Phoebe Bridgers

Phoebe Bridgers led a crowd in Melbourne in chanting “Fuck Margaret Court” while performing at an arena named after the tennis player.

After Bridgers led the crowd in shouting, “Fuck Margaret Court”, she added: “I think hate is undervalued. They recently shared three singles from the album in ‘$20’, ‘Emily I’m Sorry’ and ‘True Blue’, while [Kristen Stewart is set to direct three upcoming music videos for the band](https://www.nme.com/news/music/kristen-stewart-will-direct-three-of-boygenius-upcoming-music-videos-3387696). “It’s like hate is like what moves things throughout history. The line features a variety of new and previously sold-out charms with designs that her music has inspired. You know, even that LGBT in the schools, it’s the devil, it’s not of God.” “Fuck that stupid-ass, dumbass bitch.

Phoebe Bridgers has called out Margaret Court Arena's namesake while performing at the venue, in light of the tennis player's history of homophobic remarks.

Wade Overturning](https://musicfeeds.com.au/news/musicians-respond-to-us-supreme-courts-roe-v-wade-overturning/) [Placebo](https://musicfeeds.com.au/feeds/placebo) played at the arena. In 2019, [during a sermon she delivered](https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/margaret-court-lashes-out-at-transgender-athletes/z67xqhlfe) at her church, Court said that children transitioning gender was the work of the “devil.” The singer-songwriter is also performing at you can go fuck yourself,” he said. “I’m not one to get in old people’s faces for being ignorant, but when you come after my family, my friends… During the show, bassist Stefan Olsdal – who is gay – [similarly led a call-and-response chant](https://musicfeeds.com.au/news/watch-placebo-lead-melbourne-fans-fork-margaret-court-chant/) of “Margaret Court, fuck you.” A couple months later, [Tash Sultana](https://musicfeeds.com.au/feeds/tash-sultana) also [called out Court](https://musicfeeds.com.au/news/tash-sultana-slams-margaret-court-sold-gig-arena/) while playing at the venue. I think it’s a fucking weird white supremacist idea that hate is bad or something. “I think hate is undervalued. “It’s like, hate is like what moves things throughout history. “Fuck that stupid-ass, dumbass bitch. Fuck that stupid cunt.

Phoebe Bridgers has always been vocal about the rights of the disenfranchised, and she wasn't going to roll over when playing Margaret Court Arena.

Fuck that stupid cunt. When Bridgers stepped on Australian soil, she had a few thoughts about the namesake of the venue. Bridgers had described her own music as “candid, multi-dimensional, slyly psychedelic, and full of heart”, and you can feel that in every single heartbroken lyric that comes out of her mouth.

But her quest to dine at the Flinders Lane mainstay instead resulted in a private dinner at the executive chef's house.

“I love this town!” Bridgers proclaimed during the set. Instead of a table, though, what she got was an invite to a private dinner at eccentric executive chef Ben Cooper’s house. [now taking bookings](https://www.broadsheet.com.au/melbourne/food-and-drink/article/chin-chin-now-taking-bookings-first-time-ever), lining up at [Chin Chin](https://www.broadsheet.com.au/melbourne/restaurants/chin-chin) is still somewhat of a Melbourne rite of passage.

Phoebe Bridgers made her views about Margaret Court pretty clear to her audience earlier this week. Read more here.

Phoebe Bridgers took time out of her Margaret Court Arena show last night to blast Australia's highly controversial tennis legend.

Fellow tennis legend Martina Navratilova has previously called for her former hero’s name to be removed from the arena. “And you know with that LGBT, they’ll wish they never put the T on the end of it because, particularly in women’s sports, they’re going to have so many problems. That’s why there have been several public appeals to rename the Australian Open arena. Court, while once a beloved player in her heyday, has been very outspoken against same-sex marriage in Australia, a stance that has seriously damaged her legacy. “It’s like hate is like what moves things throughout history. Fuck that stupid c*nt.

Phoebe Bridgers played one of her two Laneway Festival sideshows at Melbourne's Margaret Court Arena, a night characterised by intimacy and joy.

She sings, “I don’t forgive you / But please don’t hold me to it.” The line is, of course, “I want to go home.” When she sings it later, to a full house, the crowd screams it along with her. She ends the night with ‘Emily I’m Sorry’, written for the band’s forthcoming album, the record. She asks the crowd, “Who has a dead dad?” The crowd screams. Her voice is fuller six years on, her heartbreaking falsetto slicing through the screams of besotted fans. The stadium is half-full as she cheekily joins support act Christian Lee Hutson, telling the crowd that Hutson is her “favourite person who’s ever quit my band.” They sing ‘Lose This Number’ and ‘Rubberneckers’ together, comparing misheard lyrics.

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'We know that homosexuality is a lust of the flesh, so is adultery, fornication, all those things … F**k America,' she said. 'Like, f**k you. hate is what moves things throughout history ... One, two three, f**k Margaret Court!' Margaret Court and fellow Aussie tennis legend Rod Laver at the official opening of the Margaret Court Arena, in Melbourne, in 2015

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“I think a lot of it is because of being a minister and making a stand for my beliefs. I hate that stupid b***h.” I have had a lot of bullying. One, two three, f*** Margaret Court.” hate is like what moves things throughout history ... The Motion Sickness singer also used her show to insist that hate is “undervalued” in society.