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 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 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 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.
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
@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’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'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)
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!
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
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.
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.
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 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
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
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 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
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.
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.)
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
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!
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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 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 ❤
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. 😌👏🏽
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.
when I tell ya I got chills….. CHILLS hardcore. Feel like I can throw away my Prozac and just watch this everyday w this amount of joy and like hope it gave me if that makes sense?? I adore this amazing group and will follow them forever. overall rating: BMS also … SEE U GUYS @ RED ROCKS 🎉🌄 Anybody else going to red rocks show??
This is giving me "fuck you, love me" energy that i needed to keep working through my album. Thanks complex souls. HAIL TO THE GUARDIANS OF THE WATCHTOWERS OF THE NORTH, I INVOKE THEEEEEEE
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 🤘🏼
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
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 😳
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!
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
big moment for doc marten wearers
i like your profile picture!
FRRR
got mine on rn
pretty much christmas tbr
THE PFP
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
@Kim Held taylor swift on folklore:
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.
True Blue had me bawling. Huge day for annoying people thank you Kirsten Stewart and boygenius ❤
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.
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
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!?! 😅😢😂
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
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.
need this in theaters so bad
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.
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.
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. 💙
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? 😄❤️
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'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)
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!
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
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.
10 years later I still get chills ❤
LMFAO? 😭😭😭
@lions for scottie definitely a bot
Helppp
This is unnecessarily funny
Me in 10 years
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
Omg the ending with all the paint was so visually stunning. I absolutely loved this 💙
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.
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.
It feels good to be known so well 💙💙💙
💙
love this line💙
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 ‼️
A film?? This Boygenious thing is getting out of hand and I'm here for all of it.
This whole album makes me nostalgic for the girlhood of my 20s, if that makes sense.
Amen.
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
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’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 😮🤷♂️🤣
And then in the next song True Blue it goes “When you don’t know who you are, you fck around and find out” 😭
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 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
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.
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.)
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
"I can't hide from you like I hide from myself." Jesus...that line slays.😢
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!!
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
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.
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!
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.
I needed this. Thank you. 💜
i want a friendship like these three. beautiful people. thanks you boys and kristen stewart holy shit.
Sapphic excellence ✨🥺 so much love and warmth even with the tough sad themes brought through their music ❣️
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.
QUE PERFEIÇÃO!
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.
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
They're literally masterpieces in human form , so pure 💙
I’m so proud of them oh my GOD the record is insane
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
This and the rest of the album are doing something to me I haven’t felt in a *very* long time
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
What a perfect visualization of these songs. True artists woking with a true artist. Wow.
cried so hard at this TOO CUTE
I HOPE YOU GUYS KNOW THAT IM NOT GETTING OVER THIS EVER
these boys sure are geniuses
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
Descobrir elas foi a melhor coisa que já me ocorreu
aaaa perfeito demais ❤️🇧🇷
love to see such strong female friendships😊
Powerful shit. Kudos to Kristen and all the people who created this
i’m absolutely stable right now!! thank you so much boygenius!!
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).
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 ❤
What a great band. Loved the EP and just bought this record.
I fell in love with them before I even heard their music... I am almost driven to tears WOW
I knew this was going to be good, but dammit, I didn't expect this awesomeness. The songs and video are amazingly beautiful.
I feel more love for this than I can somehow express.
Perfeito! 💖
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.
This is immaculate. Thank you for sharing it with us.
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. 😌👏🏽
Great job lads. It is so good to see you doing projects together and enjoying it!
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.
perfeição existe e se chama boygenius-the film
being a fan girl is so much fun like seeing julien baker immediately improved my mood
truly such a good mv. my absolute favorite. i don’t even have words i’m in love with the entire project
Love is just pouring out of this. It cannot be contained. Thank you.
when I tell ya I got chills….. CHILLS hardcore. Feel like I can throw away my Prozac and just watch this everyday w this amount of joy and like hope it gave me if that makes sense?? I adore this amazing group and will follow them forever.
overall rating: BMS
also … SEE U GUYS @ RED ROCKS 🎉🌄
Anybody else going to red rocks show??
This is giving me "fuck you, love me" energy that i needed to keep working through my album. Thanks complex souls. HAIL TO THE GUARDIANS OF THE WATCHTOWERS OF THE NORTH, I INVOKE THEEEEEEE
Just... thank you. Your music means a lot to me.
Only four things in life are certain: birth, death, change, and boygenius never disappointing.
This is awesome. I can’t say why really but all the feels. These three are so special together.
must've been so fun to record this omg i love them.
THEY GOT ME UNTIL THE KISSING ON THE MOUTH PART IM SCREAMING
I'M ACTUALLY SHAKING IN TEARS. THANK YOU BOYGENIUS I LOVE YOU
I watch this at least once a day ever since it came out 🥹