Good morning everyone,

Are you into the music and mythology of Phoebe Bridgers? I very much am, so was extremely excited this week when a friend and colleague slacked me her latest song a mere fifteen minutes after it dropped. Let's enjoy Garden Song together before the rest of Fem Fri:

https://youtu.be/1u8rIx65QgA

I really enjoyed this interview with Phoebe Bridgers about writing her new album and being confident in the decisions she was making:

"Doing boygenius especially definitely changed the songwriting process - the whole ethos of the band was to stop second-guessing yourself,” she says. “I always do this thing where I’m like, ‘Here’s this song, this might suck’. And then I play it and my friends suggest changes, and then I’m like, ‘Oh, I wasn’t serious. I was just being humble, but now you don’t like it…'"

https://diymag.com/2020/02/17/albums-of-2020-phoebe-bridgers-february-interview

More singing women, except these ones aren't singing about death and feeling sad and stuff, they are singing extremely loudly in order to call their cows home. I'd like to introduce the ancient Swedish singing technique of kulning:

The herds grazed during the daytime, wandering far from the cottages, and thus needed to be called in each night. Women developed kulning to amplify the power of their voices across the mountainous landscape, resulting in an eerie cry loud enough to lure livestock from their grazing grounds […] Rosenberg, who’s researched the volume of kulning, says it can reach up to 125 decibels—which, she warns, is dangerously loud for someone standing next to the source. Comparable to the pitch and volume of a dramatic soprano singing forte, kulning can be heard by an errant cow over five kilometers away. This explains how the song might reach a distant herd, but what prompts animals to trot over remains a bit of a mystery.

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/what-is-kulning

Have a great Friday everyone! Sing the saddest song you know at the top of your lungs,

A xxx.