That said, for some reason her music just never seemed to click with me.
I am not saying I dislike her music, and if I could explain it better I would, but there's something about her music that just does not resonate with me even though everything else about her says that I should like her music, that I should be a fan of hers. I like strong, independent women who are singer/songwriters; in my defense I point to my love of Nina Nastasia, Fiona Apple, Ela Minus, Annie Lennox, Lady Gaga, Pink, Billie Eilish, Loretta Lynn, etc., etc., etc...
Again, as I said, I respect her. I have listened to many of her hit songs and as much as I wanted them to resonate with me they just didn't.
I even listened to the Boy Genius super-group she formed, and again, everything on paper said that I should like them, but again, nothing.
To be clear, I didn't dislike her music; at no point did I ever think, "this is shit, I don't want to hear this again." I mean, she's not the Eagles/Journey/Imagine Dragons.
I just felt nothing.
But then sometime in the last week or so my daughter sent me this track. She asked me if I liked Phoebe Bridgers and I gave her a far shorter version of what I wrote above (that I should like her but for some reaon just didn't).
Reader, my daughter has done what I did not think was possible: she got me to like Phoebe Bridgers. Now I get it, I do, I really do, I get Phoebe Bridgers, or at least, this song, but this track, yeah, it's good, it's really fucking good.
Does this mean that the scales have fallen from my eyes (ears) and I'll now be able to appreciate all of Ms. Bridgers' ouevre?
Time will tell, but I like this song so very much.
I love my daughter and I love that now that she's in her 20s she still shares music with me. Maybe that has something to do with why I like this song, but does that matter? Who cares about the why?
Because when it's all said and done, I know the end.
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