The Next Great American Songwriter Would Prefer to Stay Home
The Atlantic · 13 Aug 2026

The Next Great American Songwriter Would Prefer to Stay Home

Phoebe Bridgers’s new record is heavy with post-pandemic disappointment. One of the coronavirus pandemic’s many terrible legacies is the slow smothering of ambition in popular culture. In the depths of the crisis, media—music, movies, and all the rest—were widely hailed as a “balm” for anxieties and


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