SONG EXPLODER

EPISODE 153 BUT ITS A ZINE PhoebeBridgers

You’re listening to Song Exploder, where musicians take apart their songs and piece by piece tell the story of how they were made. My name is Thao Nguyen.

*This episode contains explicit language.

Phoebe Bridgers is a singer-songwriter from Los Angeles. In September 2017, she released her debut album, Stranger in the Alps. One of the breakout songs from that album was “Scott Street,” a song Phoebe co-wrote with her drummer, Marshall Vore. In this episode, Phoebe and Marshall break down how the song went from an unfinished cassette recording, to an acoustic demo, to the finished album version.

We met in like late 2014, became fast friends, hung out every day. We started talking about music.

I remember we were just hanging out a lot, and then you would just be having an idea or something and you’d be like, “What do you think of this?” Or I would do the same thing like, “I have this idea, what do you think of that?” And it seemed like some songs ended up coming out of that, together.

And so we started writing a lot of songs and, this one, it’s an idea that Marshall had.

I like had a guitar and was sitting on Phoebe’s bed playing the chords.