“I’m not afraid of anything at all,” Phoebe Bridgers sings to open her latest single, “Sidelines”. Something of an opposite, if you will, to Modest Mouse’s “Shit Luck”, she simply drifts through potential tragedy to the next, unconcerned. Unconcerned, that is, until someone enters her life worth caring for.
Written for Hulu series Conversations with Friends, it finds Bridgers at her most reliably emotive. Listen to it below.