PHOEBE BRIDGERS - what's the deal?

listen, if the neck doesn't snap, you didn't smash the guitar. call me old fashioned, that's just how i was raised by my pappy

If the neck doesn't split, you must acquit

Trying to imagine Hendrix going to Fender and Monterey security days in advance like "OK if I torch this strat? I'll lay some protective stuff on the stage first, don't worry"

Or Sinead dutifully securing the green light from the Catholic church before tearing up the pic of old popey on national tv

smashing an instrument is a meaningless rockstar gesture even when done, uh, correctly afaic but watching that clip I felt embarrassed for everyone involved

lol sufjan

the amount of conversation about this even here is almost certainly misogyny

I dunno it's just a goofy thing imo

the funniest part is that they made a fake monitor for the event per bridgers on twitter, i was wondering because i thought that thing really sparked up a lot for getting hit with a guitar, usually stage wedges are generally passive speakers, but even if they were powered that would be a lot

Misogynist take on live sound imo

the band begins to play. the lead singer is singing. but what's this -- she is also winding new pickups for her guitar. will she finish assembling the guitar by the time the song reaches her solo? nobody knows. she is soldering the pickup wire to the 5-way switch. the iron isn't hot enough! this is fucking rock n' roll.

isnt that the "from a motel 6" video

she's throwing the solder balls from the cold joints into the audience! she joins the wires with twist-ons because who gives a shit. she didn't add any capacitors -- every frequency is invited to this party of a solo. here it comes!

I thought the performances were fine by SNL standards and the guitar-smashing was jokey fun. It's just exhausting the things people decide need to be A Topic of Conversation.

twitter just needs things to chew through every day

for each new snl ep, there's an article that describes what the cast and guests said in the 15 second promos. this is just normal snl churn.

Just watched her do “Kyoto” with Phillip Glass on piano, Jackson Browne on backing vocals and some orchestral string players whose names I didn’t catch , as part of the Tibet House benefit stream

She also did “Moon Song” with the same musicians

Both done in a very laidback manner but with enough spark and tunefulness

i might love this album too much. it's like everything i every wanted from an indie album in one spot.

i thought i had aged out of loving albums like this, like really resonating with the lyrics and overall mood in such a direct, unmediated way

Then i changed my miiiiind

not really my vibe but here's a new Luminous Kid single with Bridgers chiming in with spoken word at around the 3 minute moment
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMF-34uyj-U

Every time I see this thread title I imagine Joe Biden saying it at a podium or Jerry Seinfeld saying it at an open mic

I did a whole bit about that above!

Finally announced a 2021 tour. Wish there was another chance to see her in Chicago that didn't involve Pitchfork Fest but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

https://pitchfork.com/news/phoebe-bridgers-announces-2021-us-tour/

So, um. I've seen the story pop up a few different prominent places now, and I don't know what to make of the fact that they all seem to similarly focus on the many salacious details but sort of glide right past the accusation that that producer dude who is suing for defamation is *literally a murderer*, which seems a much more serious and extreme accusation than fraud and theft etc..

tone of reporting around this is weird but i guess they can't outright say the dude suing her is a scumbag

gotta be careful around literally a murder

Yeah, while I can't promise I've read everything about this, it all scans like he's trying to get ahead of some very serious shit coming down on his head. Combined with his suit against Noel Wells, it feels more like damage control.

Um...ngl, but I'm reading that there are no police reports associated with these alleged incidents? Obviously FTP, but it's a little unhinged to assume that this guy murders and bludgeons people based on the hearsay in a former lover's now-deleted Instagram account?

file transfer protocol?

Fuck the Police

I just found it odd that none of the stories *lead* with the accusation of murder. It's like, "he lies, he cheats, he's a fraud, he murdered someone, he smells bad, he's not nice ..."

Because Bridgers didn't accuse him of that? "Phoebe Bridgers sued for linking to the Instagram of Guy's Ex-Girlfriend who accuses him of murder, abuse" is kind of a strange lede.

Oh, I know. It's just how it's listed in his response to the accusations.

Nelson alleges Bannon “published false, defamatory, and misleading statements about (him) stating, among other things, that (Nelson) is a career criminal, murdered a man, commits racially-motivated hate crimes, abuses women, stole hundreds of thousands of dollars, trafficked in stolen or fake goods, committed cybercrimes, and defrauded numerous people.”

Especially possibly racially-motivated murder.

NGL— this might be bad faith and spurious on his part, but I'm also not really buying "was a SoCal Klansman who committed sexual cybercrimes" accusations either.

I've only seen the (weird) Pitchfork story, but I don't know why they would lead with the accusation of murder. As mentioned above, it seems to have been made in a now-deleted Instagram account, and the guy himself raised it in a defamation suit last December. I don't know why that and the other old suit even newsworthy (or even his suit against Bridgers, tbh).

My take on the Pfork piece is they did this dude a weird solid by airing out claims he's been making in various lawsuits. No one knows this guy, who gaf?

yeah, this feels like fallout from a failed effort to extort phoebe bridgers

Lots of victim blaming going on in here, shameful

(that was a joke)

She has a fine new song on Bandcamp: https://phoebebridgers.bandcamp.com/track/that-funny-feeling-2

you mean... Bo Burnham cover

ugh I just got less interested in hearing this

more like Gerald Boing Boing

got tix to see her in June

yeah, great show but she had to stop the show like 5 times for medical emergencies bc people kept on passing out from dehydration (apparently)

also, people were lining up since 5pm the day before so when the doors opened, they all ran to the front and several people were trampled

somewhere along the line i joined the Phoebe subreddit and i swear everyone in there is super young and seeing her for their first-ever concert. they are all asking each other about when they should get in line, how early do they need to get there to be in the front row, where the merch stands are, how much money do they need to buy all the merch, etc.

it should be cute but it's actually annoying. this may be because i am a 46-year-old member of the Phoebe Bridgers subreddit.

because i am a 46-year-old member of the Phoebe Bridgers subreddit.

^^New Borad Description?

no boygenius thread I gather but FULL ALBUM coming

https://i.imgur.com/wi9bIVF.png

Every time I see this thread title my mind posits a very lame non-existent Seinfeld but

Bit