Boygenius on songwriting, breaking rules, and holding each other accountable
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- Опубліковано 31 тра 2024
- Boygenius stops by the KROQ Studios to chat with host Kevan Kenney about their new album 'The Record,' upcoming tour and more! #boygenius #kroq
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I feel like everyone just brushes off how philosophical Julien is she’s so interesting to listen to
So so hot I love her
i was literally just thinking this before this video
Hard agree. I want to hear Julien’s thoughts on everything, she’s so insightful and sees beyond what’s obvious or surface level. Really respect the hell out of her intuition as much as intellect.
So true bestie.
yeah that boy is deep
I kinda just want boygenius to have their own podcast I love listening to them talk
LITERALLY WOULD LISTEN
IT would be so boring.
@@redrobotmonkeyok 😭
@@leeaaa27 Didn't you get my joke? 😪
Put Julien Baker in anything, and I'll listen to her she's so smart and funny
“not beating the being me allegations” god i love them
They're so well spoken I wish people like this actually existed
what.... do you mean? 🤔
@@lineapineajoking about how people aren't very smart in my everyday life
i wish boygenius was real
@@lineapineathey aren’t real??? Pretty self explanatory
So true
every time julien speaks i’m just so awed and emotional over how deeply she understands herself and others. and how eloquently she’s able to verbalize these understandings- i just am in awe of her and how she puts her whole heart into every single comment she makes, question she answers, etc.
Julien is so precious to me, anti-curse is legendary
I love them and their mutual anxious foot shaking
I’m always fascinated by them 🖤🖤 but Kevan did an amazing job at letting the boys dynamic show by never interrupting or asking weird/boring questions, he just went along with them in a way that never felt forced at all, I wish I could add spanish subtitles to this
Glad u enjoyed it
Such an overrated band.
Absolutely agree with you. Good journalists don’t interrupt to fill pauses. This is a great interview because we learned so much about the subjects. I thought Kevan was excellent. The band is always excellent.
@@redrobotmonkey ur overrated and clearly have poor music taste 😔
Love this sm but julien getting talked over constantly is physically painful
LITERALLY SAME i’m so hyper focused on her and i get so excited to hear her thoughts when she starts to talk but almost every time she doesn’t get to finish
I got frustrated on her behalf. I kept thinking , “y’all, let her speak,” gah…
Every single one of them has such obviously different neurodivergent qualities. Phoebe interrupts without meaning to (and JB does sometimes too -- sometimes getting talked over is because someone else isn't done, because she will do the "tangent where i was reminded of a thing!" thing, but she also backs down more easily), and the "i'm competitive but i hate games/pass-fail" thing is a very ADHD perfectionist quality. Lucy's 'I'm going to sound so dumb' about Google Drive and pattern recognition is like 'bb you sound autistic, it's okay :P' I'm not actually diagnosing them with these specific things, but would I be surprised if this entire band came back from a neuropsych assessment with overlapping diagnoses? NOPE. We flock together lol.
I do often want Julien to get to speak more (partially because I just love hearing her talk), but as someone who is OFTEN the one who finishes sentences as a sign of excitement and/or doesn't notice when someone's chiming in, that's 100% not her being cut off intentionally. Probably on their own time there's a lot more cross talk, or "what I was saying before was..." later, but in an interview they can't spend ten minutes going "oh no wait what were you saying? go ahead" "no you go ahead it's fine".
(Also, to be fair, the place Phoebe occupies in fame/pop/who she's been pitted up against is slightly different than how Julien or Lucy is generally positioned. People will talk the hell over you or just say exactly what you're saying when you're a younger femme person in any industry much less entertainment, so it's entirely possible she's had to be a little more aggressive about not backing down, out of necessity, and it just carries over a little in public spaces.)
@@faiglerhow I love boygenius for their lack of masking in interviews, it makes me feel so comfy!! Like if they can unmask in interviews and just be themselves and stim however they do than surely I can do the same in a restaurant or something ykwim. Off topic but ugh I just love them !!!
Lucy saying “I’m about to sound so dumb” and then describing part of a TOTALLY NORMAL ARTISTIC PRACTICE of documenting/collecting visual motifs in her environment that resonate with her or say something for her that language can’t… it’s peak self-effacing?
came for boygenius but stayed for the insightful interview questions. so refreshing to see someone get to the formal aspects of their work without gushing on them every other moment.
Thnx Michael much luv
only complaint is why did everyone keep talking over julien :( that guy's brain is ENDLESSLY fascinating to me i NEED to hear what she has to say ...
Agreed. I would love to attend a talk if she ever did one- subject doesn’t matter as much as her insights.
I’ve never seen a KROQ interview but I clicked on this because I LOVE boygenius, and I just have to say you are one of the best interviewers I’ve ever seen. You asked such good non redundant questions that were personalized but not too personal. I also loved how conversational the interview was!
Thanks molly! Appreciate u taking the time to comment
Can we please acknowledge how this is literally the best interview the boys have done?
I LOVE how the interviewer pulls his questions from other interviews in order to go deeper into what we already know about boygenius.
(Plus, he's kinda hot.)
Hell yeah Dave
@@kevankenney422 seriously. love how you delve deeper from prior questions. skillful!
phoebe pointing out gross with a lisp is why their lyrics are so good; they find the interest, the importance in mundanity
julien has such a way with words
I can’t w phoebe side-eyeing julien while saying we can’t ever drown again
the way julien talks oh my god
Julien is a literal angel
always an angel, never a god?
"a dog whistle for hot topic kids" lmao
Julian’s laugh makes me feel better.
this is my first video of this interviewer and he’s great! asked the best questions
Thanks Vanessa
how are they all so wholesome i'll never understand
they're total satanists😅 🦷🦷🦷
another banger interview from the boys 🫡
Thnx 4 watching
one thing about phoebe bridgers is that she will say “that’s the same guy” and we love her for it
This guy is such a good interviewer, he asks such in depth questions, and he lets them completely finish speaking. The boys are so amazing I am obsessedddd.
This guy should be the new Zane Lowe he is so insightful
Thnx Angela ❤
Thnx Angela ❤
Thnx Angela ❤
Omg that's so true
I find lucy so inspiring!!
I love them so much wtf. Also s/o to you Kevan for being a great interviewer! 🤝🏾🤝🏾🤝🏾
Really appreciated this guy's questions!
@@tomwhitham1538 same! And he knew when to let the conversation just flow rather just forcing his questions in. I’m no expert at all but I’ve watched a ton of interviews before and I really enjoyed this one.
Thank you I’m glad you enjoyed it
@@tomwhitham1538thanks Tom
@@Oakwoodrecordsmuch luv
These 20 minutes flew by.
Kevan had so many good questions, it felt so much more natural than most interviews
I think this interview confirms the boys need to start a podcast
i have the gnarliest crush on julien baker
She’s brilliant, in every way. Totally relatable. 👌🏽
What a great interviewer!
Thank you for the kind words
I also love how they talked about motifs they use in songwriting because I've noticed all of those, plus pheobe loving to mention songs like "'how soon is now' in an 80's sedan" in her lyrics and bringing that over to boygenius too in not strong enough
I love phoebe, girl I hate playing games too but I can be super competitive & like observing 😅
this is me to a T!
as someone who wants to be a journalist it's cool to see someone asking such thoughtful questions like i want to take notes on this!!!! also i love boygenius more than anything in the world
thnx abbie! best of luck :)
this was such a great conversation s/o to the interviewer
Thnx jbeale!
The interviewer did great with the questions & really allowing us to see the different personalities come out. ❤😂 it’s the genuine connection of the girls for me. That’s how you maintain a long lasting , healthy band
Glad u dug it
Awesome interviewer!!! Well prepared, insightful questions, and great instincts for when to build Qs off the conversation v. move on, and when to let them bounce ideas along themselves.
Thnx dexter
this was such a great interview i need more
Thnx 4 checking it out
phoebe putting on the sunglasses has the same energy as snoopy becoming joe cool
when this popped up on my recommended the title was cut off and just read "songwriting, breaking rules, and holding each other" which, also works
Phoebe Bridgers referring to the accidentes billboards all over LA has to be my favorite thing about this whole interview.
This is the best Boygenius interview, and it's because the interviewer did a brilliant job!
why are they all just the best?
LUCY 😍😍😍😍😍
Phoebe putting on Lucy’s glasses as a bit but keeping them on for much longer than the bit
this guy is such a good interviewer!!
Thnx emily 😊
"Always an angel, never a god" is such a fantastic line.
DAMN GOOD interview, Kevan, particularly in the face of such a collective of collective and individual genius. Subscribing for your prep, judiciousness, and delivery.
Rock on!
I LOVE Lucy's google drive stories. It's not weird, it was the same idea that created Pinterest, so there other people that think the same way.
Really impressed by Kevan’s interview skills
thnx sarah
omg they re so articulate i finally found some big sisters to look upto
Julien’s question about Lenore Cohen is on if the best dinner party/ ice breakers I’ve heard
love these guys
I LOVE LUCY
Why is julien cut by them.. every minute trying to open her mouth too 🙄🥴, also why the interviewer focus only on Lucy and Phoebe?
I've noticed this in other interviews too. Phoebe in particular seems to treat Julien like she's annoyed with her. It's painful to watch because Julien is my favorite and I think she must be protected at all costs lol
Also the interviewer didn’t ask Julien any directed questions…idk the vibes always seem so off towards Julien
I have my “suspicions” and of course I know nothing so that’s why I don’t say like “oh here listen to this hypothetical” but I had the same feelings initially and after talking w my partner my opinion on all this comes from a place of (queer human) love as well as immersive personal work towards deep understanding of “relationship” dynamics of all varieties, as well as things like non verbal communication between people, etc.
all this so to say you’re not wrong & I think the answer will be revealed as to why this is in due time for the boys; it makes me sad bc I see so much of this aspect of Julien when I look back on how I “show up” in a group setting & i hope it’s just a thing they all do now and then with her or somn, and that I’m just overthinking so hard.
@@mackgolia249i would love to hear more of ur thoughts on this, if ur willing to share. ik none of us know anything but i do keep noticing it and it bothers me and i’d love to hear someone else’s opinion
@@juliarose8693 I might be projecting, but even the way they perform their setlists (ie. the big 3 at the end of each set/what those songs invoke) seems reminiscent to me as sort of blurring the lines between friendship and romance (don’t get me wrong, I love this stuff- my first love came from something sort of similar in HS) and I don’t want to project my experience/feed into rumors bc what I see is a lot of gender roles at play that I’m all too familiar with being I’m a trans dude now on HRT. The sapphic yearning runs deep w the boys and I’m here for it.
maybe I’m projecting or wishfully thinking though so that’s why I encourage everyone to take shit on the internet w a grain of salt lol.
at the end of the day I want to protect all 3 of them fiercely & im sure there will be great (and hard) discussions ahead but that’s why the boys are so fantastic. I wish I had them when I was younger, but I’ll “settle” for now :)
Can’t wait for Friday’s show!!
God you can so tell when an interviewer actually does their research and watches other interviews!!!!
Glad u enjoyed it Georgina 💪
Great interviewer, great questions and love the boys 💜
5:00 is literally the whole point of everything. dope
I just can't put into words how much I love them. Every moment of every interview is so precious to me. When I watch them interact with eachother, I feel like I belong with them. Forever grateful to have found these beautiful humans
this was really good! my fave part is when Lucy says Toronto properly 😇
This interview is so good at his job
Thnx
I would love for them to put out boygenius live from Red Rocks! ❤❤❤
I know they haven't played that date, but that just means they have time to make it happen!
my boys
i love them sm
I love that they love HARDY. I never thought I’d see my two worlds collide like this.
Hardy rules
I love them so much
He asked the best questions…
:)
Such a great interview!
Appreciate u checking it out
Been waiting for this interview to post✨
It’s finally here!
Very interesting arguments, and funny, my compliments to all😊
I really appreciate the interviewer!!!
This is such a good interview this interviewer deserves a raise
I’m so excited about the Philly billboard shoutout, some of them here are absolutely wild 😂
man, i love boygenius
Lucy is the love of my life. Jfc
i have so many phoebe quotes to add to my book now
10/10 interviewer and interviewed
Glad u enjoyed the chat
What a great interview(er)
thnx 4 taking the time to check it out rose
how can someone not be overly obsessed with these guys
best interview yet
Stoked u dug it!
15:27 as someone from philly, i can confirm we have some unhinged billboards LMAO
I love them so much stop
yaaay
Great interviewer
I love them so much and also the interviewer kinda looks like Brandon Flowers
thats kinda insulting to brandon flowers
He kinda has the same face shape but he's definitely not as hot as Brandon
i wish boygenius was real
This interviewer is very good. Great questions
Appreciate the kind words
came in thinking he'd be standard issue questioner .but really just elevated the whole conversation. Almost like Rick Rubin sorta discussions!
My fav boys
yes lucy we can vaguley go behind the scenes
i’m from philly and i gotta say passing by the “want better sex?” billboard with your family in the car is impossible to ignore
Also from the Philly area and there have been some really rad syphilis billboards lately 🤣
i love Julien❤
okay.. zane lowe and this dude might be the only acceptable male interviewers. love this.
does anyone know what brand are phoebe's glasses?
how did i not know lucy lived/lives in philly? me currently living in philly 😍
"i love learning stuff but on my terms only" phoebe is so real for this😂
they just started guiding the interview themselves
10:44 the record deluxe when