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“Is it okay if I smash it?” she recalls emailing the company. The company reps warned her that the guitars were very hard to break, sending a video of Joe Perry “trying and failing to smash one” as proof. But Bridgers wasn’t deterred from the challenge, stepping up to pull the sword from the stone with a blasé, “I got it, no problem.”
The destruction proved to be as hard as it looked. As Bridgers took swings into the monitor, sparking with cartoonish pyrotechnics, the only controversy she feared was the “intrusive thought” of a potential wardrobe malfunction. Between swings, Bridgers says the guitar snagged on her dress—a black Gucci crépone dress with pearls adorning her torso to resemble her iconic skeleton suit. (The onesie has become something like a uniform for Bridgers and her band, sporting it in her Punisher album art and various performances since buying it for a Halloween costume.) The dress stayed intact, but the fragile ego of Classic Rock Dad Twitter… was shattered beyond repair.
“I think I got scared for two seconds that it was the right people arguing with it,” she says. “I thought I was stepping into, like, ‘You’re being wasteful,’ territory.” But she says these concerns were “debunked in my own brain in, like, two seconds”—reminding herself of the time Gibson apparently ran over hundreds of guitars “with a fucking bulldozer.” Not to mention, Bridgers soon realized most of her critics were just “dickhead, goat beard assholes online yelling at me.”
“I went to sleep, and I woke up and I was just like, ‘Ugh, this is amazing,’” she says, “They don’t even know how fucking stupid they sound.” Rock and roll purists, evidently a brand of gatekeeping as oxymoronic as it sounds, weighed in with unsolicited analyses of the countless musicians who had smashed their instruments before her. Which, to Bridgers, held no real weight. “There’s nothing stupider than being like, ‘Hendrix was a real artist who did it for real,’” she says, “Like, people fucking hated him, too. And you know what? They were old as fuck like you, you fuck.”
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