Watch: Lucy Dacus’ New “Night Shift” Anniversary Video Featuring A ‘Yellowjackets’ Star, Directed By Jane Schoenbrun

There’s a lot to unpack with the release of the new music video for “Night Shift” by cherished indie rocker Lucy Dacus, also part of the supergroup boygenius with indie stars Phoebe Bridgers and Julien Baker.

Like Bridgers, who has become a massive breakout indie star, Dacus is really blossoming into a major indie-rock star. Case in point: she’s releasing a music video from an album that’s five years old now. Granted, it’s the fifth anniversary of her 2018 Matador album, Historian, and the lead track, “Night Shift,” has that great line, “In five years I hope the songs feel like covers // Dedicated to new lovers.”

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This leads us to the beloved song itself: a now certifiable classic song about heartbreak, breakups, kissing off an ex-lover and never looking back again, a searing, angry, heart-aching emotional bruiser about looking backward and looking forward that’s ultimately become something of a modern anthem for finally saying goodbye to an ex.

The song always deserved a music video, and five years later, upon its anniversary, and the way it’s really grown in stature. Now it has one. And then there’s the video itself.

It’s directed by indie filmmaker Jane Schoenbrun, celebrated for their Sundance breakthrough film, “We’re All Going to the World’s Fair.”

Schoenbrun’s next film, “I Saw the TV Glow” is up next, has been scooped up by A24 and stars Brigette Lundy-Paine (“Atypical”), Justice Smith (“The Get Down”), Danielle Deadwyler (“Till”), Helena Howard (“Madeline’s Madeline”), Amber Benson (“Buffy the Vampire Slayer”), Lindsey Jordan, AKA indie rocker Snail Mail, and, of course, mentioned above Phoebe Bridgers. Emma Stone and Dave McCary are producing, and it’s on our list of the Most Anticipated Films of 2023.

Schoenbrun’s also apparently adapting Imogen Binnie’s cult classic novel “Nevada” for their follow-up film, so they are definitely staying busy. That’s not all; the music video also features Jasmin Savoy Brown, one of the breakout stars of Showtime’s “Yellowjackets” drama series. Hence, it feels like there are many reasons to be interested in this one beyond the gutting and heartbreaking song. By the way, Brown and Dacus are friends, fans of each other, and admirers, and Nylon has an excellent interview with the two of them you should check out. Watch the new music video below.