“Not Strong Enough” by Boygenius

"Not Strong Enough" arrived on March 1, 2023, the fourth single ahead of Boygenius' debut album, The Record, and all three of them wrote it together: Julien Baker, Phoebe Bridgers and Lucy Dacus. It's a bright, driving indie rock and folk rock song carrying a heavy load: a narrator stuck between self-loathing and self-importance, and what mental illness does to the people close to it. Critics also dug into what it says about gender roles.

The band produced with Catherine Marks, with extra hands from Tony Berg, Ethan Gruska, Sarah Tudzin and Melina Duterte, and Mike Mogis mixed. It spent seven weeks at number one on Billboard's Adult Alternative Airplay chart and won Best Rock Song and Best Rock Performance at the 66th Grammys. The video simply follows the three friends through a day around Los Angeles County.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.