Boygenius band talks about 2024 Grammys and new music

At the 2024 Grammy Awards, Boygenius – the major label rock band built of Phoebe Bridgers, Julien Baker and Lucy Dacus – are up for six awards, tying the likes of Taylor Swift, Olivia Rodrigo, Miley Cyrus, Billie Eilish and more.

Those include two major categories: record of the year (for the single “Not Strong Enough”) album of the year (for their debut “The Record”). If they win either of those, they’d be the first “all-female” group to do so since the Chicks in 2007.

That’s not an ideal designation for a group that refers to themselves as “the boys” – or one that operates completely free from the antiquated conception of “female-fronted” or “women who rock” as a genre description. But they’re into the “The Chicks to the Boys” lineage, as Baker repeats it.

“Anybody who says ‘female’ is an alien,” says Bridgers. “But also, being forced to say (expletive) like that, it’s true, for one, but it was only a couple of years ago now that that (expletive) who is now being accused of sexual violence said women need to step it up if they want to be nominated,” she says of the history-making opportunity.