PHOEBE BRIDGERS - what's the deal?

one thing about Motion Sickness ... album version is one of the songs of 2017 for me ... but if you go looking for some of the sessions she has played (like Paste, Tiny Desk ... something else, can't remember) she plays it a little slower, and she tends to slow it down even more on the bridge, and then she emphasizes the slight rhythmic and melodic change in the "I have emotional motion" line after the bridge ... and it's awesome.

well, here's the TIny Desk version, which has piano and vocal harmony with it, unlike, say, the Paste one:

https://youtu.be/-hLJNZSIwP8?t=3m34s

gives me chills, man

oh my god

https://youtu.be/H37WARFESUE

oh my god... motion sickness...

― flappy bird, Wednesday, December 6, 2017 1:48 AM (one month ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

pretty much here now.

everyone who hears it gets there eventually.

Weirdly disappointed to learn that the boyfriend who shells out for expensive hypnotherapy, sings in an English accent and was in a band when PB was born is (supposedly) Ryan Adams.

Motion sickness, damn

i saw her live recently. it was a really good show!

i heard "smoke signals" on the radio and it was v good, gave some julien baker vibes. other songs havent really clicked for me immediately

mordy and i both have this as one of our top albums of the year, if not the album of the year

just wanted to give it some more publicity before people vote on their year end things

this album, or boygenius?

alright i am hearing reports that this came out last year

lol

i learned about it this year at the same time as boygenius. the boygenius one is a favorite of mine as well.

Treeship what do you think of the new Girlpool

this was one of the best albums of last year, glad that she's getting more exposure from all the boygenius excitement

agreed ^

moreso than I did a year ago, I think Stranger In The Alps is a legit long-haul classic

and by that i just mean it still sounds so good and feels like it's getting better, even after what must be, idk, 60+ listens?

I also missed out on this last year and probably would've put it at the top of my list this year if I could. Love boygenius and their whole coming together but this album is.. some album.

i only heard it right at the end of last year when going through my backlog for eoy season but it instantly went to near the top of my list, an immediate classic to me. so many delightful moments - the "falling" bass on "smoke signals", the way the bridge goes into the final chorus on "motion sickness", that synth choir line near the end of "scott street", when the guitar comes in a minute into "georgia"

thinking about it now it's fairly similar in feeling to this year's kacey musgraves album - singer-songwriter with gorgeous arrangements and lots of beautiful ambience filling up the space

just to clarify what i was saying: i loved it a year ago, too. put it in the second half of my top 10, i believe.

but you know how a year or two or five later, some of the records in your top 10 kinda fade away and you don't reach for them as much, while a few come into focus as the ones you keep returning to? Alps is one of those for me, at least right now.

so is last year's Manchester Orchestra album.

I like Phoebe Bridgers a lot and really hate the Julien Baker I've heard which makes the Boygenius album effectively useless for me.

Hating Julien Baker seems.. cruel. But there are several Boygenius tracks that don't sound like Baker tracks.

Funeral kills me every time. It never doesn't make me tear up a little.

Yeah. She is just remarkably talented as a songwriter.

I like Phoebe Bridgers a lot and really hate the Julien Baker I've heard which makes the Boygenius album effectively useless for me.

― Matt DC, Tuesday, December 4, 2018 3:27 AM (ten hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

phoebe's presence in the boygenius stuff is wayyy heavier than julien's imo, outside of "stay down" there isn't really a typical julien baker moment on the ep

imo "motion sickness" is a perfect song, rest of stranger in the alps is pretty good

I also missed out on this last year and probably would've put it at the top of my list this year if I could. Love boygenius and their whole coming together but this album is.. some album.

year of impact rule means i get to vote for this

https://pitchfork.com/news/phoebe-bridgers-covers-the-cures-friday-im-in-love-listen/

Weirdly disappointed to learn that the boyfriend who shells out for expensive hypnotherapy, sings in an English accent and was in a band when PB was born is (supposedly) Ryan Adams.

― in twelve parts (lamonti), Tuesday, March 6, 2018 2:04 AM (ten months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I just heard this song for the first time and I fucking hate the shit out of Ryan Adams, this is just amazing songwriting....

some of these lines are ice cold, damn love it:

And why do you sing with an English accent
I guess it's too late to change it now

You said when you met me you were bored
And you, you were in a band when I was born

this is my album of the year even tho it came out in 2017 and consequently i will not be voting for it ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Ryan is great, but yes, that last line in particular is an all-time great dig xp

knowing that song is about ryan adams makes it 1) funnier, then 2) more upsetting

album is much better than i gave it credit for upthread but i've also been depressed

it also keeps getting better, imo

the album is good but not necessarily good for you

Her voice really does carry this weight of sadness. Incredible singer and songwriter.

why date Ryan Adams in the first place? I've liked his music off and on for 20+ years but at no point during that time did he ever seem like the kind of person you'd want to spend any time around.

Idk she is young. I dated worse people than that.

this is my album of the year even tho it came out in 2017 and consequently i will not be voting for it ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

― Mordy, Friday, January 11, 2019 1:15 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Believe I was the only voter for "Funeral" last year in the songs poll. It was my #1. Still hits me like a ton of bricks every time.

why date Ryan Adams in the first place?

idk, why would ryan adams date someone twenty years younger than him

Ryan Adams being that kind of skeeve shouldn't be surprising... but it is.

haha yeah no it's not

gfvmic

co-sign the excellence of "Motion Sickness." a 2017 song that i kept randomly returning to in 2018.

the first two lines of Scott street have been stuck in my head all fucking day

That song is so good

similarly this is a 2018 album for me albeit i did listen to it after they played a clip of funeral on the popcast and immediately thought it was stunning

a popcast year in review thing i mean

seems like she has some sort of collaborative project with conor oberst on the way, "Better Oblivion Community Centre"

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

Bit

I like how this thread title evokes a Seinfeld-ish stand-up bit...

“First there was Courtney Barnett... she was pretty good! Like if Sheryl Crow had a few Nirvana CDs and a reliable weed connection! Then there was Soccer Mommy... when I first heard her, I thought Liz Phair was trying to sneak back into the industry under an assumed name! And now this Phoebe lady... what’s the deal??”

― it's AG in your faaaace.... (morrisp), Sunday, November 15, 2020 7:00 PM (two years ago)

There appears to be a song on this record titled "Leonard Cohen"

Bring it on, the EP is glorious, and each one of them has gotten better since then. Phoebe is opening for Taylor Swift, right? She's gonna get a lot of new fans this year.

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.

this reminds me of a friend of mine telling me he got annoyed at the boygenius show he went to because there were so many young people and I was like "dude, I too wound up being a 50 year old greyhair at a phoebe bridgers concert and that is just something you have to accept"

Phoebe is opening for Taylor Swift, right?

That has got to be either the best or the worst opening slot in the world.

she'll do great but if you were annoyed by her fans now, just wait until she picks up more swifties

I wish her luck convincing those people that she is more than the only thing standing between them and Taylor.

man, I think they took it down, but there was a boygenius pitchfork live set from brooklyn on youtube for a few years that I watched about a thousand times, the version of Me and My Dog in it is one of my favorite live performances ever I think.

Interscope, huh? I guess they outgrew Matador. I wonder if Julien and Lucy are still there as solo artists.

(Old Matador BBS interests die hard.)

the pitchfork live session is def now gone from youtube, I wonder if that's because of the band changing labels or something...or maybe they're going to release that session in some other way. I hope it comes back, it's something else. there are a few audience shot videos of the same show but they're not as good obviously

phoebe's set that preceeded theirs does appear to still be online though

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLYlYwoqeFI

Genuinely excited for the album. The EP is magnificent.

Yep, love the EP and optimistic that they’ll all bring good material for the album.

Heard her on a Sirius XM radio show playing lots of melancholy rock ballads by Big Star and others and she was enthusing about Alex Chilton from Box Tops days to Big Star and solo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJFaEfwu6J8

they sound fucking amazing together, once again

Three tracks (including the above) on Spotify. All lovely but True Blue stands out as a Dacus masterclass.

I like them all, "$20" best because I always like when Baker rocks out a little. Hope there's at least a bit more of that on the album.

I think there should be a boygenius thread, really. Any objections?

make it

boygenius: Baker Bridgers Dacus LLC

I absolutely love Phoebe Bridgers, but even as a huge Phoebe Bridgers fan, I would be very good with seeing about 65% fewer "artist X releases a new single featuring Phoebe Bridgers" headlines every month. Seems like they are hitting every few days right now.

🤑

Phoeturing Phoebe.

The National one is fucking ridiculous: 'contains tincture of Bridgers'.

What prompted this was realizing that today's Pitchfork headline about a new song with Rob Moose was indeed not the same headline as the one from two days ago about a new song with Arlo Parks.

clearly a Bridgers too far

It won't last, you're only the new cool kid for a while, but she seems like she's having fun.

Also she obviously loves collaborating.

"Rob Moose" is killing me for some reason what a hilarious name

Mortal enemy of

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71EytrCqVML.jpg

In the photo accompanying the pfork article, HE seems to be the one wearing her trademark "skeleton costume" garb... unexpected switcheroo!

Lol every Pitchfoyk article about this Rob Moose guy has Bridgers’ name in the headline