#God gave rock and roll to you cover full#
They’ve resisted the label “supergroup,” even while acknowledging that “side project” is too minimizing a term for an album that they’ve all set aside a full year to promote. (The Nirvana comparison continues beyond the outfits.) The cover of “the record” is a photo of the three musicians’ matching tattoos of teeth, inspired by their 2018 song “Bite The Hand,” about pushing away intrusive fans. The boygenius members have all, in the past, publicly expressed an allergy to the commodification and cultishness that comes with becoming a phenomenon. We are in the golden age of the guest verse, whereas the supergroup, in which each member has the charisma and the billing of a front person, feels a bit like a throwback. Musical collaborations still happen all the time, but they tend to manifest as transient collisions between solo artists. The “rock band,” as an object of public fascination, feels a bit archaic these days.
When Rolling Stone announced the LP, earlier this year, they did so by putting Bridgers, Baker, and Dacus on the cover, styled in the exact same suits that the members of Nirvana wore for their iconic 1994 cover of the magazine.
Although the band’s name is another sardonic reference, to the inflated praise that tends to adhere to young male rock musicians, boygenius now finds itself in the ironic position of being the object of its own kind of fated cultural anointment. So, when they finally did, the record became “the record,” an LP released on Friday-its title a punch line about the impossible weight of making music under such outsized anticipation. Still, for the past five years, they have fielded constant inquiries about whether they’ll be getting back together to make a full-length record. The women only played a handful of tour dates as a unit before splitting off to make new solo albums. Newsweek declared them “the year’s most promising indie-rock supergroup.” NME called the project “astonishing” and gave it five stars. After crossing paths while touring, they released a twenty-two-minute, self-titled joint EP, in 2018, and found themselves the subject of furious hype. The three singer-songwriters who make up the group- Phoebe Bridgers, Julien Baker, and Lucy Dacus-are all successful solo indie-rock stars, who have amassed overlapping but highly specific fan bases over the past decade. The title of the first full-length boygenius album, like many aspects of the band’s fledgling lore, is a playful little in-joke that functions as both a wink and a provocation.
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