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Phoebe Bridgers answers a question about *almost* every song on her new record

This is Phoebe Bridgers' year. She has been boiling up to the top for a while with her album, "Stranger in the Alps" in 2016. That was the first album that so many musicians told me they couldn't stop listening to that I was truly forced to pay attention to it. She became an artists' artist. Then she teamed up with Lucy Dacus and Julien Baker to form Boygenius in 2018. In aligning herself with them it became a little club. A community of musicians and friends that you cant help but want to take part in. In 2019 she teamed up with Connor Oberst to created Better Oblivion Community Center, where they pulled the best out of each other to make what I thought was one of the best albums of the year.

And now she just dropped "Punisher." The concept of a punisher is a person who can't help but tell you their feelings even when the situation is wrong and it makes you uncomfortable. And pour her feelings she does. "Punisher" is devastating. At times it's bright, it can be funny, and often revealing. We thought it might be best to ask her one question about each song that might show the album's many sides. We didn't get through the whole album in our scheduled 15 minutes, but I think you get a great sense of Phoebe and her great album, "Punisher."

So for Punisher, song one is “ DVD Menu .” What DVD menu has the best DVD menu music?

Oh, I didn't know how to say this, but it's mostly from video game menu selecting, My memories of my brother leaving a video game page open. So maybe "SpongeBob Movie" video game. That’s the last video game I played I think. I forget what it’s called, but it’s that. The theme is the "SpongeBob Movie," which I watched at the beginning of quarantine. It holds up. 

What specific memory do you have of that DVD menu or that video game DVD menu? 

Just literally being on loop for hours and hours and hours. You know when your eyeballs start going back into your skull and like there's no moisture left in them when you've been looking at a screen for too long. I associate that feeling with that DVD menu, like falling asleep with it on, in the background.

Song two is “Garden Song.” “Garden Song” is definitely the single and we're playing it as the single. Did you know that going in? 

Not at all, actually, I was just showing the record to people. Well, that's not true. Maybe it was like halfway done and I had a bounce with that and was showing it to people. And I was at Conor Oberst’s house and there were a couple of people around. He made me show the couple of people the song. And he was like, “Okay, hear me out. This is the single.” And I was like “Okay, Bright Eyes. You're going to tell me about radio right now?” I was just like, "that's insane." But then I actually kind of started to hear it like that. It's kind of electronic-y, but I'll definitely never have a hit. So I was kinda like, all right, well, let's lean into it. It's a sad, weird electronic song with my Dutch tour manager on it. It's like the anti-single, you know.

" Garden Song" has the line, “When I look up from my phone, I'm going to see my life.” Did you have that line and just know that you were hanging on to the most banger of all banger lines? 

No. No. I think I was just talking to myself probably, it's supposed to be a little tongue in cheek. Do you ever get in those moods where someone asks you to do something and you're like, “Oh yeah, yeah, definitely I'll do that when I'm the real me, I'll do that.” Or I have a magical thinking brain for me three months from now. Someone's like, “Hey, do you want to go on a flight that's 46 hours and the day that you land play a show?” I'm like, absolutely. I have a weird vision of myself in the future being totally different than myself now.

I think that’s fair. Song four is “ Punisher .” I had read that you had said something about Elliott Smith. What do you see that Elliott Smith has in him that you have in you?

Well, I do think we have some similarities. I just think it's sad to me that it seems like he kind of wasn't able to overcome them. And I think that's a fear of mine, like depression, but more specifically a mistrust of people who like you. And that means romantically or fans. I think that he had a mistrust of all material success. Thinking that the world was stupid, therefore, if they liked his music, it was stupid. So yeah, I don't know. I couldn't relate to that.

Do you have a mistrust of people that really love your music or something like that? I feel like that is a very, as a creative person,when you make something and then you don't trust that love, I get that. Do you feel that?

Kind of, I mean, I feel, this is not used derogatorily, but I feel slightly bipolar with music, especially. Where it's, I'm either a God or I'm trash. So if someone has a really smart thing to say about my music, I'm like, they are correct. Because I make the best music. And then when someone who I disagree with politically or who I don't find particularly interesting or not cool as in hip cool. Cool as in, they were really rude to somebody in front of me or something and they liked my music. It makes me hate myself. You know what I mean?

Yes. That makes a lot of sense. What’s your favorite Elliott Smith song?

It changes all the time. I feel like I'm kind of going back into the greatest hits right now. I've been loving “ Twilight ” from "From A Basement on the Hill." I think that's my favorite right now.  

Why do you like that song? 

It's just really sad. It's sad to me because it's about, not unrequited love, but love with really bad timing and I definitely had that experience. I resonate with it, but also it's just so sad because then like years later, all of the material stuff or the timing stuff that kind of kept you apart is irrelevant. And then it's just like, why didn't it work out with someone I really liked. It's just sincere in a way that he is in all his songs, but it's usually directed at different stuff and he doesn't write a straight up love song about people a lot. Yeah. I really liked this one. 

That’s great. Song five is " Halloween ." What was the Halloween costume that you spent the most time on in your life?

Most time on? Oh God. I was a freshman in high school and my mom who, and we've discussed this pretty openly, but I have some serious trauma about her living vicariously through me. I was kind of forced to get a lot of haircuts that I didn't want because I think she wanted a pixie cut and she wanted me to have a pixie cut. And so the first thing I did when I moved out, it took me till I was like 18 to grow my hair out because she didn't force me when I was a teenager, she would just be like, “Oh, I mean, it is kind of like growing out pretty awkward, you should just cut it.” And it works on me. But my freshman year of high school, she was like, “You should be the green woman from Star Trek. And then Catherine, your best friend who's gorgeous and black should be the black lead.” The movie Star Trek that had just come out. And of course Catherine was like, “Oh my God, absolutely.” Because she gets to be hot. And I was like all day covered in green paint that was like coming off. And she made me wear these weird pumps and I've never worn heels before in my life. It was so awkward and bad.

That's great. Love that. Song six is “ Chinese Satellite .” It is my favorite song. In listening to a lot of the music and really reading a bunch of your interviews, I think that there is definitely like this mystic connection and interest that you have in mysticism, God, cults, kind of all of these things. What is your relationship with religion? 

I don’t really have one. 

Have you never had one or you don’t currently?

Never had one, was not raised religious, atheist absolutely. I totally disagree with organized religion as a concept. That being said, I have religious friends who have fought me on that and found like queer communities through their church or whatever. And that I can't really hold a light to because there's part of that whole thing that makes me jealous. It's like I didn't go to college. I didn't grow up around musicians. So I was just kind of thrown into the world to like meet people through just being a person in LA and that worked out fine eventually, but I did a lot of fumbling and whatever. So I think I was jealous of people with some sort of sense of greater community. And also people who could sleep at night, knowing that someone was taking care of them.

Yeah, do you feel like you could make that leap?

No. No. I'm positive. Harry and I have talked about that. We've gone through a lot of personal loss and suffering and he was like, “Man, I really wish I could make the Jesus leap.” Maybe if there was some sort of like an older woman in my neighborhood who was really into true crime and started some cult that seemed at first, like it was an Al-Anon meeting or something. I don't know. Maybe. But as far as religion, no. 

Do you think that you could be your own cult leader?

I don't think I'm charismatic enough to be a cult leader. My friend Haley Dahl could absolutely be a cult leader. She's in a band called Sloppy Jane. That's like 13 people in a van. It’s a cult. 

And you would be in that?

Yeah, yeah. 

“ Moon Song ” is such a dagger and it's so precious. I'm going to skip it.  

I appreciate that.

“Savior Complex.” There's so much going on instrumentally there. Like, you've got the upright bass, there's like a clarinet. There's so much going on musically. Do you write all those parts? How do you work on that song, musically?

Musically? Well, it evolved in the weirdest way ever, which is that I wrote the first melody in a dream, which it sounds corny and has never happened to me before or since, but I did and I have this like absolutely unhinged voice memo of like wheezing it into my phone in the middle of the night. And then my genius friend, Christian, who is also obsessed with Elliott Smith and Christian Lee Hutson, incredible guitar player and songwriter. I was like, help me find chords and he did, and then he was like, it should change keys in the middle. I was bouncing ideas off of him. I didn't really know what it was going to be about. It changed a million times. And then, I'm very lucky to be surrounded by people where I could say the vaguest sentence and they know exactly what I mean. So then we got the arrangement down and then we took it into a sound city where I record my records and we got Blake Mills to play clarinet on it. 

Wow, he’s just the key to everything.

I was making a joke cause Tony and Blake have like a very, very casual and fun, like constantly digging at each other-relationship. And Tony was like, you can't play clarinet. And Blake was kind of like a kid who had done a kick flip earlier, but nobody was watching like, he's like, I just did it! I can do it! And he nailed it. Rob Moose is the key to everything. He does all my strings and he was the most excited about that song. So when he came into the studio, we were just like, alright, go for it. And he let loose. It was great. 

Have you released that voice memo that you made to yourself? 

No, but I should. But it’s literally 15 seconds. 

We are running close on time here, so I am going to cut the last couple of things and ask you if you have listened to the new Bill Callahan song.  

No, you know, I don't feel emotionally ready, but I feel like I need to. I'm obsessed with him. I saw him last summer, in Big Sur. It was amazing. There's like a baby screaming in the audience. And he was like, "Hi baby." Like that's his way of dealing with it. It was great. 

It is incredible.

Okay, I’ll listen right away. 

So what is your favorite Bill Callahan song? 

“Dress Sexy at My Funeral.”

“Dress Sexy at My Funeral” because it's just the best. Oh, or “Cold-Blooded Old Times.” I can't tell. I think “Dress Sexy at My Funeral” though, because my favorite thing is how deadpan he is when he's on the first jokes where you're like, “Is that a joke?” So yeah, it's kind of a sad song to me. I love it. I will one day write a song like this.

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Phoebe Bridgers is one of the most prolific young songwriters to emerge in the last several years. Her second solo album, Punisher , is out now.

Phoebe Bridgers is the first to admit that she's not reinventing herself on her new album. "There's nothing avant-garde about it," she says of Punisher , her second solo record and fourth major musical project in the last three years. Even so, there's a quiet, assertive power to Punisher . It's an album that balances her myriad sensibilities: the observational folk songwriting of her instant-classic 2017 debut, Stranger in the Alps ; the smart and piercing work of boygenius , her 2018 EP with Julien Baker and Lucy Dacus ; and the slacker rock of her self-titled debut with Conor Oberst , Better Oblivion Community Center .

In fact, the list of indie musicians Bridgers hasn't collaborated with might be shorter than the list of the ones she has. Punisher features appearances from all of those previous collaborators, plus more heroes from what Stephen Thompson calls "the Phoebe Bridgers Cinematic Universe": guest vocalists Baker, Dacus and Oberst; guitarist Christian Lee Hutson; producers Tony Berg and Ethan Gruska; Blake Mills; bandmates Marshall Vore, Harrison Whitford, Emily Retsas and Nick White. Even her tour manager, Jeroen Vrijhoef, lends gravelly vocals to Punisher 's lead single, "Garden Song."

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Bridgers' ever-expanding musical peer group provides an odd contrast to Punisher 's themes: missed connections, the tension between the inner and outer self, the lonely ache of watching things end.

"I felt very much like the outsider," she says of the time she first began writing songs, "and, yeah, maybe that theme has continued throughout my music."

Punisher was originally supposed to be released on June 19 — or Juneteenth, the day commemorating the official end of slavery in the United States — but Bridgers opted to drop it a day early.

"I'm not [delaying] the record until things go back to 'normal' because I don't think they should," she wrote Thursday. "Here it is a little early."

The decision echoes the sentiment Bridgers expressed to NPR when she was interviewed last week.

"I'm trying really hard to put it out and simultaneously not make what is happening on earth about me," she said. "I just hope to do what I can and direct people to the charities that I feel are important. L.A., specifically, has so much work to do; it's so horrible here as far as policing."

NPR's Rachel Martin spoke to Phoebe Bridgers about stealing ideas from her favorite artists, the ways collaboration pushes her to be her best self and the nutritionist's visit that inspired one of her most evocative lines.

This interview has been edited for length and clarity.

Rachel Martin: You talk about this idea of being solidly within the norm, but feeling somewhat to the side of it. Does your new album fit within that frame?

Phoebe Bridgers: I don't think that I have that outlandish a music taste, and I don't think I did anything super shocking. I like my own music, but I don't think that I'm breaking any boundaries. I think I'm just discovering how to reference a hundred things at once that I've always loved, like genre-wise just leaning in really hard and making intense references to other music. There's nothing avant-garde about it: It's a singer-songwriter record, even though there's kind of a metal section. I think I'm pulling from a lot of different places, stealing from a lot of different people.

That's the nature of art, right? Can you explain how you nod to someone who has been a musical influence in your life without totally appropriating it or ripping it off? How do you strike that balance?

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Like they say: Steal from as [many sources] as possible, so that you're not just stealing from one person. I think that's what's beautiful about music, everybody stealing from each other. For example, I'm obsessed with Elliott Smith , and my way of stealing from him is to double my voice. We have no similar vocal tone whatsoever. It's just a slight little homage, and I love the way that it sounds, and I think a lot of people do that. Or for example, there's a song on the album that's pretty heavy on the vocoder and we were referencing like, Imogen Heap and everyone who's used it as an instrument. With those kind of production things, it feels very fun.

Lyrically, I steal from a couple people and try to pass it off as a reference. I have a "rebel without a clue" line, which is a Replacements line that Tom Petty already stole , which is hilarious. So I'm just stealing it again.

Besides the stealing part, you actually make music and collaborate with a lot of other artists. Why is that important to you? What do you get from that?

Especially with Conor Oberst, who I'm in a band with, I have stolen from him a lot of my life. I've actually kind of straight up plagiarized him before, and he roasts me about it all the time.

He's clearly cool with it.

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Yeah, he's pretty cool with it. He reserves the right to make fun of me as much as he wants. But I think that my favorite part of collaborating is — It's very uncertain when I'm by myself. I feel like this with my personality, too, where I don't quite feel like a person unless I'm performing myself for someone a little bit. I'm trying to work on it through therapy and whatever. I feel like the best version of myself when I have a crush on someone, or when I'm hanging out with a bunch of people who have never been to LA before. I'm like "You know what we should do today? You know what's a really fun thing that I would never do by myself, but I'll do with you guys?"

And I think that goes into collaborating, where you save your best ideas to show off, to be a great version of yourself. I've been so lucky to be treated like a peer by people that I really look up to — Julien Baker, Lucy Dacus, Conor Oberst, Matt Berninger — that I think that it's fun to kind of nerd out with a bunch of people over an idea you came up with together. I think that's the best part, instead of just second-guessing yourself in your house. And when I write by myself now, forever, I will always send all those people my ideas and ask "Is this good?" so that I can benefit from the collaboration when I'm not technically collaborating.

It reminds of something you were quoted as saying in The New Yorker that you "trick yourself into telling the truth" in your songwriting. Can you say more about what that means?

It's pretty literal. I seriously will give myself a homework assignment and say "This would be an interesting take to have. I don't really care about this person this much, but for the song it's more interesting." I feel like I'm making it up, or I'm combining a bunch of experiences, and then two years later I realize "Oh my god, I was telling the truth."

The weirdest example recently is my song "Kyoto." I was talking to my friend Marshall [Vore], my drummer, who is my go-to guy as far as bouncing ideas off of each other, and we were talking about how similar our dads are. They're both from Idaho, just kind of like truck culture dads. And he was laughing about how early dads like that make you drive, how you drive way too early. And I was like "Oh that's such a sad lyric, I'm going to put that in." Then I was driving way after finishing the song, driving through Pasadena past the Rose Bowl and realizing I drove in the Rose Bowl parking lot when I was way, way, way too young and it's like a weird repressed memory. I didn't even realize I was telling the truth about myself, I thought I was making a reference to Marshall's life.

Can I ask you about "Kyoto"? It's about your father, someone who you've had a complicated relationship with. Had you written about him before?

Yeah I had. There's a song on the first record that's kind of about it. And this record, in a lot of ways, kind of feels like a graduation, but I feel like I'm trying to be self-aware about my resentments. I feel like I have strong opinions weakly held. So that's what "Kyoto" is about. There's a lot of just straight up hatred and resentment on the first record — about all kinds of people — and then on this record I'm exploring just how quickly that all goes away with a little bit of examination.

"Strong opinions weakly held" — that's a great line. If it's not in one of your songs yet, it should be.

Actually, it's stolen from a journalist buddy of mine, P.J. Vogt. He said that to me once and I was like "Oh no! You see me!" It was horrible.

Do you ever get inside your own head, though, about the details? Do you start to write a song about something super specific and then be like, this is not an interesting detail?

I don't think that's happened yet. The weirdest thing in the specificity is that it sounds like poetry a lot of the time. For example I have a song called "Garden Song" where I say "The doctor put her hands over my liver and told me my resentment's getting smaller." And I get asked about that lyric all the time because it's so weird, and I'm like "I don't know. I went to see a nutritionist and I thought that was a weird thing to say to somebody." It's just a true story.

Your doctor really said that?

I mean, "doctor" is a loose term, but yes. Sometimes I'll kind of write a joke song. Like when I get frustrated, I'll start joking to myself and saying "This will never be a real lyric." And I always end up liking some piece of it. "Kyoto" is kind of like that. I was like "This is embarrassing. I can't say that. This is just a joke that I'm telling myself." And then I end up falling in love with it.

Taylor Haney and Catherine Whelan produced and edited the audio of this interview. Jon Lewis and Cyrena Touros adapted it for the Web.

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Phoebe Bridgers has officially announced plans for her 2022 Reunion Tour.

The singer-songwriter’s upcoming dates includes her first UK/European shows since 2020 album Punisher and news of her upcoming appearance at 2022’s Glastonbury Festival .

Tickets will go on sale via Bridgers’ official website on Friday 11 March at 10am GMT.

The Reunion Tour kicks off with a North American leg that starts in Phoenix, Arizona on 13 April, with major performances at Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival on 15 and 22 April.

The UK and European leg begins in Dublin, Ireland on 20 June, with recently added dates including a show at London’s Brixton Academy and her return to Glastonbury Festival later that month. See below for a full list of tour dates.

Last year Bridgers was nominated for four Grammy Awards and made her Saturday Night Live debut.

Bridgers recently won Billboard’s 2022 Women In Music Trailblazer Award and discussed plans for a new monthly radio show titled Saddest Factory Radio on Sirius XMU.

A portion of the proceeds from every headline show ticket sold will go toward The Mariposa Fund, which assists undocumented people trying to receive reproductive health services, including abortion.

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Phoebe Bridgers Unveils Fall Tour Dates

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After a year-plus as one of the most active livestream performers in the music business, Phoebe Bridgers is finally getting to do a proper tour behind her Grammy-nominated “Punisher” album. Using an awesome faux-heavy metal font, complete with flames, for the tour poster below, the initial brace of dates span September and October and include her first-ever headlining show at the Greek Theatre in Los Angeles, as well as several previously announced festival dates such as Bonnaroo, Pitchfork, Governors Ball and Austin City Limits.

It is billed as a “reunion” tour, presumably meaning a reunion with fans and bandmates; Muna, the L.A.-based trio who earlier this year signed with Saddest Factory, Bridgers’ label through Dead Oceans, will open all dates.  $1 of every ticket sold will be donated to RAINN, the largest anti-sexual violence organization in the U.S. Tickets can be purchased here .

Along with multiple dates over the past year from the privacy of her own Los Angeles apartment, Bridgers played a a full-band set to an eerily audience-less Red Rocks Amphitheater in Colorado for Verizon’s “Unpaused” livestream and made multiple late-night TV performances, including her guitar-smashing debut on “Saturday Night Live” in February.  She also appeared in several fundraising events, from Planned Parenthood’s Village Of Love and Demand Justice’s Honor Her Wish event for Ruth Bader Ginsburg, to Pitchfork’s Instagram livestream in support of the Bail Project.

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These are Bridgers’ first live shows since a sold out Roundhouse gig in London in November 2019.

September 3/ The Pageant/ St Louis, MO

September 4/ Bonnaroo Festival/ Manchester, TN

September 5/ Iroquois Amphitheater/ Louisville, KY

September 7/ Royal Oak Music Theatre/ Detroit, MI

September 8/ Royal Oak Music Theatre/ Detroit, MI

September 10/ Pitchfork Music Festival/ Chicago, IL

September 11/ Palace Theatre/ St Paul, MN

September 12/ Palace Theatre/ St Paul, MN

September 14/ The Sylvee/ Madison, WI

September 15/ Egyptian Room at Old National Centre/ Indianapolis, IN

September 17/ Stage AE Outdoors/ Pittsburgh, PA

September 18/ Express Live/ Columbus, OH

September 19/ The Fillmore/ Charlotte, NC

September 20/ The Ritz/ Raleigh, NC

September 23/ Firefly Festival/ Dover, DE

September 25/ Governor’s Ball Festival/ New York, NY

September 26/ Leader Bank Pavilion/ Boston, MA

October 2/ ACL Festival/ Austin, TX

October 3/ The Orpheum Theater/ New Orleans, LA

October 4/ Avondale Brewing Company/ Birmingham, AL

October 9/ ACL Festival/ Austin, TX

October 16/ Greek Theatre/ Berkeley, CA

October 21/ Greek Theatre/ Los Angeles, CA

October 24/ Shaky Knees Festival/ Atlanta, GA

October 26/ The Anthem/ Washington, DC

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Phoebe Bridgers was supposed to be in an arena right now.

If the year had gone according to plan, she’d be calling from a green room somewhere in America. The original idea was that she’d open for the National in Australia and New Zealand in the spring, and then she’d spend the summer opening for the 1975 for an extensive tour that would have included dates at Madison Square Garden and Red Rocks Amphitheatre. Phoebe Bridgers’s songs are like when your funniest friend suddenly drops her guard to let you all the way in, revealing an untamed world that her sarcastic burns could never quite obscure. These poignant, wry observations have already earned Bridgers a dedicated fan base, but this exposure could have increased that following substantially.

But thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic and the corresponding worldwide shutdown, her summer plans have changed dramatically, and now involve 100 percent fewer arenas. In your own way, maybe you can relate.

So instead, she’s stuck inside her apartment, talking while walking on her treadmill on a Friday afternoon in early May. When life was (not really in the big picture but at least in comparison, you have to admit) sane in the Before Times, she would walk around her neighborhood while doing phoners. She doesn’t feel like going outside anymore.

“Yesterday was my first trip to the store in three weeks, and everybody is just fucking out. Dude, it’s so scary,” she says. “I don’t like going on walks because it sends me into a spiral about what the world looks like, shuttering businesses and people without masks. I’m just too scared.”

This is a change, as slowing down doesn’t come naturally to her. Since releasing her debut album Stranger in the Alps in 2017, Bridgers has become a ubiquitous presence in the lives of indie rock fans, a household name in houses with a well-curated vinyl section and a few framed gig posters on the wall.

She’s always around, always welcome, and seemingly always collaborating with someone. She formed the supergroup Boygenius with her friends and fellow astute-beyond-their years 20-something songwriters Julien Baker and Lucy Dacus, releasing a harmony-rich EP in 2018. For good measure, she followed it up with another supergroup, teaming up with Bright Eyes’ Conor Oberst for Better Oblivion Community Center, which released a spiky self-titled debut album in 2019. She’s also filled her collaborations punch card by working with the National’s Matt Berninger , Hayley Williams , the 1975 , Lord Huron , and even Fiona Apple . And if that’s not enough Bridgers content in your life, she maintains one of the funniest and filthiest artist accounts on Twitter.

Her ascendence from unknown to mainstay “seems totally gradual” to her. “There’s a Bright Eyes tour manager who used to riff that Bright Eyes was the best new band 15 years running. And I kinda feel like that. As I reach new people, I’m new to them,” she says. “But that being said, I also think that the first good music that I released was my first record.”

Bridgers, 25, lives alone and wanted to foster a dog. But apparently, everyone in Los Angeles beat her to it: “I think they’re being kind of swept up.” So instead, she’s been trying to find other ways to stay busy. “I’ll probably clean my house again,” she says. “I feel like we’re all figuring out how much a house needs to be cleaned.” She has also started rereading the speculative fiction novel Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood. “She fucking predicted deep fake, she predicted COVID-19,” she says. “It’s fun to reread something that has way more relevance now.”

Then there’s the matter of figuring out how to promote her second album, Punisher, which a few months ago could have been accurately if a bit hackily described as “feverishly anticipated” by critics. When plans to shoot a video in Japan for her single “Kyoto” fell through, she made a green-screen video and later performed the single for Jimmy Kimmel Live! from her bathroom . In lieu of taking Punisher to her fans on the road, she’s taken them to the loo and elsewhere as part of her “Phoebe Bridgers Virtual World Tour” of streamed concerts from throughout her apartment, including two from her bedroom.

She thought about delaying Punisher , “but in the back of my mind I was like, ‘This is not a short thing. If I delayed it, then when would we put it out?’ It seems like the news gets worse every day. … We even had to move vinyl pressing plants ’cause the one we initially were going to use fucking shut down forever,” she says. “For my mental stability, too, it’s like, ‘What, we wait till the end of the year?’”

It won’t be surprising at all if one day we get a great song from Bridgers about the disorienting feeling of life in our current moment, but for now there’s plenty of disorienting feelings to be found on Punisher , which she began working on as soon as Alps was finished, and for which she again worked with producers Tony Berg and Ethan Gruska, this time adding Bright Eyes’ Mike Mogis into the mix. “The guiding theme was ‘God, I need a second album’ and mostly just feeling stressed,” she says.

Bridgers excels at writing about feelings that you don’t necessarily want, or know what to do with, or that don’t even have a name but stubbornly continue to exist. On “Funeral,” one of the standout songs from Alps , she writes about performing at the service of a friend who died of an overdose. After then musing about a sadness that she can’t seem to escape, she snaps back into focus. “Wishing I was someone else, feeling sorry for myself / When I remembered someone’s kid is dead,” perfectly nailing the strange feeling of feeling bad about feeling the wrong thing at the wrong time.

On Punisher , she continues to observe how profound moments of realization tend to come amid day-to-day routines and the aimless sprawl of life, digging deeper into the small moments of life while pushing her arrangements in striking directions. On the spritely new-wave chamber pop “Kyoto,” a trip to the arcade and a 7-Eleven during a day off on tour gives her just enough time to wonder why she has the right to be on tour at all, while a quiet night out on the devastating space-folk ballad “Chinese Satellite” becomes a meditation on how we become engulfed “in the idea of routine, and how if you don’t mix up your environment very often, the days blur together like they are now,” she says, adding she often doesn’t understand her songs until long after they’re done. “It feels like I’m just making shit up and talking about someone else almost,” she says. “I have the feeling every time I finish something. ‘That was the last song. It felt good. Now never again.’”

Bridgers grew up in Pasadena, California, and was always adjacent to the entertainment industry. Her dad was a carpenter who built sets for film and television, and her mother, Jamie, had a variety of white-collar jobs, from receptionist to house manager for a fine arts complex. (Jamie is currently a stand-up comedian . “She has made jokes about me being a musician, and STDs and stuff. She’s pretty raunchy. It’s great.”)

“This whole COVID situation is reminding me a lot of high school, actually. I’m in bed all day. I eat whatever I want. A lot of the time I don’t have energy to reheat something, so I either go back to sleep or make a toaster waffle,” she says. “I feel like it’s weirdly like exposure therapy to my depressed teen years.”

Her parents divorced when she was 19, and in interviews she has alluded to her father’s substance misuse issues (or as she said in GQ , his “drug thing” ) and says they have a strained relationship. But she also credits him for filling their house with music, including plenty of Jackson Browne and Joni Mitchell, when she was a child. Later she would also gravitate to the brooding of future collaborators and friends like Oberst and the National. She’s always known she wanted to be a songwriter. “Before I knew how to do it. Before I was making anything good, I wanted it.”

She attended the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts, and gives the experience a mixed review. “The best thing about that high school was just the amount of practice I got. I don’t know how much I learned about songwriting other than just life experience, but I sang every fucking day and took Music Theory class,” she says. “I think it was cool being surrounded by people who also knew exactly what they wanted to do with their lives.”

After high school, and her high school punk band Sloppy Jane (which appeared in a few Apple commercials after catching the eye of a talent scout) ran its course, she began gigging around and demoing. Her friend and former music industry lawyer John Strohm remembers hearing about her from Andy Olyphant, “a career A&R guy” who used to work for Atlantic Records and reached out to him for help with a publishing deal he was pursuing with Bridgers that never came to fruition.

Strohm used to play in the Boston indie-rock trio the Blake Babies, alongside Juliana Hatfield and future author Freda Love Smith . The band dissolved after Hatfield began a solo career, and after a stint playing in the Lemonheads, Strohm began rethinking his music career. “I kind of hit a crash and burn point I was like, ‘I don’t know what I’m doing. Maybe I’ll go to law school.’ It was probably a more self-protective and pragmatic choice than becoming a heroin addict.”

After a stint as “a regular corporate lawyer,” he began working as “sort of entrepreneurial artist lawyer, where my business model was to try to find great artists and really start to help them in their careers before they could really afford to pay me,” he says. “So that when they got the wheels on and they were professional career artists, then they would be able to afford my services, which sounds kind of like a wonky business plan, but it worked.”

He retired his law practice after he was hired to be president of the storied folk label Rounder Records in 2017. Before that, he worked with Alabama Shakes, Waxahatchee, and Bon Iver. He knew he wanted to work with Bridgers as soon as he heard her demo for “Georgia” (“it blew me away”) in 2015. “Based on her magnetic personality, the strength of her songwriting, her incredible voice, and ultimately, her ambition to do it, that she was somebody that was going to have a career,” he remembers. “There was no way that she could not.”

When Strohm first got to know Bridgers, he would spend time with her, Berg, Gruska, and her drummer and former boyfriend Marshall Vore, and also invited her on the road to open for a few Blake Babies shows.

“When we were traveling with Phoebe, we weren’t listening to music, we were just talking to her and she was just keeping the conversation going in a very engaging way,” he says. “One thing that always astounded me about her and a handful of other artists like her is that she’s literally easily young enough to be my daughter. I’m 53 years old. She’s about 30 years younger than me, so there’s a giant age difference there. And in some ways, you feel that age difference. But I feel like with certain kinds of musicians who come up in a certain tradition of music-making, and collaboration, and touring, stuff like that, that even though there’s this giant age difference, we have way more in common than we did that differentiated us.”

Strohm would tell his followers on Facebook to show up early for the opener and would post videos of her performances to his page. One performance, recorded for Birmingham Mountain Radio on the show Reg’s Coffeehouse , caught the eye of Chris Swanson, cofounder of the independent record label Dead Oceans. Eventually, Strohm would negotiate her deal with the label Dead Oceans as well as her publishing deal. “When I first started working with her, I was like, ‘Man, she’s got everything. I just wish she was more prolific. Because there was a period of many months when she didn’t write any new songs,” he remembers. “It’s like, ‘When is she gonna finish this album?’ Because it really just felt like if she could just get to the finish line ...,” he says, trailing off before catching himself. “But now we understand why she was blocked.”

While gigging around L.A., Bridgers caught the attention of Ryan Adams, who released her single “Killer” through his label PAX AM in 2015. As revealed last year in an article in The New York Times by Joe Coscarelli and Melena Ryzik, they began a romantic relationship when she was 20 and he was more than twice her age. The article recounted how, she says, Adams became emotionally abusive, and after she ended the relationship “Adams became evasive about releasing the music they had recorded together and rescinded the offer to open his upcoming concerts.” (Through a lawyer, Adams contested the accounts of Bridgers and many other women.)

A year later, she reflects on how her life has changed since the article’s publication. “I guess I just get to talk about that shit a little bit more than I did before, and I met tons of great people through it. It was definitely worse right before it came out. I was afraid it wasn’t gonna come out, afraid we’re gonna get sued. You still gaslight yourself and it’s like, ‘Did any of this shit happen?’” she says. “And then the day it came out, no matter how many people told me to go fuck off and die on the internet, I met so many amazing people and got so many fucking emails that made me really emotional, being like, ‘I was the barista down the street from the studio,’ or whatever. It just made me feel good.”

Strohm knew “some of the ugly stuff around the Ryan Adams relationship, but not the whole thing.” But he remembers the creative block she was in afterward.

“She was having a hard time writing because she was struggling with that stuff. At some point, she just really found her voice and started writing songs,” he says, adding that her becoming friends with Oberst, who would guest on Alps , “had a lot to do with it. And I know that ‘ Motion Sickness ’ was one of the songs that came later, and where she’s able to really talk about that. And then very quickly after a certain point, she was able to finish the record.”

With respect to Pusha T, “Motion Sickness” was the most devastating musician-against-musician dis song of the ’10s, with Bridgers owning up to her own conflicted feelings about hating and also missing Adams, and then torching him at the end by using one of his own lyrics against him: “You said when you met me, you were bored / And you, you were in a band when I was born.” The single was the first time most of us heard Bridgers, and it immediately made it clear this was an artist who wouldn’t be taking any more shit from anyone.

“Look, I mean I came up in a band that was me and two women, and I saw the worst shit from day one. And it was in some ways it was worse back in the ’80s and early ’90s for women in the industry, but in some ways, it’s just the same shit,” Strohm reflects. “And I’m so glad that we’re in a period where we’re actually talking openly about it and not just sweeping it under the rug, because it infuriates me. Because serious artists who are gonna make a difference culturally and are gonna be the kind of cultural pivot point that Phoebe is should be taken seriously. And people who work with artists and work in music should take artists seriously.”

Alps was released right as the #MeToo movement began kicking into high gear after the exposé of Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein’s numerous incidents of sexual assault and harassment. While doing interviews for Boygenius , Bridgers would comment that sometimes after she would shoot down condescending “women in music”–style questions from male journalists, she could tell a bunch of other questions were being deleted. “I don’t know if it’s better. I mean I think that more places are afraid to send an old white man to go interview a young woman,” she says. “Hopefully, people are just hiring more women, and even if it’s just because they have to or for a look, they’re editing out the questions that they have seen other people get ripped apart for asking. So it seems like everybody’s on their toes a little bit, and the people who should be on their toes are on their toes.”

One of the quirks of the Phoebe Bridgers Cultural Experience is that she is a goth who doesn’t make gothic music. Though she dyes her hair frequently, her default tends to be stark white, and her clothing is always black. Her music might not be indebted to the Cure (covering “Friday I’m In Love” doesn’t really count) or Bauhaus, but the darkness is strong with her nonetheless.

“My best friend in high school had shaved eyebrows and was super, super goth and drew on her eyebrows with eyeliner every day. And I’ve always kinda wanted to be goth, but I had a lot of secondhand clothes and not a ton of money, so I had a very weird high school aesthetic,” she says. “And then when I graduated and started making money, I was like, ‘I’m only buying black clothes from now on. Plus the occasional wedding dress.” (She owns several, apparently. She hopes to wear them onstage once she can tour again. Whenever that is.)

The visual motif for Alps and the singles that came from it were children in ghost costumes, while the cover art and attendant videos for Punisher feature her in skeleton pajamas, which continue to get a lot of use.

“I put on the skeleton suit, and it’s like, ‘Damn, this is comfortable.’ So I think being a character is funny but it also, it is rooted in reality. Like I really have been wearing the same pajamas for like two months. I wash them every three days, and tried to get another pair online, but they’re sold out.”

She’s goth on the outside but a classic rocker at heart, gravitating toward the sort of direct songwriting that’s existed for more than 50 years and can’t really be improved upon but that can be twisted into a singularly resonant vision. She’s sung of mourning Motörhead’s Lemmy Kilmister and about arguing about John Lennon ; and on “Graceland Too,” she paints a scene of a hopeless dreamer in love with the promise of music’s ability to change your life, even stealing the line “rebel without a clue” that Tom Petty may have stolen from the Replacements’ Paul Westerberg.

But there’s one legend who looms especially large for Bridgers. The title track of Punisher is her imagined conversation with the late Elliott Smith, whom she notes once lived in a bungalow near her. She didn’t discover his music until five years after his 2003 suicide. “I wish I could’ve heard it without that, first.”

To Bridgers (and plenty of other musicians ) a “punisher” is slang for “someone who doesn’t know when to stop talking. It’s a specific reference to when fans don’t know when to shut the fuck up, which I know I have definitely done and it has been done to me. One time a guy came up to me after my set and he was like, ‘Hey can I give you some advice?’ It’s just people who don’t know that they’re torturing you. So in this context, I’m doing that to Elliot Smith in the song. The idea would be that he’s trying to escape from me and I’m following him home or something. It’s like weird, fucked-up fan fiction.” (Though Smith had a reputation as a mercurial, troubled person, she insists that from what she’s heard “he was exceedingly sweet to fans.”)

So depending on your pop culture or political leanings, you’ll either be relieved or disappointed that the album title isn’t named in honor of the Marvel comics gun-toting antihero, who in recent years (to say nothing of recent weeks) has become a right-wing symbol of “law and order ,” much to the chagrin of many Marvel employees . She was unaware of this association, and not happy to learn of it. Or in her words: “Oh, great.”

If Smith were still alive, the world would be a better place for innumerable reasons. One of which is that there’s a very good chance that he would have collaborated with Bridgers. Everyone else seemingly has. Working with people you’ve loved since you were a teenager sounds like it would be nerve-racking to civilians, but she insists that they all just make it so easy.

“I’ve yet to feel intimidated by someone. Maybe I was a little bit intimidated by Fiona Apple, but that’s just because of how much I worship her,” she says. “But Matt is an enormous goofball and so is Conor. Nobody talks to you like, ‘Oh my God, I’m talking to such a huge fan right now.’ They all talk to me like I’m their fucking peer, which is so wild.”

Strohm doesn’t think it’s so wild. If anything, he understands why the indie heroes of her youth would gravitate toward her.

“Why do any of us do what we do? It’s because we love music. People get so excited about Phoebe for the same reason I got so excited about Phoebe, because what she does is just immediate and undeniable,” he says, adding that none of the artists who reached out to her “are opportunists who are looking to get a feature with the latest and greatest to elevate themselves. They’re just fans of what she does and want to be part of it. … I know it’s incredibly affirming and satisfying for her to have the opportunity to work with these artists who she loves and admires. And for them, it’s just like, ‘Man, there’s nothing cooler than getting to collaborate with somebody who’s really good, and really exciting, and really is just at the beginning of something extraordinary.’ Because I think that Phoebe is like a Joni Mitchell for our age. She’s that good.

“But I’m sure if I were to say something directly to Phoebe like, ‘Oh, you’re like a Joni Mitchell for our generation,’ she would be very embarrassed and probably annoyed with me for saying that.”

There’s plenty of people left on her dream collaborations list, including the ambient artist Grouper, songwriter Julianna Barwick, and the composer Nils Frahm. “My life is curated exactly to make me happy, so I’m not trying to expand my collaborations until it pops up naturally. I rarely meet people I don’t give a shit about who are famous,” she says, chuckling. “You know what I mean? I tend to meet people that I really worship.”

But as curated as her life is, like everyone else, it’s on pause at the moment, so dream collaborations will have to wait. Since no one can live on Margaret Atwood, cleaning, and promotional duties alone, she’s also been passing the time in the most characteristic way possible: true, intimate connection with other people, which can be just as satisfying one-on-one as it is in an arena.

“I end up on the phone a lot more. I feel like people are finally answering the question, ‘How are you?’ in a real way, which is nice. I talk to people I haven’t talked to in years and I’m like, ‘How are you?’ And they’re like, ‘Man, you know ... been going to therapy more.’ I feel like I’m having a lot more honest conversations. So I go through phases, but right now, it’s not so hard.”

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Phoebe Bridgers Announces 2021 U.S. Tour

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Phoebe Bridgers is going back on tour and playing ticketed concerts for the first time since 2019. Beginning this September, she’ll finally play shows in support of her Grammy-nominated sophomore album Punisher . Joining Bridgers for most of the U.S. concerts are Muna . Check out Phoebe Bridgers’ schedule in her tour poster below.

Bridgers’ last traditional concert took place back in November 2019. Since then, she’s twice performed at Tibet House benefit concerts, played Saturday Night Live , and, like many musicians during the pandemic , did an array of virtual shows and remote TV spots .

Near the beginning of her tour, on Friday, September 10, Phoebe Bridgers will perform at Pitchfork Music Festival 2021 at Union Park in Chicago, Illinois. Tickets are on sale now .

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The singer's latest trek kicks off April 13 in Phoenix, Ariz.

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Phoebe Bridgers is headed back on tour! On Monday (March 7), the singer-songwriter unveiled the 2022 dates of her ongoing Reunion Tour.

The North American leg of the run will kick off April 13 at Phoenix’s Arizona Federal Theatre before making stops in Las Vegas, Dallas, Atlanta and Chicago, as well as at multiple festivals throughout the summer, including Coachella, Forecastle Festival and BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! Festival.

From there, Bridgers will hop the pond for a European dates beginning at Fairview Park in Dublin, and playing numerous fests in just as many countries — from Glastonbury and Lollapalooza Paris to Madrid’s Mad Cool Festival and Roskilde Festival in Denmark.

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But that’s not all. Following shows at the O2 Apollo in Manchester and the O2 Academy Brixton in London, the singer-songwriter will actually cap off the tour back in America with a show at the Hinterland Music Festival in Iowa, and six more dates on the West Coast.

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Registration for Ticketmaster’s Verified Fan initiative is open now , and presale for the jaunt starts Thursday (March 10) at 12 p.m. local time. According to a release, a dollar from every ticket purchased will be donated to The Mariposa Fund, a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping undocumented people pay for reproductive health services.

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Just last week, Bridgers was honored at Billboard’s Women in Music 2022 , where she accepted this year’s Trailblazer Award , performed her 2020 single “Kyoto,” and dished on the red carpet about how her recent collaboration with Taylor Swift came about for Red (Taylor’s Version) .

Check out the singer’s full run of 2022 tour dates below:

• 04/13 — Arizona Federal Theatre @ Phoenix, AZ
• 04/15 — Coachella @ Indio, CA
• 04/22 — Coachella @ Indio, CA
• 05/13 — The Amp at Craig Ranch @ Las Vegas, NV
• 05/14 — Kilby Block Party @ Salt Lake City, UT
• 05/17 — Red Rocks Amphitheatre @ Morrison, CO
• 05/19 — The Pavilion at Toyota Music Factory @ Dallas, TX
• 05/20 — Moody Amphitheater at Waterloo Park @ Austin, TX
• 05/21 — The Lawn at White Oak Music Hall @ Houston, TX
• 05/22 — Hangout Fest @ Gulf Shores, AL
• 05/24 — The Cuban Club @ Tampa, FL
• 05/25 — St Augustine Amphitheatre @ St Augustine, FL
• 05/27 — Cadence Bank Amphitheatre at Chastain Park @ Atlanta, GA
• 05/28 — Forecastle Festival @ Louisville, KY
• 05/31 — Starlight Theatre @ Kansas City, MO
• 06/01 — The Waiting Room Outdoors @ Omaha, NE
• 06/03 — BMO Harris Pavilion @ Milwaukee, WI
• 06/04 — Huntington Bank Pavilion at Northerly Island @ Chicago, IL
• 06/07 — RBC Echo Beach @ Toronto, ON
• 06/08 — MTelus @ Montreal, QC
• 06/09 — Thompson’s Point @ Portland, ME
• 06/11 — The Anthem @ Washington, DC
• 06/12 — The Anthem @ Washington, DC
• 06/13 — Stone Pony Summer Stage @ Asbury Park, NJ
• 06/15 — BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! Festival at Prospect Park Bandshell @ Brooklyn, NY
• 06/20 — Fairview Park @ Dublin, Ireland
• 06/22 — Barrowland @ Glasgow, UK
• 06/24 — Glastonbury @ Somerset, UK
• 06/25 — Glastonbury @ Somerset, UK
• 06/26 — O2 Academy @ Birmingham, UK
• 06/30 — Roskilde Festival @ Roskilde, Denmark
• 07/02 — Rock Werchter Festival @ Werchter, Belgium
• 07/03 — Down The Rabbit Hole Festival @ Ewijk, Netherlands
• 07/05 — Carroponte @ Milan, Italy
• 07/07 — Bilbao BBK Festival @ Bilbao, Spain
• 07/08 — Mad Cool Festival @ Madrid, Spain
• 07/09 — NOS Alive Festival @ Lisbon, Portugal
• 07/14 — Colours of Ostrava @ Ostrava, Czech Republic
• 07/17 — Lollapalooza Paris @ Paris, France
• 07/22 — Latitude Festival @ Suffolk, UK
• 07/23 — O2 Apollo @ Manchester, UK
• 07/26 — O2 Academy Brixton @ London, UK
• 08/07 — Hinterland @ Saint Charles, IA
• 08/18 — Spokane Pavilion @ Spokane, WA
• 08/20 — Orpheum Theatre @ Vancouver, BC
• 08/23 — Marymoor Park @ Redmond, WA
• 08/25 — Edgefield Amphitheater @ Troutdale, OR
• 08/27 — Vina Robles Amphitheatre @ Paso Robles, CA
• 08/28 — This Ain’t No Picnic @ Los Angeles, CA

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Phoebe Bridgers Plots North American Tour

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UPDATE (8/23):  Phoebe Bridgers has announced that she’s moving all indoor tour dates to outdoor venues out of caution for Covid-19. Some dates were subsequently postponed.

Bridgers also announced new protocols for her tour, tweeting: “At my request, there are updated health and safety requirements. Entry will require proof of vaccination against Covid-19. … Where that’s not permissible by law, we’ll agree to proof of vaccination OR proof of negative test result (PCR preferred/Antigen accepted) within 48 hours prior to entering those venues. And please wear a mask. I love you. See you soon.”

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Let’s try this again… In the interest of safety, I’ve decided to only play outdoors for the upcoming tour. We are moving all previously scheduled indoor shows to outdoor venues and we’ve needed to postpone shows in a couple cities so please check the updated schedule. pic.twitter.com/WFMvvnYUH0 — traitor joe (@phoebe_bridgers) August 23, 2021

Phoebe Bridgers has announced a North American tour in support of her most recent album, Punisher .

The run is set to launch September 3rd at the Pageant in St. Louis, Missouri, and wrap October 26th at the Anthem in Washington, D.C. The itinerary includes several festival stops, including Bonnaroo (September 4th), Pitchfork Music Festival (September 10th), Firefly (September 23rd), Governors Ball (September 25th), Austin City Limits (October 2nd and 9th), and Shaky Knees (October 24th). Muna will open for Bridgers on a handful of select dates as well. See tickets for those dates here .

Tickets for Bridgers’ non-festival shows will go on sale July 16th at 12 p.m. local time via Ticketmaster’s Verified Fan program . Registration for access is open Monday, July 12th, through July 14th at 12 p.m. ET.

Bridgers’ upcoming tour marks her first run of live dates since November 2019. Prior to dropping her Grammy-nominated album Punisher  last July, she embarked on a “virtual world tour,” where she played a handful in locations around her house, including her bedroom, bathroom, and kitchen.

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Ellen DeGeneres spoke about the 'devastating' end of her talk show. Here are all the celebs who have spoken out about their experiences with her.

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"The Ellen Degeneres Show" ended in May 2022, two years after toxic workplace allegations surfaced.

Celebrities have spoken out over the years about their relationship with DeGeneres.

DeGeneres recently addressed the end of her talk show during the first show of her stand-up tour.

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She was supposed to go out with a bang, but Ellen DeGeneres' much-loved talk show instead went out with a whimper.

In 2020, current and former staffers began airing claims that the talk show host had mistreated employees and fostered a toxic work environment on " The Ellen DeGeneres Show ." Then, celebrities started sharing their own stories about the comedian.

Some stars, such as Brad Garrett and Lea Thompson, expressed negative sentiments toward DeGeneres, claiming her "nice" persona was a facade, while others, including Scooter Braun and Katy Perry, defended the star.

Almost two years after her show ended in 2022, DeGeneres spoke about the ending of her talk show and the allegations of its toxic environment on the first stop of her "Ellen's Last Stand...Up Tour," Rolling Stone reported.

"I got kicked out of show business. There's no mean people in show business," DeGeneres joked, per Rolling Stone.

The experience, however, did deeply affect her, DeGeneres said during her set.

"Honestly, I'm making jokes about what happened to me but it was devastating, really," she said. "I just hated the way the show ended. I love that show so much and I just hated that the last time people would see me is that way."

Even years after the 2020 controversy and ending of "The Ellen DeGeneres Show," celebrities like Emily Ratajkowski have continued to question some of her behavior.

Here's what celebrities are saying about DeGeneres.

Brad Garrett said DeGeneres' mistreatment of others was 'common knowledge'

The "Everybody Loves Raymond" actor Garrett called out the comedian via Twitter on July 31.

Garrett, who has appeared on "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" multiple times, reshared Variety's article about the comedian's letter apologizing to staffers who felt disrespected .

In the letter, DeGeneres said she hadn't been able to closely manage the show as it grew in recent years.

"Sorry but it comes from the top ⁦@TheEllenShow," Garrett wrote.

The actor continued to say he knew "more than one" person who was "treated horribly" by DeGeneres, adding that her behavior was "common knowledge."

—Brad Garrett (@RealBradGarrett) July 31, 2020

Lea Thompson echoed Garrett's claims

The "Back to the Future" actress Thompson seconded Garrett's message that DeGeneres' mistreatment of others was "common knowledge."

On July 31, Thompson replied to People's report about his comment and wrote: "True story. It is."

The actress didn't provide further details on her personal experience with the talk-show host, however.

—Lea Thompson (@LeaKThompson) July 31, 2020

Music manager Scooter Braun called DeGeneres a 'kind, thoughtful, courageous human being'

Braun , who manages artists like Justin Bieber and Ariana Grande , defended the comedian in a series of tweets on July 31.

"People love to take shots at people," he wrote. "They love to see people fall. How quickly so many forget."

Braun continued to describe DeGeneres as a "kind, thoughtful, courageous human being who stands for what is right and highlights on her show the best of us," adding that she'd used her platform to "change the views for equality."

"Needed to say this as I know first hand how she helps so many when we are watching and when we are not," he wrote. "She isn't about what is popular she is about what is right. Sending love to Ellen today."

—Scooter Braun (@scooterbraun) July 31, 2020

Portia de Rossi , DeGeneres' wife, shared a message in support of the comedian

The model Portia de Rossi spoke out in support of DeGeneres in an Instagram post on August 3.

De Rossi , who married the comedian in 2008 , shared a picture that said "I Stand By Ellen" on it along with the show's mantra, "Be Kind To One Another," in the corner.

She captioned the post: "To all our fans....we see you. Thank you for your support."

The celebrities Kris Jenner, Nacho Figueras, and Brandi Carlile were among those who liked and commented on de Rossi's post.

Argentine polo player Nacho Figueras said DeGeneres 'makes the world a better place'

In an Instagram post he shared August 2, Figueras opened up about his friendship with DeGeneres and called on others with platforms to defend the talk-show host.

After saying he'd waited for "someone with more authority" to speak up about DeGeneres' character, Figueras reflected on his own appearances on "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" and called it a "very well run machine."

"Everyone was super nice, not just to me but to each other and anyone involved," he wrote.

Figueras went on to say he'd seen DeGeneres treat people kindly both on and off of her show.

"I have seen Ellen act not just in her show but in public appearances in theaters where she is nice to absolutely everyone, the guy serving the coffee, the person in the elevator, the security guy and the owner of the venue," Figueras said.

He added: "Everyone loves her because that is who she is. She makes the world a better place for millions of people everyday."

The athlete then challenged some of DeGeneres' friends — like Jennifer Aniston, Jennifer Lopez, Michelle Obama, Pink, Sean Hayes, Lady Gaga, Oprah, Katy Perry, and Justin Timberlake — to share their experiences with the comedian.

"The world has become a very dangerous place because it seems that we cannot make anything right," he wrote. "If I am going to be criticized for defending someone that I think deserves to be defended then so be it."

Katy Perry drew attention to the talk-show host's 'light & continual fight for equality'

Perry shared a positive message about DeGeneres in a series of tweets on August 4.

Prefacing her message by saying she's speaking from her own firsthand experience with the comedian, the pop star said she wanted to acknowledge she's "only ever had positive takeaways" from both DeGeneres and her show.

"I think we all have witnessed the light & continual fight for equality that she has brought to the world through her platform for decades," she wrote. "Sending you love & a hug, friend."

—KATY PERRY (@katyperry) August 4, 2020

Perry spoke about her decision to publicly support DeGeneres during an interview with The Los Angeles Times on Wednesday.

"I started that tweet off not undermining anyone else's experience," Perry said. "I wanted to only speak from my own experience. I have over 100 million people that follow me on Twitter, so not everyone is going to agree with me. And I'm not here to make everyone agree with me."

Samantha Ronson said DeGeneres had consistently been 'respectful and kind' to her

The British DJ Samantha Ronson spoke about her interactions with the talk-show host.

"Unpopular opinion: I've worked for @TheEllenShow as a dj, for her parties, for years and she has ALWAYS been respectful and kind to me," she wrote in a tweet August 3.

—samantha ronson (@samantharonson) August 3, 2020

When a Twitter user pointed out that she was a "celebrity guest" on the show rather than a staffer, Ronson responded: "I wasn't a celebrity guest. I was an employee. Very different. Trust me."

Someone else wrote that DeGeneres was kind only to people with a "certain stature," like Ronson, and the DJ said she "knew this was coming."

"You'd be surprised by how many people are super rude when you become someone they are writing a cheque to," she wrote. "It's super disappointing."

Diane Keaton said DeGeneres 'gives back to so many'

The "Something's Gotta Give" actress Diane Keaton posted an Instagram photo on August 4 of herself and the talk-show host filming an episode of "The Ellen DeGeneres Show."

"I ALWAYS ENJOYED MY VISITS TO THE ELLEN SHOW," she captioned the picture. "I'VE SEEN HOW THE AUDIENCE EXUDES HAPPINESS AND GRATITUDE. SHE GIVES BACK TO SO MANY INCLUDING ME."

Kevin Hart said the talk-show host was 'one of the dopest people on the f---ing planet'

The comedian Kevin Hart shared a photo from one of his visits to "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" via Instagram on August 4.

"It's crazy to see my friend go thru what she's going thru publicly. I have known Ellen for years and I can honestly say that she's one of the dopest people on the f---ing planet. She has treated my family and my team with love and respect from day 1," he captioned the photo.

Hart — who stepped down from hosting the 2019 Oscars following a backlash over his past homophobic tweets — then criticized the public for "falling in love" with people's downfalls.

"It's honestly sad...When did we get here?" he added. "I stand by the ones that I know and that I love. Looking forward to the future where we get back to loving one another....this hate s--- has to stop. Hopefully it goes out of style soon."

The comedian said his message wasn't meant to "disregard the feelings of others and their experiences" but rather to "show what my experiences have been with my friend."

Ashton Kutcher claimed that DeGeneres 'never pandered to celebrity'

In a tweet the actor shared on August 4, he said that the talk show host treated everyone — both celebrities and nonfamous individuals — with the same "respect & kindness."

"I haven't spoken with @TheEllenShow and can only speak from my own experience. She & her team have only treated me & my team w/ respect & kindness. She never pandered to celebrity which I always saw as a refreshing honesty. When things aren't right she handles it and fixes," he wrote.

—ashton kutcher (@aplusk) August 5, 2020

People replied to Kutcher's tweet to explain that mainly staffers, not celebrities, are coming forward about a toxic work environment and sexual misconduct at "The Ellen DeGeneres Show."

One person tweeted that the celebrities coming forward to defend DeGeneres are "invalidating" what current and former employees "experienced on a regular basis."

"I understand," Kutcher responded.

Another individual said that he doesn't have a full perspective on the issue since he's a famous actor.

He replied, "But it extends to my team and people she didn't even know I work with."

Jerry O'Connell reposted the same photo as de Rossi

The "Stand By Me" actor shared a blue square that read, "I Stand With Ellen" on Instagram on August 4.

O'Connell tagged both de Rossi and DeGeneres in the post and wrote: "Love Ellen and Portia. Always have. Always will."

The actor told Entertainment Tonight that his longtime friendship with the couple drove him to share his support for DeGeneres.

"I've known Ellen and Portia for almost three decades now and I saw that Portia… Instagrammed out, 'All of our friends, we need your support right now.' And I felt compelled to repost it," he told the outlet, adding, "I just wanted Ellen and Portia to know that I love them very much."

While many of the celebrities defending the comedian have faced backlash, O'Connell said that he's not letting the public affect his relationships.

"I'm not gonna let Instagram comments and Twitter comments tell me who can and can't be my friends," he said.

O'Connell explained that he does "believe all victims" and "all stories" from former and current staffers, admitting that "something has to change in that work environment."

"But I do love Portia and Ellen. I do. And it's gonna take a lot to change my love for them," he said.

Jay Leno said he won't 'discard a 40-year friendship on hearsay'

The former host of NBC's "The Tonight Show" offered his full support to DeGeneres on August 4.

"I don't discard a 40-year friendship on hearsay. The Ellen I know has raised over $125 million dollars for charity and has always been a kind and decent person. I fully support her," he wrote on Twitter .

—Jay Leno (@jayleno) August 4, 2020

Actor Andy Richter pointed out the irony of DeGeneres' entire show's mantra to 'Be Kind'

"A Black Lady Sketch Show" actress Ashley Nicole Black tweeted a message addressing the toxic work environments that are "widely accepted" in the television industry on August 5.

"I don't think it's that celebs 'don't know' people treat them differently. I think it's that toxic workplaces are widely accepted in this industry, ppl are expected not to complain, and higher ups dont care how folks are treated as long as the work is done on time and on budget," she wrote.

Actor Andy Richter, who often appears on TBS' "Conan," agreed with Black and highlighted the hypocrisy of DeGeneres' "Be Kind" mantra given former staffers' accusations about the host.

"I agree," he wrote, adding, "Although there's toxicity tolerated by higher-ups in every industry, but few of those workplaces are controlled by a manager who's entire brand is being 'nice.'"

—Andy Richter (@AndyRichter) August 5, 2020

Howard Stern gave advice to the comedian on his show

On an episode of SiriusXM's " Howard Stern Show " on August 10, the radio personality said that he'd "change his whole image" if he was in DeGeneres' shoes.

"I'd go on the air and be a son of a b----," he said, adding, "People would come on and I would go, 'F--- you.' Just be a prick."

Both Howard and his wife Beth have both appeared on "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" several times and have been longtime friends with the host. During a 2019 episode of the show, Howard and Beth even remarried each other in front of the studio audience.

Musician Phoebe Bridgers called the talk-show host 'ellen degenerate'

Amid the backlash against DeGeneres, the "Garden Song" singer used a pun to give her own two cents about the comedian.

She wrote "ellen degenerate" on Twitter, but Bridgers didn't elaborate on her own personal experience with the host.

—traitor joe (@phoebe_bridgers) August 8, 2020

Octavia Spencer said all her experiences on 'The Ellen DeGeneres Show' have been 'supportive and fun'

The actress, who's appeared on "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" numerous times over the years, issued a statement supporting DeGeneres via Instagram on August 13.

"Sending love and support to Ellen and all of the employees of her show," Spencer began.

She continued to share that her interactions with "everyone from the show including ELLEN" were "supportive and fun" and said she's "praying" for the people involved.

Spencer also said she believes "all of the voices of her employees need to be heard" and explained that she's only speaking from her own personal experience with the comedian and her show.

"Speaking truth to power is the only way change happens. My truth is everyone was kind to me. From the PAs to the producers. So yeah! I want all of those people to feel valued and heard. And no, people are NOT always kind to talent," she wrote.

After fans accused DeGeneres of mocking Sofia Vergara's accent on the show, the actress said she was 'always in on the joke'

The Colombian-American actress has appeared on "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" numerous times throughout the years. In the midst of the accusations against the show, her fans began circulating her interviews with DeGeneres and accused the host of mocking Vergara's accent .

On August 21, the "Modern Family" actress posted a video from her 2015 "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" appearance on Twitter and shut down claims that the host was making fun of her.

She wrote: "Two comedians having fun with each other to entertain. I was never a victim guys, I was always in on the joke."

—Sofia Vergara (@SofiaVergara) August 21, 2020

Mariah Carey said she was 'extremely uncomfortable' during her 2008 interview on the show

When the "We Belong Together" singer appeared on "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" in 2008, the host pushed her to announce her pregnancy.

Carey quietly said that she prefers not to discuss that on television, so DeGeneres asked her to "toast with champagne" instead, effectively forcing her to admit whether or not she was carrying a child since pregnant women are advised against drinking alcohol .

"I can't believe you did this to me, Ellen," Carey said.

DeGeneres then said, "Let's toast to you not being pregnant if you're not pregnant."

The singer continued to stall by making excuses like the time of day or champagne's "fattening" effects, leading the host to yell, "You're pregnant!"

—“ (@bloovline) August 24, 2020

Carey miscarried shortly after the interview.

The clip resurfaced online 18 years later amid the controversy surrounding DeGeneres, and Carey revealed that the moment made her "extremely uncomfortable" during an August 2020 interview with Vulture .

"I was extremely uncomfortable with that moment is all I can say. And I really have had a hard time grappling with the aftermath," she told the outlet.

Carey continued, "I wasn't ready to tell anyone because I had had a miscarriage. I don't want to throw anyone that's already being thrown under any proverbial bus, but I didn't enjoy that moment."

The singer finished by stating that there's "an empathy that can be applied to those moments that I would have liked to have been implemented. But what am I supposed to do? It's like, 'What are you going to do?'"

Steve Harvey called DeGeneres one of the 'coolest and kindest people' in entertainment

The comedian came to DeGeneres' defense on an episode of " PEOPLE (The TV Show!) " that aired on September 17.

"I'm going to say this about it: Ellen DeGeneres, the person that I know, that I've known for a number of years, that I saw back in the comedy club days, when we used to split time with the same management, all of this and what's happening now, Ellen, the person, is probably one of the coolest and kindest people I've met in this business," he said.

Though DeGeneres' show returned on September 21 after a break, Harvey previously told Entertainment Tonight that he'd "walk away" from "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" if he were her.

"Ellen has got a lot of money. If I was Ellen, I'd just walk away," he said, adding, "She got enough. I wouldn't let them drag me down like that!"

The comedians have been friends for years, and Harvey has appeared on DeGeneres' show several times. They also cocreated and coproduced the show "Little Big Shots" together in 2016.

Alec Baldwin told DeGeneres that she was 'one of the most funny and talented people' in show business

During his appearance on " The Ellen DeGeneres Show " on September 23, Baldwin shared words of encouragement with the talk-show host via video chat.

"I have followed your career from when you were doing stand-up and you were a solo performer. I've watched the films you've done, and I've watched your success on this TV show, and you are one of the funniest and most talented women, one of the most funny and talented people, in all of show business," he told her.

Baldwin added, "We all have some patches of white water here, but you keep going. Don't you stop doing what you're doing."

Ryan Phillippe mocked DeGeneres' 'Be Kind' mantra during his outdoor jog

The "Cruel Intentions" actor seemed to take a jab at the talk-show host during his jog on Saturday.

Phillippe posed in front of a poster with DeGeneres on it and wrote, "And remember to be kind... wait," a reference to the show's "Be Kind" catchphrase. He shared the selfie to his Instagram story.

—she/huh (@ginandtrauma) October 25, 2020

According to Us Weekly , the actor hasn't appeared on "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" since 2011.

NikkieTutorials said that Ellen was "cold and distant" to her 

YouTuber Nikkie Tutorials, whose real name is Nikkie de Jager, was asked to appear on "Ellen" in 2020. The vlogger had come out as transgender after being threatened with blackmail , and her story went viral.

She told the Dutch TV show De Wereld Draait Door   it was a "huge honor" but said that she had a less than great experience on the show. Degeneres, she said, had acted "cold and distant" toward her.

When she was asked what it was like to appear on the show, she told the host: "It's really nice that you came over and said hello to me... She didn't."

Ellen's former DJ Tony Okunbowa said he felt the 'toxicity' of the show's environment'

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Tony Okunbowa was Degeneres' on-air DJ from 2003 to 2006 and 2007 to 20013. In August 2020, as allegations against Degeneres and the production emerged, he posted on Instagram alleging that the show had been a toxic place, though he didn't specify what he'd experienced in his time there.

"I have been getting calls asking me about the Ellen Degeneres Show and I would like to address the time I spent there," he wrote. "I was on air talent from 2003-2006 and from 2007 -2013. While I am grateful for the opportunity it afforded me, I did experience and feel the toxicity of the environment and I stand with my former colleagues in their quest to create a healthier and more inclusive workplace as the show moves forward."

Emily Ratajkowski came to Taylor Swift's defense after watching a resurfaced clip of the singer on 'Ellen'

In January 2023, an old clip of Taylor Swift on the "Ellen Degeneres Show" resurfaced on TikTok, showing Swift visibly upset and on the verge of tears after Degeneres made her play a "game" in which she was supposed to identify all the men she had dated.

"It makes me feel so bad about myself every time I come up here you put like a different dude up there on the screen, and it just makes me really question what I stand for as a human being," Swift said.

After viewing it, model Emily Ratajkowski commented, "This is so fucked up. She's literally begging her to stop."

"Watching that [interview], I was so struck by how clear she's being about what is making her uncomfortable," Ratajkowski told Elle in a January interview. "I think the lens that I would've viewed that interview from 10 years ago versus now has evolved so much, which is why it struck me. I was in bed falling asleep and commented on it, not because I thought it was going to make headlines at all."

Ratajkowski went on to say "that clip in particular was just so striking to me because she was communicating very clearly about why she didn't feel comfortable with what was happening. And it was making everyone laugh. It actually upset me. And I think that just even that speaks to a larger thing I've noticed, where people don't listen to femme-presenting people."

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The tour kicks off on september 3..

Phoebe Bridgers announced her upcoming tour on Monday, bringing her back to the concert stage for the first time since 2019. Kicking off this fall, the tour includes stops in Detroit, Los Angeles, New York, and more, as well as festival appearances at Governor's Ball , Bonnaroo, and Pitchfork Music Festival . Muna will join Bridgers on most of the tour's stops.

The tour will be Bridgers' first in support of her sophomore album Punisher , which dropped last year. Most recently, she shared an updated version of "Kyoto" alongside Jackson Browne for Spotify Singles .

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It's been two and a half years since Phoebe Bridgers' debut album, Stranger in the Alps , but the singer-songwriter has kept herself unimaginably busy.

From her instant-classic boygenius EP with Julien Baker and Lucy Dacus to her duo with Conor Oberst, Better Oblivion Community Center, fans of Bridgers have had plenty to feast on. But it appears a second solo album could be imminent, as she's shared a stunning new single called "Garden Song."

In line with the gentle indie folk that's become synonymous with Bridgers' solo work, "Garden Song" begins with a driving, ascendant acoustic guitar riff, made only dreamier by its heavy reverb. Inspired by her Los Angeles hometown and the nightmares she experiences on tour, the lyrics are among Bridgers' most idyllic: "When I grow up I'm gonna look up from my phone and see my life / And it's gonna be just like my recurring dream," she sings in one of the song's most jarring lines.

Bridgers also enlisted her tour manager, a "6-foot-7 Dutch man named Jeroen," to provide backing vocals on "Garden Song," and his weighty baritone is subtly heard in the choruses to give the track an added depth. "I don't how but I'm taller / It must be something in the water," they sing. "No, I'm not afraid of hard work / I get everything I want, I have everything I wanted." One of Bridgers' most simply beautiful songs to date, nearly every aspect of "Garden Song" tries to stop you in your tracks.

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Phoebe Bridgers Announces Fall 2021 North American Tour Dates

By Katrina Nattress

July 12, 2021

Last summer, Phoebe Bridgers released her critically acclaimed sophomore album Punisher despite other artists choosing to delay their projects. Since then, she's played a "controversial" set on Saturday Night Live , but hasn't been able to bring those brilliant songs to life in front of a crowd of fans. Thankfully, that will all change this fall.

On Monday (July 12), Bridgers announced her aptly titled "Reunion Tour." The trek begins on September 3 in St. Louis, Missouri, and ends on October 26 in Washington DC. Muna will be playing support.

See the full list of tour date below.

Phoebe Bridgers "Reunion Tour" Dates

September 3/ The Pageant/ St Louis, MO

September 4/ Bonnaroo Festival/ Manchester, TN

September 5/ Iroquois Amphitheater/ Louisville, KY

September 7/ Royal Oak Music Theatre/ Detroit, MI

September 8/ Royal Oak Music Theatre/ Detroit, MI

September 10/ Pitchfork Music Festival/ Chicago, IL

September 11/ Palace Theatre/ St Paul, MN

September 12/ Palace Theatre/ St Paul, MN

September 14/ The Sylvee/ Madison, WI

September 15/ Egyptian Room at Old National Centre/ Indianapolis, IN

September 17/ Stage AE Outdoors/ Pittsburgh, PA

September 18/ Express Live/ Columbus, OH

September 19/ The Fillmore/ Charlotte, NC

September 20/ The Ritz/ Raleigh, NC

September 23/ Firefly Festival/ Dover, DE

September 25/ Governor’s Ball Festival/ New York, NY

September 26/ Leader Bank Pavilion/ Boston, MA

October 2/ ACL Festival/ Austin, TX

October 3/ The Orpheum Theater/ New Orleans, LA

October 4/ Avondale Brewing Company/ Birmingham, AL

October 9/ ACL Festival/ Austin, TX

October 16/ Greek Theatre/ Berkeley, CA

October 21/ Greek Theatre/ Los Angeles, CA

October 24/ Shaky Knees Festival/ Atlanta, GA

October 26/ The Anthem/ Washington, DC

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8 celebs who spoke about Ellen DeGeneres' toxic behavior as former TV host reflects on her show's end

Posted: April 27, 2024 | Last updated: April 27, 2024

8 celebrities who raised their voice against toxic workplaces and Ellen DeGeneres

Ellen DeGeneres controversially ended the famous talk show 'The Ellen DeGeneres Show' following allegations that her daytime program was a toxic workplace. As per The Guardian, Ellen made jokes about being "kicked out of show business" for being "mean" during the opening night performance of her new 'Ellen's Last Stand... Up Tour' at the Largo in Los Angeles on Thursday, April 25. In May 2022, 'The Ellen Degeneres Show' came to an end after reports of a toxic work environment had dogged the show for two years. Celebrities then began to share their anecdotes about the comedian. Here are comments from eight famous individuals regarding DeGeneres.

1. Mariah Carey

'The Ellen DeGeneres Show' host encouraged the 'We Belong Together' singer to reveal her pregnancy when she made an appearance on the show in 2008. Carey exclaimed, "I can't believe you did this to me, Ellen." Not too long after the interview, Carey miscarried. The video clip made a reappearance on the internet, 18 years after the DeGeneres controversy. Carey stated in an August 2020 interview with Vulture that the incident left her feeling "extremely uncomfortable."

2. Brad Garrett

The 'Everybody Loves Raymond' actor Brad Garrett called out the comedian on X (formerly Twitter) on July 31, 2020. 'The Ellen DeGeneres Show' frequenter Garrett reposted a story from Variety regarding the comedian's letter of apology to employees who felt mistreated. "Sorry but it comes from the top ⁦@TheEllenShow Know more than one who were treated horribly by her," Garrett tweeted at the time.

3. Andy Richter

'A Black Lady Sketch Show' actress Ashley Nicole Black tweeted on August 5, 2020, about the toxic work cultures that are "widely accepted" in the television industry. Andy Richter, an actor who frequently guest stars on TBS's 'Conan', concurred with Black and stressed the irony of DeGeneres' 'Be Kind' credo. Richter tweeted at the time, "I agree, although there’s toxicity tolerated by higher-ups in every industry, but few of those workplaces are controlled by a manager who’s entire brand is being 'nice.'"

4. Phoebe Bridgers

The 'Garden Song' singer responded to the criticism directed at DeGeneres with a pun of her own. Bridgers described the host as "ellen degenerate" on Twitter, but she didn't go into detail about her own interactions with her.

5. Ryan Phillippe

While out on a jog in October 2020, the 'Cruel Intentions' actor appeared to be making fun of the talk show host. In allusion to the show's 'Be Kind' tagline, Phillippe scribbled, "And remember to be kind... wait," while posing in front of a poster featuring DeGeneres. The selfie was posted on his Instagram Story by Phillippe. The actor hasn't been on 'The Ellen DeGeneres Show' since 2011, per Us Weekly.

6. NikkieTutorials

YouTuber Nikkie Tutorials, real-name Nikkie de Jager, was invited to appear on 'Ellen' in 2020. Following a blackmail threat, the vlogger came out as transgender, and her tale went viral. She described it as a "huge honor" on the Dutch TV program De Wereld Draait Door, but she also mentioned that her experience on the show was not the best. She said that DeGeneres had behaved "cold and distant" toward her.

7. Tony Okungbowa

Tony Okungbowa was DeGeneres' on-air DJ from 2003 to 2006 and again from 2007 to 2013. He said on Instagram that the show had been toxic, but he didn't elaborate on what he'd encountered. Tony wrote at the time, "I was on air talent from 2003-2006 and from 2007 -2013. While I am grateful for the opportunity it afforded me, I did experience and feel the toxicity of the environment and I stand with my former colleagues in their quest to create a healthier and more inclusive workplace as the show moves forward."

8. Emily Ratajkowski

Emily Ratajkowski defended Taylor Swift after seeing a previously unreleased video of the singer on 'Ellen'. An old video of Taylor Swift appearing on 'The Ellen DeGeneres Show' showed Swift clearly distraught and on the verge of tears after DeGeneres forced her to perform a "game" where she had to name every man she has dated. Model Ratajkowski said, "This is so up. She's literally begging her to stop." Ratajkowski told Elle in 2023, "Watching that [interview], I was so struck by how clear she's being about what is making her uncomfortable."

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