Phoebe Bridgers - Scott Street
Song Exploder
Hrishikesh Hirway
4.8 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 11 November 2020
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
This episode is a little different. It’s a re-issue of Phoebe Bridgers’ Song Exploder episode from January 2019, along with a brand new segment where she and I talk about dealing with writer’s block.
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. Coming up first in this episode, Phoebe and Marshall break down how that song went from an unfinished cassette recording, to an acoustic demo, and then finally to the album version.
And then, after that, after you hear "Scott Street" in its entirety, Phoebe and I talk about writer’s block: what causes it for her, and how’s she’s dealt with it. So stick around after the full song to hear that conversation.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Song Exploder, where musicians take apart their songs and piece by piece |
| 0:06.0 | tell the story of how they remained. |
| 0:08.7 | My name is Tao Wen. |
| 0:14.4 | This episode contains explicit language. |
| 0:18.1 | Phoebe Bridgers is a singer-songwriter from Los Angeles. |
| 0:21.4 | In September 2017, she released her debut album Stranger in the Alps. |
| 0:26.7 | One of the breakout songs in that album was Scott Street, a song Phoebe co-wrote with |
| 0:30.5 | her drummer, Marshall Vore. |
| 0:32.6 | In this episode, Phoebe and Marshall break down how the song went from an unfinished cassette |
| 0:36.9 | recording to an acoustic demo to the finished album version. |
| 0:41.1 | Do you feel ashamed? |
| 0:49.5 | I'm Phoebe Bridgers. |
| 0:56.3 | This is Marshall Vore drummer of Phoebe Bridgers. |
| 1:00.7 | We met in late 2014. |
| 1:03.0 | We came fast friends all day. |
| 1:05.9 | We started talking about music. |
| 1:08.0 | I remember we were just hanging out a lot and then you would just be having an idea or something |
| 1:12.9 | and you'd be like, what do you think of this? |
| 1:14.8 | Or I would do the same thing. |
| 1:16.2 | I have this idea. |
| 1:17.2 | What do you think of that? |
| 1:18.2 | And it seemed like some songs ended up coming out of that together. |
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