Lucy Dacus is releasing her new solo album Without end Is A Feeling subsequent week, and in a brand new article within the New Yorker centered on the album, she confirms a longstanding rumor: She’s relationship her boygenius bandmate Julien Baker. The 2 singer-songwriters have typically been noticed collectively within the months since boygenius went on indefinite hiatus following final 12 months’s large Grammy haul, and on-line detectives have typically speculated about their romantic involvement. Now, journalist Amanda Petrusich’s Dacus profile makes it plain: “Dacus is now in a dedicated relationship with Baker.”
Within the piece, Dacus says she and Baker have saved the connection non-public and that followers have principally revered their boundaries, however “it solely takes a handful to make your life really feel like a extremely simply threatened factor.” She provides, “I’ve been working towards not reinforcing that narrative to myself.” She explains that a lot of the brand new album is about falling in love with Baker: “It’s been attention-grabbing, as a result of I wish to shield what’s treasured in my life, but in addition to be sincere, and make artwork that’s true. I believe possibly part of it’s simply trusting that it’s not in danger.” After pausing, she rephrases that thought, with a nod to a brand new track that references Baker’s hometown of Memphis: “Possibly a more healthy approach to consider it’s that it’s not truly fragile. These songs are about totally different folks. However, you understand, ‘Most Needed Man In West Tennessee’ — what are you gonna do?”
Dacus and Baker stay collectively in Los Angeles, house base of their different boygenius bandmate, Phoebe Bridgers. One interview for the story occurred on the Huntington, an artwork museum, library, and botanical backyard in San Marino. As Petrusich factors out, Bridgers mentions the place in her Punisher monitor “Backyard Track.” “Now we have memberships as a result of Phoebe gave them to us for my birthday,” Dacus says. That’s enjoyable.
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