I was like, ‘Man, that was an impulse buy. ... a duo act with sad-boy legend Conor Oberst. ... a duo act with sad-boy legend Conor Oberst. I totally want to do this for Halloween. We want to put it out.” I wish they wanted to send me to dance lessons and hook me up with five writers and create my persona. Bridgers posted a link to the theater’s campaign, accompanied by a clip of her covering Oberst’s solo track “Mamah Borthwick (a Sketch)” from 2016’s if you can, donate to save the venue where I met conor.
Her mom, with whom she's especially close, was a housewife who worked a variety of odd jobs and nowadays does stand-up comedy. It said she still worked for Rough Trade, which she fully did not, but she was like, “Who’s on team ‘Phoebe Bridgers is an industry plant’?” And then I retweeted it, trolling a little bit, and a couple of months ago my drummer sent me a screenshot of the top Googled things about me. I feel like I send her memes to people the most. He was smoking a cigarette. It’s like a bleach-blonde girl feeding a brunette girl milk while she pulls her ponytail. I’m like a white kid from the suburbs. Phoebe Bridgers met Conor Oberst there. “I'm better at acting out the things that make me happy now.”“I think for a while I also looked for relationships where someone would tell me where to stand. Bridgers is “My friend found [that image] on the internet and texted it to me, and it just crushed me,” Bridgers said.Joked Oberst, “The only time [age] ever enters my mind is when she’s explaining a meme to me.
When they were offered the chance to appear in an iPhone commercial in 2014, Dahl declined to participate because she saw it as selling out. I was opening for him [in 2017]. (As of this writing, Dahl is undertaking a project where she's trying to eat her own suit, à la director Werner Herzog eating his own shoe in 1979.)
When Conor Oberst first heard the sad, conversational songwriting of Phoebe Bridgers, he felt compelled to get in touch. The day before we meet, Phoebe Bridgers left her therapist's office only to discover that her car, a red Toyota Prius, had been hit by a bus. I started piano when I was really little, but I hated it and I thought I was too good for it. She went on to write “Motion Sickness”—a catchy, eviscerating breakup anthem in which she sweetly sings, “Katie from [the record label] Dead Oceans was like, ‘I bet we can get the label to pay for a trip to Harry Potter World.’ So we went, and it was the most fun I’ve ever had.”When I ask her how she's feeling about Adams's sudden resurgence, Bridgers shakes her head and offers up an exasperated smile. We were standing out in Germany in the rain. Phoebe Bridgers presumably has plenty of punishers. I was listening to a lot of other people’s advice and going by whatever other people wanted. OK, so you know the one of the girl feeding the other girl milk? Didn’t try it on.’ ”She begins to explain it using astrology—which internet-addled millennials have widely embraced with a fervor previously reserved by their eccentric aunts—bringing up the idea that your sun sign, rising sign, and moon sign each reflect different aspects of how you exist and present to the world, but neither of us can remember exactly how it works. Yeah, that made me feel old.”There are evil things about [L.A.] that make it into songs when we’re feeling emo, but then there are awesome things about it that are just so beautiful.But when it comes to music, they understand each other implicitly. Ahead of the release of her new album, Punisher, GQ speaks to Phoebe Bridgers about some of her firsts, from memes to the first album she bought and why she's definitely not an industry plant“I Know The End”, a six-minute ballad that arrives amid a Bridgers is seriously in demand. I saw it on Twitter. Back in October, Conor Oberst and Phoebe Bridgers shared a bill out at Pappy and Harriet’s in Pioneertown, Calif. “He can go fuck off.”“I just hope everybody is okay,” she elaborates. But for now, Better Oblivion Community Center has been, like the start of their friendship, maybe a kind of escape room as well. I sold my first record to them.