![]() ![]() The opening verse of "Leonard Cohen," for example, narrates a long drive they took during which Bridgers urged them all to listen closely to a song she adored and then, having gotten so absorbed in her listening, missed their exit. Many songs on the record were written directly about experiences the three have shared. ![]() Music Interviews On its full-length album 'the record,' boygenius' friendship has never been stronger Or in the touching last line of "Leonard Cohen," another Dacus-led song dedicated to her bandmates: "I never thought you'd happen to me." Bridgers describes writing that first boygenius EP that way, in a Rolling Stone profile: "It was not like falling in love," she says, "It was falling in love." You can hear a reverence for friendship when Dacus sings, "It feels good to be known so well" on the standout single "True Blue." Or in the video for "Not Strong Enough," composed of footage they shot of a day spent together at an amusement park - making each other laugh, posing for goofy photos, falling asleep on each other's shoulders. Perhaps that sounds like terrain usually reserved for romance, but these are love songs. ![]() More than just the topic of many of these songs, friendship is the spark that animates its deepest inquiries and the force that grounds its existential questions about how we care for each other, why we choose each other and how this kind of closeness can transform us. and neither am i." Sometimes friendship is simply another word for finding your kind of psycho.įriendship is not the backdrop for the record, or merely context for its creation. The Venn diagrams overlap in 'Every day for a month.' " I hear echoes of her words in a viral tweet that, for me, sums up close friendship immaculately: "me (insane) talking to my friend (also insane): ur not insane. In the bio that accompanies the album, Baker lovingly says the hardcore recording schedule is the result of the songwriters - whose tight-knit friendship predates their supergroup and grew, in part, out of their shared early experiences in the music industry - being "at least one type of the same psycho. They spent 10 hours in the studio per day, every day, for a month. Baker made a Google Drive each member started adding songs by January 2022, the three of them went to Malibu, Calif. After that, each member went back to her individual career - Baker and Dacus each released level-up third records Bridgers collaborated with everyone from Conor Oberst to Taylor Swift, and her sophomore solo album earned her Grammy nominations - and all politely declined to answer frequent questions about when the band was getting back together.īut in June 2020, unbeknownst to the rest of the world, Bridgers tentatively sent Baker and Dacus a demo of a new song and asked if boygenius could be resurrected. "My life is defined by my friends," Dacus recently told Weekend Edition, and, at its heart, the record - the band's aptly titled first full-length album - is a celebration of that fact.Įach of the three members of boygenius had promising solo careers when they formed the group in 2018 and released a self-titled EP, critically acclaimed for its elegant songwriting and rapturously beloved by fans who saw the trio as a whip-smart Holy Trinity of indie rock. The first track on boygenius' record poses a question, sung by three voices in harmony: "Who would I be without you?" It's not that the three songwriters of boygenius - Julien Baker, Phoebe Bridgers and Lucy Dacus - want to imagine possible futures or interrogate the past instead, they're asking the question as a reminder to cherish our most formative relationships, to honor the vital role these intimacies can play in shaping our very sense of self. On the record, the members of boygenius craft songs about how we care for each other, why we choose each other and how this kind of closeness can transform us. ![]()
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