Phoebe Lucille Bridgers is an American singer-songwriter, record producer, and actress. Her indie folk music typically centers on acoustic guitar and electronic production, with melancholic lyrical themes.
She has won four Grammy Awards from eleven nominations.
real name: Phoebe Lucille Bridgers
labels: PAX AM, Dead Oceans
genres: indie folk, indie rock, indie pop, pop rock
influenced by: Elliott Smith, Bright Eyes, Tom Waits, Mark Kozelek
awards: Libera Award for Best Live Act, Libera Award for Record of the Year, Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music Album, Grammy Award for Best Rock Song, Grammy Award for Best Rock Performance, Grammy Award for Best Pop Duo/Group Performance
plays: guitar
member of: Better Oblivion Community Center, Boygenius, Sloppy Jane
Facts from Wikidata and Discogs, free to use.
Phoebe Lucille Bridgers was born on August 17, 1994, in Pasadena, California. Her mother, Jamie, works in real estate and stand-up comedy, while her father, Tony, was a film and television set builder. She has a younger brother named Jackson. Her parents divorced when she was 19 years old. She was raised in Pasadena, but also spent some of her childhood in Ukiah, California. As a child, she made extra money by busking at the Pasadena Farmers Market, and started playing guitar around the age of 13. In 2009, she graduated from the Sequoyah School and began studying vocal jazz at the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts, graduating in 2012. She was then accepted by the Berklee College of Music in Boston, but dropped out after student...
Bridgers was a member of various groups while in high school, including Einstein's Dirty Secrets and Sloppy Jane, and frequently played solo shows around Los Angeles. After record producer Tony Berg heard her song "Waiting Room", which she wrote at age 16, he offered to produce her first album for free since he believed in her talent so strongly. Making an Apple commercial with Sloppy Jane had given her some financial security, so she planned to complete her record and then sell it to a label, rather than try to get signed first. This allowed her much more time and creative freedom to create what became Stranger in the Alps. Around this time, Bridgers met American singer-songwriter Ryan Adams through mutual collaborators, and he put out...
"Kyoto" is a song by American singer-songwriter, Phoebe Bridgers. It was released on April 9, 2020 as the second single from her second studio album, Punisher (2020).
Rolling Stone, Billboard, Paste, Variety, Consequence of Sound, and The Line of Best Fit all ranked the song among the best of 2020, the latter placing the song atop its list. At the 2021 Grammy Awards, "Kyoto" was nominated for Best Rock Performance and Best Rock Song.
"Kyoto" has been described to be an indie rock, grunge-rock, pop rock, and garage rock song. Bridgers wrote the song about her complicated, evolving relationship with her father. Her parents divorced when she was 20, leaving Bridgers angry. The song is named for the city in Japan; Bridgers wrote the song on her first trip to the country in February 2019. A lyric observing that Japan "still" has pay phones – the sentiment being that they are long outdated – was entirely fictional, Bridgers said. In a press statement, Bridgers expounded upon the song's meaning:
The song's music video was initially slated to have been filmed in Kyoto proper. Bridgers planned the shoot to take place during a trip to Japan, supporting the National in March 2020, though these dates were cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Instead, the clip was recorded in front of a green screen in Los Angeles. It pictures Bridgers in a skeleton costume and superimposed over stock footage of Kyoto, including images of an arcade and at the Fushimi Inari-taisha shrine. She flies over the city and an ocean at points in the clip. The video includes appearances by Emily Bannon, Marshall Vore and Harrison Whitford—members of Bridgers' touring band. At one point in the video, the three are saved from Godzilla by Bridgers, as she shoots...