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Lucy Dacus

American Musician

Born: 1995

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I like to think of hope as a fact and something that wins out always. Whether you're hopeful or not, actually, you do get through what you're in the middle of. When you're in it, you don't feel like that's possible. But time and time again, we're proven wrong. Lucy Dacus

Being on tour, it's really easy to stop knowing people that you want to know, because you're not sharing experiences; you're not existing in the minor moments of somebody's life. Lucy Dacus

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'Night Shift' is the only breakup song I've ever written. Lucy Dacus

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I don't even drink coffee. I try to avoid becoming reliant on any substance. Lucy Dacus

Try Coffee Drink Drink Coffee Becoming Any Substance Avoid Even

Film is like sculpture, writing, acting, technical arts, all sorts of arts. And that's why I wanted to do it for so long, because it would include so many places for attention. Lucy Dacus

Writing Long Would Attention Like Sort Because Arts Wanted Places Sculpture Acting Many Include Film Technical Why

My mom is an elementary-school music teacher. For her, music is an educational tool. Lucy Dacus

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I called it 'Historian' because I feel like most of my creative efforts are efforts to capture something or to document it. Lucy Dacus

Creative Something Feel Like Most Document Because Historian Efforts Capture

I was adopted, and so was my mom. And so I just was in tune with how life can be intentional. I feel like maybe that helped me to not feel super entitled to a lot of things as a kid. Lucy Dacus

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I heard during our label-searching that some labels hire statisticians instead of A&R people. They'll reach out to the bands that will statistically perform best monetarily instead of going out to shows and having an opinion on which music is good or bad. Lucy Dacus

Yo La Tengo were a major inspiration for me because they're one of the first bands that I got into on my own, separate from my parents, when I was in high school. I have all their albums. That's the place we'd like be in someday. Lucy Dacus

'No Burden' is not necessarily ferocious. Lucy Dacus

Burden Ferocious Necessarily

My favorite music is when the sound is supplementing the message. I don't think it's dramatic; it's cinematic. Lucy Dacus

Music Think Dramatic Cinematic Favorite Message Sound

The main way that being adopted has shaped my songwriting is that I was asked at an early age to consider the circumstances that led to my life, and in a way, I was introduced to how fragile and unlikely life is from the beginning. Lucy Dacus

I don't end up writing songs in my journals, but I'm sure that my ability to write songs has been helped by how consistently and impulsively I try to get my life into words through the journals. Lucy Dacus

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Writing has never been an intentional endeavor to me. I know a lot of people have experiences and then sit down and try to sort them out through song, but whenever I sit down to write, it comes out hackneyed or overly saccharine. Lucy Dacus

It seems like there's a real world for new ideas in Philly. Lucy Dacus

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I think in 'No Burden' there was a lot of positivity on the record. Lucy Dacus

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