You're listening to Song Exploder, where musicians take apart their songs and piece by piece, tell the story of how they were made. I'm Rishikesh Herway.

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 Rishikesh Herway.

This episode is a little different.

It's a reissue 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 Vor.

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 you hear Scott Street in its entirety, Phoebe and I talk about writer's block, what causes it for her and how she's had to deal with it. That interview is presented by We Transfer. We transfers bin at the center of the creative process for years. They make tools to move ideas and those tools have helped me, Phoebe, and countless other musicians and creators.

So stick around after the full song to hear that conversation and check out how We Transfer can help you at toolstomooveideas.com.

But first, here's Phoebe Bridgers and Marshall Vor on the Making of Scott Street.

I'm Phoebe Bridgers. This is Marshall Vor drummer of Phoebe Bridgers.

We met in late 2014, we came fast friends, home 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.

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 had a guitar and was sitting on Phoebe's bed playing the chords.

I had just got a cassette machine and I thought it was cool. So there's a cassette demo of it.

Open heart, open day.

I just kind of had these lyrics from my phone, which were the first opening lyrics of the song.

I first started writing those lyrics in 2014. I was walking from my apartment to my friend's house and I was just singing what was happening.

I grabbed my nail on the way out and in between us was an arco gas station where we would buy stuff.

I got a stack of mail in a token.

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