Lucy Dacus stopped by *The Daily Show* to perform her reflective song “Modigliani.” The singer appeared on stage in front of a group of Modigliani paintings alongside a group of musicians, including a harpist and a string section.
“Modigliani” appears on Dacus’ most recent album, *Forever Is a Feeling*, which dropped in March. Speaking to *Rolling Stone* about the meaning of the album’s title, she said, “The moments where I have felt in ‘forever,’ in the way you feel in love, ring on in my life, and have changed me. So they have an effect, even though that exact moment couldn’t last forever.”
Dacus also sat down with host Desi Lydic to discuss the expanded edition of the album, *Forever Is a Feeling: The Archives*, and her unique experience of getting ordained to perform weddings on tour.
Lydic noted that Dacus’ LP was described as “the most romantic album of 2025” and asked the singer what she feels makes a great love song. “I love love songs that admit that you don’t know everything,” Dacus explained. “I think that some love songs, that I still love, are like, ‘I need you forever’ or ‘I’ll die without you’ or something. And though those are great songs, I don’t think it’s aspirational. So I tried to write a lot of songs that were still very passionate, but based in the reality that everything passes, including maybe the love that you’re so passionate about in the moment. But it’s still worth doing.”
Talking about performing weddings at her concerts, Dacus said she wished she had “thought of it a long time ago.”
“We started doing this in July, and I gave people, like, three days’ notice before our first show of the tour,” she said. “And people showed up and had their marriage licenses and danced on stage. In every city that we’ve played since, people have signed up to get married and it’s been really sweet.”
Reflecting on the inspiration behind this idea, Dacus shared, “The thought occurred about a year ago when Trump took office. He came for trans rights so quickly and that affected so many of my friends. My mom, actually, was like, ‘He’s going to come for gay marriage and marriage equality.’ It’s just such a colossal, miserable waste of time—like, why? It’s very confusing. So I just thought it would be fun and it’s really sweet.”
Dacus revealed that she and her team have performed weddings for 154 couples so far.
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