Phoebe Bridgers on How Her Deep Connection to a ‘Conversations With Friends’ Character Led to New Music
variety.comChris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music CriticThere are at least a couple generations of music fans now that have Phoebe Bridgers at the top of a list of artists they’d love to be having still more musical conversations with.
But especially for a streaming series that has women in their early 20s at the fore, as Hulu’s “Conversations With Friends” does, it makes sense that the first go-to for producers to approach with the idea of doing a theme song would be Bridgers.
It’d be a natural ask even if Bridgers hadn’t already established herself for years now as a super-fan of source novelist Sally Rooney.Ask Bridgers how much time she spent trying to get into the series protagonist’s head with her new song, “Sidelines,” and the answer comes quickly: None.
That’s because she considered herself already there, innately. “I feel like I’m more similar to Frances than any character in pop culture, ever,” she says, talking to Variety about the work she did with co-writers Marshall Vore and Ruby Henley in coming up with the song.
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