It always feels bad to miss the biggest concerts of the year – especially now that TikTok, Twitter, and Instagram users all enjoy shuffling concerts. Didn’t you get tickets to Harry Styles’ billions show at Madison Square Garden? You should at least watch everyone who airs the entire show every night. The same goes for everything from Adele’s Vegas residency and the fun-looking Bad Bunny shows last year. The depression we ticketless shared was almost comically strong.
The 2023 summer concert list is especially unmissable. Taylor Swift has embarked on her “Eras” tour, which has already kicked off an entire subculture online. Beyoncé’s Renaissance The tour starts this summer, and I still refuse to believe it happened to relieve the pain. Tickets for Blink-182’s final reunion round were difficult to find; Unexpectedly, so was Death Cab for Cutie and Postal Service’s double-headline anniversary show this fall. And Frank Ocean stars in this year’s Coachella, which kicks off this weekend; As a hungry fan, missing the live stream is especially painful.
Add one more artist you’re afraid to miss this summer: Boygenius. Phoebe Bridgers fans are huge. Lucy Dacus fans are huge. Julien Baker fans are huge. Put it all together as the women did in their so-called “supergroup” Boygenius, and you now have one of the most loyal fanbases in music. With the release of the band’s first full-length album earlier this month, we Baby Boys (the name I tried for us; let me know if it sucks) finally have something different to go crazy over beyond their 2018 EP.
But if strangers think about all the chatter around RecordDramatic as it was aptly named, they were not ready for what would happen when Boygenius’ long-awaited tour began. On Wednesday night, Bridgers, Dacus and Baker performed at Pomona’s Fox Theater, their first reality show since November 2018. If you were there, you would make sure everyone knew about it. And if you’re not, you let everyone know that too.
Lots of videos started popping up during the show itself, which I have a feeling about it, but that’s for another post. literally people they changed their username To brag about her participation in the Pomona show, the clips Boygenius has uploaded to Twitter are singing new songs like “$20”, “Cool About It” and “Letter to an Old Poet” with great fanfare.
Your mileage may vary by the volume of the crowd that already knows every word of every song. Such is the devotion of a Baby Boy.
Popular cuts from the previous EP were also noted, like the hit “Me and My Dog”.
People especially love to hear Bridgers start to wail; This is something he’s proven to be very good at since he released “I Know the End”, which is objectively the best track from his album in 2020. Punitive.
But it’s the moments between songs that cause the most envy. The Boygenius trio are known for their close-knit friendship, which partially inspired them to start the band in the first place. To see Julien Baker smiling on stage with his friends? Beauty is in motion. Apparently the group hug they do at the end of the show? We could cry!
Honestly, I wasn’t at the Pomona show last night, otherwise I’d be coming from my exuberant night instead of writing this post. No, I was on the couch eating chocolate eggs and watching Steak. I wasn’t alone – I was alone on the couch eating and watching a chocolate egg. Steak. However, there were a lot of Boygenius fans scouring social media last night and complaining about the fact that we weren’t on the show either.
The good news is that this was only the first stop of what Boygenius called the “Tour”. The bad news is that the next stops are at Coachella, where normal people can’t afford to go. Worse still, few other shows around the country are already sold out. But at least there will be tons of people live-tweeting every moment, and I wish we could see ourselves.
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