'VBS' is the third single to be released from Lucy Dacus upcoming third album 'Home Video', and comes alongside a stunning animated video, created by Marin Leong.
The song title is an abbreviation of "vacation bible school", where Dacus attended frequently as a child, and was inspired by a sign she passed promoting a "wholesome church camp for kids". It was at VBS where the singer met her first boyfriend.
"I thought about my first boyfriend, who I met at VBS, the resident bad boy who loved Slayer and weed more than Jesus", she explained. "I took it upon myself to save him, and make him stop doing drugs (with an exception for snorting nutmeg). God, I was so lame."
Meanwhile, Marin Leong described the video as "this world where [Lucy's] physical self is being distorted by the landscape that she’s present in, both in a beautiful and slightly uncanny way".
"One of the reasons I find animation and music compelling is the freedom in world building, the ability to translate story and tone, and synthesise it into a visual landscape using imagery that isn’t necessarily rooted in reality", she added.
The song follows the previously released 'Thumbs' and 'Hot & Heavy'; her first releases since her '2019' EP. Her last album, 'Historian', dropped back in 2018 just a few months before her debut EP with Boygenius which also includes members Julien Baker and Phoebe Bridgers.
'Home Video' is set to be released on June 25th 2021 through Matador Records.
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