00:00Hey, Who, What, Where? I'm Phoebe Bridgers and I'm gonna take you Behind the Looks.
00:24So, Motion Sickness was more of a costume because it's a character.
00:27I thought it was funny for an androgynous person to dress up a lot to go sing karaoke in a
00:35dive bar and who only rode a scooter and wore a helmet.
00:38I had the concept for that video way before I wrote the song.
00:42I mean, not even slightly. I'm going through a lot of the same places as Elliot's Miss Misery video, so
00:46it's referencing that, too. He wears a white suit.
00:58I love Phoebe Waller-Bridge. It was awesome working with her for the music video.
01:03We got in an argument about whether or not I was going to wear a skeleton costume for that video.
01:07I ended up going with her instinct and I'm so glad because it looks really cool in black and white.
01:12Nobody can tell but that turtleneck that I'm wearing at the end is actually like a bright red turtleneck and
01:18I'm usually so allergic to colors.
01:21So, she was like, dude, it's in black and white. Like, it's gonna look black. You're fine.
01:26Phoebe and the stylist Aoife, before I got there, had collected all these different costumes.
01:30So, I picked, we picked our favorite bellhop and then they gave me the woman tag.
01:34I was kind of just along for the ride, but it was really fun to be dressed by people you
01:38trust.
01:48I've always loved blondes in gray. I think it just is such a weird look.
01:53I was at St. Vincent de Paul, which is a thrift store here.
01:56I found the suit for like 10 bucks and then I spent like $100 tailoring it.
02:01And I feel like that's my like new secret with buying clothes is just it doesn't really matter what it
02:07is.
02:07If you like it, somebody talented can fit it to your body.
02:11So, now I have tons of suits that I got for really cheap that I just tailor to me.
02:14We had to do the tiny desk from home, so we had to come up with a concept that was
02:17funny or interesting.
02:19And I thought the Oval Office was the coolest.
02:22We actually tried to get like a real Oval Office because it's Los Angeles, but everything was shut down.
02:27Like, there were no sets that would allow us in, so we had to green screen.
02:30But I knew exactly what I'd wear for that because I feel like I have like a slightly Hillary Clinton
02:35vibe in it.
02:42My friend Olaf is an insanely talented photographer and musician.
02:46He's from Sweden. He came to town and he took me into the desert.
02:50He found this cool place like a couple hours away. I drove us out.
02:53It was just for fun. Like, we didn't even know what we'd use him for.
02:56And then we saw this one photo of the crazy mountains behind me and rock formations.
03:03I was wearing like a white dress and I remember thinking I wish there was something kind of more interesting
03:08about this.
03:09I had been a skeleton for Halloween that year with my band and so we repeated the whole photo shoot
03:14in the skeleton costume.
03:16I made us drive out again. And yeah, and then we saw it and we're like, that's definitely the cover.
03:20We literally drove there at like 4 o'clock in the morning, so I was pretty delusional.
03:25How many skeleton costumes do I have? As far as like different skeleton costumes, I probably have like 10 at
03:31this point.
03:31Once again, Phoebe Bridgers.
03:42There's this designer Amber Doyle out of New York and when I was supposed to go on tour at the
03:47beginning of the year of last year,
03:48she was going to make these immaculate suits for everybody.
03:53They weren't even going to be skeleton suits, they were just going to be kind of sparkly and matching for
03:57the band.
03:58When I found out I was playing Saturday Night Live, I was like we should do some epic skeleton costumes.
04:03So she's made a bunch of way more souped up skeleton costumes and they're reflective material so that when lights
04:11shine on them they look really cool.
04:13And then Gucci made a beautiful gown with ribs on it that I'm very excited about.
04:19I'm never taking it off.
04:20I'm just going to eat.
04:24And I'm almost done.
04:25I'm just going to spend time with this place.
04:27Not to be the whole thing, I want to be doing this.
04:28But before I'm really excited about it and then I will be adding a new thing to do.
04:29I'm so excited about my new thing, OK.
04:29It's going to be a new thing I'm really excited about to be the process of my team.
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