If you didn’t watch Phoebe Bridgers’ Saturday Night Live performances, drop everything and watch ’em both right now.
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The singer-songwriter performed “Kyoto” and “I Know the End,” from her excellent 2020 album Punisher.
At the end of Bridgers’ performance for “I Know the End,” she smashed her guitar on a speaker in front of the stage. It was pretty cool.
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After country singer-songwriter Jason Isbell weighed in on some of the negative comments about the guitar-smashing (“That was like an 85 dollar guitar she smashed come on guys”), Bridgers replied that she’d told the company that made the guitar about her plans to smash it beforehand.
@JasonIsbell I told danelectro I was going to do it and they wished me luck and told me they’re hard to break
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those who are pressed about the @phoebe_bridgers guitar smash OBVIOUSLY do not know the deep cultural reference she was making to the classic Bright Eyes “Road To Joy” guitar smash on the late late show
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Did you catch the trumpet-smashing guy in that video? That’s instrumentalist Nate Walcott — who also played in Bridgers’ band on SNL last night.
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