Phoebe Bridgers: Ryan Adams, Bright Eyes and me

She came late to the emo party, but the folk-rock singer says she’s ‘still an angsty teenager’ at heart Related: Ryan Adams discusses his Summer of '69 humiliation: 'I was so angry' When Phoebe Bridgers was growing up, her taste in music went “completely backwards”. The 22-year-old singer-songwriter, who grew up in Pasadena, Los Angeles, was seriously into classic rock and folk as a kid. The first concert she really remembers was Neil Young, when she was 11. “