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from the New York Times, I'm Anna Martin.
This is Modern Love.
Every week we bring you stories and conversations inspired by the Modern Love column.
We talk about love, sex, friends, family and all the messiness of human relationships.
When I think about today's guest indie rock darling Lucy Dacus,
there is one lyric that is seared into my mind because it is maybe too vivid.
It's this awkward description of a kiss, and it's in her 2018 song Night Shift.
The first time I tasted somebody else's spit, I had a coughing fit.
Ugh.
Dakus always sounds
like she's taking her lyrics straight from the pages of her old diaries on her solo albums and when she plays with the Grammy winning trio Boy Genius,
for example, in songs like First Time,
I can hear the thrill and the drama of being in your 20s and falling in love and out of love and back in love again.
Dacus has a new album out on March 28th.
It's called Forever is a Feeling,
and on this record she sounds like she's moving into yet another era.
She's singing more about queer love and lust and being ready to commit to someone or at least try to for the long term.
Today I talk to Lucy Dacus about the new emotional territory she's been exploring in her music,
and she reads a Modern Love essay about how hard it can be to stay connected to a partner when we inevitably keep changing as individuals.