Never Grow Up
The first single from Lost Weekend features Jack Antonoff, Alex G, her boygenius bandmates Lucy Dacus and Julien Baker, and more
Get in, losers: We’re going to the Renaissance faire. Phoebe Bridgers just announced her first solo album in six years, Lost Weekend, and now she’s shared the first taste of that album — a new single called “Lost Boys.”
The single opens with a few seconds of filtered vocals through a vocoder effect before Bridgers’ familiar voice enters. “This machine is killing me/I pretended it was make believe,” she later sings, with celebratory trumpets that hark back to “Kyoto.” The chorus is euphoric, as Bridgers details the “lost boys” in question, who never grow up, never go home, and never spend their lunch money. “Lost boys find me,” she sings.
The video above, directed by Lance Oppenheim and Pablo Rochat, features Bridgers at a surreal Renaissance faire where men dressed as knights ride motorcycles into the sun, Bridgers is a magical damsel, and actor Skyler Gisondo is a gas station cashier-turned-knight in shining armor.
