Taylor Swift has praised Phoebe Bridgers‘ ‘Lost Weekend’, hailing the album as an “absolute triumph in every way”.
The pop star shared a post about her friend and former collaborator’s third studio record on Instagram last night (Monday August 17), following the project’s release last Friday (August 14).
“It’s her birthday but she gave us a gift,” wrote Swift, who teamed up with Bridgers on ‘Nothing New’ – a ‘From The Vault’ track from 2021’s ‘Red (Taylor’s Version)’.
“Haven’t been able to stop listening. This album is an absolute triumph in every way,” she told her followers.
The singer went on to praise Bridgers’ songwriting, adding: “To write about grief with such vulnerability and detail, and to trust the listener with this much honesty. Happy bday @phoebebridgers I love you!!”
Bridgers previously opened for Swift on her massive ‘Eras Tour’, where she was also joined on stage by her Boygenius bandmates. Swift’s frequent collaborator Jack Antonoff is credited as a producer on ‘Lost Weekend’.
📲| Taylor Swift praises Phoebe Bridgers in new Instagram story pic.twitter.com/Ptia5RVLMu
— The Swift Society (@TheSwiftSociety) August 17, 2026
In 2022, Bridgers described Swift’s music as “high art”, adding: “She’s like the king of her craft. She’s just a perfect example of someone who uses all the resources at her disposal to be completely genuine.”
That same year, Swift shared her admiration for Bridgers’ material, calling it “so deeply impactful and moving”. She went on: “You feel like she’s reliving a precise memory or delivering a secret message to someone and you get the privilege to read it or hear about it.”
Swift once singled out Bridgers as “one of my favourite artists in the world”, too, while recalling asking her to collaborate: “If she sings it, I will listen to it. I just love her voice.” When remembering the first time she texted the pop giant, Bridgers said: “It was just a total high.”
In 2023, Bridgers presented Swift with the iHeartRadio Innovator award. “I’m grateful that I’ve grown up in a world with Taylor Swift in it,” she explained. “Or, ‘The World (Taylor’s Version)’.”
Bridgers said in 2021 that she “got teary” when recording her part for ‘Red (Taylor’s Version)’.
NME gave ‘Lost Weekend’ a glowing five-star review, calling it “a staggering, strange and stirring opus”. It added: “[It’s] the opposite of emotional evasion: more a reckoning with herself and the romantic and familial love and loss that have shaped her story and storytelling.
“It’s a feat that could only be achieved by a songwriter and musician self-assured in their penmanship and musicality, someone who may have started the journey of writing her third album feeling lost, but by the end wasn’t unmoored at all.”
Meanwhile, Bridgers is playing some intimate phone-free shows in the UK this week. She’ll then head out on ‘The Lost Tour’, kicking off in North America next month before visiting the UK and Europe in November and December.
The UK and Ireland dates include shows at Dublin’s 3Arena, Manchester’s Co-op Live and London’s The O2. Find any remaining tickets here (UK and Ireland) and here (North America).
The artist premiered ‘Lost Weekend’ by playing the record in planetariums worldwide, accompanied by some custom-made visual displays. Elsewhere, Bridgers explained why the album took “forever” to make, admitting that she “didn’t love all parts of being away”.
In other news, fans are speculating that the song ‘The Governor’s Waltz’ is about her former relationship with Paul Mescal, and there is a rumour that Geese frontman Cameron Winter sings under an alias on two ‘Lost Weekend’ tracks.
Bridgers led fans around a roller-skating rink at a recent ‘Lost Weekend’ listening party in the US.
