![]() If you want to support Bridgers, her excellent collaboration with Bright Eyes’ Conor Oberst, Better Oblivion Community Center, is out today on CD and LP. Adams was drowned out last week by the voices of women in the music industry, harmonizing in fury and in liberation. Chorus I have emotional motion sickness Somebody roll the windows down There are no words in the English language I could scream to drown you out Verse 2 I'm on the outside looking. Perhaps the most vicious insults come toward the back of the track, when Phoebe mocks Adams’ phoniness (“Why do you sing with an English accent? / I guess it’s too late to change it now”) and-after he’s told her he was bored when they met and dated-she taunts the singer (who is twenty years her senior), that “you were in a band when I was born.” As if to say, I’m half your age and every bit as talented.īut when Bridgers sings sadly on the chorus, “There are no words in the English language / I could scream to drown you out,” she's wrong. ‘I have emotional motion sickness / Somebody roll the windows down’ Phoebe Bridgers, ‘Motion Sickness’ Inspired by an abusive relationship with a famous, disgraced music producer, ‘Motion Sickness’ captures the destabilising and complex feelings that can come with being in a controlling and coercive relationship. Gb Db Ab Gb I have emotional motion sickness Bbm Fm Gb Somebody roll the windows down. The track starts off with a bang: Bridgers tells Adams “I hate you for what you did,” then follows it up with an assurance that she “faked it every time.” Ouch. Ukulele chords and tabs for Motion Sickness by Phoebe Bridgers. Pitchfork originally referred to it as a “ breakup anthem ,” though now we know it’s something far more nefarious. As if all that wasn’t damning enough, allow us to remind you of Phoebe Bridges’ gorgeous song “Motion Sickness” off her debut album Stranger in the Alps, a scathing indictment of Adams’ cowardly antics.
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