Lucy Dacus on Going Public With Her Love Life & Her Fav boygenius Song | Blind Date | Cosmopolitan - video Dailymotion

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We’ve always known that Lucy Dacus has the voice of an angel, whether from her solo music or boygenius verses. So when Cosmo Editor-in-Chief Willa Bennett sat down with the singer-songwriter, we were thrilled to enjoy a full meal served with a side of unexpected honesty. From dating icks to the boygenius song that best captures Dacus’s relationship with bandmate and partner Julien Baker, to throwback 2008 Cosmo questions, bonding over Libras, and one very emo prom night story, the singer keeps it real and tender. The only question that remains is: who’s going to follow Lucy’s advice to tell someone you love them?   Stream Lucy’s new album ‘Forever Is A Feeling’ here: https://lucydacus.lnk.to/foreverisafeeling   Get tickets to Forever Is A Feeling Tour here: https://lucydacus.lnk.to/tour   #LucyDacus #boygenius #ForeverIsAFeeling #BlindDate #Cosmopolitan

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00:00Listen up. If you love somebody, you should tell them. I don't know what to tell you. Get brave.

00:05My name is Willa Bennett, and I'm going to go on a blind date.

00:18Have we ever met before? Yeah.

00:22Do you think we'd go on an actual date? Um, in spirit, yeah.

00:27What are you promoting right now?

00:28Do you live in New York? No.

00:33Oh, damn it. Where do you live?

00:35L.A. Weirdly.

00:36So we can't even date? I guess not.

00:39I wouldn't say I'm an L.A. person. I feel like I'm a visitor.

00:44Do you like Erewhon?

00:47Yeah.

00:48What was the last time we saw each other?

00:50I think it was, like, last Grammys. I mostly see it at, like, parties. You're kind of a party girl to me.

00:56Whoa. That's so cool for me, because I literally don't go out.

01:00Are you gay?

01:02Hell yeah.

01:03Hell yeah, I know who you are. Lucy!

01:07Nice.

01:08Oh my god, I literally love anything I'm a party girl.

01:11Yeah, I've only seen you at, like, events.

01:13Okay, I love that.

01:14What is this?

01:15Um, this is what I ordered for us.

01:17It's cute.

01:17It's vegan.

01:18Well, good.

01:19Oh my god, your show last night looked amazing.

01:22Hosier surprised me.

01:23I saw.

01:24It was actually a surprise?

01:25It was actually a surprise.

01:26He had landed, like, that day.

01:27I was like, if you're a madman and you want to show up, go ahead.

01:30And he was like, oh, you know, I wish I'd known earlier, but have a great show.

01:33And Hosier, like, came in, like, from the street, just, like, arms open, like, where do I go?

01:39Was that a moment that you're like, I feel, this feels surreal?

01:41A moment?

01:41I feel like the whole life, the moment sounds like one thing, but the whole thing is pretty surreal.

01:46The whole day, everyone was like, how do you feel?

01:48How do you feel?

01:48It's Radio City and two sold out shows at Radio City.

01:50Sold out.

01:52It's crazy.

01:53Really crazy.

01:53I was like, yeah, this is normal.

01:55This is what normal people do.

01:56Everyone does this.

01:57You know when you do something yourself and you're like, that's fine.

02:01But then if any friend of mine was doing the same thing, I'd be, like, weeping, crying.

02:05How does it feel to be public about your relationship now?

02:09Neutral.

02:10If you can believe it.

02:11Again, nothing different in my life.

02:13Yeah.

02:13Just different for other people.

02:15That's where you're like, would you go on a real date?

02:16I was like, in spirit.

02:20I'm going to ask you some questions from Cosmo2008.

02:25Who's your celebrity crush?

02:26Wow.

02:27I feel like my whole life I've understood that I don't know celebrities.

02:31When I was young, I used to watch Kim Novak movies.

02:34That's cool.

02:35Like, Hitchcock movies.

02:36Who would you say is your closest friend?

02:38Probably Julian Baker is my closest friend.

02:40What's your least favorite food?

02:43What's up with me that I'm thinking of other people's answers?

02:45She asked me a celebrity thing and I'm like, oh, well, my friend likes this person.

02:48My friend Ashley hates bananas.

02:50I'm fine with bananas.

02:52What's my favorite food?

02:54Risotto?

02:55No.

02:55Okay, well, I had kind of one.

02:57Pretty good, though.

02:58Yeah, this is pretty good.

02:59I've been making it all day for you.

03:03Which parts of my body do you like looking at?

03:05Which parts of my body do you like?

03:06Okay, well, I'll say, I was just thinking you have great eyebrows.

03:09Oh, my God.

03:10You have good eyes, too.

03:11Why am I sweating?

03:12I like that you have, like, blushy cheeks.

03:14Okay, last question.

03:15If we were to move in together, would you want to live with me in a city or the country?

03:18So, city, on a first date, you have to say city because you need to be able to escape

03:22and go somewhere else.

03:23We were just in the country.

03:24I'm just like, who are you?

03:26Where was your first date with your partner?

03:30We've never been on a date.

03:31What?

03:32So, no, I'm kidding.

03:34We were friends for, like, nine years or something first.

03:36My girlfriend before this, we were friends for 14 years.

03:39I've never had an actual proper not attended by many cameras, like, date before.

03:47How do you date?

03:49First date is a disaster always.

03:50Yeah.

03:51You're just like, let me tell you some stuff.

03:53You talk.

03:54I talk.

03:55Yeah.

03:55Maybe we text.

03:56I have friends that are like, why can't I find love in my life?

03:59And I'm like, do you ask people out?

04:01And they're like, no.

04:02The hack is you say, can you meet me on this day at this time at this place?

04:06And they can say yes or no.

04:08And then go in person and hang out.

04:12It's no big secret.

04:16Okay.

04:17These are blind questions.

04:19I have never seen them before.

04:20What's the hardest thing about dating for you?

04:23Just knowing you're going to die all the time.

04:24Like, that's what's hard, is that you're just like, when you're really in love, you feel

04:29like, oh, I finally figured it out.

04:31And then it's like, something's going to take this away from me, ultimately.

04:34What's the key to keeping a relationship a secret?

04:37Actually, every relationship I've ever been in has been a secret until this one.

04:40So this is like, new for me.

04:41Wow.

04:42And, um, just don't talk about it.

04:44The secret of keeping a secret is that you don't talk about it.

04:48Like.

04:49Should we try some dessert too?

04:53Okay.

04:54There's no utensils involved in this.

04:56What's your Venus sign?

04:59Are you a Scorpio?

05:00I guess.

05:00When's your birthday?

05:01September 29th.

05:02Thank you for asking.

05:03That's Julian's birthday.

05:05That's great.

05:06So you're a Libra.

05:07God bless Libras.

05:08How quickly have you said I love you in any relationship?

05:11Okay.

05:11You should be saying I love you if you love someone.

05:14Listen up.

05:15If you love somebody, you should tell them because love is a really good thing and it can be hard to come by.

05:22And so if your heart is ready to love, you should be telling people there's not rules.

05:26I don't know what to tell you.

05:27Get brave.

05:28Describe the feeling of unrequited love to you.

05:31It only happened one time to me.

05:33And it was in middle school.

05:34It was a boy in middle school, really emo, like really long hair, you know, rite of passage type of crush.

05:44And we went to prom together and he got a girlfriend at prom.

05:50That was not me.

05:51And he was like, sorry, I think I'm gonna.

05:54And it was in his school that I didn't go to, so I didn't know anybody at prom either.

05:58So I went up to random like circles of awkward like scenes.

06:01And I was just like, can I dance with you guys?

06:03My date got a girlfriend.

06:05And they're like, oh, and like, he sold me.

06:09What's one celebrity couple that needs to break up immediately?

06:11Let me think for five more seconds if I have an opinion.

06:14But then, yeah, no, that's absolutely not my business.

06:18Everyone is entitled to their own crash and burn.

06:20What's your biggest ick in relationships?

06:23People who are like, okay, so we split this meal to the half penny.

06:27You don't ever want to receive a gift.

06:29You don't ever want to give a gift.

06:30Pick one song to describe your current relationship.

06:33It could be funny and just say we're in love.

06:37Bad boy genius.

06:38The bad boy genius.

06:38I know.

06:40Okay, but they might not know.

06:41There's other people here.

06:46What's your favorite boy genius song?

06:47I really like Anti-Curse.

06:49Phoebe's song Voyager on the EP.

06:51So beautiful.

06:51It's really good too.

06:53So beautiful.

06:53Pretty good band.

06:54Name three turn-ons in a relationship.

06:57People who understand nuance.

06:59Likes me.

07:01People who are really good at something.

07:03Like they have a skill that they've spent a lot of time on.

07:06And it's impressive.

07:08So we're really good at sex.

07:09Well, don't be like that.

07:12Okay, well, will you go on another blind date with me?

07:15Sure.

07:15I mean, it wouldn't be blind.

07:16It probably would be blind.

07:17That's so true.

07:18I mean, it's a little bit of a skill.

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