Clearly, given the fury of boomer men that has since erupted, this is the first time this has ever happened!
Earlier this week, the musician Phoebe Bridgers — best known for being the breaking point on that day I couldn’t work out how to do my taxes and cried deeply into my cereal while listening to ‘Kyoto’ — broke new ground during her Saturday Night Live performance by being the first person in history to smash a guitar.
Now I know what you’re thinking: haven’t many musicians throughout the history of rock smashed guitars? Isn’t it, in fact, one of the foundational myths of the rockstar story?
Didn’t Kurt Cobain do it, more than once? Didn’t Jimi Hendrix swing his axe around like a, uh, axe, and then, on a separate occasion, set one on fire? Isn’t the smashing of a guitar depicted on the front cover of The Clash’s London Calling? Didn’t Pete Townsend of The Who get to destroying beautiful instruments as though it was a full-time career and making music merely a hobby?
Hell, didn’t Bridgers’ collaborator Conor Oberst of the band Bright Eyes obliterate what he later called a “very expensive” guitar while one of his bandmembers, swept up with the mood of the moment, trample on a a trumpet while appearing on Craig Ferguson’s The Late Late Show? Isn’t obliteration cool, and aren’t rockstars the definition of cool?
Well, I thought so too. But then, the story of Phoebe Bridgers smashing her guitar remained in the news cycle for three whole days during an era in which there are things to talk about other than the smashing of a guitar, leading me to believe that every other instance of a guitar being smashed must have been a Mandela effect style hallucination.
How else to explain the furore? An insufferable Liberal Twitter type named Brooklyn Dad, presumably looking for a new grift after Donald Trump was booted from Twitter, called it “extra.” David Crosby called it “pathetic”, and then decided that the action was what you turn to when you “can’t write.”
little bitch.
— traitor joe (@phoebe_bridgers) February 9, 2021
Waves of boomer dads emerged from the garden sheds they have been locked in for the late ’90s, cordoning themselves off from a scary and overwhelming world of change that doesn’t have to cater for their tastes anymore, in order to decry the action like people who have watched one History Channel documentary deciding that their perspective is urgently needed on the intricacies of the situation in Yemen.
Why did this woman, Phoebe Bridgers, destroy her guitar on SNL?
I mean, I didn't care much for the song either, but that seemed extra. pic.twitter.com/ayXgFXtex4
— BrooklynDad_Defiant! (@mmpadellan) February 7, 2021
Clearly then, the fact that a musician smashing their guitar requires anything more than the thought, “that is a person smashing a guitar”, means that this is the first time that this has ever, in history, happened.
Oh, I mean, it’s either that or the fact that American culture is deeply sexist and that there’s a generation of people who will accept anything from male role models but question that precise same behaviour when it is enacted by women, or by any gender or sexual identity that they don’t recognise, because they’re not infatuated with the behaviour of their heroes, they’re infatuated with their gender.
Either one!
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