Saya Gray joins Boygenius

2023-04-01 by Hugh G. Puddles STAFF | 30 Comments
The indie pop supergroup Boygenius confirmed today that they have added the Canadian-Japanese singer-songwriter Saya Gray to their ranks. The founding members of Boygenius (Julian Baker, Phoebe Bridges and Lucy Daćus) confirmed the news via their mailing list earlier today, and fans have been suggesting that a group selfie shared on Twitter two weeks ago, filtered monochrome with the caption #foreshadowing was in fact a classic example of foreshadowing.

Bridges shared the following from her Twitter account: soooooo excited to welcome @Sayaaa to boygenius today!!! never been one for optimism or sorority stuff, but let's just say her initiation is going to be w i l d #songwriting #workshop #tequila #guitar.

There has been no publicly known connection between Boygenius and Gray until this point. It is rumoured that Gray was first brought to Boygenius' awareness following the placement of her debut 19 MASTERS as #2 on Time magazine's AOTY list last year. Figures from across the industry have displayed a mix of reactions, from Sufjan Sevens spotlighting it as the most exciting thing to happen in indie music since Courtney Love and Julian Casablancas to Steve Albini sharing his view that the move was very K-On.

Boygenius' first LP the record dropped yesterday to moderate critical acclaim. Paste Magazine wrote that While the record delivers on the promise of those talents united—exceptional rock music by three sad-song experts—it doesn’t always sound more timeless than topical. Sputnikmusic has reached out to Boygenius' representatives regarding whether Gray's recruitment was primarily motivated by topical or timeless factors, but we have yet to receive a response.

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DadKungFu
Staff Reviewer
April 1st 2023
4816 Comments


Adding a member who makes better than average music was an unusual move for this group, hope it pans out for them

granitenotebook
Staff Reviewer
April 1st 2023
1271 Comments


Finally

JohnnyoftheWell
Staff Reviewer
April 1st 2023
60384 Comments


cannot wait for boygenius 2: 19 RECORDS

DadKungFu
Staff Reviewer
April 1st 2023
4816 Comments


Ye collab gonna be something

OverSlyZed91
April 1st 2023
342 Comments


Could have been Sasha Grey.

ArsMoriendi
April 1st 2023
41026 Comments


April Fools! idk maybe

neekafat
Staff Reviewer
April 1st 2023
26160 Comments


WOAH tg i know who that is thanks to a certain someone

Purpl3Spartan
April 1st 2023
8581 Comments


I will not be trusting any news thread that is published today

PotsyTater
April 1st 2023
10100 Comments


This will really up their song writing capabilities from 2/5 to 2.5/5

JohnnyoftheWell
Staff Reviewer
April 1st 2023
60384 Comments


Fun way to call someone a 4/5 songwriter

PotsyTater
April 1st 2023
10100 Comments


Wow ur gonnna make me do math

PotsyTater
April 1st 2023
10100 Comments


Ok so I retroactively assigned numbers to each songwriter to make it so they average out to a 2.5 and it works out that sayu is a 3, phoebe and julien are 2’s, and someone had to be a 2.5 so that it came out to a number that would round up to a total 2.5 and I’ve assigned that to Lucy because I have no idea who the fuck she is and it couldn’t possibly be phoebe or Julien

JohnnyoftheWell
Staff Reviewer
April 1st 2023
60384 Comments


this satisfies me enough to accept its verdict, excellent logic moment

PotsyTater
April 1st 2023
10100 Comments


Based

BlushfulHippocrene
Staff Reviewer
April 2nd 2023
4052 Comments


Fuck me, I knew 100 per cent you were baiting and still I went to Google.

PotsyTater
April 2nd 2023
10100 Comments


Would this actually be desirable for boy genius and saya fans? I feel like everyone in boy genius is entirely outclassed by saya’s style of songwriting. It would be such a disruptive pick for a fourth member.

BlushfulHippocrene
Staff Reviewer
April 2nd 2023
4052 Comments


No, it makes exactly 0 sense. Would rather see her collab with, I don't know, Moses Sumney or someone. But --

'It would be such a disruptive pick for a fourth member.'

-- it would be interesting for this reason. Also the dumb joy of seeing artists I enjoy interacting with one another.

PotsyTater
April 2nd 2023
10100 Comments


Interesting, sure, like as someone who is not a fan of any of these people really it would intrigue me because of exactly that reason, but for people that are fans of them all I just feel like it isn’t the right fit and it wouldn’t be in service of what people like about boy genius

Pheromone
April 2nd 2023
21391 Comments


bo burnham joins boygenius

cylinder
April 2nd 2023
2473 Comments


A couple corrections for their names in the first paragraph: Julien, Bridgers

PotsyTater
April 2nd 2023
10100 Comments


It’s an April fools article my guy

Colton
April 2nd 2023
15259 Comments


"bo burnham joins boygenius"

I would honestly take Bogenius over Boygenius

WatchItExplode
April 2nd 2023
10454 Comments


This article helped me to realize yesterday was April 1st

cylinder
April 2nd 2023
2473 Comments


I didn't realize that. But isn't that all the more reason to make it look believable? haha

Colton
April 2nd 2023
15259 Comments


it's a site full of people who probably unironically advocate for the use of the /s tag so no, there's really no need for that

cylinder
April 2nd 2023
2473 Comments


yeah no need to spell people's names correctly

robertsona
Staff Reviewer
April 2nd 2023
27452 Comments


Bogenius. Running with this

robertsona
Staff Reviewer
April 2nd 2023
27452 Comments


god. If Bo Burnham joined Boygenius it’d be Bogenius. That’s so true

PotsyTater
April 2nd 2023
10100 Comments


I don’t know if he spelt their names wrong intentionally or not, I just doubt he cares much about editing an April fools article for accuracy on April 2nd

neekafat
Staff Reviewer
April 3rd 2023
26160 Comments


I’d probably kms if bo burnham joined boygenius



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