After all, the title refers to a shrine and tourist attraction to Elvis Presley, located 40 miles south of the original Graceland in Holly Springs, Mississippi. This Punisher song sees Bridgers embracing a more folk sound. They still remain friends, as Vore continues to play drums with Bridgers during live performances.Īnyway, "Smoke Signals" is a fan favorite due to its use of pop culture references (Bowie, Lemmy, and The Smiths), longing sound, and piercing lyrics - specifically the final line, "you are anonymous, I am a concrete wall." Anyone else always cry after listening to those violin strings after each chorus? 8. Even though the two are no longer together, Vore is credited as a cowriter on this song and has credits for several other songs on this album, as well as on Punisher. Bridgers revealed on KCRW that the "anonymous" individual in "Smoke Signals" is actually about her ex-boyfriend, Marshall Vore. The songs in Stranger in the Alps are about real individuals and moments from Phoebe's life, and this song is no different.
So you don’t complain and you just bottle it up and you’re like, “No, step on me again, please.” 9. Like, if you complain, then they’ll go away. In commentary for Punisher on Apple Music, Bridgers said about "Moon Song": "The throughline is that caring about someone who hates themselves is really hard, because they feel like you’re stupid. "Moon Song" is the seventh track on Punisher and follows a common theme on the album: the giving up of oneself for others. Even though it seems like their feelings aren't reciprocated, Bridgers enjoys, as she calls it, “the wanting-to-be-stepped-on feeling.” In other words, she'd rather be treated badly by this person than not be noticed by them at all. In the dreamy "Moon Song," Bridgers describes a person who she would go the distance for. We've all had a crush on someone so much, it felt like we would do anything for them. Today, we're honoring the alternative heroine with a Top 10 list of her greatest hits. Whether you're a casual fan of Bridgers or have cried over the tracks in Punisher and Stranger In the Alps numerous times (like we have), you can't deny her influence in the indie music scene. Maybe her writing expertise comes from years of experience: she penned her first song at age 11, and spent her adolescence at open mic nights.
Just from paying attention to the words in her tracks, you can tell she's the kind of person who observes her surroundings well.
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Turn on a Phoebe Bridgers song, and it's like watching a movie in your head. After all, she just finished her successful 2021 Reunion Tour only to announce another chapter of the tour for 2022! Undoubtedly, Bridgers' natural drive to create meaningful things crosses over into the very makeup of her music - and it's why she's being hailed as one of the greatest singer/songwriters of our generation.Įvery one of Bridgers' tracks is packed with authenticity, vulnerability, and poetic lyrics. “Every time I sing that song, I get a little bit uncomfortable because it’s so personal,” she says.Phoebe Bridgers is many things: a singer, songwriter, record label owner (Saddest Factory Records), and most recently, a radio show host. Outside of musical references, Bridgers’ debut includes a look into some of her most intimate and heartbreaking moments, such as performing at a friend’s memorial service on “Funeral” and later wallowing in self-pity after returning home to wake up in her childhood bed. Revisiting it again, it totally makes me think about this really specific time.” “Especially with records that were my favorite that I couldn’t stop listening to - you listen to it so hard that like a month later, you can’t listen to it and you have to wait a long time to revisit it. “I think music serves that purpose for me the most, being a soundtrack for moments in time in my life,” 23-year-old Bridgers explains. In the same song, the deaths of Lemmy and David Bowie are both mental markers for different memories - a trip to the subject’s hometown, a conversation about the current state of Los Angeles, and a stay at an anonymous Holiday Inn. Bad Bunny derrota a Damian Priest en épica 'lucha callejera' de WWE Backlash en San JuanĪ reference to The Smiths’ “How Soon is Now” in the album opener “Smoke Signals,” for instance, underscores the relationship between the song’s subject and her father, highlighting a childhood marked by living in the back of a van.
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