Phoebe Bridgers and Bo Burnham’s Relationship Timeline

Phoebe Bridgers and Bo Burnham are preserving issues low-key.

Followers began speculating that the “Kyoto” singer and the comic had been relationship in late 2022, across the identical time that breakup rumors started swirling about Bridgers and her then-boyfriend, actor Paul Mescal. The couple had been linked since 2020 and had been rumored to be engaged.

Although each Bridgers and Mescal have prevented talking about their breakup straight, the Regular Individuals actor instructed The Hollywood Reporter in February 2023 that he is likely to be able to open up in regards to the cut up “perhaps in some unspecified time in the future” sooner or later. “It is simply tough territory. Yeah,” he added.

In the meantime, Bridgers has additionally but to formally verify her romance with Burnham, although the pair have been noticed collectively quite a few occasions — together with after they had been by accident featured within the background of a TikTok shared by Keith City.

From lyric hints to “soft-launching” on social media, right here’s every part to find out about Phoebe Bridgers and Bo Burnham’s relationship.

June 14, 2021: Phoebe Bridgers praises Bo Burnham’s Netfllix particular “Inside”

Two weeks after the discharge of Burnham’s self-produced Netflix particular Inside, Bridgers shared a screenshot of the track “That Humorous Feeling” from the soundtrack.

“Each bone in my physique needs to plagiarize this,” she captioned the photograph posted to her Instagram Story, Insider reported on the time.

August 4, 2021: Phoebe Bridgers and Bo Burnham carry out collectively

In August 2021, Bridgers and Burnham made a shock visitor look at Pete Holmes’ month-to-month “Residing at Largo” present in Los Angeles, marking the primary reside efficiency of the comic’s viral track, “That Humorous Feeling.”

Based on Selection, Bridgers first carried out her songs “Movement Illness” and “Moon Music” earlier than signaling for Burnham to hitch her onstage for “That Humorous Feeling.”

“I’m gonna play a track I want I wrote,” the singer reportedly mentioned to the gang. “I do know I like one thing when it fills me with rage.”

Throughout the track, Bridgers sang lead vocals whereas Burnham performed the keyboard and added background vocals.

December 2022: Phoebe Bridgers’ lyrics trace at her breakup with Paul Mescal

In December 2022, new track lyrics prompted followers to invest that Bridgers and then-boyfriend actor Paul Mescal had damaged up. The monitor “Ghost within the Machine,” which is on SZA’s sophomore albumSOS, incorporates a verse by Bridgers that seemingly refers to an argument that happened at The Ludlow Lodge in New York Metropolis.

“You mentioned all of my buddies are on my payroll/You are not improper, you are an a——,” she sings. “Screaming at you within the Ludlow/I used to be yours free of charge.”

Bridgers additionally sings about being “alone in an airport bar or lodge foyer,” and in an interview with NME launched earlier that month, she mentioned the traces had been written inside the previous few weeks.

December 2022: Followers allegedly spot Phoebe Bridgers and Bo Burnham collectively

Amid breakup rumors about Bridgers and Mescal, nameless gossip account Deux Moi started sharing messages from followers claiming to have noticed the singer and Bo Burnham spending time collectively in varied spots round Los Angeles.

One message claimed that Bridgers and Burnham had been seen “cuddling” on the Magic Citadel membership, whereas one other mentioned they had been kissing at a dive bar.

December 12, 2022: Matty Healy kisses Phoebe Bridgers in entrance of Bo Burnham

That very same month, the singer appeared in an Instagram photograph shared by Matty Healy, by which she and The 1975 frontman share a kiss in entrance of Burnham.

“Homosexual Poets Society,” Healy captioned the publish, referencing the 1989 movie Lifeless Poets Society. Within the photograph, Bridgers and Healy kiss whereas Burnham stands behind them, a hand positioned on every of their shoulders.

On the time, Billboard reported that followers had been up in arms within the feedback, with some asking the place Mescal was.

December 19, 2022: Phoebe Bridgers and Bo Burnham are noticed collectively at a comedy present in New York Metropolis

Every week after they appeared in Matty Healy’s Instagram publish, Bridgers and Burnham had been seen attending a comedy present collectively in NYC. Jezebel reported that the pair sat collectively within the crowd of the one-woman present KATE, starring comic Kate Berlant, which was held on the Connelly Theater in New York, and directed by Burnham himself.

A Jezebel employees member within the viewers reported that after the play began 45 minutes late and was finally canceled, Burnham bought on stage to apologize after which sat down subsequent to Bridgers, the place he “proceeded to present her his undivided and doting consideration.” The reporter labeled the interplay as “flirtatious.”

November 17, 2023: Phoebe Bridgers and Bo Burnham are seen at a restaurant in Malibu

In January 2023, a photograph obtained by TMZ surfaced displaying Bridgers and Burnham at a restaurant collectively in Malibu two months earlier. Based on the outlet’s supply, the photograph was taken on Nov. 17, 2022, and the pair sat at a nook desk and talked till their to-go order was prepared, then left the institution.

January 13, 2023: Phoebe Bridgers and Bo Burnham are seen within the airport collectively

Shortly after asserting her father’s demise, Bridgers was noticed strolling by means of LAX airport together with Burnham. In an interview with Themin March, the singer recalled being “bullied” by followers whereas touring to her father’s funeral.

“I am coming from a spot of actually — I am feeling it in my physique as I am saying, however — folks with my image as their Twitter image, who declare to love my music, f—ing bullied me on the airport on the best way to my father’s funeral this 12 months,” she mentioned in an interview with boygenius bandmates Lucy Dacus and Julien Baker.

Bridgers didn’t specify the rationale behind her followers’ bullying, however the outing with Burnham got here amid rumors that she and Mescal had just lately cut up.

Might 2023: Phoebe Bridgers and Bo Burnham attend Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour

Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour cease in Philadelphia gave the impression to be a date evening for Bridgers and Burnham. Whereas hanging out within the VIP part of the viewers at Lincoln Monetary Area, the pair had been seen taking within the present due to a TikTok shared by nation star Keith City.

The musician posted a video of himself and his spouse Nicole Kidman dancing alongside to Swift’s track “Fashion” and the start of “Clean Area,” captioning his publish, “We love ya @Taylor Swift.”

Within the background of the video, Bridgers and Burnham will be seen collectively, with Burnham at one level pulling the singer in shut.

Might 23, 2023: Phoebe Bridgers responds to hypothesis about her love life

In a Might 2023 interview with the Wall Road Journal alongside along with her boygenius bandmates, Bridgers opened up in regards to the latest hypothesis over her private life.

“I’ve had folks take greater than I’m giving, and I’m giving rather a lot,” she mentioned. “I’m fairly f—– clear, as a result of I’d worth that in somebody whose music I preferred after I was a child. Seeing any illustration of any feeling and something true was superior to me. To be punished for that’s so darkish.”

June 2023: Keith City apologizes for posting video of Phoebe Bridgers and Bo Burnham as Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour

A month after by accident exposing Bridgers and Burnham’s date evening at Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour, City apologized throughout an interview with Leisure Tonight.

“Yeah, oh, I came upon,” he mentioned when requested in regards to the incident. “Phoebe, I am so sorry.”

“It felt very awkward,” City continued. “I felt unhealthy. I used to be simply digging on the live performance! You by no means know what’s gonna occur.”

August 6, 2023: Phoebe Bridgers posts a photograph with man assumed to be Bo Burnham

Regardless of being noticed in public a number of occasions collectively, Bridgers and Burnham managed to maintain their romance low key — till the “Movement Illness” singer apparently “soft-launched” the connection on Instagram.

On Aug. 6, 2023, Bridgers shared a black-and-white photograph to her Instagram Story that confirmed the musician seated on a piano bench along with her arm round a person seated subsequent to her. The picture is taken from behind and Bridgers didn’t tag Burnham, so followers can’t make certain that it’s him.

Nonetheless, as Self-importance Honest identified, the photographer reposted the photograph to her personal story and added a coronary heart emoji, main many to consider that Bridgers was subtly confirming the romance.