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Bridgers sent the demo to Baker and Dacus with a request: 'Can we be a band again?' This was the song that started the record. But Bridgers would disagree she told Rolling Stone that when she started writing 'Emily I'm Sorry' after the release of 'Punisher,' she thought, 'Oh, this is clearly a boygenius song.' It's almost ironic that Bridgers declares 'I'm 27 and I don't know who I am' in the final chorus, because this song is quintessential Bridgers - honest and melancholic, brooding and raw.

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Larocca: 'Emily I'm Sorry' immediately offers a connection to '$20' when Bridgers sings, 'But she's wakin' up inside a dream / Full of screeching tires and fire,' recalling Baker's 'To the T-bird graveyard where we play with fire / In another life, we were arsonists.' The ghost is Emily, of course, or the singer's vague memory of her - but it's also the younger version of Bridgers herself, naive and heart-whole, before she became 'someone only you could want.' This song feels like a Victorian love letter to a ghost, complete with impeccable penmanship and a spritz of floral perfume.

'Emily I'm Sorry' is the third track on 'The Record.'Īhlgrim: The Bridgers-led 'Emily I'm Sorry' recalls the pensive yearning of other fan favorites like 'Garden Song' and 'Scott Street.'īridgers fluctuates between apologetic and defensive, deploying her haunting voice to great effect. Tying all three of them together is the title itself, calling back to 'Souvenir' from the band's 2018 EP: 'Dreamcatcher in the rearview mirror / Hasn't caught a thing yet / 20 dollars in souvenirs / Anything's worth trying.'

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On '$20,' Baker is in the driver's seat, navigating her hometown while taking stock of everything from an out-of-place motorcycle to a Chevy that's since been put on cinderblocks.īut while the song originated from outside of the band, Baker's account of her own life mirrors themes and moments from within her friends' own discographies.ĭacus' 'Home Video' is nothing if not a series of vignettes about adolescence while Bridgers' 'I Know The End' finishes off in much the same way as '$20,' with her screaming at the top of her lungs. Larocca: '$20' is a great idea and I am all about it.Īt the time of the album announcement in January, the band dropped this, along with 'Emily I'm Sorry' and 'True Blue' - three songs that appeared to reflect the headspace of each member. At the end of the song, she meets up with her best friends like outlaws on the edge of town - wailing and harmonizing and hypnotizing the crowd until their gas tank is replenished. The Tennessean seems to approach destruction as a means of creation, conjuring images of motorcycles, arsonists, shotguns, and hills to die on. '$20' is the second track on 'The Record.'Īhlgrim: '$20,' an obvious Baker brainchild, is a burst of big vocals, choppy guitar riffs, and unbridled angst. Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders.