Fans Are Celebrating The Release Of The New Phoebe Bridgers Album With Sad Memes
"New Phoebe Bridgers? Oh we crawling back in bed today girlies."
The new Phoebe Bridgers album, Punisher, is very good. It’s also extremely emotionally raw.
That won’t be a surprise to anyone with even a passing knowledge of Bridgers’ work. Her breakthrough singles, ‘Scott Street’ and ‘Motion Sickness’, are about isolation and the power imbalances in a toxic relationship, respectively, and her debut album is one long howl of catharsis and sorrow.
Last year I saw Bridgers live (remember gigs? lol) and at least three people around me spent the entire show in tears. That’s the vibe.
Unsurprisingly then, longtime stans of the musician’s work are celebrating the release of Punisher with what has become a staple of the Bridgers Brand — very sad memes.
Yep, in the hours since Punisher‘s release late last night, Twitter in particular has lit up with a range of memes about disassociation, isolation, and heartbreak.
new phoebe bridgers pic.twitter.com/FVIoxJmH7F
— david (@Ioversdiscourse) June 18, 2020
not new phoebe bridgers at a time like this pic.twitter.com/kWuLp2QV3Z
— emma (@Em_Bers) June 18, 2020
oh there’s a new phoebe bridgers out today?????? ok cool pic.twitter.com/Pkwlk208kW
— samantha irby (@wordscience) June 18, 2020
phoebe bridgers releasing punisher during a pandemic pic.twitter.com/FHdd3pSlsE
— tom (@tm_mnn) June 17, 2020
me and the mentally unstable girlies streaming punisher by phoebe bridgers pic.twitter.com/EvSycFqHuf
— fiona apple lyrics bot (@mayaderendyke) June 18, 2020
new phoebe bridgers? oh we crawlin back in bed today girlies
— Katie Nolan (@katienolan) June 18, 2020
Me listening to phoebe bridgers album pic.twitter.com/nEfbV9qwSH
— Ella (@lil_eyya) June 19, 2020
when phoebe bridgers said ‘and i get this feeling whenever i feel good
it’ll be the last time’ and ‘i’ve got a good feeling, it doesn't happen very often’pic.twitter.com/LyKHZgOPnT— tori (@filleenfeuu) June 18, 2020
Phoebe Bridgers album pic.twitter.com/ZYnYmI9jAq
— brianna koerth 🐄 (@bkoerth) June 18, 2020
That Normal People meme up the top there is especially relevant, given that Paul Mescal, star of the limited series, and Phoebe Bridgers are mutual fans of each other’s work. Leading me to wonder: do you reckon that Mescal is out there, somewhere in the world right now, crying his eyes out to ‘I Know The End’? I sure hope so.
Listen to Punisher here.