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Boygenius’ Phoebe Bridgers hits out at people online “screaming about their bodies” and people “actively using Twitter fucking embarrassing themselves”

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Phoebe Bridgers of Boygenius has hit out at online trolls who make comments about her body online, and use social media to “actively embarrass themselves.”The singer, songwriter and guitarist spoke out about the slew of nasty comments she and her bandmates receive online in a new interview with GQ, and stated that she finds it “fucking embarrassing” how people actually take to social media to make comments about their appearance.The topic arose when the band were asked about their set at Belgium’s Pukkelpop festival in August, when Bridgers ripped her shirt open and revealed her bare chest.Bandmate Lucy Dacus then followed suit, and the two spun around on stage together before falling to the floor.

After it happened, discussion of the moment spread across social media, with some users criticising the musicians for what they saw as public indecency.“Twitter’s dead and everyone who’s actively using Twitter is, I think, fucking embarrassing themselves,” said Bridgers, reflecting on the comments. “It’s owned by the richest man in the world; it’s called ‘X’ now; it’s not freedom of information.

It is… ridiculous, in my opinion.”She continued: “It just makes me sad for people to be screaming about our bodies, because it doesn’t fucking matter to us, but to someone at [our] show, it matters.

Like, I’m laughing at some internet comments or whatever and it’s like, ‘Wait, this is destroying someone who it really matters to.’”Dacus chimed in, saying that the moment on stage was “euphoric” and “felt great physically”.“Personally, having [had] my body be a plaything at past points in my life for people, and getting mistreated and assaulted… Having a good time doing something like that is amazing,” she explained. “But I don’t need.

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