Phoebe Bridgers Releases Third Album Lost Weekend
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- Phoebe Bridgers releases her third album Lost Weekend this week, earning five stars from the Guardian and her first solo UK charting single, six years after her 2020 breakthrough Punisher
- Bridgers' lyrical fingerprints are traceable in the work of Olivia Rodrigo and Gracie Abrams, while Paul McCartney, Taylor Swift and SZA have clamoured for collaborations
- Lost Weekend addresses the death of Bridgers' father and the end of her engagement to actor Paul Mescal, paired with what reviews call her enduringly surreal sense of humour
- Saddest Factory Records, the label Bridgers founded that signed Muna and Claud, was rolled into parent company Dead Oceans earlier this year after a trademark dispute
- Boygenius — Bridgers' supergroup with Lucy Dacus and Julien Baker — clinched three Grammy awards, where she used her speech to condemn former Recording Academy boss Neil Portnow's 'step up' remark about women
- Bridgers promoted Lost Weekend via secretive US pop-up shows capped at $50 and phone-free, including a 500-capacity venue in Huntington, West Virginia — a stop fan Baleigh Epperly called 'the overlooked places'
Why it matters: Bridgers' third album arrives as her first UK charting single and a five-star Guardian review, ratifying Taylor Swift's 2022 verdict that 'she is the reference now' — Olivia Rodrigo and Gracie Abrams now write in her shadow. Her $50, phone-free pop-ups in overlooked markets like Huntington, West Virginia extend that influence into towns that traditional album rollouts skip.
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