edit: They're also featured on "I Know the End"! He’s been such an icon for so many people who are my heroes, like Elliott Smith and Daniel Johnston.”, “Halloween” is a twisted holiday song, where she playfully sings, “But I count on you to tell me the truth/When you’ve been drinking and you’re wearing a mask,” backed by an upright bass and subtle synths. “And then I listen to it, and I’m like, ‘Holy shit, they nailed it.’ I hope I’m doing that for people.”. Sign up for our newsletter. There hasn’t been any official boygenius releases since, but the trio has been helping each other on their respective solo projects. “Wishing I was someone else, feeling sorry for myself/When I remembered someone’s kid is dead.”) She followed that breakthrough with a pair of collaborative efforts, teaming up with Lucy Dacus and Julien Baker as Boygenius, and Conor Oberst as Better Oblivion Community Center. There is something kind of magical about us coming together. “I was like, ‘This guy is…named after you…'”), Music was a constant in Bridgers’ life from a young age. But I had a voice memo on my phone, because I was trying to get stuff to sample on Halloween one year where I was totally by myself, and it’s children laughing in the background. EDIT: I also don't think it's a reference to Julien, but I could be wrong. “I’ve been meeting these people along the way, and then starting bands,” she says. '”, The new album is full of extremely Phoebe Bridgers moments. '”, Bridgers has become one of the most acclaimed singer-songwriters of recent years by writing bleak, introspective songs grounded in twentysomething realness — she’s the folk rocker most likely to make you cry a little as you brew your morning coffee. Edit: Changed to reflect that Graceland Too is actually not in Memphis as has been brought to my attention. There’s a speck of glitter on her cheek that reflects the flames from a nearby fireplace whenever she laughs, which is often. I had gone on a trip just to visit, and then was writing that song, and then I came home and I was finishing the album and I was like, … Oberst sings backup on two songs, and Dacus and Baker harmonize on the banjo standout “Graceland Too.” “I’m influenced by every level of their musicality,” Bridgers says of her Boygenius bandmates. “I used to think about myself, like I was a talented liar,” Baker sings on the track, “turns out that all my friends were trying to do me a favor.” Here those friends are Baker’s boygenius collaborators, Lucy Dacus and Phoebe Bridgers. A little over two years later, she’s become an internationally lauded musician with three acclaimed bodies of work to her name: her solo debut, Stranger In The Alps, the boygenius EP with Julien Baker and Lucy … Yet there is nothing to justify the song’s existence on a Bridgers solo record rather than a second boygenius release. You can hear Julien and Lucy on the penultimate track, "Graceland Too." Outside of her music, though, she’s irreverently funny, especially on social media. Want more Rolling Stone? We want to hear from you! “I think friendship is the most romantic form of love, because there’s no weird expectation.” She went on to produce Hutson’s new album, Beginners — her first time producing a record — which helped prepare her to co-produce Punisher with the help of Tony Berg and Ethan Gruska, the pair of collaborators who worked with her on Alps. “Trump supporter.”, Bridgers grew up in Pasadena, California, a childhood that she describes as being “peppered” with happy memories. “He just thought it was funny to wear ICP makeup to my show,” she says, laughing. “A beautiful day in New York City,” she says, sipping chamomile tea. I want to normalize personhood. I love them. So I looked up the lyrics to Phoebe Bridgers song Graceland Too from her new album on genius and it quotes a 2019 interview where Julien talked about a place called Graceland Too. (“I totally made that up,” she says, proudly, when asked about that line. Beyond that, it’s hard to say when Bridgers will be able to tour, though this week she’ll kick off a virtual trek inside her Los Angeles home, including stops at “Bathroom” and “Bed” (in classic Bridgers fashion, she accompanied the announcement with a cheeky video). At 25, Phoebe Bridgers is, by all metrics, an artist at the beginning of her career, though Punisher sounds more like the work of a time-tested veteran perfecting a style she's been honing for years. Even if it's not, that's my interpretation and it is now hands down my favourite track on the album. Today’s bleakest, funniest folk rocker took her time working on her second solo album, Being Phoebe Bridgers is a pretty sweet gig. “I don’t want to do Christmas, because that’s overdone. “Graceland Too” is one of the record’s best songs, with major “Cowboy Take Me Away” energy and beautiful accompaniment from her erstwhile boygenius companions Julien Baker and Lucy Dacus. Phoebe Bridgers's new album, Punisher, is up on streaming services a day early! Graceland Too chords by Phoebe Bridgers. And then she’ll be like, ‘I promised this couple that you would play their prom,’ and I’m like, ‘Mom! Difficulty: novice. Julien Baker enlists fellow boygenius bandmates Lucy Dacus and Phoebe Bridgers on Favor, a track from her forthcoming album Little Oblivions. Get up to 50% off. 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That’s what was going on at that time. She spent much longer working on Punisher, which she recorded on and off from the summer of 2018 through the fall of 2019. "Graceland Too" is the emo-folk love child of Phoebe Bridgers' second album Punisher, which dropped June 18.This is a stand-out song because it's musically unlike anything else on the record. By the time she graduated from Los Angeles County High School for the Arts, she was playing in a punk band called Sloppy Jane that ended up scoring a placement in an Apple ad. Julien Baker reconnected with her boygenius bandmates, Phoebe Bridgers and Lucy Dacus, for her latest single "Favor." Their self-titled debut EP boygenius was written and recorded at Sound City Studios in Los Angeles, and their highly successful respective solo careers see them often referred to as a supergroup. It’s just so fucked up and weird to me.”, Bridgers wrote “Halloween” around the time she met singer-songwriter Christian Lee Hutson, who became a close friend and collaborator, in the spring of 2017. “Julien’s belting is so cool. “I got a bunch of free shit at Glossier, so that was pretty sick. Unique Phoebe Bridgers Stickers designed and sold by artists. (“Last night I blacked out in my car/And I woke up in my childhood bed,” she sang on “Funeral,” one of the album’s centerpieces. Yes No. No! I couldn't quite tell, but it was already confirmed. Songs are like therapy to me: I’m just like a normal person, going to therapy.”, Bridgers is sitting in the lounge of the Ludlow Hotel in Manhattan on an early evening in February, ready to discuss her new album, Punisher. “I feel like they’re more my band than anybody,” she says of the duo. “Because I run the show, I can have some random person come play a tambourine if I think it’s funny,” she says. Julien Baker: “Favor” The third album from Julien Baker is nearly here, and ahead of Little Oblivions (Feb. 26, Matador Records), the singer/songwriter has shared its third single, “ … Whenever she does go on a real tour, she’ll be playing in front of one of the most passionately devoted fan bases in music. “When I hear them, I hear myself.”, Berg — a longtime session guitarist, producer, and major label veteran whose past credits include records by Aimee Mann and Peter Gabriel — was the one who convinced Bridgers to speed up “Kyoto,” a ballad that she wrote during her first trip to Japan. “There’s no advice you could give anybody to have that same experience. “I fucking love my life,” says the 25-year-old Californian. Boygenius lent the vocals for this song. The pandemic that hit between Punisher‘s recording and its release has already affected Bridgers’ plans in one way: “I See You” was originally titled “ICU,” but she changed it for fear of seeming insensitive. That led to more commercials, which eventually earned Bridgers enough money to make her 2017 debut, Stranger in the Alps. From the Dead Oceans announcement on their website: Bridgers released her debut album in 2017 as a relatively unknown singer-songwriter living in Los Angeles. I was so fucking lucky.”. “I love how sad it is to throw depression into a holiday,” she says. True dudes.”. On “Moon Song,” she takes a characteristically blunt dig at the rock canon: “We hate ‘Tears in Heaven’/But it’s sad his baby died,” she sings. 105.6K ... and guests, including Julien Baker, Lucy Dacus, Conor Oberst, Nick Zinner, Christian Lee Hutson, ... More Phoebe Bridgers albums It became the most upbeat song on the record, accompanied by a surge of instrumentation that ranges from horns to mellotron. With her brand new album ‘Little Oblivions’ out on 26th February via Matador Records, Julien Baker is sharing brand new single ‘Favor’, featuring her boygenius bandmates on back-up vocals. Phoebe Bridgers explained to Stereogum, "I was in Nashville writing it and listening to the recording, and Julien lives there.It felt right. The track is the third preview of Baker… © Copyright 2021 Rolling Stone, LLC, a subsidiary of Penske Business Media, LLC. Graceland Too was in Mississippi (it's now closed down) and was a house that was turned into a shrine to Elvis. Was this info helpful? Back in 2018, Julien Baker teamed up with her friends and indie music contemporaries Lucy Dacus and Phoebe Bridgers to form the powerhouse trio Boygenius. She took piano lessons at the encouragement of her mother, Jamie; when that didn’t take, she turned to guitar at age 13. “Savior Complex” is a heartbreaking acoustic dirge with a melody that she wrote in a dream. It's Bridgers flexing her folk muscle on an album that's primarily consumed by emo, alt-rock style musicianship. “You called me from a payphone/They still got pay phones,” she sings. Julien Baker recruits Phoebe Bridgers and Lucy Dacus for new single ‘Favor’ The three members of boygenius have reunited again, this time with Lucy Dacus and Phoebe Bridgers provided backing vocals for Julien Baker ‘s new single, ‘Favor’. ), She doesn’t see any contradiction there: “I think there’s more humor in my music than people hear,” she says. “We basically fell in love,” she says. “My rent was paid, and I would go to the studio every day like it was my fucking job until it was my job,” she says. In 2018, Julien Baker, Phoebe Bridgers, and Lucy Dacus combined their songwriting superpowers, dubbed themselves boygenius, and released a beloved self-titled EP. Phoebe says the song is about having friends who have been through hard stuff like addiction and Julien and Lucy Davis both sing harmonies near the end, which lead me to conclude this song is about Julien and they're friendship. Phoebe says, “Julien is one of those people whose opinion you want to hear about everything. “I’ve never even Googled it.”), Bridgers characterizes Punisher as her most collaborative work to date. Graceland is in Memphis and was Elvis Presley's home. (She introduced her brother to the Seventies singer-songwriter at a show in the summer of 2016, when the younger Jackson happened to be in full Insane Clown Posse face-paint. “Easily best Beatle. By last year, she’d achieved the kind of indie fame that lands her songs on Taylor Swift’s playlist yet still lets her shop comfortably at Trader Joe’s. “I want to listen to music where nobody’s ever said the exact way that I’ve felt,” she says. Then I listened to great music walking down the streets.”, The key themes of Punisher, she says, are “crying” and feeling “numb.” Nearly every line on the new album carries an intense emotional charge, from “You couldn’t have stuck your tongue down the throat of somebody who loves you more,” on “Moon Song,” to “I hate your mom/I hate it when she opens her mouth,” on a devastating breakup song called “I See You.” “Got a fight with their mom at Whole Foods,” she says, smirking, of the ex in question. “He tried his fucking hardest to make me feel respected and listened to, but I was so intimidated.” For the most part, though, the two records she released after Alps were appealingly low-key. “I have never wanted to be a character, and I have never wanted to hide stuff about myself. Julien Baker has shared another track from her forthcoming album, Little Oblivions. Julien Baker Shares New Song “Favor” Featuring Phoebe Bridgers and Lucy Dacus Little Oblivions Due Out February 26 via Matador Feb 03, 2021 By Christopher Roberts Photography by Alysse Gafkjen Acclaimed singer/songwriter Julien Baker is releasing a new album, Little Oblivions, on February 26 via Matador. Alps is a tour-de-force of emotionally direct songwriting, with a level of detail that made fans feel like they knew her, or were her. “We fought about John Lennon/Until I cried.”, “I, for the most part, fucking hate classic rock,” Bridgers says. Working with Oberst, whose music she’d looked up to for years, was a big deal for Bridgers: “I just didn’t feel like a peer,” she says. "Favor" is the third track to be lifted from Baker's new album Little Oblivions, following " Hardline " and " Faith Healer ", and sees Baker recruit boygenius bandmates Phoebe Bridgers and Lucy Dacus to contribute backing vocals. “Unfortunately, I don’t think trauma is that rare,” she says, adding that her life to date has been “about as traumatic as your average woman.”, She mentions how close she is with her younger brother, Jackson Bridgers, who is named after Jackson Browne. Lucy literally sounds like melted butter when she sings. Oberst sings backup on two songs, and Dacus and Baker harmonize on the banjo standout “Graceland Too.” “I’m influenced by every level of their musicality,” Bridgers … Bridgers says of Baker, "Julien is one of those people whose opinion you want to hear about everything. Her vocals sail through the octaves, producing a chilling effect. Is Phoebe's song Graceland Too about Julien. Her parents didn’t divorce until she was 19, but the years leading up to that weren’t always easy. Julien Baker has tapped her Boygenius bandmates Phoebe Bridgers and Lucy Dacus for “Favor,” the latest single from her upcoming album Little Oblivions. Bridgers pulls together a formidable crew of guests, including Julien Baker, Lucy Dacus, Christian Lee Hutson and Conor Oberst; Nathaniel Walcott (of Bright Eyes), Nick Zinner (of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs), Jenny Lee Lindberg (of Warpaint), Blake Mills and Jim Keltner; and her longtime bandmates Marshall Vore (drums), Harrison Whitford (guitar), Emily Retsas (bass) … Revisions or chord corrections are greatly appreciated. Graceland Too by Phoebe Bridgers, released 18 June 2020 Phoebe Bridgers wrote her first song at age 11, spent her adolescence at open mic nights, and busked through her teenage years at farmers markets in her native Los Angeles. boygenius (stylized in all lowercase) is an indie rock band formed in 2018 by American musicians Julien Baker, Phoebe Bridgers, and Lucy Dacus. Decorate your laptops, water bottles, helmets, and cars. Just for the record, she's referencing Graceland in the song, not Graceland Too. “Favor” features backing vocals from her boygenius bandmates Lucy Dacus and Phoebe Bridgers. Photo: boygenius (L-R: Bridgers, Baker, Dacus) “We sang on Favor in Nashville the same day we recorded vocals for [Bridgers’] Graceland Too and a song of mine,” Dacus said of the single.“That day had the same … Julien Baker has shared a new song, featuring her boygenius bandmates Lucy Dacus and Phoebe Bridgers – listen to ‘Favor’ below. Send us a tip using our anonymous form. Written by ear so there may be mistakes. (“If eating ass is wrong I don’t want to be right” and “Every Wednesday is ass Wednesday where I’m from” are among her greatest hits on Twitter. There are some exceptions, though: “I love John Lennon,” she continues. “It’s like when you go through a breakup and then five years later you’re like, ‘Oh, shit. “My mom occasionally gets, ‘Are you related to Phoebe Bridgers?’ She fucking eats it up. By age 20, she'd caught the ear of Ryan Adams, who listened to her perform her song "Killer" and invited her to record it in his studio the next day. Graceland Too Lyrics. 0 Julien Baker (Photo by Alysse Gafkjen) Singer-songwriter Julien Baker will release her third album, “Little Oblivions,” on Feb. 26, and for the latest single, her collaborators in Boygenius, Phoebe Bridgers and Lucy Dacus, provide backing vocals.. 19, but I could be wrong, Bridgers characterizes Punisher as most... 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