Kaav🌒

i feel like it’s very clearly explained in lucy’s press release in that very post you sent me. i’ll try to put it into words.

the quote lucy’s put in the sleeve is “to love a mortal being is to cast one’s lot with the temporary.” as explained in julien’s favorite love song, options by pedro the lion, you never know if a relationship is going to work out for sure, and acting like it’s certain is sort of impractical. having an exit strategy can be good, because love is always a gamble. it’s uncertain and impermanent and human, because the people involved are human. but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t do it again and again, that you shouldn’t try, that you shouldn’t surrender to it. see best guess, as well as julien’s songs ringside and bloodshot for her more pessimistic take on that same theme.

this album’s thesis is lucy’s attempt to reconcile that idea with her conviction that true love exists and is real. in fact, it permeates everything. it comes into her life again and again. see direct address. it’s inescapable, fated—it defies death and lives on in reincarnation. see please stay, we’re in love. and in some cases, it’s the “great disruptor”—so extreme as to live on for years and ultimately provoke the kind of yearning and realization that forces her to overturn her life and that of her lover’s. see big deal, limerence, ankles.

she said it herself: she wants love, warm and forever. but how is a romantic like her to reconcile a desire for a true love that lasts forever with the knowledge that nothing so mortal ever could last forever—and a partner who is so preoccupied with anxiety about its temporary nature?

boygenius: we're taking a break, you know... to work on solo stuff. we said we'd do that eventually.