Which Boygenius has the best songs on their new album? Wrong question.
That scale of attention can be unsettling enough on its own, but it’s been accompanied by much less positive pressures—from
to tabloid and social-media gossip about her relationships, particularly her reported engagement and then split with Irish actor Paul Mescal. So Boygenius in 2023 is a different sort of refuge than it was before. The three artists’ relationship has also become a site for undertaking, as Baker has put it, “a learning process to know the difference between being scrutinized and being seen.” It’s a concern that surfaces one way or another on nearly every song.
. The closing Bridgers-led track “Letter to an Old Poet,” for instance, begins with some of her usual ambivalent score-settling with some reprehensible ex, but it then makes a shift: It calls back to herEP highlight track “Me and My Dog,” and revises its abject line “I want to be emaciated” to a tentative assertion that “I want to be happy … I can’t feel it yet, but I am waiting” .
How a friendship of equals might warrant such hopes, in the face of life’s brutalities and disappointments, is the explicit subject of many of these songs. As Baker sings on the album’s penultimate track, it permits these young people with troubled pasts to “sound out the foreign character” of less fatalistic visions—“an incantation like an anti-curse/ or even a blessing.”The theme is especially pronounced on the songs led by Dacus.
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