Phoebe Bridgers led fans around a roller-skating rink at a recent ‘Lost Weekend’ listening party.
The singer-songwriter’s third studio album arrived on Friday (August 14), and before then, she spent time with fans at a listening party held at the Moonlight Rollerway in Glendale on Tuesday night (August 11), in what was a triumphant outing not just for her latest release, but also her skating skills.
As one fan wrote on Reddit after the event: “She was skating right with everyone, and if you could match her speed then you could say hello, but she is FAST so it may have been a bit difficult.”
Her speed seemed slightly incongruous to the sound of the 16-track offering, which NME described as ‘candid [and] gut-punching”, and Bridgers herself did acknowledge there was a “weird” juxtaposition there.
“I’ve had this idea forever” she said to the crowd of about 200 sitting on the rink’s floor for a Q&A, per Variety. “I always thought it would be cool to do like a Grouper Moonlight night. You always kind of skate to ABBA or something. I thought it would be interesting to listen to sad and slow songs and skate.”
