Julien Baker and Lucy Dacus Are Officially Dating

The news broke yesterday in an interview with The New Yorker, where Lucy Dacus confirmed that she’s in a ‘committed relationship’ with her boygenius bandmate, Julien Baker.

Fans are screaming, crying, and tweeting their joy—or, as one X user put it, “A WIN FOR THE GAYS.”

The confirmation comes alongside the upcoming release of Dacus’s album, Forever Is a Feeling, a tender exploration of adult love that seems to double as a musical love letter to Baker.

“I got kicked in the head with emotions,” Dacus told the New Yorker, describing the album’s creation as a whirlwind of falling in love, falling out of love, and reckoning with the wreckage.

For years, fans of boygenius—the supergroup trio of Dacus, Baker, and Phoebe Bridgers—have speculated about a romance between the two. Their onstage chemistry, tender harmonies, and cryptic social media exchanges only fanned the flames.

The timing couldn’t be more poetic. Baker, known for her own stellar songwriting, has been a constant presence in Dacus’s orbit since boygenius formed in 2018. Their collaboration has always blurred the lines between friendship and something deeper, and Forever Is a Feeling seems to cement that shift.

It’s also just 30 days until the release of Baker’s Send a Prayer My Way, a queer country collaboration with Torres—who, at one point, we thought might have been her partner.

Julien Baker & Lucy Dacus

As boygenius continues to dominate the alt-music scene, this confirmation adds a delicious layer to their legacy. For now, Dacus and Baker’s romance is the spiciest subplot in indie lore—and Forever Is a Feeling is the soundtrack to their subversive, beautiful chaos. Fans can only hope Phoebe Bridgers weighs in soon—preferably with a celebratory guitar riff.