{"id":488028,"date":"2019-07-15T13:49:44","date_gmt":"2019-07-15T19:49:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=857960"},"modified":"2019-07-15T13:49:44","modified_gmt":"2019-07-15T19:49:44","slug":"phoebe-bridgers-calls-her-mom-explains-love-of-the-cures-friday-im-in-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/phoebe-bridgers-calls-her-mom-explains-love-of-the-cures-friday-im-in-love\/","title":{"rendered":"Phoebe Bridgers Calls Her Mom, Explains Love of the Cure\u2019s \u2018Friday I\u2019m in Love\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/9983941d.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>About three minutes into the latest episode of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/spotify\/\" id=\"auto-tag_spotify\" data-tag=\"spotify\">Spotify<\/a>\u2019s Under Cover podcast, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/phoebe-bridgers\/\" id=\"auto-tag_phoebe-bridgers\" data-tag=\"phoebe-bridgers\">Phoebe Bridgers<\/a> called her mom. The singer-songwriter was trying to think of a word to describe <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/the-cure\/\" id=\"auto-tag_the-cure\" data-tag=\"the-cure\">the Cure<\/a>\u2019s \u201cFriday I\u2019m in Love,\u201d but she was drawing a blank. \u201cI think it\u2019s \u2018definitive,&#8217;\u201d she said. \u201cIt would be great if I called my mom and she doesn\u2019t pick up on this podcast right now.\u201d She didn\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p>Bridgers claimed that the root of all her cover songs are the lyrics. \u201cIf you can unwrap it and at every level the lyrics are still amazing, that\u2019s great,\u201d she said. When it comes to the Cure\u2019s 1992 hit \u201cFriday I\u2019m in Love,\u201d Bridgers wrote the lyrics in her first school notebook. \u201cI think I even made a little calendar for myself that incorporated the lyrics,\u201d she laughed. She speculated she first heard the track on her iPod Shuffle, which was put on her library by a family friend. \u201cThat was very seminal to me and my music taste,.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sDDGMwQGkOI?version=3&amp;enablejsapi=1&amp;origin=https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com&amp;rel=1&amp;fs=1&amp;autohide=2&amp;showsearch=0&amp;showinfo=1&amp;iv_load_policy=1&amp;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2018Friday I\u2019m in Love\u2019 sounds like the best possible summer song,\u201d Bridgers said. \u201cIt\u2019s a very specific time and place for me when I heard it, so it\u2019s hard to put into words why I connect with it so much and why the sound is so specific.\u201d She noted the lyrics\u2019 whimsical, nonsensical vibe and the chorus-guitar. \u201cThere are only couple songs that you can just hear and it\u2019ll put you in a great mood,\u201d she said. \u201cAnd that\u2019s definitely always been the case for this song for me.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Towards the end of the episode, Bridgers\u2019 mother returned her call. \u201cI\u2019m on Spotify right now and you\u2019re on speaker!\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/phoebe-bridgers-the-cure-friday-im-in-love-857960\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About three minutes into the latest episode of Spotify\u2019s Under Cover podcast, Phoebe Bridgers called her mom. The singer-songwriter was trying to think of a word to describe the Cure\u2019s \u201cFriday I\u2019m in Love,\u201d but she was drawing a blank. \u201cI think it\u2019s \u2018definitive,&#8217;\u201d she said. \u201cIt would be great if I called my mom [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-488028","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-24 16:08:58","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KQZR - The Reel","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=488028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488028\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}