late Night With Seth Meyers, Swift talked highly of Bridgers as she called Bridgers ”one of my favorite artists in the world”, adding: “If she sings it, I will listen to it. I just love her voice.” She then explained how her team-up with Bridgers. With Phoebe, I reached out and I sent her this song called "Nothing New," which I wrote when I was 22. And it’s really, really special to me because it was the first time I was not a shiny new artist.” Swift continued: “I sent it to Phoebe and said, ‘It would mean the world to me if you would do this as a duet’. ‘Cause I really wanted another female artist who I loved to sing it with me because I think it has a very female artist perspective that we go through that experience. “And her response was, ‘I’ve been waiting for this text my entire life’.” Bridgers recalled how she became emotional while recording her vocals for "Nothing New." “It’s just been a dream,” she said. “I just am so excited to have people take it at face value the day that it comes out, because I got teary recording it. I just couldn’t be more excited.” I hope you all enjoyed reading this article about one of the best lyricist / vocalist of our generation, And you are inspired to give Phoebe Bridgers discography a thorough listen.
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