Emily

curated by Phoebe Bridgers for Apple Music (St. Valentine’s Day 2021)

Life is the thing you bring with you inside your head. (Normal People, Conversations With Friends, Beautiful World Where Are You, Mr Salary, Marianne Sheridan, Connell Waldron, Simon, Felix, Alice, Frances, Bobbi, Nick, Eileen)

Perfection is not just about control. It’s about letting go.

i’ve been careless with a delicate man

cigarettes after sex season is upon us

(nu) metal, gothic rock, psychedelic rock, grunge, post punk, art rock, alt metal, experimental

my cazzie heart

In the crooks of your body, I find my religion.

be quiet. i’m manifesting phoebe x taylor

marc jacobs, sundresses and praying at the altar of the lisbon sisters

i’ll show you every version of yourself tonight.

useless magic

august rain: the best of the summer gone, and the new fall not yet born. the odd uneven time.

unreleased + demos and snippets

know it’s for the better ad infinitum

“I love you.” It’ll pass.

songs that are safe (read: socially acceptable) to play when passed the aux

it’s hard to be anywhere when all i want is you

there are things i want to say to you

What cannot be said, will be wept.

and all the young things line up to take your place

these evoke such a physical reaction from me aka repressed trauma from winter 2020

november 21 rotation (prepare for emotional whiplash)

these shaped me as an adolescent

when she jumped, she probably thought she’d fly.

songs to kill boys to

like i do

- blanche dubois in tennessee williams’ ‘a streetcar named desire’ (1952)

like a fuckin’ dream i’m livin’ in

saddest lana songs (incl. is this happiness, cherry blossom, fine china, pawn shop blues, goodbye kiss)

this one has no coherency but enjoy

radiohead best of

starring my wife aka olivia scott welch

why am i regressing ?

i knew you’d linger like a tattoo kiss, i knew you’d haunt all my what-ifs

you only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves

my heart tore open on the walk over

you want to die but you know you won’t

It’s not like this with other people.

whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it

if you hold me without hurting me, you’ll be the first who ever did.

did you ever hear about the girl who got frozen? time went on for everybody else, she won't know it, she’s still 23 inside her fantasy

Did you kiss me, just to kiss me?

indie/bedroom pop

basic bitch albums

you drew stars around my scars, but now i’m bleeding

i’m coming for you emma and tunde | a mix of pop bops, 90s alt rock, classic rock, indie rock, edm, y2k bangers, and hip hop

I was supposed to be having the time of my life.

audrey hope supremacy

i think of love, and you, and my heart grows full and warm, and my breath stands still

rip 2013-2017 me

- Ladybird (2017). Songs that make you want to live and die simultaneously

- Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights

no but like an actual heatwave

We are stardust, we are golden and we've got to get ourselves back to the garden.

- daisy buchanan in f. scott fitzgerald’s the great gatsby (1925)

yes i blame everything on astrology

the brain is a monstrous, beautiful mess - susannah cahalan

yes, this is inspired by the bridge in out of the woods

watch out, boy, she’ll chew you up, she’s a maneater

emma woodhouse in jane austen’s ‘emma’ (1815)

let’s embrace the point of no return

Angry girl music of the indie rock genre

the albums and eps that shaped me

all children have to be deceived if they are to grow up without trauma - ishiguro

for courting

i will do anything

this could be the soundtrack to an indies 2000s romantic drama

You think I'm pretty and you like the way I talk

HAPPY PRIDE

psyche revived by cupid's kiss

- Leo Tolstoy’s War and Peace

for the agnostics and athesists - who needs sunday service?

Our Summer made her light escape / Into the Beautiful.- Emily Dickinson

when the flowers we’d grown together died of thirst

emotional detachment and a desire to never commit

got my roller blades and mini skirt on !

gordita

“I could drink a case of you.”

- Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina

songs that make me believe in love - Love Story, Erich Segal (1970)

- the second mrs de winter in daphne du maurier’s ‘rebecca’ (1938)

the essentials

Her best songs- i will be taking no criticism

I don’t know her

sept 20

maladaptive daydreaming to marry into the kennedys

you know that I’m not

sad songs, but exclusively Lana

EMMA. (2020)

i am the product of unsupervised internet access

- Nothing But Thieves

eco king ♻️