{"id":2093287,"date":"2026-08-14T11:40:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T08:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2093287"},"modified":"2026-08-14T11:40:00","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T08:40:00","slug":"the-9-saddest-phoebe-bridgers-songs-ranked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2093287","title":{"rendered":"The 9 saddest Phoebe Bridgers songs, ranked"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[analyse_image type=&#8221;featured&#8221; src=&#8221;https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/1200\/0-187-2999-1999\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1450\/1\/1451329.jpeg&#8221;]<\/p>\n<article class=\"main-article standard \">\n<div class=\"article-main-content article-wrapper has-media-but-its-an-image\" data-status=\"loaded\" data-primary-article=\"true\" data-url=\"\/music\/article\/70809\/1\/the-saddest-phoebe-bridger-s-songs-ranked-lost-weekend\" data-article-id=\"70809\">\n<header class=\"article-header has-landscape-image no-media\">\n<div class=\"wrapper dg-max-width\">\n<div class=\"inner\">\n<figure class=\"main-img has-figcaption\" data-img-aspect-ratio-type=\"landscape\" data-img-aspect-ratio=\"1.33\" data-template=\"Standard Article\"><span class=\"has-css-custom-props image-container\" data-aspect-ratio-type=\"landscape\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Photography Olof Grind\" class=\"img\" height=\"2250\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/1400\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1450\/1\/1451329.jpeg\" width=\"3000\"><\/span><\/span><figcaption class=\"img-caption\"><span class=\"inner\"><span class=\"credit\">Photography Olof Grind<\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<aside class=\"meta\">\n<div class=\"inner\"><time datetime=\"2026-08-14T11:40:00+00:00\" class=\"timestamp\" title=\"14 August 2026\"><span class=\"month\">August<\/span>\u00a0<br \/>\n<span class=\"day\" data-day=\"14\">14,<\/span>\u00a0<br \/>\n<span class=\"year\">2026<\/span><\/time><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<div class=\"titles\">\n<div class=\"tags\">\n<div class=\"sections\"><a class=\"category vertical - music\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/music\">Music<\/a><br \/>\n\/<br \/>\n<a class=\"series\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/lists\">Lists<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"standard-tag-container\"><a class=\"standard-category\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/music\">Music<\/a> \/<br \/>\n<a class=\"standard-series\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/lists\">Lists<\/a><\/div>\n<h1 class=\"title\"><span>The 9 saddest Phoebe Bridgers <span class=\"nowrap\">songs, ranked<\/span><\/span><\/h1>\n<div class=\"standfirst\">\n<h2>To celebrate the release of the singer-songwriter\u2019s third studio album, Lost Weekend, we punished ourselves by revisiting her most heartbreaking <span class=\"nowrap\">tracks ever<\/span><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<p><time datetime=\"2026-08-14T11:40:00+00:00\" class=\"timestamp\" title=\"14 August 2026\"><span class=\"month\">August<\/span>\u00a0<br \/>\n<span class=\"day\" data-day=\"14\">14,<\/span>\u00a0<br \/>\n<span class=\"year\">2026<\/span><\/time><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><time datetime=\"2026-08-14T11:40:00+00:00\" class=\"timestamp\" title=\"14 August 2026\"><span class=\"month\">August<\/span>\u00a0<br \/>\n<span class=\"day\" data-day=\"14\">14,<\/span>\u00a0<br \/>\n<span class=\"year\">2026<\/span><\/time><\/p>\n<div class=\"providers\">\n<div class=\"contributors\"><span class=\"contributor\" data-contributor-role=\"Text\"><span class=\"contributor-role\">Text<\/span><a class=\"contributor-name\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/user\/HalimaJibril\"><br \/>\nHalima Jibril<br \/>\n<\/a><span class=\"contributor-separator\">, <\/span><a class=\"contributor-name\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/user\/TiarnaMeehan\"><br \/>\nTiarna<br \/>\n<\/a><span class=\"contributor-separator\">, <\/span><a class=\"contributor-name\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/user\/JamesGreig\"><br \/>\nJames Greig<br \/>\n<\/a><span class=\"contributor-separator\">, <\/span><a class=\"contributor-name\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/user\/HabiDiallo\"><br \/>\nHabi Diallo<br \/>\n<\/a><span class=\"contributor-separator\">, <\/span><a class=\"contributor-name\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/user\/SophiaMedinaCrack\"><br \/>\nSophia Medina Crack<br \/>\n<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"article-body-container\">\n<div class=\"article-body wrapper\">\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html\">\n<p><span>It has been six years since <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/phoebe-bridgers\">Phoebe Bridgers<\/a> released her last solo album. The monumental <\/span><em><span>Punisher<\/span><\/em><span>, released in the early days of the pandemic, soundtracked an indescribable period of mourning, political failure, death, and transformation. A fitting album title for a time where it felt like we were all being punished for something we could never be forgiven for. As music critic <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/reviews\/albums\/phoebe-bridgers-punisher\/\">Sam Sodomsky<\/a> so aptly put it: \u201cThe California native writes songs for moments when things fall apart, when language fails.\u201d Her new album, <em>Lost Weekend<\/em>, exists in a context no less volatile and apocalyptic.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In the six years between the release of <\/span><em><span>Punisher<\/span><\/em><span>, Bridgers has been through a lot. Her very public relationship with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/paul-mescal\">Paul Mescal<\/a> came to an end in 2022, and in 2023 she reached the heights of success with her friends and collaborators, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/music\/article\/65848\/1\/lucy-dacus-boygenius-ankles-fame-death-and-blowing-up-your-life\">Lucy Dacus<\/a> and Julien Baker, who together form Boygenius, and their Grammy Award-winning debut album <\/span><em><span>The Record<\/span><\/em><span>. But with success comes the enemy of so many artists: fame. In that same year, Bridger\u2019s father, with whom she had a complex relationship, died. She called out \u2018fans\u2019 who bullied her on the way to her dad\u2019s funeral in an interview with <\/span><em><span>Them<\/span><\/em><span>: \u201cI, at one of the lowest points of my life, saw people who claim to love me fucking dehumanize me and shame me and fucking bully me on the way to my dad\u2019s wake.\u201d During this time, Bridgers disappeared from public life, deeply perturbed by the intense loss of privacy her newfound fame had brought.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Life is just a series of ups and downs until you die, and <\/span><em><span>Lost Weekend <\/span><\/em><span>depicts that non-linearity with precision and honesty. The album is not just mournfully sad \u2013 it is accepting of what life has to offer, and hopeful too. On one of my favourite tracks on the album, \u201cHaunted\u201d, Bridgers belts: \u201c<\/span><em><span>My heart is growing either way<\/span><\/em><span>\u201d. This feels impossible after loss, but it is true. You will love and feel joy again, despite it all.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>With collaborators like Jack Antonoff, Alex G, Blake Mills, Conor Oberst, Christian Lee Hutson, her boyfriend Bo Burnham, her pug and many more, <\/span><em><span>Lost Weekend<\/span><\/em><span> is Bridger\u2019s best album to date. To celebrate the release of her third studio album, we revisited Bridger&#8217;s previous work to rank her saddest tracks.<\/span><\/p>\n<h1>9. \u201cI KNOW THE END\u201d<\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"src-youtube video-container embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"media-youtube\" data-id=\"WJ9-xN6dCW4\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen frameborder height=\"422\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WJ9-xN6dCW4\" webkitallowfullscreen width=\"750\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html\">\n<p><span>While I fought for the inclusion of \u201cI Know the End\u201d here, I have my doubts. Is it really best described as <em>sad<\/em>? I find it euphoric, transcendent, and strangely hopeful for a song about the end of the world. My colleague Halima Jibril initially framed this list as \u201cthe Phoebe Bridgers tracks that most make you want to die\u201d, and it doesn\u2019t make me feel like that at all \u2014 it makes me want to pack it all in, pile my possessions into a truck and set out for a new life in rural Montana. But then there\u2019s the achingly downbeat first half; lyrics like \u201cyou have to go, I know, I know, I know\u2026\u201d and the apocalyptic final note, as the horns sound, Bridgers starts to scream and it all descends into chaos. And while I\u2019m sorry for regurgitating the message of Pixar\u2019s <\/span><em><span>Inside Out<\/span><\/em><span>, sadness does often come alongside moments of epiphany and resolve (\u201c<\/span><em><span>either way, we\u2019re not alone, I\u2019ll find a new place to be from.<\/span><\/em><span>\u201d) Unlike some sad songs, \u201cI Know the End\u201d is, for me, less about the crash-out and more about what comes after. It is also among the most vivid and evocative depictions of the US released this century, or ever \u2013 no-one else could make the prospect of listening to Kid Rock on a long car drive sound so beautiful. <em>(JG)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<h1>8. \u201cNEVER GOING BACK AGAIN!\u201d\u00a0<\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"src-youtube video-container embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"media-youtube\" data-id=\"LfkRHwwbYCk\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen frameborder height=\"422\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LfkRHwwbYCk\" webkitallowfullscreen width=\"750\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html\">\n<p><span>There are several devastating tracks on <em>Lost Weekend<\/em>, an album about death, the end of things and their beginnings. But \u201cNever Going Back Again!\u201d left me speechless upon my first listen. The haunting, melodic echoes of Bridger\u2019s voice chanting &#8220;never going back again, the way it used to be is not the way it is&#8221; are immediately juxtaposed with the dynamic folk arrangement in the middle of the song. At first, it feels like a song mourning that things are fundamentally different than they were before, and then it celebrates and revels in that difference. It is the ending of the song that shows you just how complicated these feelings are, when over an instrumental banjo, a sweet voicemail of Bridger\u2019s late father is played. The man who loved her and hurt her again and again. <\/span><em><span>(HJ)<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<h1><span>7. \u201cGRACELAND TOO\u201d<\/span><\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"src-youtube video-container embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"media-youtube\" data-id=\"cTG0dakpDko\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen frameborder height=\"422\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cTG0dakpDko\" webkitallowfullscreen width=\"750\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html\">\n<p>If I were to imagine what would soundtrack a road trip through America at 4am, prompted by a mind-melting breakdown, \u201cGraceland Too\u201d would be the only song that feels right. As the tenth track on Punisher, the opening line <em>&#8220;No longer a danger to herself or others \/ She made up her mind and laced up her shoes\u201d<\/em>, was allegedly inspired by Boygenius\u2019 bandmate Julien Baker and her experiences in rehab. Baker, who grew up in Bartlett, Tennesse, close to Elvis Presley\u2019s Graceland home in Memphis, also sings on the track with Lucy Dacus. There are obviously infinite songs about loving someone with mental health issues, but I find hearing Baker\u2019s soft vocals harmonise with her bandmates on a song about her own suffering so beautiful and different. The line: <em>\u201cshe said she knows she lived through it to get to this moment, ate a sleeve of saltines on my floor in my room\u201d<\/em> has always been a reminder to me that sometimes there\u2019s no pinnacle of \u201chealing\u201d, but it\u2019s still possible in the most mundane moments, like sitting on the floor of your best friend\u2019s room, to remember why life is worth it. <em>(HD)<\/em><\/p>\n<h1>6. \u201cCHINESE SATELLITE\u201d<\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"src-youtube video-container embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"media-youtube\" data-id=\"i63yumCNdJs\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen frameborder height=\"422\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/i63yumCNdJs\" webkitallowfullscreen width=\"750\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html\">\n<p><span>There\u2019s a kind of devastating existentialism you can find yourself falling into every few years when you think about your life. \u2018Is this all there is?\u2019 I asked myself a few months ago when I fell into depression. The only song I listened to at that time was \u201cChinese Satellite\u201d. In an interview with <\/span><em><span>Pitchfork<\/span><\/em><span>, Bridgers explains that the song is about her lack of faith and how desperately she wants to believe in something but can\u2019t. \u201cIf I\u2019m being honest, this song is about turning 11 and not getting a letter from Hogwarts, just realising that nobody\u2018s going to save me from my life, nobody\u2019s going to wake me up and be like, \u2018Hey, just kidding. Actually, it\u2018s really a lot more special than this, and you\u2018re special.\u2019 No, I\u2019m going to be the way that I am forever.\u201d I remember feeling similarly as a child, as a teen and as an adult. There\u2019s something more going on in this life, right? There has to be. The devastation in this track is just how desperate she is to know, but ultimately knowing that there\u2019s nothing. \u201c<\/span><em><span>I want to believe \/ instead I look at the sky and feel nothing<\/span><\/em><span>\u201d. <\/span><em><span>(HJ)<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<h1>5. \u201cPUNISHER\u201d<\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"src-youtube video-container embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"media-youtube\" data-id=\"ncSf8Nk3aq4\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen frameborder height=\"422\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ncSf8Nk3aq4\" webkitallowfullscreen width=\"750\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html\">\n<p><span>The titular track of Bridgers\u2019 sophomore record, <\/span><em><span>Punisher<\/span><\/em>,<span> is a self-effacing, tentative ode to her primary musical inspiration, the late Elliott Smith. Consistently surprising and ambiguous, the song doesn\u2019t just wash over you; it submerges you. A stream-of-consciousness confessional aimed directly at her muse, the chorus comes in the form of a question, which sums it all up: <\/span><em><span>\u2018What if I told you \/ I feel like I know you? But we never met\u2019. <\/span><\/em><span>Not an expression of grief, it speaks to something more torturous \u2013 helpless longing. An eerie dreamscape of wispy backing vocals, floating strings and muted keys capture this potently. The song ends similarly, as we see the \u2018punishing\u2019 effect Bridgers\u2019 idolising has on her. Not only does she realise she\u2019s simply a cheap imitation of Smith \u2013 <\/span><em><span>\u2018A copycat killer with a chemical cut\u2019<\/span><\/em><span> \u2013 but that if they could meet, she\u2019d ruin it: <\/span><em><span>\u2018Wouldn\u2019t know where to start \/ Wouldn\u2019t know where to stop\u2019.<\/span><\/em><span> I won\u2019t say the track feels exactly sad, but empty; doomed. <\/span><em><span>(SMC)<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<h1><span>4. \u201cWAITING ROOM\u201d<\/span><\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"src-youtube video-container embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"media-youtube\" data-id=\"VUOwg6nhuzA\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen frameborder height=\"422\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VUOwg6nhuzA\" webkitallowfullscreen width=\"750\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html\">\n<p><span>It\u2019s the innocence of \u201cWaiting Room\u201d that makes me tear up every time I hear it. Written when she was 16, Bridgers strums her guitar while delivering simple, searingly sincere lyricism that only a young girl in unrequited love could produce. The utter desperation of one particular line, though, is what hits me the hardest even now: \u201c<\/span><em><span>Wanna make you fall in love as hard as my poor parents\u2019 teenage daughter \/ She\u2019ll be the best you ever had if you let her\u201d<\/span><\/em><span>. Wise beyond her years, Bridgers articulates the agony of having a crush more precisely than most adults. And as she attempts to move on, accepting <\/span><em><span>\u2018it\u2019s for the better<\/span><\/em><span>\u2019, the song comes to its bittersweet climax, featuring resounding chords that feel like the final moments in a coming-of-age film. So much more than sad, the ballad is a winding sucker punch straight to your gut \u2013 and heart. <\/span><em><span>(SMC)<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<h1><span>3. \u201cSCOTT STREET\u201d<\/span><\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"src-youtube video-container embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"media-youtube\" data-id=\"W-Khe7DInxo\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen frameborder height=\"422\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/W-Khe7DInxo\" webkitallowfullscreen width=\"750\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html\">\n<p><span>\u201cScott Street\u201d is an anthem for being, like, 23 years old and thinking that you\u2019re soooo washed, your youth is gone and your best days are behind you (which, happily, isn\u2019t actually true!). Bittersweet and wistful, it feels like taking a stroll past an old uni house or through the park in your hometown where you first drank Glen\u2019s vodka and fell in love. In one of my favourite lines, \u201c<em>I asked \u2018how is your sister? I heard she got her degree\u2019\/ I said \u2018that makes me feel old\u2019\/ you said \u2018what does that make me\u2019?<\/em>\u201d, it captures the hyper-specific realisation that someone you know\u2019s younger sibling, who you remember as a child, is now a fully-formed person \u2013 surely that can\u2019t possibly be the case!? It\u2018s a deliciously, exquisitely poignant song , which reminds us that sometimes you just have to lean into the existential terror of the passing of time. <\/span><em><span>(JG)<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<h1><span>2. \u201cMOON SONG\u201d<\/span><\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"src-youtube video-container embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"media-youtube\" data-id=\"DXqZ66XK3z8\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen frameborder height=\"422\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DXqZ66XK3z8\" webkitallowfullscreen width=\"750\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html\">\n<p><span>There\u2019s a fan-made YouTube video titled \u201cPhoebe Bridgers songs, but they get sadder\u201d and (rightfully IMO) \u201cMoon Song\u201d is the track that finishes it out. The song dwells on the misery of loving someone when you know you\u2019re giving them far more than they\u2019re giving back, but still finding yourself willing to hand over whatever they\u2019ll take. With lyrics like \u201c<\/span><em><span>But you&#8217;re holdin&#8217; me like water in your hands<\/span><\/em><span>\u201d and \u201c<\/span><em><span>And now my feet can&#8217;t touch the bottom of you<\/span><\/em><span>\u201d, this is a heartbreak anthem for when you\u2019re still in the relationship, but one without the usual fiery bridge or biting lyrical hindsight to pull you out of it. Instead, the song leaves you there, heart cracked open and drowning in your own love that has nowhere else to go. <\/span><em><span>(T)<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<h1>1. \u201cFUNERAL\u201d<\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"src-youtube video-container embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"media-youtube\" data-id=\"jcq5NlYz1PU\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen frameborder height=\"422\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jcq5NlYz1PU\" webkitallowfullscreen width=\"750\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html\">\n<p><span>A standout track from Bridgers\u2019 2017 album <\/span><em><span>Stranger in the Alps<\/span><\/em><span>, \u201cFuneral\u201d is about attending the funeral of \u201c<\/span><em><span>a kid a year older than me<\/span><\/em><span>\u201d. Already a brutally depressing premise for a track, the song dwells on the complicated emotions that come rushing in when you\u2018re grieving. The song\u2019s stripped-back production gives Bridgers\u2019 guttingly honest lyricism plenty of room to breathe, as she confronts self-loathing, loss of innocence and the uncomfortable guilt of remaining consumed by her own depression while grieving someone who never got the chance to grow up. <\/span><em><span>(T)<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"newsletter-inline-last\">\n<div class=\"newsletter-small\">\n<div class=\"inner\">\n<h1 class=\"newsletter-title\">Escape the algorithm! 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The controversial new \u2018genre\u2019 making a splash online<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"newsletter-inline\" data-newsletter hidden>\n<div class=\"newsletter-small\">\n<div class=\"inner\">\n<h1 class=\"newsletter-title\">Escape the algorithm! Get The Drop<\/h1>\n<div class=\"meta-row\">\n<p class=\"meta\">Get must-see stories direct to your inbox every weekday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/privacy-policy\" class=\"meta-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>\nPrivacy policy<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"confirmation\" aria-live=\"polite\">\n<p class=\"confirmation-title\">Thank you. You have been subscribed<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/privacy-policy\" class=\"meta-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>\nPrivacy policy<br \/>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<div class=\"article-body wrapper\">\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html\">\n<p><span>It has been six years since <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/phoebe-bridgers\">Phoebe Bridgers<\/a> released her last solo album. The monumental <\/span><em><span>Punisher<\/span><\/em><span>, released in the early days of the pandemic, soundtracked an indescribable period of mourning, political failure, death, and transformation. A fitting album title for a time where it felt like we were all being punished for something we could never be forgiven for. As music critic <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/reviews\/albums\/phoebe-bridgers-punisher\/\">Sam Sodomsky<\/a> so aptly put it: \u201cThe California native writes songs for moments when things fall apart, when language fails.\u201d Her new album, <em>Lost Weekend<\/em>, exists in a context no less volatile and apocalyptic.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In the six years between the release of <\/span><em><span>Punisher<\/span><\/em><span>, Bridgers has been through a lot. Her very public relationship with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/paul-mescal\">Paul Mescal<\/a> came to an end in 2022, and in 2023 she reached the heights of success with her friends and collaborators, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/music\/article\/65848\/1\/lucy-dacus-boygenius-ankles-fame-death-and-blowing-up-your-life\">Lucy Dacus<\/a> and Julien Baker, who together form Boygenius, and their Grammy Award-winning debut album <\/span><em><span>The Record<\/span><\/em><span>. But with success comes the enemy of so many artists: fame. In that same year, Bridger\u2019s father, with whom she had a complex relationship, died. She called out \u2018fans\u2019 who bullied her on the way to her dad\u2019s funeral in an interview with <\/span><em><span>Them<\/span><\/em><span>: \u201cI, at one of the lowest points of my life, saw people who claim to love me fucking dehumanize me and shame me and fucking bully me on the way to my dad\u2019s wake.\u201d During this time, Bridgers disappeared from public life, deeply perturbed by the intense loss of privacy her newfound fame had brought.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Life is just a series of ups and downs until you die, and <\/span><em><span>Lost Weekend <\/span><\/em><span>depicts that non-linearity with precision and honesty. The album is not just mournfully sad \u2013 it is accepting of what life has to offer, and hopeful too. On one of my favourite tracks on the album, \u201cHaunted\u201d, Bridgers belts: \u201c<\/span><em><span>My heart is growing either way<\/span><\/em><span>\u201d. This feels impossible after loss, but it is true. You will love and feel joy again, despite it all.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>With collaborators like Jack Antonoff, Alex G, Blake Mills, Conor Oberst, Christian Lee Hutson, her boyfriend Bo Burnham, her pug and many more, <\/span><em><span>Lost Weekend<\/span><\/em><span> is Bridger\u2019s best album to date. To celebrate the release of her third studio album, we revisited Bridger&#8217;s previous work to rank her saddest tracks.<\/span><\/p>\n<h1>9. \u201cI KNOW THE END\u201d<\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"src-youtube video-container embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"media-youtube\" data-id=\"WJ9-xN6dCW4\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen frameborder height=\"422\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WJ9-xN6dCW4\" webkitallowfullscreen width=\"750\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html\">\n<p><span>While I fought for the inclusion of \u201cI Know the End\u201d here, I have my doubts. Is it really best described as <em>sad<\/em>? I find it euphoric, transcendent, and strangely hopeful for a song about the end of the world. My colleague Halima Jibril initially framed this list as \u201cthe Phoebe Bridgers tracks that most make you want to die\u201d, and it doesn\u2019t make me feel like that at all \u2014 it makes me want to pack it all in, pile my possessions into a truck and set out for a new life in rural Montana. But then there\u2019s the achingly downbeat first half; lyrics like \u201cyou have to go, I know, I know, I know\u2026\u201d and the apocalyptic final note, as the horns sound, Bridgers starts to scream and it all descends into chaos. And while I\u2019m sorry for regurgitating the message of Pixar\u2019s <\/span><em><span>Inside Out<\/span><\/em><span>, sadness does often come alongside moments of epiphany and resolve (\u201c<\/span><em><span>either way, we\u2019re not alone, I\u2019ll find a new place to be from.<\/span><\/em><span>\u201d) Unlike some sad songs, \u201cI Know the End\u201d is, for me, less about the crash-out and more about what comes after. It is also among the most vivid and evocative depictions of the US released this century, or ever \u2013 no-one else could make the prospect of listening to Kid Rock on a long car drive sound so beautiful. <em>(JG)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<h1>8. \u201cNEVER GOING BACK AGAIN!\u201d\u00a0<\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"src-youtube video-container embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"media-youtube\" data-id=\"LfkRHwwbYCk\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen frameborder height=\"422\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LfkRHwwbYCk\" webkitallowfullscreen width=\"750\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html\">\n<p><span>There are several devastating tracks on <em>Lost Weekend<\/em>, an album about death, the end of things and their beginnings. But \u201cNever Going Back Again!\u201d left me speechless upon my first listen. The haunting, melodic echoes of Bridger\u2019s voice chanting &#8220;never going back again, the way it used to be is not the way it is&#8221; are immediately juxtaposed with the dynamic folk arrangement in the middle of the song. At first, it feels like a song mourning that things are fundamentally different than they were before, and then it celebrates and revels in that difference. It is the ending of the song that shows you just how complicated these feelings are, when over an instrumental banjo, a sweet voicemail of Bridger\u2019s late father is played. The man who loved her and hurt her again and again. <\/span><em><span>(HJ)<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<h1><span>7. \u201cGRACELAND TOO\u201d<\/span><\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"src-youtube video-container embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"media-youtube\" data-id=\"cTG0dakpDko\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen frameborder height=\"422\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cTG0dakpDko\" webkitallowfullscreen width=\"750\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html\">\n<p>If I were to imagine what would soundtrack a road trip through America at 4am, prompted by a mind-melting breakdown, \u201cGraceland Too\u201d would be the only song that feels right. As the tenth track on Punisher, the opening line <em>&#8220;No longer a danger to herself or others \/ She made up her mind and laced up her shoes\u201d<\/em>, was allegedly inspired by Boygenius\u2019 bandmate Julien Baker and her experiences in rehab. Baker, who grew up in Bartlett, Tennesse, close to Elvis Presley\u2019s Graceland home in Memphis, also sings on the track with Lucy Dacus. There are obviously infinite songs about loving someone with mental health issues, but I find hearing Baker\u2019s soft vocals harmonise with her bandmates on a song about her own suffering so beautiful and different. The line: <em>\u201cshe said she knows she lived through it to get to this moment, ate a sleeve of saltines on my floor in my room\u201d<\/em> has always been a reminder to me that sometimes there\u2019s no pinnacle of \u201chealing\u201d, but it\u2019s still possible in the most mundane moments, like sitting on the floor of your best friend\u2019s room, to remember why life is worth it. <em>(HD)<\/em><\/p>\n<h1>6. \u201cCHINESE SATELLITE\u201d<\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"src-youtube video-container embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"media-youtube\" data-id=\"i63yumCNdJs\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen frameborder height=\"422\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/i63yumCNdJs\" webkitallowfullscreen width=\"750\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html\">\n<p><span>There\u2019s a kind of devastating existentialism you can find yourself falling into every few years when you think about your life. \u2018Is this all there is?\u2019 I asked myself a few months ago when I fell into depression. The only song I listened to at that time was \u201cChinese Satellite\u201d. In an interview with <\/span><em><span>Pitchfork<\/span><\/em><span>, Bridgers explains that the song is about her lack of faith and how desperately she wants to believe in something but can\u2019t. \u201cIf I\u2019m being honest, this song is about turning 11 and not getting a letter from Hogwarts, just realising that nobody\u2018s going to save me from my life, nobody\u2019s going to wake me up and be like, \u2018Hey, just kidding. Actually, it\u2018s really a lot more special than this, and you\u2018re special.\u2019 No, I\u2019m going to be the way that I am forever.\u201d I remember feeling similarly as a child, as a teen and as an adult. There\u2019s something more going on in this life, right? There has to be. The devastation in this track is just how desperate she is to know, but ultimately knowing that there\u2019s nothing. \u201c<\/span><em><span>I want to believe \/ instead I look at the sky and feel nothing<\/span><\/em><span>\u201d. <\/span><em><span>(HJ)<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<h1>5. \u201cPUNISHER\u201d<\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"src-youtube video-container embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"media-youtube\" data-id=\"ncSf8Nk3aq4\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen frameborder height=\"422\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ncSf8Nk3aq4\" webkitallowfullscreen width=\"750\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html\">\n<p><span>The titular track of Bridgers\u2019 sophomore record, <\/span><em><span>Punisher<\/span><\/em>,<span> is a self-effacing, tentative ode to her primary musical inspiration, the late Elliott Smith. Consistently surprising and ambiguous, the song doesn\u2019t just wash over you; it submerges you. A stream-of-consciousness confessional aimed directly at her muse, the chorus comes in the form of a question, which sums it all up: <\/span><em><span>\u2018What if I told you \/ I feel like I know you? But we never met\u2019. <\/span><\/em><span>Not an expression of grief, it speaks to something more torturous \u2013 helpless longing. An eerie dreamscape of wispy backing vocals, floating strings and muted keys capture this potently. The song ends similarly, as we see the \u2018punishing\u2019 effect Bridgers\u2019 idolising has on her. Not only does she realise she\u2019s simply a cheap imitation of Smith \u2013 <\/span><em><span>\u2018A copycat killer with a chemical cut\u2019<\/span><\/em><span> \u2013 but that if they could meet, she\u2019d ruin it: <\/span><em><span>\u2018Wouldn\u2019t know where to start \/ Wouldn\u2019t know where to stop\u2019.<\/span><\/em><span> I won\u2019t say the track feels exactly sad, but empty; doomed. <\/span><em><span>(SMC)<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<h1><span>4. \u201cWAITING ROOM\u201d<\/span><\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"src-youtube video-container embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"media-youtube\" data-id=\"VUOwg6nhuzA\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen frameborder height=\"422\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VUOwg6nhuzA\" webkitallowfullscreen width=\"750\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html\">\n<p><span>It\u2019s the innocence of \u201cWaiting Room\u201d that makes me tear up every time I hear it. Written when she was 16, Bridgers strums her guitar while delivering simple, searingly sincere lyricism that only a young girl in unrequited love could produce. The utter desperation of one particular line, though, is what hits me the hardest even now: \u201c<\/span><em><span>Wanna make you fall in love as hard as my poor parents\u2019 teenage daughter \/ She\u2019ll be the best you ever had if you let her\u201d<\/span><\/em><span>. Wise beyond her years, Bridgers articulates the agony of having a crush more precisely than most adults. And as she attempts to move on, accepting <\/span><em><span>\u2018it\u2019s for the better<\/span><\/em><span>\u2019, the song comes to its bittersweet climax, featuring resounding chords that feel like the final moments in a coming-of-age film. So much more than sad, the ballad is a winding sucker punch straight to your gut \u2013 and heart. <\/span><em><span>(SMC)<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<h1><span>3. \u201cSCOTT STREET\u201d<\/span><\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"src-youtube video-container embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"media-youtube\" data-id=\"W-Khe7DInxo\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen frameborder height=\"422\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/W-Khe7DInxo\" webkitallowfullscreen width=\"750\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html\">\n<p><span>\u201cScott Street\u201d is an anthem for being, like, 23 years old and thinking that you\u2019re soooo washed, your youth is gone and your best days are behind you (which, happily, isn\u2019t actually true!). Bittersweet and wistful, it feels like taking a stroll past an old uni house or through the park in your hometown where you first drank Glen\u2019s vodka and fell in love. In one of my favourite lines, \u201c<em>I asked \u2018how is your sister? I heard she got her degree\u2019\/ I said \u2018that makes me feel old\u2019\/ you said \u2018what does that make me\u2019?<\/em>\u201d, it captures the hyper-specific realisation that someone you know\u2019s younger sibling, who you remember as a child, is now a fully-formed person \u2013 surely that can\u2019t possibly be the case!? It\u2018s a deliciously, exquisitely poignant song , which reminds us that sometimes you just have to lean into the existential terror of the passing of time. <\/span><em><span>(JG)<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<h1><span>2. \u201cMOON SONG\u201d<\/span><\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"src-youtube video-container embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"media-youtube\" data-id=\"DXqZ66XK3z8\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen frameborder height=\"422\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DXqZ66XK3z8\" webkitallowfullscreen width=\"750\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html\">\n<p><span>There\u2019s a fan-made YouTube video titled \u201cPhoebe Bridgers songs, but they get sadder\u201d and (rightfully IMO) \u201cMoon Song\u201d is the track that finishes it out. The song dwells on the misery of loving someone when you know you\u2019re giving them far more than they\u2019re giving back, but still finding yourself willing to hand over whatever they\u2019ll take. With lyrics like \u201c<\/span><em><span>But you&#8217;re holdin&#8217; me like water in your hands<\/span><\/em><span>\u201d and \u201c<\/span><em><span>And now my feet can&#8217;t touch the bottom of you<\/span><\/em><span>\u201d, this is a heartbreak anthem for when you\u2019re still in the relationship, but one without the usual fiery bridge or biting lyrical hindsight to pull you out of it. Instead, the song leaves you there, heart cracked open and drowning in your own love that has nowhere else to go. <\/span><em><span>(T)<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<h1>1. \u201cFUNERAL\u201d<\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"src-youtube video-container embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"media-youtube\" data-id=\"jcq5NlYz1PU\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen frameborder height=\"422\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jcq5NlYz1PU\" webkitallowfullscreen width=\"750\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html\">\n<p><span>A standout track from Bridgers\u2019 2017 album <\/span><em><span>Stranger in the Alps<\/span><\/em><span>, \u201cFuneral\u201d is about attending the funeral of \u201c<\/span><em><span>a kid a year older than me<\/span><\/em><span>\u201d. Already a brutally depressing premise for a track, the song dwells on the complicated emotions that come rushing in when you\u2018re grieving. The song\u2019s stripped-back production gives Bridgers\u2019 guttingly honest lyricism plenty of room to breathe, as she confronts self-loathing, loss of innocence and the uncomfortable guilt of remaining consumed by her own depression while grieving someone who never got the chance to grow up. <\/span><em><span>(T)<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"newsletter-inline-last\">\n<div class=\"newsletter-small\">\n<div class=\"inner\">\n<h1 class=\"newsletter-title\">Escape the algorithm! 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