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Phoebe explanation to every track: The Outside: "It's about my ability to dissociate and how it once protected me, but it can prevent me from feeling my life when I most want to" Lost Boys: "Is about this character and it keeps reappearing to me as new people. So this song is about 3 different people who all have a lot in common, whether it be addiction issues or self-sabotage - just this general raw nerve relationship with the world, so they are struggling with this big bad feeling and I struggle with my love for them. So the first verse is about my father, the next is about a relationship, and the last is about probably the most important relationship of my life. I love how joyous it is" Kill Me: "This is one of my favourite song on the album. I loved working/recording it. We had so much fun with the production. My friend Nick Zinnerplays guitar on the end of it and I spend the whole song waiting to hear it. I'm still figuring out what this song is about - and I say this all in all good fun - I don't really love when my lyrics are poured over as really literal. I think my lyrics are getting less literal as time goes on. So you tell me what this song is about - time passing?" The Governor's Waltz: "this melody has been around forever, my friend Christian sent me a voice memo of him playing it on piano, I would just listen to it and listen to it, and singing over it never felt right. Weirdly one day I sat down to write and the only way that felt right was writing about my life as a fairytale, not so literally. And it's just these same themes of not feeling present for my life. The really spooky thing is I have a lyric about Shelley Duval, it was the first lyric I wrote for the song, then I went to sleep, woke up and she passed away the next day. Rip Shelley." Bobby: "I tend to write love songs that are soaked in pain and irony and I really didn't want to do it this time because it didn't feel like that. I wanted to write about the feeling of love at first hookup - just your life being totally turned upside down by someone in a good way. But there are so many great songs like that, like 'There She Goes' or Marry Me, Archie. That it was hard to commit to adding to that legacy. But at the end of the day I just had to be honest. And these feelings - I feel very lucky to have had them. Thank you Bobby!" Lost Weekend: "This song is about the past, and it's been pointed out to me that every song is about the past. It's about losing touch with the person who knows me best and just feeling lost which is why it's called that. I was in an altered state one morning - when I recorded this I had just finished writing it and I just thew my phone on the Megatron and recorded it, then I took the song into the studio and nothing felt as real as that first voice memo so we just kept it and recorded over it. There's a piece at the end that's a sample by Paul Lansky at the end which is one of my favourite parts of the record because I've loved that piece for a long time" Haunted: "I was writing in the woods and was having a hard time as I often do when writing. And I was playing this little bluegrass melody for fun and it was so easy to write to. So I kept writing and writing. And I thought maybe I'd change it, or steal from it later but it didn't happen. I liked it as bluegrass and it only felt right to have my two best friends Julien and Lucy sing on it with me. This song is about feeling a little bit miserable, and going on tour with them and feeling so alive and happy. I love them" Panorama "It's a song very influenced by my love of ambient music. I love the weird genre between ambient music and songwriter music, like grouper or Florist, and I wanted to represent it on the album. It's about death knocking at your door, and you've been waiting for it, so you let it in." Still Standing: "This song is about my dad, who I miss very much." Liberty Tree: "About falling in love in a hopeless place - true story. It's this massive mall in Massachusetts called Liberty Tree Mall which is huge on back rooms, liminal space... Internet people love it. I love it. It puts you in a really weird headspace. And we recorded the band live, I love it. It came together really last minute and I love how it turned out. It's one of my favourites on the album." Never Going Back!: "It is very self explanatory." Other Plans: "I wrote it at the very end of making this album. I certainly didn't need any more songs - I had a lot. I wrote it very quickly so it just felt like it had to be included. Someone I love gave me an assignment to write a melody with just one note in it, and then I wrote this song very quickly. I recorded it, just me on the cp80 and it just felt kind of magical. I still don't know what it's about... I have a suspicion. I have a little private meaning but it may change. You tell me what it's about." Lost Parade: "Kind of self explanatory but it includes a lot of melodic motifs from the album. It also sounds a lot like my old music - so just really takes me to the past." I Can't Wait: "I am very proud of something on this whole album which is there's no melodyne on my voice. I am not anti melodyne I think melodyne is awesome because if you get a great take or live take but it's distractingly off pitch in certain moments it can really save you and the emotionality if the moment. I wanted this album to be really electronic and I just wanted something to cut against that. What's cool about this is, if you haven't noticed, there's a singer who sings almost as much a me on this album. Her name Caroline shaw - she's incredible. And she really sings like her voice is an instrument. And she does this crazy microtonal thing throughout this track that I love - it's one of my favourite parts of the album. This song, is like a little state of the union, just where I was at, at the time. I like it, I think it's sounds really present." As Above: "It's about the past, present and future being all on top of eachother; and the weird headspace that being on an aeroplane puts you in... because of time travel. It's a theme of not only the album but my life - being on planes because I'm on them all time. It's like the thing they always say about 'you always cry watching movie on a plane'... I think I was watching Hot Tub Time Machine over someone's shoulder and it got me thinking about my life so..." Lost Weekend (Reprise): "It used to be called Lost Weekend (Relapse) but I thought that was too sinister... But it is about a return to feeling. The feeling from the first 'Lost Weekend' - maybe with some more resolve and contentment. I don't know if you noticed throughout this whole album, but my dad is dead. So instead of kind of a white hot kind of grief, it's more about thinking about what I loved about him and learned form him. And it felt like a good way to end the album. What's really weird, is I recorded a voice memo like I always do at home. There are dogs barking in the background. One of them is mine, of them is the neighbours - just barking at eachother. And I had this whole idea where - the first lost weekend is all a voice memo so it's pretty lo-fi - so I thought at the end we'd do a hi-fi version, in a church with an organ. And I tried it and it just didn't feel right. It felt way more emotional this first take of the first time I sang it. And we snuck the church organ in the end. And it's just me picking up my phone at the end which is how it goes out." Credits to: https://www.reddit.com/r/phoebebridgers/s/IFJLkVIvSk

Best Dressed is basically Bobby part 2. The intro of Bobby is reused in Best Dressed.

She is embarrassing, that's why she decided to be Elon's girl. She will never recover from that brain rot state of mind.

I ******* love Panorama production so much.

How cool! Excited to listen to it.

Her best single to date

Anyone heard the bonus track yet? It's called Best Dressed

This won't top Punisher for me, not in a million years. But It is a ******* great album, almost perfect. Kill Me and As Above are the best songs. I love how her three albums are very different yet so Phoebe. I love the Shelly Duvall name drop so so so much

I'm listening right now. The opener is unexpected. Lost Boys works way better in the album than as standalone. Kill Me Is starting and wow... Just wow.

That makes me excited again, thank you!

It took her a ******* year but she's getting the streams and new fans, **** yeah! What an excellent debut album, so different to any other lyricists.

I'm not excited at all because I didn't like Lost Boys. I mean it's cute but not big comeback material and very lacking lyrically compared to her previous first singles.

Omg this is pure excellence. Hayley is so hardworking

"Yeah" is way deeper than most songs on Taylor's latest album lol

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