- 2021-02-08
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Donate to support families affected by the crisis in Ukraine ➔ Phoebe Bridgers Performs “Kyoto” & “I Know The End” on Saturday Night Live
American singer-songwriter Phoebe Bridgers appeared on Saturday Night Live to perform “Kyoto” and “I Know The End”.
Both songs are included on her sophomore album “Punisher”, which was released last June.
The album and “Kyoto” were nominated for 2021 Grammy Awards for Best Alternative Music Album, Best Rock Performance and Best Rock Song.
“Kyoto” was written by Phoebe Bridgers, Morgan Nagler and Marshall Vore. Last December she performed the song on The Late Late Show with James Corden.
Phoebe Bridgers told Apple music, “This song is about being on tour and hating tour, and then being home and hating home. I just always want to be where I'm not, which I think is pretty not special of a thought, but it is true. With boygenius, we took a red-eye to play a late-night TV show, which sounds glamorous, but really it was hurrying up and then waiting in a fucking backstage for like hours and being really nervous and talking to strangers. I remember being like, “This is amazing and horrible at the same time. I'm with my friends, but we're all miserable. We feel so lucky and so spoiled and also shitty for complaining about how tired we are.” I miss the life I complained about, which I think a lot of people are feeling. I hope the parties are good when this shit [the pandemic] is over. I hope people have a newfound appreciation for human connection and stuff. I definitely will for tour.”- VVLch5PXPmo
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“I Know The End” was released the fourth single from the album. It was written by Christian Lee Hutson, Conor Oberst, Marshall Vore and Phoebe Bridgers.
She said of the song, “This is a bunch of things I had on my to-do list: I wanted to scream; I wanted to have a metal song; I wanted to write about driving up the coast to Northern California, which I've done a lot in my life. It's like a super specific feeling. This is such a stoned thought, but it feels kind of like purgatory to me, doing that drive, just because I have done it at every stage of my life, so I get thrown into this time that doesn't exist when I'm doing it, like I can't differentiate any of the times in my memory. I guess I always pictured that during the apocalypse, I would escape to an endless drive up north. It's definitely half a ballad. I kind of think about it as, “Well, what genre is [My Chemical Romance's] 'Welcome to the Black Parade' in?” It's not really an anthem — I don't know. I love tricking people with a vibe and then completely shifting. I feel like I want to do that more.”-
- source : NBC
