At Their Live Show, Boygenius Built a Culture of Selective Intimacy

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At Their Live Show, Boygenius Built a Culture of Selective Intimacy
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'Despite how fans may act online or in person at concerts, they’re able to maintain a distance. They show us what they want to show us, they move how they want to move.'

already — it’s the foundation, the backdrop for almost every song in their discography. But it’s interesting to see how that dynamic plays out in a set full of inside jokes, self-referential lyrical asides, recurring motifs and repeated-with-a-twist lines.

The story of Boygenius unfolded over two hours, unraveling what it is to be known, unraveling a bit of the inscrutability that makes true friendship so extraordinary. But watching a friendship isn’t the same as being inside it, and Boygenius don’t seem to want us to be. Fancams permeate TikTok of Baker and Bridgers pressing foreheads together, or Dacus and Bridgers sharing a kiss.

Boygenius seem to delight in these contradictions. They wrote “Bite the Hand” to call out obsessive fan culture, and then showed live footage of screaming fans as they played it; at Forest Hills, one fan held up a sign asking Dacus for a date. On “We’re in Love,” Dacus sets a scene of going to karaoke alone to sing the song they wrote about her, and hoping that no one sings along. “I hope I’m not a regular,” the line goes. And the crowd of thousands sang along at full volume on a Saturday night.

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