People don't like my music because women in music are en vogue right now, and they don't like my music because a man made me gave birth to me.”īridgers wrote about Adams and their relationship on “Motion Sickness,” a standout track from Stranger that captures the dissonance of missing an abusive ex. Any category of shit seems really reductive. “I don't lump Conor in the same category as just ‘men of a certain age.’ And I don't want Julien and Lucy and me compared with every other white songwriter on earth. “Same goes for when they're like, ‘Seems like women in music are really coming back,’” she continues. Why do you think men of a certain age gravitate toward you?’ And I was like, ‘One, they're nothing alike.’ And also, men of a certain age? They're all fucking 40.” It was like, ‘Conor Oberst and John Mayer really like you. I'm like, ‘How is it possible for me to be emitting this energy, and not be feeling it in my head?’” I forgot to move the wet laundry to the dryer,’ and there are people crying in the front row of my show. “I can play somewhere beautiful and literally be thinking about the laundry machine on stage,” she admits with a chuckle. Later, she jokes that it’s astral projection.
She’s the only one in the band not wearing color - instead, she’s cloaked in a witchy black sheath dress - and despite the kinetic feel of the song, she limply strums the bass with an empty stare, as if she isn’t really there.īridgers’ thoughts consume her even when she’s performing, she tells me, to the point where she dissociates. In old YouTube videos of them performing, a babyfaced Bridgers is the disaffected foil to Dahl’s explosive energy. During those high school years, Bridgers also started playing bass in a scrappy punk band called Sloppy Jane, whose lead singer, Haley Dahl, would shriek into the microphone with a shock rock flair.
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