I love the concept of friendship in this whole presentation. I can't help but feel nostalgic for the friendships I acquired in my twenties when I watch Boygenius videos and interviews. Thanks for bringing me back to that time. I love the line in True Blue "When you don't know who you are, you fuck around and find out". How do they always know how to say things so well? Wishing the band so much success with this album.
For artists who write pretty directly, it's a particularly clever line. It's as easy to take it in a sad way or a messy, but hopeful way. Here's hoping we all find a way to surround ourselves with people who strengthen us.
I loved this! Here are my reaction to each song: 1. Aww, they seem like really good friends! 2. Aww, they seem like really good friends! 3. Aww, they seem like REALLY good friends!
Truly beautiful. I really liked the dreaming imagery along with the different stories told in each song. It fits very well. Like, Julien sleeping and dreaming of leaving that place and then finally leaving in that blue car that shows up in Phoebe's story, whom wakes up to a realization about a relationship and burns the lie or the story she believed she was in, very simbolic since the fire she started was showed previously in $20. Also, I love that she's wearing pijamas. And finally, Lucy seems like she's daydreaming about someone she loved or she really cared about. Kissing the people she loves in that point of her life (Julien & Phoebe) is also simbolic, since the lyrics in that moment are "I can't hide from you like I hide from myself", showing the trust they have for one another because they know each other very well. The end is very on point too, just three pals waking up from their different stories where they help each other even when they were not being conscious of it. Just my interpretation. ✨
I love the throughline of them populating their lives and memories with one another; helping each other get rid of and change things they no longer need; and helping each other feel loved, comforted, and beautiful.
I’m a 50-something Gen Xer and not really sure why this “film” popped up in my feeds, but I’m glad it did! The songs are all great, but I especially liked the one with the monster truck thing going on in the background. Enjoy the music of your era: it will become the soundtrack to your life!
I'm similar in demographic and this is the soundtrack of my current life. They're incredible and immediate and make me nostalgic, sad, happy, all the feels.
I know how loud monster trucks are. It's funny to imagine Phoebe singing softly to herself while surrounded by vehicles so shatteringly noisy it'll vibrate your whole ribcage from 20ft away.
@R Cusick Sometimes I fee like Phoebe is more KEEP IT COOL, DON'T SHOW TOO MUCH while Julien and Lucy can be childish in behavior and not so restrained, I don't know if it's correct observation, how do you think? 😄❤️
I love the ways that each of their unique vibes are captured in each part. It especially stands out to me with Phoebe. That consistent undercurrent of brutality that she often brings really shines - like, for example, in the shot of her in True Blue. Paint splattered on her clenched fist and face like blood spatter. Beautiful
rlly hoping watching this will feel like shedding my skin cells and becoming a new person. or not honestly as long as kristen stewart is directing i wont be disappointed
When they all kissed i got goosebumps. Heart touching, making all the songs together like a film is masterpiece. Thank you phoebe bridgers for making me listen to boygenius. And also to Birdy who first post her favourite songs list in Instagram post and there i found Funeral by Phoebe, and the life for me was not the same since.
boygenius es la prueba de que la música está viviendo un momento único y especial, hay muchísimos solistas/bandas nuevas haciendo una música increíble más allá de lo que escuchan todos. Enhorabuena, ojalá la gira llegue hasta la Argentina.
@Mario Soldevilla gracias por las recomendaciones, hace muy poco descubrí a Gracie Abrams, Maggie Rogers, Lizzy McAlpine... si conoces más de este estilo te lo agradeceré!
I'm no physicist, but when this much talent occupies the same space isn't it supposed to collapse into a neutron star or something? Every other musical "supergroup" can just sit down now. (PS: Kristen Stewart, please direct more things already. Your compositions and color choices are staggeringly beautiful)
when you are such great friends that you show up and help each other out in one another’s dreams i can only imagine what it feels like to have friends you feel so close to
i genuinely have never loved a band this much before, i also never realised how gay i truly was… this record is album of the decade for me, so many intricacies and attention to detail and love and sparkly melodic emotion which makes me grateful to be alive at the same time as it. ty. history is being made boys ‼️
I cannot wait to see them live this summer! Three of my favorite artists ever and they’re close friends making beautiful, transformative art together! What’s unique about each of them still shines through when they collaborate, and I’m so grateful I found each of their work.
Should have been huge. Best album of the year so far, but in the UK it only made it to number 85 in the charts apparently 😮. It should be number one for months !
i love the way everyone played with time in this film. this is one of those films where i want to be so inspired by it that it makes me jump into action and be who i want to be, but it reminds me that everyone else is just as much on the ground as i am and that every now and then we break through when its right and even when its wrong. in other words, thank you for sharing your love and pain with the rest of the world
i will not shut up about the little details in this. how the sweater of young lucy in $20 has the blue paint from true blue, young phoebe wearing striped shorts pouring gas around the house like in emily i’m sorry. WHAT A MASTERPIECE IM LOSING MY MIND
I am crying. I love these humans so much. I just purchased the book Bluets by recommendation of one of Kristen’s interviews about literature and I think it’s gonna make True Blue even more emotional
I was just going to comment about how much I loved that in each song, in the end they're all together in a beautiful friendship, and I just loved how much they love each other. But then the kiss AND kristen stewart directed?? I didn't think boygenius could top themselves, but they keep doing it!!
I wanna make a gay joke about boygenius "topping themselves," but your comment is so wholesome! (I'm a big gay if that helps, lol. Joking about my own people, obvs.)
It's been a journey falling in love with the boys, but something in me feels like I have known Lucy my entire life, and I just can't put my finger on it.
What an absolut joy to be able to experience this album and film release. The art you created touched me deeply. I'm gonna be watching this and listen to the record on repeat.
Mid 50s old school hippie here....the music, the video and the fact that women can be whatever they want, bi, pan, straight...shows me the world has changed and thats a good thing. We had the Indigo Girls,you guys have boy genius..love it!
after you watch it for the second time you catch on little details you didn't see before. like lucy being covered in blue tint on julien's dream and phoebe being saved of the fire she started herself 😮 really well thought
The new album is great. Will probably end up being my #1 of the last two years. Emily I’m sorry is such an amazing song. Hope they each continue to make great music.
My favourite three together again and revolutionising the music industry another time!!!! I’m so happy and yes, this album and video is all I’ll talk about for the next 6 months
111 is the time. This is the most beautiful thing I have ever seen. It makes me want to Believe in myself and my art. I take it for granted. And this is just more proof of what creating from the heart gets you. I love it. I am in love with it ALL! And that’s the greatest blessing I could ever hope to afford. Thank you everyone who contributed to this sensational masterpiece. I welcome you into my heart with authority, and wonder. 😌👏🏽
absolutely OUTSTANDING I feel like I have been invited to their friendship for a few minutes, and enjoyed of laughters after blues, and have been truly happy A masterpiece of art.
3:58-4:02 IS LITERALLY TAKEN FROM WE'RE IN LOVE! You could absolutely break my heart That's how I know that we're in love I don't need the symbol of a scar So put down the knife We're not swapping blood
This is brilliant from start to finish. The little details with how the visuals connect to the heart and lyrics of the songs….and how the three stories are interconnected….just so well done.
I love this so much. The casting of the kid versions of the boys 😊. But would have loved Aimee Mann or Sharon Van Etten as the mom ❤ killer album it’s nice that they wrote every song for me ❤
Here before it premieres! I am personally hoping for a dramatized origin story of each member and/or the band and some sick footage driving with the windows down 🤙
I like “the record”. But as someone who was 17 when Nevermind came out, it’s not even close in comparison (as far as cultural significance goes). Nirvana’s rapid rise to fame was a cultural phenomenon only reminiscent of something like Beatlemania or when Elvis broke.
I think we did it everyone. No need for new art/music anymore. Boygenius just summarized the human condition perfectly. What a relief right? Catch you all on the next evolution of consciousness.
What else can I say but thank you, thank you, thank you for this raw artistry that demands the validity of the queer socialized-female gaze and unapologetically dives head first. Tried and true blue, indeed!!!
Lucy Dacus continues to capture my childhood/teenagedom nostalgia not just with her music, but by showing me girls kissing on my computer.
Yes, because until now, it was absolutely impossible to find girls kissing on the internet anywhere.
absolute banger comment chefs kiss
@jeffsaddiction You don’t get it do you
@jeffsaddictionu don’t get it
To have this be directed by Kristen Stewart, it's really too much to bear
gay inception
this is my joker
Gay OD too much 🤣🫶🏽
Definitely looking forward to her feature directorial debut soon
What's great about Kristen Stewart. Not even a good actress..
It’s so heartwarming to see 3 boys just be boys with each other in a masculine totally friendly way ❤
Just guys being dudes ❤️
@Tardigrade 2020 Bros being bros ❤
reminds me of when i was called a homophobic slur the other day by other young rowdy boys who remind me so much of them❤
They really are smart, aren't they?
Dudes rock 🤘🏼
the part where the kids became phoebe and lucy actually killed me this is insane
l put my hamster in a sock and slammed it against the furniture
@TippyHippy yes
@TippyHippy 👁️👄👁️
@TippyHippy bruh
@TippyHippyoml i feel bad 4 that hamster 😳
These three lil guys always create art that leaves me entirely mentally stable!!! Amazing
Frrr
Someone love me as much as I love these three
the throuple kiss we didn't know we needed but the throuple kiss we DESERVE
nah I knew I needed it
You didn’t know you needed this? Speak for yourself 😌 I know what I want
Spoiler warning but okay thank you fast forwarding rn
Tfw absent father
big moment for doc marten wearers
i like your profile picture!
FRRR
got mine on rn
pretty much christmas tbr
THE PFP
I love the concept of friendship in this whole presentation. I can't help but feel nostalgic for the friendships I acquired in my twenties when I watch Boygenius videos and interviews. Thanks for bringing me back to that time. I love the line in True Blue "When you don't know who you are, you fuck around and find out". How do they always know how to say things so well? Wishing the band so much success with this album.
For artists who write pretty directly, it's a particularly clever line. It's as easy to take it in a sad way or a messy, but hopeful way. Here's hoping we all find a way to surround ourselves with people who strengthen us.
yea "fuck around and find out" could refer to self-discovery or self-destruction. clever double entendre.
Same same same! I loved that line too! Boygenius FTW!
what was more culturally significant the renaissance or boygenius's 'the film' directed by kristen stewart?
that all of them were born male is definitely culturally significant
we both know the answer to that one
@kenya christensen indeed, the Renaissance was legendary
@TruthStream me when I lie
would they allow this in a high school in florida?
If these boys legit announced they were a throuple I think the world and all of humanity would truly begin to heal, fr fr
I was tripping once and it was a real epiphany I had
@Kim Held LOOOOOL
As a 50 year old metal head for whom this record was not written- This was stunning.
Thanks for keeping your curiosity and openness. I am meeting more of us lately and it gives me hope!😊
Phoebe confirmed it herself it’s dad music if that helps
spoiler alert: you ARE the target demo lol
Just 36 and more of a punk guy but yeah, I get the same feeling. There's something really earnest about these 3.
I loved this! Here are my reaction to each song:
1. Aww, they seem like really good friends!
2. Aww, they seem like really good friends!
3. Aww, they seem like REALLY good friends!
Lol! Reeeally!?! 😅😢😂
need this in theaters so bad
Our boys being authentically our boys. Love is love and I love our boys!
So real Julia
julia i saw your comment on the for whatever reason channel i love you
just dudes being dudes, you know
@jennatols_ do you know what happened to the for whatever reason channel?? i cant find it.
True Blue had me bawling. Huge day for annoying people thank you Kirsten Stewart and boygenius ❤
This album feels like a second chance.
I want this to be top comment.
i love this comment
what a beautiful fucking thing to say
ONE HUNDRED.
God.
Truly beautiful. I really liked the dreaming imagery along with the different stories told in each song. It fits very well. Like, Julien sleeping and dreaming of leaving that place and then finally leaving in that blue car that shows up in Phoebe's story, whom wakes up to a realization about a relationship and burns the lie or the story she believed she was in, very simbolic since the fire she started was showed previously in $20. Also, I love that she's wearing pijamas. And finally, Lucy seems like she's daydreaming about someone she loved or she really cared about. Kissing the people she loves in that point of her life (Julien & Phoebe) is also simbolic, since the lyrics in that moment are "I can't hide from you like I hide from myself", showing the trust they have for one another because they know each other very well. The end is very on point too, just three pals waking up from their different stories where they help each other even when they were not being conscious of it.
Just my interpretation. ✨
love this
great analysis, u d best
Yea I think $20 went over my head a little at first. Thanks for your interpretation
Thank you for taking the time to read my thoughts. You are all so nice!
This is spot on, I love this so much
I love the throughline of them populating their lives and memories with one another; helping each other get rid of and change things they no longer need; and helping each other feel loved, comforted, and beautiful.
I’m a 50-something Gen Xer and not really sure why this “film” popped up in my feeds, but I’m glad it did! The songs are all great, but I especially liked the one with the monster truck thing going on in the background. Enjoy the music of your era: it will become the soundtrack to your life!
this is so sweet omg
oh this is so cute
I'm similar in demographic and this is the soundtrack of my current life. They're incredible and immediate and make me nostalgic, sad, happy, all the feels.
it's Emily, I'm sorryy :)
I know how loud monster trucks are. It's funny to imagine Phoebe singing softly to herself while surrounded by vehicles so shatteringly noisy it'll vibrate your whole ribcage from 20ft away.
Lucy's reaction to the fire starting at 7:41 is pretty funny. They're looking all serious, but for a moment you can see her thinking, "fire, nifty".
LMFAOOO
She’s really like 👁️👄👁️
Hahahaha, I didn't notice, love you people seeing details 😂❤
In fairness, fire is pretty fuckin' nifty.
@R Cusick Sometimes I fee like Phoebe is more KEEP IT COOL, DON'T SHOW TOO MUCH while Julien and Lucy can be childish in behavior and not so restrained, I don't know if it's correct observation, how do you think? 😄❤️
48 year old dad and I got my 23 y.o. daughter into these boygeniuses. Love them - there's so much tenderness here.
Hell yeah dad.
10 years later I still get chills ❤
LMFAO? 😭😭😭
@lions for scottie definitely a bot
Helppp
This is unnecessarily funny
Me in 10 years
By 12 minutes into this I felt my entire life beginning to heal
Music has that magical power. Not a lot else does sadly
I love the ways that each of their unique vibes are captured in each part. It especially stands out to me with Phoebe. That consistent undercurrent of brutality that she often brings really shines - like, for example, in the shot of her in True Blue. Paint splattered on her clenched fist and face like blood spatter. Beautiful
Absolutely poetic. From the blue fabric to the blue walls. A transfer of color. Lucy Dacus is just beautiful, too. 💙
rlly hoping watching this will feel like shedding my skin cells and becoming a new person. or not honestly as long as kristen stewart is directing i wont be disappointed
update: i am anew
@CWUNSHINE congratulations i wish the best on your new journey
hoping the same happens to me rn
When they all kissed i got goosebumps. Heart touching, making all the songs together like a film is masterpiece. Thank you phoebe bridgers for making me listen to boygenius. And also to Birdy who first post her favourite songs list in Instagram post and there i found Funeral by Phoebe, and the life for me was not the same since.
Omg when did birdy post that? Awesome
“I’m twenty-seven and I don’t know who I am” this line hit me so mf hard
Im 61 and I dont know who i am either 😮🤷♂️🤣
boygenius es la prueba de que la música está viviendo un momento único y especial, hay muchísimos solistas/bandas nuevas haciendo una música increíble más allá de lo que escuchan todos. Enhorabuena, ojalá la gira llegue hasta la Argentina.
Que vengan al Primavera en Brasil y Argentina!
Manifestando desde ahora que vengan al Primavera Sound
Asi es amigo. Este año han salido buneos albums como el de Lana, Kali Uchis, Fever Ray, Unknown Mortal Orchesta, Melanie Martinez uff
@Mario Soldevilla gracias por las recomendaciones, hace muy poco descubrí a Gracie Abrams, Maggie Rogers, Lizzy McAlpine... si conoces más de este estilo te lo agradeceré!
I'm no physicist, but when this much talent occupies the same space isn't it supposed to collapse into a neutron star or something? Every other musical "supergroup" can just sit down now.
(PS: Kristen Stewart, please direct more things already. Your compositions and color choices are staggeringly beautiful)
It feels good to be known so well 💙💙💙
💙
love this line💙
when you are such great friends that you show up and help each other out in one another’s dreams i can only imagine what it feels like to have friends you feel so close to
no fr im such a loner 💀
i genuinely have never loved a band this much before, i also never realised how gay i truly was… this record is album of the decade for me, so many intricacies and attention to detail and love and sparkly melodic emotion which makes me grateful to be alive at the same time as it. ty. history is being made boys ‼️
This whole album makes me nostalgic for the girlhood of my 20s, if that makes sense.
Amen.
An amazing album! Can’t wait to make it my entire personality for the foreseeable future
Fantastic. Kristen Stewart gets more impressive with everything she does. Boygenius totally deserves this moment too, the record is phenomenal.
A film?? This Boygenious thing is getting out of hand and I'm here for all of it.
I cannot wait to see them live this summer! Three of my favorite artists ever and they’re close friends making beautiful, transformative art together! What’s unique about each of them still shines through when they collaborate, and I’m so grateful I found each of their work.
The record had me in tears. Absolutely stunning album with lyrics that really cut 😭 Music is phenomenal as is the creative film. They’re unstoppable
Please put a spoiler warning next time you comment. I did not want to know you opinions until you made a video.
Should have been huge. Best album of the year so far, but in the UK it only made it to number 85 in the charts apparently 😮. It should be number one for months !
i love the way everyone played with time in this film. this is one of those films where i want to be so inspired by it that it makes me jump into action and be who i want to be, but it reminds me that everyone else is just as much on the ground as i am and that every now and then we break through when its right and even when its wrong. in other words, thank you for sharing your love and pain with the rest of the world
My life won't be the same now that I've listened to the record and watched the film.
I love them so much and they do not get the credit they deserve.
Omg the ending with all the paint was so visually stunning. I absolutely loved this 💙
i will not shut up about the little details in this. how the sweater of young lucy in $20 has the blue paint from true blue, young phoebe wearing striped shorts pouring gas around the house like in emily i’m sorry.
WHAT A MASTERPIECE IM LOSING MY MIND
0:25 “Without You, Without Them” (Lucy vocalizing)
0:49 “$ 20” (Lead vocal: Julien Baker)
4:08 “Without You, Without Them” (Lucy vocalizing)
4:22 “Emily I’m Sorry” (Lead vocal: Phoebe Bridgers)
8:12 “True Blue” (Lead vocal: Lucy Dacus)
LOVE YOU GUYS!
I am crying. I love these humans so much. I just purchased the book Bluets by recommendation of one of Kristen’s interviews about literature and I think it’s gonna make True Blue even more emotional
"I can't hide from you like I hide from myself." Jesus...that line slays.😢
I was just going to comment about how much I loved that in each song, in the end they're all together in a beautiful friendship, and I just loved how much they love each other. But then the kiss AND kristen stewart directed?? I didn't think boygenius could top themselves, but they keep doing it!!
I wanna make a gay joke about boygenius "topping themselves," but your comment is so wholesome! (I'm a big gay if that helps, lol. Joking about my own people, obvs.)
It's been a journey falling in love with the boys, but something in me feels like I have known Lucy my entire life, and I just can't put my finger on it.
these boys sure are geniuses
Thank God for the release of this album, its so much cheaper to listen to than to go to therapy every week THANK U BOYGENIUS
What an absolut joy to be able to experience this album and film release. The art you created touched me deeply. I'm gonna be watching this and listen to the record on repeat.
QUE PERFEIÇÃO!
I thought I had reached peak excitement, and then I saw Kristen Stewart's name and my brain exploded. Thank you for making this exist.
i want a friendship like these three. beautiful people. thanks you boys and kristen stewart holy shit.
Mid 50s old school hippie here....the music, the video and the fact that women can be whatever they want, bi, pan, straight...shows me the world has changed and thats a good thing. We had the Indigo Girls,you guys have boy genius..love it!
I HOPE YOU GUYS KNOW THAT IM NOT GETTING OVER THIS EVER
after you watch it for the second time you catch on little details you didn't see before. like lucy being covered in blue tint on julien's dream and phoebe being saved of the fire she started herself 😮 really well thought
cried so hard at this TOO CUTE
i can proudly say my life was changed the moment i watched the film dir. kristen stewart and i haven’t even seen it yet
I WANT TO HAVE A 2 HOUR MOVIE WITH YOU GUYS AND KRISTEN STEWART DIRECTING IT
Great story telling in the music videos! Thank you Julien, Lucy, and Phoebe for the record!!
The new album is great. Will probably end up being my #1 of the last two years. Emily I’m sorry is such an amazing song. Hope they each continue to make great music.
Sapphic excellence ✨🥺 so much love and warmth even with the tough sad themes brought through their music ❣️
My favourite three together again and revolutionising the music industry another time!!!! I’m so happy and yes, this album and video is all I’ll talk about for the next 6 months
They're literally masterpieces in human form , so pure 💙
111 is the time. This is the most beautiful thing I have ever seen. It makes me want to Believe in myself and my art. I take it for granted. And this is just more proof of what creating from the heart gets you. I love it. I am in love with it ALL! And that’s the greatest blessing I could ever hope to afford. Thank you everyone who contributed to this sensational masterpiece. I welcome you into my heart with authority, and wonder. 😌👏🏽
absolutely OUTSTANDING
I feel like I have been invited to their friendship for a few minutes,
and enjoyed of laughters after blues, and have been truly happy
A masterpiece of art.
What a perfect visualization of these songs. True artists woking with a true artist. Wow.
being a fan girl is so much fun like seeing julien baker immediately improved my mood
3:58-4:02 IS LITERALLY TAKEN FROM WE'RE IN LOVE!
You could absolutely break my heart
That's how I know that we're in love
I don't need the symbol of a scar
So put down the knife
We're not swapping blood
oh my god
boygenius is so magnificent that I seriously don't want them to have solo careers for another 5 years. Do this and then go back (please).
Descobrir elas foi a melhor coisa que já me ocorreu
I watch this at least once a day ever since it came out 🥹
This and the rest of the album are doing something to me I haven’t felt in a *very* long time
I’m so proud of them oh my GOD the record is insane
i’m absolutely stable right now!! thank you so much boygenius!!
Pride month came early this year 🌈
love to see such strong female friendships😊
sinceramente, a melhor coisa que eu já vi
shaking and crying i love them so much
This is brilliant from start to finish. The little details with how the visuals connect to the heart and lyrics of the songs….and how the three stories are interconnected….just so well done.
Powerful shit. Kudos to Kristen and all the people who created this
This is immaculate. Thank you for sharing it with us.
I fell in love with them before I even heard their music... I am almost driven to tears WOW
julien being the same height as the children is sending me
The record and the film are the best reasons to not fall asleep tonight 💙💙💙
I feel more love for this than I can somehow express.
I love this so much. The casting of the kid versions of the boys 😊. But would have loved Aimee Mann or Sharon Van Etten as the mom ❤ killer album it’s nice that they wrote every song for me ❤
Love is just pouring out of this. It cannot be contained. Thank you.
Here before it premieres! I am personally hoping for a dramatized origin story of each member and/or the band and some sick footage driving with the windows down 🤙
I knew this was going to be good, but dammit, I didn't expect this awesomeness. The songs and video are amazingly beautiful.
This record is 'Nevermind' for a new generation...at least it feels like it is...congrats Julien, Lucy and Phoebe, beautiful music❤️
I like “the record”. But as someone who was 17 when Nevermind came out, it’s not even close in comparison (as far as cultural significance goes). Nirvana’s rapid rise to fame was a cultural phenomenon only reminiscent of something like Beatlemania or when Elvis broke.
Beautiful people who make beautiful music.
This song is so gorgeous
Great job lads. It is so good to see you doing projects together and enjoying it!
I think we did it everyone. No need for new art/music anymore. Boygenius just summarized the human condition perfectly. What a relief right? Catch you all on the next evolution of consciousness.
truly such a good mv. my absolute favorite. i don’t even have words i’m in love with the entire project
Wow loved it😍. Congrats to the team involved in this. I'm mightily impressed with Kristen Stewart. Waiting for a feature film directed by her.
I didn't expect to feel as touched as I felt.
What else can I say but thank you, thank you, thank you for this raw artistry that demands the validity of the queer socialized-female gaze and unapologetically dives head first. Tried and true blue, indeed!!!