boygenius - The Record (March 31, 2023) • Page 67

I can gel with this. love the bookends, would've been fine with either replacing Revolution or Leonard Cohen

 

ill check these out but feeling pretttttttty gross about phoebe right now so maybe will hold off for a bit.

 

Yes, bit of a question mark hanging over PB at the moment imo. I'd hope this is just handled internally but the longer nothing's done about this the more side-eyes she gets from me.

 

Can I ask what this is referring to...?

 

Marshall Vore (Phoebes drummer/collaborator/writing partner) has been accused of SA and r*pe of an underage girl in 2016.

 

Damn this is the first I'm hearing about the accusations. Do you have a source? Simply googling his name didn't yield any results on the matter.

 

a few pages back in the accountability in music thread has the posts. I believe theyre in her album thread as well.

 

Disgusting shit. I don't see how she could leave this unaddressed but unfortunately since there's not a lot of noise around it at the moment it may be fairly simple to let sleeping dogs lie.

 

He’s listed as a performer on the album and as a producer on the new EP

 

He is intrinsically involved in everything she does unfortunately

 

and you'd think with everything she went through with R Adams (not to mention just on a human level), she'd want to say something about this immediately--even if it's along the lines of, "it's being looked into and taken very seriously." ffs

 

The original post got barely any traction on Reddit and the post that was shared on her subreddit about it was locked by mods, so that didn’t make a whole lot of noise either. I really don’t think she’s even gonna respond to it at this point unfortunately

 

Her fan base quickly locked it down which is equally disgusting. Some wanted to discuss it but the reddit post in her fandom subreddit was swiftly locked.

Yep, they’re tied at the hip.

That’s what makes this even worse. She drew this line in the sand for herself and, as of the current state, is not doing what many expect her to do.

 

Press didn’t even pick it up, probably for lack of spine to lose access to the current indie darling. But it’s mentioned in legal proceedings!

 

Back to the EP - none of this was necessary for release.

 

the only decent song is the last one, the first 3 just sound unfinished

 

Holy shit this is the first I'm hearing about all of this

 

i'm pretty out on this and phoebe in general atm. looks like she's just gonna ignore and post through it? the comments on this post are insufferable.

 

I listened once but I don’t know when I will return. The way the Marshall situation has not been addressed is leaving a sour taste in my mouth, but the situation really did get no traction and for some reason when it was posted about in the Phoebe subreddit for the first time the post got locked not long after leaving no room for word to spread. There was a second post about it in the subreddit but a lot of the comments were casting doubts on the validity of the claim immediately which, Reddit gonna Reddit, but saddened me coming from a subreddit of someone who is a survivor of abuse. You think they would have more care and Grace towards the situation. So to me it’s a “I don’t feel comfortable engaging with the Phoebe fandom at the moment” kind of thing.

 

Fandom subreddit can’t let their chosen idol be tarnished!

 

Didn’t get enough traction for Phoebe to address it unfortunately. Best case scenario at this point is that she just silently drops him, which we won’t even really know until her next album/tour

 

wow @ “powers,” please bring me the next julien baker lp asap

 

yep.

 

I feel a little strange talking about the new music with all of the information people just shared, which was entirely new to me, but I just want to say that "Afraid of Heights" is an absolutely incredible fucking song, and I am someone who kinda hoped this EP would be high energy and them rocking the fuck out. What a fucking song.