Phoebe Bridgers did it Saturday Night Live debuted last night (February 7), breaking his guitar in an explosive two-song performance – see what unfolded below.
After the singer refused to write a personal song for guest presenter Dan Levy in promoting the episode’s teaser, she played ‘Kyoto’ and ‘I Know The End’ from last year’s ‘Punisher’.
Supported by a seven-member band, Bridgers played two singles from his most recent album, breaking his guitar at the end of a raucous performance from the nearest album ‘I Know The End’.
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Bridgers’ “Punisher” was released last June and was voted the fifth best album of 2020 by NME. “The 26-year-old Los Angeles native’s second album was filled with joyful contradictions, from the dry humor of the silent and acoustic ‘Halloween’ to the blazing frankness of the beauty of chamber pop ‘I Know The End'”, he wrote the NME.
“Introspective, with a sense of loneliness woven everywhere, ‘Punisher’ found Bridgers asserting himself as an individual force through self-production and pragmatic collaboration (with names like Conor Oberst, Julien Baker and Lucy Dacus). The result: a multifaceted ode to embrace the oddities of life and live in the moment. “
Since the album’s release, Bridgers has been nominated for a Grammy, shared an orchestral EP, covered the classic ‘Iris’ by Goo Goo Dolls alongside Maggie Rogers to celebrate Donald Trump’s dismissal in the 2020 U.S. presidential election and a lot more.
This week, Bridgers joined a series of women to present allegations about Marilyn Manson. Bridgers shared his own experience with Manson on Twitter this week (February 4) and said those around him were aware of his alleged behavior before the allegations were made public.
“I went to Marilyn Manson’s house when I was a teenager with some friends,” tweeted the singer and songwriter. “I was a huge fan. He referred to a room in his house as the “r * pe room”, I thought it was just his horrible sense of fraternity boy humor. I stopped being a fan ”.