Switched on Pop

Many of us keep a journal, but few of us are able to turn our unvarnished thoughts into cultural moments touching on love, death, and guitars quite like Phoebe Bridgers. Her new album Lost Weekend isn’t just throwing the pages of her personal life into song, it’s much more than that: A beguiling, hyper-compositional meditation on the last six years of her life.

The genres range from bluegrass to electronic, and collaborators pepper the record – from her boygenius bandmates Lucy Dacus and Julien Baker, to Americana outfit Nickel Creek, to a mysterious presence who may or may not be Geese singer Cameron Winter. The end result is one of the most immersive and heartbreaking albums of the year thus far, transforming the specificity of one person’s story and observations into a universal reflection on life’s fragility.

CREDITS 


Reanna Cruz: Producer 

Iris Gottlieb: Illustrator 

Charlie Harding: Host, Executive Producer 

Dion Lee: Art Director 

Brandon McFarland: Audio Engineer 

Nick Ripps: Video Editor 

Nate Sloan: Host 

Lissa Soep: Editor 

Zach Tenorio & Jocie Adams: Theme Composers 


Switched On Pop is a co-production of Vox Media Podcast Network, Vulture, and Rock Ridge Productions.

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Songs discussed:


Phoebe Bridgers – The Outside

Phoebe Bridgers – Lost Boys

Phoebe Bridgers – Kill Me

Phoebe Bridgers – The Governor’s Waltz

Phoebe Bridgers – Lost Weekend

Phoebe Bridgers – Haunted

Phoebe Bridgers – Still Standing

Phoebe Bridgers – Never Going Back!

Phoebe Bridgers – I Can’t Wait

Phoebe Bridgers – Lost Weekend (Reprise)

Paul Lansky and Hannah MacKay – Notjustmoreidlechatter

Phoebe Bridgers – I Know The End

Phoebe Bridgers – Motion Sickness


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