On a March afternoon in a mattress store in the “Uncut Gems” part of Manhattan, Boygenius — the potent assemblage of Julien Baker, Lucy Dacus and Phoebe Bridgers — is trying on Victorian gowns. And when I write for other people, I’m playing Bananagrams.” “Yeah, well, that makes sense,” Bridgers says, cracking everyone up again, “because I f— suck at …
“The Record” by Boygenius The internet’s favorite indie girls welcome you into the brilliant, colorful world of Boygenius, again. Dacus and Baker seamlessly harmonize with Bridgers as she sings anxiously, “I’m 27 and I don’t know who I am /But I know what I want.” “Not Strong Enough” is an uptempo, guitar-heavy, folksy song focused on self-hatred and loathing where …
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When I asked Interscope Records to send me the liner notes for Boygenius’ first full-length album, The Record, I was perplexed at first to find that the lyrics were typed in an array of irritatingly bright colors. For example, on “Not Strong Enough,” the latest and catchiest of the singles that the indie supergroup released ahead of the album, Baker …
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