And what he had already encapsulated was so beautiful that I felt like I was going to ruin it, so it was such a big challenge. Usually with my songs, even songs that Marshall starts, I’ll rewrite them like 10 times with lots of options. You should make it your own and take it on.” There wasn’t that much I wanted to redo, and I thought it would be easy. And then when I got the opportunity to make music for the show, Marshall was like, “Yo! ‘Sidelines,’ that idea is never going to come out. My drummer Marshall (Vore) and his girlfriend, Ruby (Henley), started the song, and I fell in love with it and was listening to it all the time when it had like a slightly different vibe and different lyrics. How did the writing of the song proceed, as a collaboration? I think a lot of those experiences, if not universal, then definitely she and I have in common. I didn’t have to think about the character at all. So of any project to write for, this was perfect. And that balance in a person was super jarring to read for the first time. There’s so much that Sally nailed about… Frances is so, so confident in her own art -she knows she’s great, and she thinks she’s the smartest person in the room - but she’s also so deeply, deeply self-conscious. I feel like I’m more similar to Frances than any character in pop culture, ever.
Not to flatter myself, but my similarity to that character has always been really surprising to me. When you were writing the song, was there a degree of thinking about what would fit the Frances character (played by Alison Oliver) at the end of the series?
I think Sally’s writing is so beautiful and perfect, and “Normal People” affected me deeply, too, in totally different ways. I read it while I was making “Punisher,” so 2019. How long ago had you read the book “Conversations With Friends”? And I think a challenge to myself, now, is being articulate about things that are good. In the interest of not seeming trite, I lean toward darker subject matter, just out of comfort. I think it’s more challenging to sound smart and write well about happiness than it is about sadness. But how do you think the self-affirmative tone that you strike fits in with what you’ve done and what people expect? The tone of “Sidelines” feels optimistic - not always the first word people use when they’re discussing their favorite songs of yours.
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Read on for our interview with Bridgers (which has been lightly edited for clarity and space purposes) and to see the two videos for the song, one with footage from the Hulu series and one with tour footage recently shot by her brother, Jackson Bridgers. But she wasn’t about to let Frances’ trajectory in “Conversations” go out on a downer, and as it turns out, the woman who wrote “I Know the End” is into writing about new beginnings, too. The new song fits in perfectly, except to the extent it doesn’t - she concedes that it’s a bit of an outlier in her catalog, in its uplift. As the first original piece of music she’s come up with since breaking through to the wider pop culture with her two-year-old “Punisher” album, “Sidelines” has joined Bridgers’ set list for the shows and festivals she’s doing in the U.S.
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