Exploring The “Boygenius Trilogy”
A deeper meaning behind the 3 song collaboration between Phoebe Bridgers, Julien Baker and Lucy Dacus?
CW: suicide
boygenius — the supergroup comprising of Phoebe Bridgers, Lucy Dacus and Julien Baker (three of the greatest current indie-rock stars) — have only released one project of entirely new material to date; their 2018 self-titled debut. The three have continued to release work together however; Baker and Dacus contributed backing vocals to Bridger’s ‘Graceland Too’, Dacus and Bridgers gave their backing vocals to Baker’s ‘Favor’ and, Baker and Bridger’s, most recently, added backing vocals to Dacus’s ‘Please Stay’.
Many fans have dubbed this the “boygenius trilogy” and wondered if there may even be a deeper meaning behind why the three decided to collaborate on these three tracks specifically.
While the choice of the three aforementioned tracks could just be a coincidence, there’s certainly common threads that run through each of them. Each of the three represent one of the darkest tracks on the respective albums they’re on (Bridger’s ‘Punisher’, Dacus’s ‘Home Video’ and Baker’s ‘Favor’). Each track, perhaps, contains the clearest, most overt references to suicide out of all the album’s tracks; ‘Graceland Too’ begins with the line ‘No…
