Girlgenius
June 23, 2021

Lucy Dacus: Am I going to spend three hours spiraling or live the life?

"Maybe I do think that we're all headed towards doom, but it's not personal. You can also have fun. The benevolence of the black hole is just like, celebrate when you can and find warmth, comradery, solace, and cope how you must on our journey into the dark. Also, on a personal level, everybody dies" - singer-songwriter Lucy Dacus says in Them interview about here incoming solo album 'Home Video'. She explains - "whenever I get [in that apocalyptic mindset], I'm like, 'Wait, wait, wait, how useful is this?' Some days it feels useful to think about the future of mankind, and then other days I'm like, 'Man, I'm just a girl. I don't need to think about this'. Am I going to spend three hours spiraling about this or could I go outside and live the life that I would hypothetically like to protect?". She also talks about her "internalized homophobia", queerness, being brought up in a Christian family, and her boygenius bandmates Phoebe Bridgers and Julien Baker.