Making peace with that dichotomy took time, time that gave ‘Lost Weekend’ room to evolve into a captivating record where she crafts expansive stories over strange sonics. On lead single ‘Lost Boys’, she writes about being resigned to the magnetism she seems to have for lost souls. In the album bio, Bridgers talks about a desire for “emotional transfer from composer to listener”, and here and throughout the album she achieves this. Despite shying away from the public, she’s unafraid to bare the details in her songs, such as an echoing “I’m supposed to be married, but I called it off” in ‘Lost Weekend’, or a voicemail recording from her dad in ‘Never Going Back!’. But Bridgers’ ‘Lost Weekend’ is 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.