The eagerly awaited third album from Phoebe Bridgers, ‘Lost Weekend’, is finally here. The lead single from the project isn’t as immediate or catchy as its first preview, the melodic ‘Lost Boys’, but it is more faithful to the Bridgers we know. Likewise, the singer-songwriter reconciles all her parts in the song, performed with an unexpected guest. ‘I Can’t Wait’ is the Song of the Day.
The video, with which YouTube has rushed to create an exclusive cursor for the occasion, puts us in the perspective of a fly that witnesses various everyday situations and aspects of any life. Bridgers does the same in the lyrics, where she sings about “growing up not so slowly,” “the sobriety of California,” or not feeling alright, but feeling “better.”
‘I Can’t Wait’ is one of the tracks with the most electronic elements on ‘Lost Weekend’, as well as one of the most dynamic. The opening is defined by muffled yet steady percussion, multiple vocal samples, and Bridgers’ swelling guitar. At a moment, foreshadowing the entrance of Cameron Winter, credited as Son-John Johnson, the song embraces its folk side up to the euphoric finale.
Bridgers and Winter then deliver a duet in which the Geese frontman handles the higher part, while both embrace all parts of themselves, the good and the bad: “All my life / One beside the other / Hyde, Jekyll, Hyde / Finally together”, they sing.
