Music Tag

Earlier this week, boygenius – the women-led supergroup composed of Julien Baker, Phoebe Bridgers and Lucy Dacus – premiered The Film, a Kristen Stewart-directed short featuring three individual music videos from the band’s highly-anticipated full-length album, The Record, and their first release since their 2018 EP. For individuals who’ve been maintaining with boygenius’ queer antics for some time now, Stewart’s honourary addition to the family won’t come as a surprise: the band is built around female friendship, with Pulitzer-nominated novelist Elif Batuman writing the introductory essay to the album, while Paramore frontwoman Hayley Williams cameoed the trio’s Rolling Stone cover shoot. Suitably, boygenius also likes to poke fun at male hero worship: their band name is a wink-eyed reference to how...