After a touring season crammed with Thom Browne suiting, it’s no shock that the members of Boygenius—Phoebe Bridgers, Lucy Dacus, and Julien Baker—caught with the designer for the 2024 Grammys. The trio come closely nominated tonight, incomes 5 nods from the Recording Academy, together with for Album of the 12 months and Document of the 12 months. (Previous to the beginning of the ceremony, they already claimed their first award: Greatest  Rock Efficiency for “Not Robust Sufficient.”)

Bridgers, Dacus, and Baker as soon as once more opted for coordinated outfits, sporting off-white Thom Browne fits with a woodgrain-like sample. Beneath their blazers—which had been trimmed in satin and full with a white armband—they wore sheer white button-downs and black neckties. Their cropped cigarette pants confirmed off black patent leather-based Oxfords and black socks. 

Eagle-eyed followers will word that each one three members wore a pink carnation pinned to their lapels—a transparent homage to lyrics from “We’re In Love”: “Within the subsequent one, will you discover me? / I’ll be the boy with the pink carnation / Pinned to my lapel, who appears like hell and asks for assist / And for those who do, I’ll realize it’s you.”

The music was penned by Dacus, who wrote it as an ode to her bandmates, together with the concerns she feels about discovering them in one other life. Throughout a Q&A on the El Ray Theater in Los Angeles final yr, she revealed that the carnation was initially meant to be white, and Bridgers recommended she change it to pink in honor of the Marty Robbins music “A White Sport Coat (And A Pink Carnation).” She additionally famous that it was a reference to Elliott Smith, who was coerced into eradicating the flower from his lapel on the 1998 Academy Awards. 

The pink carnation additionally signifies gratitude, a very poignant word because the band is occurring hiatus after tonight.