On the night of February 6th, 2021, a clip of a young rockstar smashing their guitar on live TV went viral for all the wrong reasons. It wasn’t old footage of Kurt Cobain or Pete Townshend or Jimi Hendrix, but a young woman called Phoebe Bridgers, who a lot of commenters had not heard of but were furious with for being so insolent.
26-year-old Bridgers, who recently released her critically acclaimed second album , closed out her first performance by giving a monitor speaker a beating with her guitar. Now, obviously, this act of violence was premeditated. Sparks flew from the floor monitor
