If you haven’t watched Phoebe Bridgers’ Saturday Night Live performances, drop everything and watch both now.
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The singer-songwriter sang “Kyoto” and “I Know the End” from her excellent 2020 album Punisher.
At the end of Bridgers’ performance for “I Know the End”, she broke her guitar on a speaker in front of the stage. It was very cool.
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After country singer-songwriter Jason Isbell heavy about some of the negative comments about crushing the guitar (“That was like an $ 85 guitar that it broke, come on, guys”), Bridgers answered that she told the company that made the guitar about her plans to break it beforehand.
@JasonIsbell I told danelectro that I was going to do this and they wished me luck and told me that they are hard to break
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those who are pressured about the @phoebe_bridgers guitar break OBVIOUSLY don’t know the deep cultural reference she was making to Bright Eyes’ classic guitar break “Road To Joy” at the end of the show
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Did you catch the guy who breaks the trumpet in that video? This is instrumentalist Nate Walcott – who also played in Bridgers’ band on SNL last night.
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