Phoebe Bridgers, rock star, smashed her guitar on 'SNL' and Twitter has thoughts
On Saturday night, Phoebe Bridgers made the most of her rock star moment.
In her first Saturday Night Live appearance, Bridgers capped off her two-song performance with an appropriately epic finish. As she and her band barreled through "I Know the End," off the 2020 album Punisher, the American singer-songwriter smashed the shit out of her guitar.
In a moment of beautiful chaos, Bridgers confidently joined the likes of Jimi Hendrix, Keith Moon, and Jerry Lee Lewis as she turned her musical outlet into a violent expression of raw emotion. Notably, "I Know the End" is a song about depression, loss, and leaving home. It ends in screams and noise, a dissonant cacaphony of sound that lends itself perfectly to the sparks that flew as Bridgers struck a stage monitor again and again with her axe.
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As is so often the case when something happens, the people of Twitter were left with things to say. A lot of it is either general praise for Bridgers' appearance or good-to-great jokes about the smashed guitar. Bridgers even shared a few of those herself.
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As is always the case in our modern and fully connected world, there were sticks in the mud, too. People who, for one reason or another felt that Bridgers went too far. Which is of course ridiculous on its face for anyone who has even a passing familiarity with rock history.
But in a happy twist, and since a smashed guitar moment is never not epic, the naysayers simply created fodder for more good jokes.
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Phoebe Bridgers, please go ahead and smash all the guitars you want (not that you need anyone's permission). It's never not badass and most of us love to see it.
Adam Rosenberg is a Senior Games Reporter for Mashable, where he plays all the games. Every single one. From AAA blockbusters to indie darlings to mobile favorites and browser-based oddities, he consumes as much as he can, whenever he can.Adam brings more than a decade of experience working in the space to the Mashable Games team. He previously headed up all games coverage at Digital Trends, and prior to that was a long-time, full-time freelancer, writing for a diverse lineup of outlets that includes Rolling Stone, MTV, G4, Joystiq, IGN, Official Xbox Magazine, EGM, 1UP, UGO and others.Born and raised in the beautiful suburbs of New York, Adam has spent his life in and around the city. He's a New York University graduate with a double major in Journalism and Cinema Studios. He's also a certified audio engineer. Currently, Adam resides in Crown Heights with his dog and his partner's two cats. He's a lover of fine food, adorable animals, video games, all things geeky and shiny gadgets.
