How Phoebe Bridgers found 'fun in the darkness'
LOS ANGELES — The first time Phoebe Bridgers went to Coachella — and the second and third time too — she went with her mother.
Bridgers, born and raised in Pasadena, was in high school then, a pale whisper of a punk girl who had yet to get her ears pierced. That was until one fateful Coachella in 2011, when, on a whim, she dyed her hair electric pink, then goaded her mom, Jamie, to take her to get pierced at a Claire's at the mall in Palm Desert. She elbowed her way to the front during the Crystal Castles set, and thrashed next to singer Alice Glass in a mosh pit as her mom nodded along from the outskirts of the crowd.
"My mom had a great time," says Bridgers, now 27. "It was so 2011. I wore these bedazzled hot pants and combat boots. My hair was dyed pink, my hands were dyed pink. I've been on a lot of worst-dressed lists [since], but I think it's something I'm proud of now."
Bridgers will return to debut on Coachella's main stage on Friday, this time as a four-time Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter. An intimate, folk-macabre history of emotional turmoil, her sophomore album "Punisher" — which earned her nominations in 2021 for best new artist, alternative music album, as well as
