- 2025-04-02
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MUSIC
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Lucy Dacus Releases New Album “Forever Is A Feeling”
American singer-songwriter Lucy Dacus released her fourth studio album “Forever Is A Feeling” on March 28, 2025 via Geffen Records.
This marks her first album in four years since the 2021 album “Home Video”. Also it is her major label debut as a solo artist.
Additionally, the album follows her band boygenius' debut album “The Record”, which was released in 2023 and won Best Alternative Music Album at the 2024 Grammy Awards. boygenius announced an indefinite hiatus in February 2024.
The album comprises 13 songs, featuring collaboration with Irish singer-songwriter Hozier. Produced by Lucy Dacus, Jake Finch, Andrew Lappin, Blake Mills, Collin Pastore, and Bartees Strange.
Also, her bandmate Julien Baker and Phoebe Bridgers joined in the album as background vocals.
Lucy Dacus said of the album, “I wrote and recorded a lot of this during boygenius, and it was my little personal secret. Like, a lot of the recordings were breaks between tours. We ended a US tour, and I just, like, stayed in Nashville and recorded a bit. So, I think that slow crossfade of, like, working with them, working on my own things.”- She continued, “I got kicked in the head with emotions. Falling in love, falling out of love. You have to destroy things in order to create things. And I did destroy a really beautiful life. You can't actually capture forever. But I think we feel forever in moments. I don't know how much time I've spent in forever, but I know I've visited.”
Lucy Dacus told Apple Music about the album, “I want my life to be about love. It feels corny to say. But that's part of what this project is-the idea that talking about love is corny. I don't think love is all you need, but I do think you need it amongst everything else.” -
Lucy Dacus explained about some tracks for the album.
“Ankles”
“'Ankles' is all about wanting something you can't have, particularly someone you can't have, and trying to figure out how to let off that steam so that it doesn't explode and blow up your life. And that phase where your mind is going crazy and you're imagining all these things, but you're restricting what you actually do and want, trying to have self-control. It's much more sexy than I usually go for, but it's a fun little bop.”
“Limerence”
“Made a last minute call to put this one out too, I personally find it hard to listen to but I am very proud of it.”
“Modigliani”
“'Modigliani,' I wrote in the morning. I went to a museum, the Barnes Foundation in Philly, where there are a bunch of Modiglianis, and I started writing the song there, and then I went home and tested positive for Covid. So then I finished the song in my room, feeling really sorry for myself. Phoebe was on tour in Singapore, and I wanted to talk to her, but it just wasn't the right time. So, I just wrote her the song because I was missing her.”
“Talk”
“It's about being with someone for so long that you lose touch with each other, but the other person still expects you to have sex. And having that fear of, 'If I don't do this, the relationship is over, but maybe it's already over, because we can't talk anymore. That, to me, was a really dark, eternal question at a point in my life.”
“Best Guess” via PEOPLE
“'Best Guess' is the first time I say, “You are my girl,” female pronouns in a song. And so, I was like, “Let's just make it my bachelor party and I'm in a suit and room, and I have all of my suave men of honor around me.” [It's] kind of in this nineties Calvin Klein blown-out style evoking a little bit of one of my favorite music videos of all time, Janelle Monáe's “Q.U.E.E.N.,” which is all black and white, dancing and minimal set design, but just cool movement, basically.”
“Bullseye” featuring Hozier via PEOPLE
“To me, it reads as the ideal breakup, where you can remember all the reasons that you got together, and it’s not like they don’t apply - you still love the person, you still see why they’re so special - but it’s just not right anymore.
[It’s] kind of parallel to a mystery of why we fall in love with who we fall in love with. It’s a mystery why we fall out of love too sometimes. So, with all the goodwill in your heart, sometimes you still have to walk away. And so, it had to be a duet. It’s both people recognizing that and sorrowfully, but contentedly, walking away from each other.
I met him because he sang with boygenius in Boston, and we just kept in touch over text. I felt really nervous to ask him because I’ve never had a feature. I’ve had friends contribute, but never in the title, 'featuring' somebody else, and someone else whose career I admire so much. But from all the few interactions I had with him, I was like, 'This guy is a real one. I think he might be into the song. That might be enough.' And it was true. He heard the song, and he was like, 'I would absolutely love to do this.'”
“Most Wanted Man” via PEOPLE
“Literally the most revealing [song] is “Most Wanted Man”, because I think it makes it pretty plain as day that it's for Julien. I mean, she sings on it.”
“Lost Time” via PEOPLE
“'Lost Time' is the last song on the record, and basically I just say “I love you,” which feels really embarrassing to say. It's not poetic just saying the words “I love you” to anyone or into a song, there's no really getting around it. It's such a powerful, overweighted statement. And the sentiment of that song is basically, “All of the time that I knew I love you and didn't say is lost time.” That one feels really close to the heart.“
Painting by Will St. John - source : Apple Music
