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fries are sacred but ppl are weird about toppings. ketchup's classic but vinegar freaks me out mayo fans exist. cheese is extra. tbh what do you actually reach for?
Best condiment for fries: fight me?
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Poppy Burton
Ted Danson has said he will be apologising for “the rest of my life” after appearing in blackface at a 1993 Whoopi Goldberg Friars Club roast.
The Curb Your Enthusiasm actor appeared on Wednesday’s (June 3) episode of W. Kamau Bell’s Who’s With Me? podcast, and said he needed and wanted to make amends, “because somebody today can go on the internet and go, ‘What the fuck? Wow, I feel betrayed, I feel angry.’ And I did that.”
Danson’s speech at the event, which drew instantaneous backlash from those in attendance, including from public figures like former New York City Mayor David Dinkins, took place while he and Goldberg were having an affair and included racial slurs and jokes about their sex life.
Shedding further light on the incident, he explained that their relationship was coming to an end, and while he had tried to get out of the roast, the Friars Club said they would sue. Laughing while recalling the story, Danson said it was because they had “sold so many tickets”.
“I will explain what was going on in my head, not as an excuse,” he went on. “My brain was going, ‘OK, here is one of the most outrageous, funny Black women in the world’. And I’m supposed to be roasting her, and I’m not a stand-up, I can’t run with the bulls.
“So I was like, ‘What am I gonna do?’ And then I thought, ‘Well I can do performance theatre.’ I looked at all these tapes and it’s like, ‘Well if I were Black, I could say all these outrageous things’. I’m not; [but] then my mind went, ‘I will do it in blackface and that will be funny or not, but it will be like, ‘I have license now.’”
And he said that he “kind of latched on” to something Goldberg had previously said about not caring if people use the N-word because people didn’t have to “use nasty language” to be racist.
“I thought I could pull this off,” he added. “There’s no one been whiter than me in the world. That I thought that this white guy could have something valuable to say about race and race relations was so stupid and entitled.”
During his months of working on the bit, he ran it past Goldberg, he recalled, but suggested that she didn’t want to step on his creativity. The negative reaction was instant: “Within 20 seconds,” he said, “I was like, ‘I stuck my finger in a light socket.’
“Twenty percent of the crowd gets this and thinks it’s pretty cool and gets it. Thirty percent of the crowd gets it and fucking hates it. Fifty percent of the crowd didn’t get it and fucking hated it and hated me. And I kept going,” Danson recalled, adding that when he returned to his hotel he had to get on the phone with Mayor Dinkins.
“My poor manager said he couldn’t open the door into his hotel room because there were so many messages stuck under the door,” said Danson, whose justification was that he knew what his intention has been.
However, he said the impact he had on people is what mattered. “And if you haven’t thought through that, then you need to. I thought I could run with the big boys, and I couldn’t. And it was stupid, and it was not my place, and it was wrong and it was hurtful. So I apologize again to anyone who’s listening, that I was arrogant enough to think that I had something to offer.”
Back in 1993, Goldberg told The New York Times the situation “caused great hurt to a man who doesn’t deserve it.”
On the podcast, Danson offered another apology to Goldberg, saying: “Poor Whoopi Goldberg has had to defend me over the years, sweetly and gracefully. So the last thing she probably wants to do is be put in this position again.”
He went on to say that after clips of the routine surfaced during the Black Lives Matter movement, he “got dropped a little bit from some corporate things”, and was “scared” as a result.
Jane Fonda then connected him with The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together author Heather McGhee, who helped him reflect on his actions: “She wasn’t giving me a pass,” he explained. “She was saying, ‘This is an opportunity that I hope you take.'”
Bell said that he had asked Danson if there was anything he didn’t want to talk about and gave him “credit” for speaking about the blackface incident.
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like seriously i keep accidentally leaving my mug on top of my tower and its always lukewarm by the time i remember it ... wouldnt it be genius if cases came with a little heated pad or something for your coffee?? ngl obvs itd need safeties so you dont fry your pc but cmon thats the dream!! id pay extra for that feature tbh
also unrelated but does anyone know if those rtx 5000 series rumors are true??? i heard they might drop by q4 and im torn between upgrading now or waiting lol anyway back to coffee warmers lets make this happen people!!!
also unrelated but does anyone know if those rtx 5000 series rumors are true??? i heard they might drop by q4 and im torn between upgrading now or waiting lol anyway back to coffee warmers lets make this happen people!!!
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Laura Molloy
Florida Senator Rick Scott is urging the Tampa Sports Authority to cancel Kanye West‘s upcoming concerts in the state over “consistent anti-Semitic attacks”.
The politician shared a letter to the venue operator yesterday (June 5), arguing that it would be a “slap in the face” to allow the rapper – now known as Ye – to perform his planned gigs at Raymond James Stadium on June 26 and 29, given his history of “constant anti-Semitic attacks.”
“It is troubling that a stadium supported by taxpayer dollars would openly subsidise an event led by an artist known for pushing this dangerous, hateful rhetoric, especially with Florida having one of the largest Jewish populations in our country,” Scott wrote in the letter.
The senator points specifically to instances in which West “openly praised Nazis, called himself one, and slandered Jews across the world,” as well as when he sold white T-shirts emblazoned with black swastikas on his website. “West’s remarks are vile and a slap in the face to our state’s Jewish community,” Scott said.
Scott also cited recent backlash to West’s returning to the stage as a reason why the gigs should be cancelled. “West has been condemned by political figures across the political aisle. His outbursts and hate have helped to mainstream antisemitism,” Scott said. “He was recently barred from performing in the United Kingdom due to offensive antisemitic remarks.”
“I am confident that the Tampa Sports Authority will continue fostering a safe and inclusive community, especially for Jewish Floridians,” Scott wrote. “No taxpayer dollars should be used to give a vocal anti-Semite a stage in Florida, and I am sure that you will take appropriate action to make sure that doesn’t happen.”
However, it appears that the show will go ahead as planned. The Tampa Sports Authority issued the following statement in response to Scott: “We recognise the concerns and viewpoints being expressed about the upcoming events at Raymond James Stadium. As a public agency, we follow the principles of free speech in operating our venue, although we do not condone remarks or actions from any artists that are offensive and divisive,” as per Rolling Stone.
It comes after the rapper claimed to have broken a record with his recent gig at Istanbul’s Atatürk Olympic Stadium, which reportedly drew a crowd of 118,000. He has claimed it was the largest stadium performance in history.
Ye was set to perform further solo shows in Switzerland, Poland, France, and London on the European tour, but all have been cancelled, with the trek marred by continued backlash in the wake of anti-Semitic comments made by the ‘Bully’ artist in recent years.
Initially, his booking to headline all three nights of London’s Wireless Festival sparked an enormous backlash given his previous anti-Semitic comments and proclamations that he saw “good things about Hitler”.
Prime Minister Keir Starmer was among those to criticise the slot, several sponsors cut their ties with the festival, and the UK Home Office ultimately blocked Ye from being allowed into the country, while Wireless eventually announced that they had cancelled their entire 2026 event.
The rapper shared a fresh apology for some of his previous remarks shortly before Wireless was axed, and later addressed the criticism in an update to his Wall Street Journal “to those I’ve hurt” letter, which he originally shared in January.
However, a handful of gigs on the tour will go ahead, including one in Albania and two recently confirmed gigs in the Netherlands.
West’s history of making antisemitic remarks dates back to 2022, when he made a series of offensive comments on social media. Those comments saw his accounts on both Instagram and Twitter suspended, and the musician was dropped by his lawyer, talent agency and record label, along with fashion brands such as Balenciaga and Adidas.
At first, West gave several interviews, refusing to apologise for making the comments while suggesting that Jewish people should “forgive Hitler”. However, in 2023, West delivered an apology to the Jewish community, going on to blame alcohol for his behaviour the following year.
In the wake of that initial apology, numerous lawsuits were filed against the rapper with claims of extensive antisemitic behaviour. One former employee alleged that the rapper said Jewish people were “working together to hold him back”.
Another former employee claimed he used antisemitic language in the workplace and praised Hitler – something for which he allegedly paid a settlement for. In 2024, a separate ex-employee accused him of being openly antisemitic in front of his staff.
West also shared a number of highly controversial posts in early 2025, when he took back an apology he previously made to the Jewish community for antisemitic remarks, and then declared himself “a Nazi”. The rapper then claimed on X/Twitter that, “after further reflection”, he’d “come to the realisation that I’m not a Nazi”, followed only a few days later by yet more swastika apparel appearing on his X page.
The Istanbul date marked the opening night of West’s first European tour in 11 years — and it came after a summer of closures across the continent. The live dates continue with a stop in Arnhem, Netherlands on June 6 and 8.
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ok so i was listening to the radio earlier and heard like three songs in a row that mentioned time or watches and it got me thinking... why is time such a big theme in music? like sure its universal and all but its not like anyone is actually listening to the lyrics about it right? or maybe they are and im just not paying attention. anyway i feel like analog watches get a bad rep in modern stuff cause everyone assumes youre either a hipster or old if you wear one but honestly theyre just better like sure your phone tells time too but its not the same vibe. also it feels weird that so many songs lean on metaphors about time running out or ticking clocks when half the time (ha) its just filler lyrics. ngl idk maybe im overthinking it but next time you hear a song about time just think about how many people are actually wearing a watch while they listen probably not many...
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James Handy, an actor who had appeared in a number of films including Top Gun: Maverick and Logan, has died at the age of 81. His girlfriend’s son was arrested and accused of murder.
A statement by the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD), shared by Variety, read: “On Wednesday June 3 2026, around 9:30 a.m., West Valley area patrol officers responded to a radio call of unknown trouble in the 19200 block of Erwin Street. The 911 caller stated, ‘I am the son of man, I just killed the man of sin.’”
It continued: “Upon their arrival, officers discovered 81-year-old James Handy in the front yard of the residence, unconscious and suffering from a stab wound to his chest. The victim was transported to local hospital by Los Angeles Fire Department paramedics, where he was pronounced deceased.
“The suspect flagged down nearby responding officers, telling them he was the one they were looking for. The suspect resides at the location with his mother, who is the victim’s girlfriend. Detectives believe this is an isolated incident and there appears to be no danger to the public at this time.”
The suspect, 44-year-old Michael Gledhill, was arrested for one count of murder with $2million bail set. A representative for the actor said: “With great sadness I can confirm that the gentleman who was attacked and killed on Wednesday in Tarzana was the actor James Handy.”
Beginning his career in 1977, Handy’s best known roles include Jimmy the bartender in Tom Cruise blockbuster Top Gun: Maverick, a doctor in 2017 Marvel hit Logan, and an exterminator in the original 1995 version of Jumanji. On TV, he played representative Joe Bruno in political drama The West Wing, Arthur Devlin in the action series Alias, and Captain Jimmy Haverill in NYPD Blue. Top Gun: Maverick would be his final acting credit.
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Spider-Noir is streaming in full now, but does Nicolas Cage’s Ben Reilly become The Spider again? Find out below.
The show is based on the Marvel Comics character Spider-Man Noir and follows Reilly, an aging private investigator and superhero in 1930s New York who grapples with his past in the aftermath of a personal tragedy.
It is set within the world of Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse, with Cage reprising his role from the 2018 film, and all eight episodes of the show are streaming now on MGM+ in the US and on Amazon Prime Video internationally.
It was developed by Oren Uziel, previously known for 22 Jump Street and The Cloverfield Paradox, and it also starred Brendan Gleeson, Lamorne Morris, Li Jun Li, Karen Rodriguez, Abraham Poppola and Jack Huston.
Watch the trailer here:
NME gave the show a three-star review, noting: “In the end, Spider-Noir may face an uphill battle for ratings – how much crossover do the modern Marvel blockbuster and pre-war crime fiction fandoms have? – but there’s a lot of fun to be had here. Much more than with any other recent Spider-Man spin-off, that’s for sure.”
The ending of Spider-Noir explained: does Ben become The Spider again?
Throughout the season, Cage’s Ben Reilly was resisting re-embracing his superhero alter ego, choosing to run from his past following the death of his girlfriend.
At the start of the finale, Brendan Gleeson’s Silvermane and his gang have captured him and his secret identity is on the verge of being exposed. Cat Hardy (Li Jun Li) reveals that she had betrayed Silvermane, however, while Robbie Robbertson (Lamorne Morris) disguises himself as The Spider to protect Ben.
Cat kills Silvermane as his mob empire collapses, while Ben faces off with the superpowered Dirk Leyden, in his persona of Megawatt, eventually throwing him into the path of an oncoming train and killing him.
Ben finally has access to the last dose of the antidote, which could let him escape the burden of The Spider for good, but instead he gives it to Flint Marko, saving him and allowing him to be with Cat.
By giving up his own chance at freedom, Ben accepts the responsibility that he had previously been resisting, and embraces his role and destiny as The Spider.
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Lorde opened her Governor’s Ball 2026 set by premiering an unreleased track – check out footage below.
The New Zealand singer made her return to the New York music event after nine years on Friday (June 5) to close out night one of the 2026 festival, telling fans: “This is the most nervous I’ve been for a show in a while, partly because we’ve never done this show before, and partly because I’m obsessed with you, and I can’t even pretend that isn’t the case.”
She kicked things off by sharing a section of an unreleased track from the side of the stage, and, from behind a synth board, she sang, “Don’t look for me now that I’m gone/ Don’t look for me, I’m gone.”
Following the live debut of the as-yet-untitled song, she launched into some of her biggest hits, including ‘Royals’, ‘What Was That’, and ‘Hammer’ – you can check out a full setlist below.
It marks her latest headlining performance, which comes after she’s spent the past several months on the ‘Ultrasound’ World Tour in support of her latest album ‘Virgin‘.
New video of Lorde performing “Don’t look for me now, I’m gone”, the new unreleased song #GovernorsBall pic.twitter.com/tRhR4YIr9M
— Lorde Haus (@LordeHaus) June 6, 2026
Lorde’s Governor’s Ball 2026 setlist was:
Unreleased track
‘Royals’
‘What Was That’
‘Broken Glass’
‘Perfect Places’
‘Shapeshifter’
‘Buzzcut Season’
‘Favourite Daughter’
‘The Louvre’
‘Current Affairs’
‘‘Hard Feelings’
‘Oceanic Feeling’
‘Liability’
‘Hammer’
‘Supercut’
‘Team’
‘Man of the Year’
‘Girl, So Confusing’
‘Green Light’
‘David’
‘Ribs’
Lorde performing her verses in “Girl, So Confusing (remix)” live at Governor’s Ball in NYC
Via lordewaterbottle (Instagram) pic.twitter.com/XfWba3A8rI
— Lorde Haus (@LordeHaus) June 6, 2026
Lorde performing “Perfect Places” live at Governor’s Ball in New York City
Via DAZED MAGAZINE (Instagram) pic.twitter.com/I6QnakAiFo
— Lorde Haus (@LordeHaus) June 6, 2026
Lorde performing “Supercut” live at Governor’s Ball in New York City
Via DAZED MAGAZINE (Instagram) pic.twitter.com/FYDz1G2Ocs
— Lorde Haus (@LordeHaus) June 6, 2026
“Don’t you feel like so much has changed in the last nine years?” Lorde told the crowd at one point, reflecting on how she last played Gov Ball when she was promoting ‘Melodrama’.
“To me, the world is unrecognisable compared to where we were in 2017. There’s a loss of dignity that I feel. Our world feels increasingly unjust. And it feels harder and harder to arrive at your own definitions of beauty and truth and what is real. But I really feel this is real, all of us in this field.”
She then encouraged the New York audience to embrace authenticity, saying: “If we show ourselves, all the broken bits, all the jagged edges, all the filth, I really believe we will start fucking going somewhere.”
The penultimate song of the set was ‘David’ which Lorde dedicated to “anyone who knows what it’s like to be under a boot”. As she sang, a huge banner unfurled over the crowd bearing the message: “I don’t belong to anyone.”
"I don’t belong to anyone"
Independent artist @lorde’s giant banner at Governors Ball nyc. This was feed out by her crew for fans to hold aloft during 'David'. For fans underneath it’s semi-transparent
[: @steamrollersue, annasontour TT, jenniferthatjennifer TT] #GovBall pic.twitter.com/IWCCpm0chV
— Lorde fix
(@Lorde_fix) June 6, 2026
‘Virgin’, which was released last June, was given a four-star review by NME, which read: “‘Virgin’ is a vibrant combination of Lorde’s best qualities, and then some.
“With her newfound candour, the record combines the emotional whirlwind of ‘Melodrama’, the chilling minimalism of ‘Pure Heroine’ and the breezy freedom of ‘Solar Power’. This might be called ‘Virgin’, but Lorde proves she’s not afraid to strip herself bare.”
In other news, the pop star is a headliner for All Points East 2026 in London. The line-up also includes PinkPantheress, Zara Larsson and more as support.
Elsewhere, Lorde has donated over $200,000 from merch sales to Minnesota immigrant funds.
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M.I.A has spoken out about being cut from Kid Cudi‘s tour.
Cudi, real name Scott Ramon Seguro Mescudi, announced last month that he had dropped the British singer and rapper from his ongoing ‘Rebel Ragers’ Tour, saying that he was “flooded with messages from fans” who had complained about statements she’d made while opening for him during the first two shows of his tour.
M.I.A then filed a lawsuit against Cudi, suing him for for $2.8million and claiming that he knew her reputation and political stance before inviting her on the tour. She also alleged that she was told that she could say whatever she wanted on stage.
Now, M.I.A has shared more details of her side of the story on The New York Times’ Popcast, in her first interview since being removed from the tour.
The singer has claimed she has never spoken to Cudi about the decision, despite making attempts to communicate with him. She said she actually found out she had been dropped from the tour through her son, who saw Cudi’s statement online.
“He didn’t even speak to me about it,” she began. “He didn’t call my management, he didn’t call me, he didn’t talk to the crew and I even made an effort to go and talk to him and he didn’t see me. Yeah, it was kind of crazy. My son is like, ‘Hey, I heard you’re not on the tour.’”
M.I.A. continued: “That’s how I found out, from a different state and my son called me from school. I was like, ‘What are you talking about?’ And then he sent me the post.”
The musician then went on to blame the media for running with an allegedly false narrative that she’s a Trump supporter and Republican voter.
“That’s not what’s going on. That is what the media wrote as what’s going on. That was the perception that was generated and fanned and algorithmized to cement a narrative,” she stated. “The narrative is that is a Brown woman who is an immigrant and no matter what Americans think about that, they could never remove that.”
According to reports from the time, she was booed by the crowd in Dallas after saying she had been “cancelled for many reasons”, adding: “I never thought I would be cancelled for being a brown Republican voter”. Consequence also reports that she made some comments that were interpreted by some as being about immigrants, but the singer said it was a reference to her song “ILLYGIRL.”
From there, Cudi shared a statement claiming that he agreed with M.I.A ahead of the shows that there would not be anything offensive said at the shows, and claimed that it was “very disappointing” to have to drop her from the tour.
“I won’t have someone on my tour making offensive remarks that upsets my fanbase,” he said.
Soon afterwards, M.I.A took to X to respond to the decision, seemingly walking back on her comments about voting by saying that she hasn’t voted as “my team hasn’t gotten visas yet”.
M.I.A. has received backlash for a number of controversial statements in recent years. These include comparing InfoWars host Alex Jones’s falsehoods about the Sandy Hook shooting to celebrities “pushing” COVID-19 vaccines. She later clarified her stance on COVID vaccines, saying she’s “not really” an anti-vaxxer.
Ahead of the 2024 election, M.I.A. threw her weight behind Trump’s campaign, saying he would “ride America through the most challenging four years”, adding that “RFK will inherit America when God is ready to replant and rebuild it righteously”.
She released her new album ‘M.I.7’ earlier this year, and announced alongside it a new clothing range that blocks 10G – the latest in her own Ohmni clothing brand.
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Lizzo appears to have addressed criticism from Nicki Minaj on the alternate edition of her new album, ‘Bitch’.
- READ MORE: Lizzo – ‘Special’ review: joyful superstar uplifts with self-assured, self-empowering bops
The Grammy and Emmy award-winning artist’s third studio album was released yesterday (June 5). Shortly after the project’s arrival, she also shared an alternate version of the album’s title track, which seems to see her taking aim at Minaj.
Lizzo reposted a screenshot of a tweet that Minaj had shared back in February, where she mocked Lizzo’s weight loss and upcoming album.
“Fat Lizzo lost 300 lbs just to sell 300 albums,” Minaj wrote at the time alongside a photo of a Chucky doll. “So now she has loose skin AND a flop album, AND a weird charge. Sheesh.”
Responding yesterday, Lizzo put the audio of the remixed version of the album’s title track over the screenshot, alongside the caption: “Since I’m blocked.”
“Used to be the biggest fan, then I lost weight/Wait, wait, let me fixate,” she raps. “Paid to keep the peace, I don’t even like beef/Crazy thing is you knew me you would like/ I’m praying for our sisters, I want to see us all in our bag.”
It comes after Lizzo recently hit back at fans accusing her of throwing shade at Taylor Swift, insisting that she’s “never talked shit about any artist”.
In other news, Lizzo has hit out at “racist” and “fatphobic” algorithms for “destroying the music industry” and hampering her album promotion.
‘Bitch’ follows on from 2022’s ‘Special’. In a four-star review of the latter, NME wrote: “Perhaps inevitably, given Lizzo’s overwhelmingly positive message, ‘Special’ is sometimes a bit cheesy. Still, it’s cheesy in a way you won’t want to resist.”
It added: “Lizzo knows exactly who she is as an artist and what she wants to achieve: she’s the bad bitch with an incredible talent for making people feel good.”
Meanwhile, the star has said she’ll keep fighting the lawsuit brought by three former backup dancers, claiming that “the truth is less salacious than the headlines”.
Earlier this year, Lizzo revealed that she vowed to remain a virgin until winning a Grammy, and then lost her virginity in 2020 when she won three. She also shared that she did not have her “first kiss” until she was 21.
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Phoebe Bridgers performed a communal and surprisingly intimate no-device gig at New York’s Madison Square Garden as part of her ‘Spring Pop-Up Tour’ – using the gig to call out ICE and raise funding for immigrants.
- READ MORE: Phoebe Bridgers on the cover: “I definitely feel a lot less apologetic than I did before”
The show came after the singer-songwriter played her first live solo live show in three years last month in Roswell, New Mexico, where she debuted three new songs and strongly suggested that a new album is on its way.
Announced on Monday (June 1), tickets to the NYC arena show were made available via Tidal and randomly allocated to fans who registered to attend, with options to pay $1, $5, $10, or $20 and all proceeds from ticket sales going towards Community Justice Exchange’s Immigration Bond Freedom Fund, which provides aid and bail to those in ICE detention centres.
Before the event on Thursday night (June 5), those planning to attend were made aware of the strict no electronics, cameras, phones, Google Glass, Apple Watches policy – and journalists were told not to bring pens, pencils, or paper because lyrics had leaked online during previous shows. Upon arrival, guests were given Yondr pouches for their cellphones and devices, and black paper tickets to find their seat numbers.
A small platform, staged to look like a ‘70s basement and decorated with a small couch draped in a vintage blanket, lava lamps, blacklight posters, and a small boxy television playing video clips in between scenes of static, was set up in the large venue, with Bridgers joined by keyboardist Nick White, longtime collaborator Christian Lee Hutson on guitar and Yeah Yeah Yeahs‘ icon Nick Zinner for the acoustic set.
Bridgers walked onto the stage by shouting a cheerful “surprise” before performing a stripped-back and meditative rendition of her hit ‘Motion Sickness’, with the sold-out venue completely silent outside of Bridgers’ voice. She acknowledged the rarity of the evening, saying,“It’s weird not having a phone, isn’t it?” adding that she herself hadn’t been to a no-phone show.
She also told the crowd, “I appreciate you allowing this to be an internet-free zone,” before jesting, “If any of you stuck an Apple Watch up your ass to record this, please don’t post it on the internet,” opening her arms and then sharing with a grin, “I trust you.”
Phoebe Bridgers. Photo by Olof Grind
The trio then performed fan favourites, ‘Waiting Room’, ‘Kyoto,’ and ‘Moon Song’, before rolling into seven new tracks — many of which continued the singular sound Bridgers built on her acclaimed second album, 2020’s ‘Punisher’ — melancholy lyrics made up of astute observations of the state of the world and relationships, backed by slow strumming guitars and orchestration that oscillates from Americana to indie folk.
However, some of the songwriting harkened back to the unabashed candidness of her debut album, 2017’s ‘Stranger in the Alps’. A new nunber she announced with “This song is about the past, though I’m told all of my songs are,” came with a crushing, crescendoing chorus that saw her and Hutson strumming emphatically as she alluded to an ill-fated engagement. Elsewhere, she enlisted keys, shaping a sparkling melody around Peter Pan metaphors that seem to shine a light on men with arrested development.
There was also a twangy, upbeat, rootsy track she presented with the words “Here’s a country song,” that came complete with a pre-chorus “woo”. Before a final new song, she performed ‘Scott Street’ and ‘Graceland Too’, with fans taking part in the classic rock practice of holding up lighters during the latter, which she called “unbelievable.”
Throughout the set, Bridgers took the opportunity to thank fans for raising funds to support the release of immigrants from ICE detainment, sharing “I hate those fucking ICE idiots,” and calling them “cops squared”. At one point, she also asked the crowd how many of their parents were conservative, before thanking them for being brave and “defecting.”
Towards the close, she gave streaming platform Tidal a shoutout for hosting the event and “paying artists more than any other platform. She also shared “we’re going on tour” pointing to her announcement of ‘The Lost Tour’. Bridgers’ first solo tour in three years kicks off in September, with dates spanning North America, Europe and the UK. Support acts will be Alex G in North America and Isaac Wood in the UK/EU. According to Bridgers’ Instagram, the upcoming dates will also be device-free. She captioned the tour announcement, “I’m going on tour no phones.”
Phoebe Bridgers’ Madison Square Garden setlist was:
‘Motion Sickness’
‘Waiting Room’
‘Kyoto’
‘Moon Song’
‘Unknown new song’
‘Unknown new song’
‘Unknown new song’
‘Unknown new song’
‘Unknown new song’
‘Unknown new song’
‘Unknown new song’
‘Graceland Too’
‘Scott Street’
‘Unknown new song’
‘I Know the End’
The news of ‘The Lost Tour’ comes following the singer, songwriter and guitarist being largely away as a solo artist for years now, not releasing an album since 2020’s ‘Punisher’ and wrapping up her last full tour in 2023.
She has also not been busy with her group Boygenius – featuring Lucy Dacus and Julien Baker – in the time since 2023 either, with the trio announcing hiatus following the completion of their critically acclaimed album, ‘The Record’.
Support on The Lost Tour comes from Alex G at the North American shows and Isaac Wood at UK and European dates, and Bridgers has confirmed that there will be a “no phones” rule at all upcoming gigs.
According to a new press release, this will see “all phones, smartwatches, and related accessories secured in pouches” throughout the gig, and only opened and returned to visitors after the show has ended.
Tickets go on sale on Friday (June 12) at 10am local time, and pre-sale options kick off on Wednesday (June 10). Visit here for tickets and more information.
Bridgers has also partnered with PLUS1 so that €1/£1 from every ticket sold on the European tour leg goes to local organisations working to support those impacted by sexual assault and violence.
Phoebe Bridgers’ ‘The Lost Tour’ dates are:
SEPTEMBER
15 — Indianapolis, IN @ Gainbridge Fieldhouse
17 — St. Paul, MN @ Grand Casino Arena
19 — Chicago, IL @ United Center
22 — Columbus, OH @ Nationwide Arena
25 — Brooklyn, NY @ Barclays Center
26 — Brooklyn, NY @ Barclays Center
28 — Philadelphia, PA @ Xfinity Mobile Arena
29 — Washington, DC @ Capital One Arena
October:
1 — Toronto, ON @Scotiabank Arena
3 — Detroit, MI @ Little Caesars Arena
6 — Boston, MA @TD Garden
9 — Charlotte, NC @ Spectrum Center
10 — Nashville, TN @ Bridgestone Arena
13 — Atlanta, GA @ State Farm Arena
16 — Austin, TX @ Moody Center
17 — Fort Worth, TX @ Dickies Arena
19 — Denver, CO @ Ball Arena
21 — Salt Lake City, UT @ Delta Center
23 — Seattle, WA @ Climate Pledge Arena
24 — Vancouver, BC @ Rogers Arena
27 — San Francisco, CA @ Chase Center
20 — Inglewood, CA @ Intuit Dome
31 — Inglewood, CA @ Intuit Dome
November:
23 — Dublin, Ireland @ 3Arena
26 — Manchester, United Kingdom @ Co-op Live
27 — Glasgow, United Kingdom @ OVO Hydro
28 — Birmingham, United Kingdom @ bp pulse LIVE
December:
1 — London, United Kingdom @ The O2
4 — Paris, France @ Adidas Arena
5 — Brussels, Belgium @ Forest National
7 — Amsterdam, Netherlands @ Ziggo Dome
8 — Düsseldorf, Germany @ Mitsubishi Electric Halle
9 — Berlin, Germany @ Velodrom
111 — Copenhagen, Denmark @ Royal Arena
12 — Stockholm, Sweden @ Avicii Arena
Bridger’s last solo album ‘Punisher’, was named by NME as the fifth best album of 2020, and her last album with Boygenius, ‘The Record’, was named as NME’s album of 2023.
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