Phoebe Bridgers' 120 Second Feature On Taylor Swift's 'Nothing New' Is Too Much For Fans

Red (Taylor's Version) is out now, and is like an Avengers: Endgame of mid-tempo singer-songwriters with guitars and lots of (commercially viable) feelings.

For the album, Taylor Swift has duetted with the likes of Snow Patrol's Gary Lightbody, Ed Sheeran and Chris Stapleton.

It is a duet between Swift and a fellow female, however, that has got fans most excited. "Nothing New" is one of the previously unreleased tracks "From the Vault" that are featured on the album, and has a feature from the skeleton-suited singer-songwriter Phoebe Bridgers.

Usually, a feature part on a song is probably about 30-45 seconds. That is, for example, about how much time Kendrick Lamar gets on his team up with Tay-Tay, "Bad Blood" (in what is the strangest pairing since Andy Samberg married Joanna Newsom.)

"Nothing New" gives Phoebe Bridgers a lot more to do on "Nothing New" than a standard "feat". The singer gets a full 120 seconds on the song, or about half its running length.

Bridgers herself celebrated the release by tweeting: "I was 18 when red came out. How is this real."

As Bridgers is currently an obsession of a certain sensitive and extremely online subset of Gen Z, this has got many people on social media very excited.

One Twitter user summed up much of the hysteria by tweeting: "Hearing Phoebe Bridgers get her own verse on the new Taylor Swift album is like seeing your team score a touchdown at the Super Bowl but for people who try to dress cool for their therapy appointment."

Another tweet that gently mocked the kind of fans who love both Swift and Bridges repurposed a classic Tumblr image of fashionable teens posed against a wall, but put them all in Swift merchandise and captioned it "happy taylor swift ft. phoebe bridgers day to those who celebrate."

Other fans were excited at how much space on the song Bridgers had been given. One wrote, "phoebe bridgers didn't get a verse. she got a verse, chorus, bridge, outro, everything. she's taylor swift's favorite."

A further subset of the extremely online Swift and Bridgers-loving subset was particularly excited. One fans posted an image that said "Great Day for Lesbians" with the caption, "nothing new taylor swift ft. phoebe bridgers."

Bridger's verse made her the first female artist to have a verse on a Swift track.

One fan celebrated this by quote tweeting Bridgers' February tweet "can't believe I am the first woman ever" with the caption "phoebe bridgers after being the first woman feature to have a verse on a taylor swift song."

On Late Night with Seth Meyers, Swift explained exactly why she asked Bridgers to be on the track. She said: "If she sings it, I will listen to it... I sent her this long text asking if she would be on it and she responded saying she's waited for this text her whole life."