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The autumnal equinox isn’t until Saturday, but boygenius are ringing in the fall season a couple of days early with the chilling animated video for “Cool About It.”
Directed by Lauren Tsai, the clip features hauntingly gorgeous imagery, portraying the relationship between a dog and a toy with Tim Burton-esque imagery of stitched faces. “‘Cool About It’ is a beautifully melancholic and piercing song that puts words to feelings often unexplained,” Tsai explained. “It is an absolute dream to collaborate with the genius that is boygenius.”
“Cool About It” is the fifth track on The Record, the excellent full-length debut that the indie supergroup dropped this past spring. Julien Baker, Phoebe Bridgers, and Lucy Dacus spoke to Rolling Stone for boygenius’ January cover story, where they delved into their bond and the genesis of the album.
In one of her several interviews, Bridgers spoke about her “Cool About It” verse, particularly the line “Once I took your medication to know what it’s like.” “I really did,” she said. “I was seeing somebody who was on an antidepressant. It was a low point for me because there’s a part of myself that’s very impulsive, that scares me, where it feels like there’s no thoughts between having the idea to do it and action. It just feels like I have the idea and I do it. And that was one of those moments for me. It was cool to bring light to it in that song because I think it’s actually kind of funny. My verse just becomes immediately so dark, it slows down.”
Boygenius are days away from kicking off their fall tour, which begins with two nights in Boston on Sept. 25 and 26. They’ll make a special stop at New York City’s Madison Square Garden on Oct. 2, before concluding the trek at Los Angeles’ Hollywood Bowl on Halloween.
