The singer, who has spoken in interviews and in her music about her difficult relationship along with her father, reconnected with him throughout the pandemic
Phoebe Bridgers’ father, with whom she maintained an advanced relationship and not too long ago reconnected with throughout the pandemic, has died. The singer introduced his dying on Instagram, captioning an outdated picture of herself sharing headphones with him at a restaurant: “Relaxation in peace dad.”
Bridgers has typically mentioned her strained relationship along with her father, who she informed GQ in 2019 had a “drug factor” whereas she was rising up. Most not too long ago, throughout an look on Amelia Dimoldenberg’s Hen Store Date, the host talked about the “Kyoto” lyric “I’m gonna kill you/If you happen to don’t beat me to it,” which alludes to the father-daughter relationship. When Dimoldenberg requested if the lyrics nonetheless maintain up, Bridgers took a beat and settled on a resolved “no.”
Her father, who labored as a carpenter constructing constructions for movie and tv units, is credited with introducing Bridgers to the singer-songwriters after whom she largely modeled her fashion and sound throughout the earliest levels of her musical profession. “He was fairly delicate about cash, and he didn’t adore it after I was taking guitar classes,” she informed the New Yorker in 2020. “However, so far as music goes, he’s the one who listened to Tom Waits, he’s the one who listened to Jackson Browne.”
The singer defined the dynamic of her relationship along with her father in the identical interview. “I really feel a lot fucking empathy and a lot fucking anger towards him,” she reasoned. “It’ll all the time be day after day: Are we speaking, are we not speaking? What’s the vibe?”
Bridgers has not shared any extra details about her father’s dying at the moment.