Phoebe Bridgers shares new song ‘On Video’ from Robert Pattinson film ‘Primetime’

Phoebe Bridgers has shared a new song, ‘On Video’, from the soundtrack to Primetime , the new A24 thriller starring Robert Pattinson .

The singer-songwriter wrote and performed the track specifically for the film, and it plays over the end titles of the film, which is released in the US today (September 25), before reaching UK cinemas on October 30.

‘On Video’ draws on elements of the original score for the film, composed by Ari Balouzian, and builds from a softer opening into heavier, distorted guitar textures before settling back down.

Primetime , directed by Lance Oppenheim and co-written by Oppenheim and Ajon Singh, is inspired by the rise of the controversial NBC series To Catch A Predator . Set in 2006, it stars Pattinson as journalist Chris Hansen, whose team posed as underage children online before confronting suspected sexual predators on camera.

Bridgers plays Del Harvey, one of the programme’s experienced decoys, marking her first substantial acting role in a feature film. Merritt Wever and Skyler Gisondo also star.

In NME’s four-star review of Primetime , Lou Thomas described Bridgers as “convincing despite only brief screen time”, while praising Pattinson’s portrayal of Hansen as “a queasy mix of oily and chilling”.

The review added that Oppenheim and Singh had turned the story into “a smartly acted and queasily effective drama”, concluding: “A tricky uncomfortable story, Primetime is unsettling but worth the effort.”

‘On Video’ arrives just over a month after Bridgers released her third solo album, ‘Lost Weekend’ , her first since 2020’s ‘Punisher’. The record subsequently became her first solo Number One album in the UK , also topping the Vinyl Albums Chart and Record Store Chart.