Mitski: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
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- Опубликовано: 30 авг 2015
- August 31, 2015by BOB BOILEN
Watching Mitski perform at my desk, there are moments when I was worried for her. In her opening song, "Townie," the boys "are driving and they'll be drinking" - and a verse later, Mitski sings of love in ways that feel vengeful, not fruitful.
And I want a love that falls as fast
As a body from the balcony, and
I want a kiss like my heart is hitting the ground
I'm holding my breath with a baseball bat
Though I don't know what I'm waiting for
I am not gonna be what my daddy wants me to be
Moments later, she holds her guitar high with her mouth close to the pickup, which acts like a microphone as she screams to her mother for help:
Mom, would you wash my back?
This once, and then we can forget
And I'll leave what I'm chasing
For the other girls to pursue
Mom, am I still young?
Can I dream for a few months more?
Then, she closes with a song of dying in the hope of leaving a tidy room and being well-regarded when they come get her things. If it all sounds depressing, it is, but the glimmer of beauty comes in her smile and laugh at the end of her set. It's part nerves, part angst, and it all makes for a heartfelt performance sans filters: That's why Mitski Miyawaki is such an incredible performer. At night, at a club with the lights down and drinks in hand, it can be more pensive for all - more thought-provoking. But here in an office, the starkness somehow makes her music even scarier.
Set List
"Townie"
"Class Of 2013"
"Last Words Of A Shooting Star"
Credits
Producers: Bob Boilen, Morgan Walker; Audio Engineer: Josh Rogosin; Videographers: Morgan Walker, Lani Milton; Assistant Producer: Elena Saavedra Buckley; photo by Lydia Thompson/NPR 
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ok but how can she sing without crying
Tiko ikr i cannot listen to class of 2013 without bawling my eyes out let alone sing it
Im sure she cried so many times writing her music and singing it to herself over and over in her privacy
Daniela class of 2013 is so raw that it makes me want to cry till i have no tears left l
I saw the bury me at makeout creek tour years ago and she cried on stage when she closed with last words of a shooting star. You could of heard a pin hit the ground in that moment. Everyone in the room was shook and holding back tears too.
Cuz it aint that deep. Songs are mid
When she was yelling into that guitar.........she gets it
yeah 🧎🏽♀️
I think she the very few who do get it but she GETS it yknow?
Replying incase this comment gets 500+ replys
ANYWAYS thanks for the likes please send me money
🧎 🧎♂️
i’m so glad mitski invented the whole world she’s so considerate
It was very nice of her
fr
I love this
tru
exactly
Therapy is very expensive, Mitski’s music is free
Trye
no, we need help
@@washingmachine2 yes bug we are also ✨broke✨☺️💅
The catra pfp and this comment is kinda worrying
CATRA PFP AND MITSKI I WANNA BE YOUR FRIEND
my favorite quote of hers: "i've gotten a lot of complaints saying that I can't play guitar, and it's true, i'm a keyboardist. but I do this because for a lot of girls it's kind of scary to try to start playing guitar cause you feel like you immediately won't be good enough. so I'm telling you right now, I can't play guitar and I'm playing guitar on stage. you can just start where you can."
Awwwww I’m thirteen and i got a really cool electric guitar and a really great amp for Christmas and I’ve signed up for online classes and it is scaerryyyuy and my fingers hurt T-T but practice makes progress and I’ll get better with timee 💕 🎸 🎶
@@eloisemae1325 me too but i have a lot getting in my way
@@eloisemae1325 if you want to be good, you will be good in the future. Be patient and devoted, and try not to compare yourself to others. Instead compare yourself to you in the past, and you'll realise how much progress you're making. Good luck!
Love!!!!
@@barryscanlon3575 AAA- thanks your so nice ʕ•̫͡•ʕ•̫͡•ʔ•̫͡•ʔ
Yes I Have Mommy Issues
same my mom told me she hated me not that long ago😕
@@mercedesinfantee3566 i'm so sorry.
ayo same 🥶
i love all of you🥺
@@mercedesinfantee3566 tell her you hate her back even if you dont
Townie: daddy issues
Class of 2013: mommy issues
Last words of a shooting star: issues
precisely
Exactly 🤠
i’m a townie person
@@remy2710 I'm more of a class of 2013 person :')
i am:
When I was 18 I laid in bed and listened to this and cried so hard because I hated myself and everything so much. I’m 24 now and life is beautiful.
im 18 this gave me hope
glad you're doing better now
@@sanjivaniebhalla3760 same
do you promise?
Yes things gets eventually better
her control is crazy. She can even control.. when she chooses not to control her voice ?
The "lack of control" is an illusion created by skill.
i think it’s a stylistic choice to show vulnerability but i could be wrong
She reminds me of Fiona Apple or Janis Joplin.
@@Hannah-nh5qj or like a bootleg angel olson
@@vdoza33 Idk who Angel Olsen is, but I’m not comparing artists as an insult like you’re trying to- I’m pointing out vocal similarities between other great artists and the one I’m listening to.
I think I’m in love
talent recognizing talent
it's you
BEABADOOBEE
bea?? 0_o
She should play bass!
Class of 2013 is that feeling of being a small child, after a scarring lucid dream crawling, sobbing, to your mom’s room begging to sleep in her bed with her. Just one night, you won’t shuffle or be loud, it’ll be just one night. Please mom, I’m scared. Ill be quiet.
stop you are making me tear up
I cried
bye i cried
Cool, crying even more now
class of 2013 is the feeling of being a teenager waking up with a nightmare but forcing yourself to stay in your own bed because you're supposed to be too old to be afraid of things anymore
I can't believe mitski invented 2013! She's so powerful 😍
Ikr🥰🥰🥰😍😍😍😍
the fact that she invented the year 2013 and then every year before and after is just so heartwarming. truly an inspiration
i love mitski, she makes me feel like an inside out sock
This is very well put
why does this make so much sense
this is the funniest comment i’ve ever read in my life bless you
no youve got a point
thank you so much for articulating this experience
WHY ARE YOU GUYS SKIPPING STRAIGHT AHEAD TO CLASS OF 2013??!! I WILL NOT TOLERATE THE DISRESPECT TOWARDS TOWNIE.
FR THE VOCALS IN TOWNIE ARE UNMATCHED
@@sophiam4980 RIGHT???
EXACTLY
RIGHT?
SO TRUE
we all have unresolved childhood trauma but we all thought why get a therapist when you can watch mitski scream into a guitar
It’s like she’s playing alone in her room, except we’re all watching her. Such an intimate and vulnerable performance. thank you mitski
this is not an npr video this is therapy
free therapy :]
it's the other way around homegirl let's get you a doctor
okay home girl it’s okay let’s call the doctor
Your therapy, my self harm we are not the same 😌✨
I literally watched this after my thesis breakdown
"mom, im tired" *instant tears*
Yep🥲
"can i dream for a few months more" screaming, crying, throwing up
@@om0_o shitting, vomiting, bleeding, screeching, howling, foaming from mouth
@@isabelle9812 ok, calm down
@@om0_o real
Im so happy mitski invented teenage years
I'm so happy she invented years
shes the prettiest person ever
isnt she :)
i burst into tears at "can i dream for a few months more?"
it's "I'll leave what I'm chasing for the other girls to pursue" that always gets me (but the whole thing, really)
literally same
idk about you, but i lose it at "mom"
the raw scream of mom gets me each and every time
@@ectoprankster Same😢
the control of the shakiness in her voice reminds me of johnny cash but with teenage angst i’m all here for it.
@@OctopusWhoSeesAll that's not vibrato, more of a tremolo.
Yes Johnny Cash, I was trying to think of what that reminded me of
@@bashmeesh huh....reminds me kind of dolores O'riordan
johnny cash uses vibrato what she does is weird and i personally think it sound like a teenage boy going through puberty
@@phroad317 almost like its a song about puberty
i think mitski's music can be described in one word as raw. it's not for people who like polished sounds. mitski's music is meant to be a knife to the gut, a punch to the eye. it's meant to make u feel the pain, & also to make u embrace it as a part of u.
It sure gives me pain, in my ears
@@bushman6964 im gonna get rid of ur ears coward
since no one did it,
0:00 - Townie
2:32 - Class Of 2013
4:39 - Last Words Of A Shooting Star
thank me later.
Bless your heart, i hope youre okay now
Hope you okay now too
Thanks you
Thanks me later..
Thank you :)
Mitski with exposed acne scream singing into her guitar has been constantly in my head since I saw this years ago and tbh it’s why I get up every day the raw energy in this is so powerful
honestly same, came back to this video again and I don't know how to stop feeling
She’s so beautiful ♥️
this performance keeps me alive, often.
38 year old man here and this gave me that anything is possible mysterious, depressed feeling of my late teens again. I haven't felt that in a long time. Thank you mitski. Inspiring
@@NoName-fo7mz learn empathy
the raw almost uncomfortable sounds of the first two songs are soothed SO DEEPLY by the last. she knows exactly what she's doing and it's incredible
This.
finn ! Yes!
people don’t understand that she intentionally does this!!! they say she sounds terrible but it’s art honey (she sounds incredible anyway; she’s literally mitski)
finn ! she’s an amazing performer. all of her artistic endeavors are so calculated and intentional. i love her for it
@Cosmin Eduard ok cosmin eduard
I wish mitski was never embarrassed about this tiny desk concert vid, she’s amazing and so powerful in here it’s mind blowing.
how was she embarassed?
@@evee4365her appearance, at least I think that's why.
I think she deserves a new performance here
“looking like a big pulsing void and radiating pain”
iconic queen
Literally my favorite void wow queen
mitski's music makes me want to burn a house down in slow motion
I’m sorry what?
THIS😍
What the frick is wrong with you
In slowmo
i cant tell if thats a good thing or a bad thing but okay
The way she unapologetically shows up with her raw emotions and intensity throughout the whole thing. The way she dares to break open and wear her wounds like diamonds, so proudly. Nothing inspires me more and there's nothing i admire more than that about her.
I love how she always goes “… thenx :)”
Mistki made me feel confident in my own skin. You can write using simple chord progressions, you can have acne, you can be a singer, you can be all the things
Hannah Weedon i really needed to read this thank u so much
Hannah Weedon RIGHT! She’s amazing
you can be mediocre and still be famous it's what you're trying to say
@@holamamelo2514 and you can avoid being a total asshole
@@holamamelo2514 and what you get with complex music if nobody listen it?
Oh my dear. Her music is like a punch from my 15-year-old self and a hug from my 34-year-old self in return. I love messy beautiful girlhood!
omg you described it so perfectly....
@@vickisigh2674 word
A beautiful sentiment
the fuck? how did you capture it so perfectly
Lol I love this!
yes bestie scream at that guitar😌
im never gonna be happy
Hahaha true
Sometimes you don’t want a solution, you just want to be angry and upset and take your time resolving those feelings by yourself. Screaming along to this session in my car at work on my lunch really helped me today.
dear me in the future when you come back to this video again, i hope you’re okay.
are you okay
are you okay?
no lol
I’m wishing the same for me
I hope you'll be okay now and always. And for the times that you don't, that's okay too. I hope that you've found the strength to be happier. There's nothing wrong with you then and there's especially nothing wrong with you now. There is no one right way to live and life isn't a race so make whatever you will out of your life, just know that you don't have to live it alone. You deserve the world and I love you
Her music is so personal to her. And yet I can feel that hollowness of what she was feeling at the time
Last words of a shooting star is perhaps the most beautifully written and heartbreaking song I’ve ever heard (though class of 2013 is a close second)
0:02 Townie
2:17 Class of 2013
3:33 (SHE DOES THE THING WITH THE GUITAR)
4:33 Last Words of a Shooting Star
THANK YOU for the guitar timestamp, i love when she screams during class of 2013
We are ALL here for the screams
TOWNIE WAS SO GOOD
Thank you
@@sophiam4980 IT WAS IMPECCABLE AH
06:01: "and you'd say you love me and look in my eyes but I know through mine you were looking in yours"
...speechless
optimistic nihilist ouch... mah heart
Last Words is such a great song. One of my favs of hers
i can't believe how Mitski invented breaking eye contact
she’s literally a lyrical genius
Powerful
I am so desperately longing for the day where hearing "Class of 2013" won't have the power to make me break out into tears
3:35 literally crying and shaking and throwing up and bangnig my head against a wwall I LOVE HER SO FUCKNIG MUCH
“she didn’t sing the last note right in class of 2013 its out of tune” no hunny. She just didn’t resolve the chord and ended it on major seventh it’s called dissonance
yaaaaassss🔥🔥🔥🔥
hello i love you i love this comment
THANK YOU
Bruuuh
Oh yea duh
class of 2013 is the rawest shit i've ever seen
I feel like Mitski’s music encapsulates exactly how it feels be young, growing up, and in love.
I'm a 67 year old white guy. Mitski is the most radical thing I've heard in about 20 years. Simply awesome.
Real
I feel like this was so intimate, like it’s just her in a room without an audience or cameras. She’s just playing for herself and it’s so awesome.
Completely agree.
...there is a camera tho
there is an audience too?
@@badappple 🤦🏻♀️
@@Honeyapplepear whats up
This girl sees clear melody in her mind. I am envious.
I'm going to cry at this comment its so true
M. Utley which channel is on and is it daytime or night
how does she not cry
4:11 such an emotional line and then it just ends so abruptly?!?! MITSKI MY TEARS WONT CRAWL BACK INTO MY EYES
My day be so fine but then boom. Class of 2013 by mitski. Sobbing rn
Me rn
me being an entrapta kinnie with mommy issues and seeing this comment
something about your mista pfp really completes the comment, thank you
@@una9906 I thank you 😳
Same the mommy issues hit hard lol
try not to cry mitski tiny desk concert edition
MOM WOULD YOU WASH MY BACKKKK THIS ONCE AND THEN WE CAN FORGET
AND ILL LEAVE WHAT IM CHASING FOR THE OTHER GIRLS TO PERSUE
she literally plays my three favorite songs by her in order in this I'm the chosen one guys
I see a lot of comments about how bad her bass skills are but like...her music is mostly about the lyricism and emotion and poetry, so I honestly think it would take away from the raw emotion in her songs if she were to play anything more than the simple chords and riffs that she does play. But, it's all subjective, you can think whatever you want about her songs, I just wanted to put in my two cents.
I feel that way about The White Stripes, too!
Bass? She didn't play bass here?
that's a funny looking bass for sure
it's bcs she said in an interview her instruments are simply to accompany her. when making a new song, she'll focus on the melody first, so that anyone can sing it even when there's nothing to accompany them
That's a guitar
This is the first I'm seeing of Mitski. I'm totally blown away. Seems to me she has such control of her voice that she can make it sound like its shaky or like anything else I'd imagine. Creative purity is off the charts. She's fascinating.
Bjork control
@Ribeye Robert D bc bjorks more well known and been around longer? LOL
she tells me its okay to be at war with everything around me and even myself but at the same time she recognizes that deep down i crave peace and acceptance
Omg, you put it in words 😭
here bc of that one Reductress headline "Therapist Unknowingly in Constant Competition with Mitski’s Tiny Desk Concert"
SAME😭
she absolutely blew me away when she started screaming into the guitar. went through so many emotions in these 8 minutes.
I'm not a musician, so I don't know how bad her voice is, or how bad is the way she plays the guitar, but what I do know is that she's special, her music means something powerful to me, I can feel her, I can feel her music and her voice in my heart and in my mind. this tiny concert is one of my favorites.
it's totally moving and just grabs you. And her poetry is good
this is so sweet
There is simply different ways to play don’t let anyone tell you that there is good or bad ways of playing. What is revolutionary is almost always first seen as a mistake.
Jessica that means she’s good💕 if she makes you feel deeply and whole heartedly then she’s amazing
It's called grunge.
Lyrics:
*Townie*:
There's a party and we're all going
And we're all growing up
Somebody's driving and he will be drinking
And no one's going back
'Cause we've tried hungry and we've tried full and
Nothing seems enough
So tonight, tonight
The boys are gonna go for
More more more
And I want a love that falls as fast
As a body from the balcony, and
I want a kiss like my heart is hitting the ground
I'm holding my breath with a baseball bat
Though I don't know what I'm waiting for
I am not gonna be what my daddy wants me to be
Smell that, it's wet grass, and smoke in my hair
I think I've had enough
But he wants a finale and I came prepared
And we're not going back
And I've tried sharing and I've tried caring
And I've tried putting out
But the boys boys boys keep coming on for
More more more
And change change change is gonna come, but
When when when?
And I want a love that falls as fast
As a body from the balcony, and
I want a kiss like my heart is hitting the ground
I'm holding my breath with a baseball bat
Though I don't know what I'm waiting for
I am not gonna be what my daddy wants me to be
And I want a love that falls as fast
As a body from the balcony, and
I want a kiss like my heart is hitting the ground
I'm holding my breath with a baseball bat
Though I don't know what I'm waiting for
I am not gonna be what my daddy wants me to be
Class of 2013:
Mom, I'm tired
Can I sleep in your house tonight?
Mom, is it alright
If I stay for a year or two?
Mom, I'll be quiet
It would be just to sleep at night
And I'll leave once I figure out
How to pay for my own life too
Mom, would you wash my back?
This once, and then we can forget
And I'll leave what I'm chasing
For the other girls to pursue
Mom, am I still young?
Can I dream for a few months more?
Last Words Of A Shooting Star:
All of this turbulence wasn't forecasted
Apologies from the intercom
And I am relieved that I'd left my room tidy
They'll think of me kindly
When they come for my things
They'll never know how I'd stared at the dark in that room
With no thoughts
Like a blood-sniffing shark
And while my dreams made music in the night
Carefully
I was going to live
You wouldn't leave till we loved in the morning
You'd learned from movies how love ought to be
And you'd say you love me and look in my eyes
But I know through mine you were
Looking in yours
And did you know the liberty bell is a replica
Silently housed in its original walls
And while its dreams played music in the night
Quietly
It was told to believe
I always wanted to die clean and pretty
But I'd be too busy on working days
So I am relieved that the turbulence wasn't forecasted
I couldn't have changed anyways
I am relieved that I'd left my room tidy
Goodbye
she’s so beautiful
Her voice sounds like she's yelling really quiet it's so good her lyrics are beautiful
ur user 💀💀 but yes
@@illeanaestrada4903 and what's wrong with it 💀
@@777Contradi it was probably something different a year ago
It actually makes me extremely happy to see her with acne, like me
same
i love acne, it’s just so beautiful to me for some reason. I have it myself, and i like it, it’s a part of who i am
The way she doesn't cover her face at all just helps to build a vibe for me, she's being so genuine and sincere
She just looks so... normal and down to Earth, it makes me really happy :)
Like us, friend, like us
this woman is incredibly beautiful
this will be in my kid’s history book
I love the bits where she's singing "badly". the screaming in class of 2013 especially. it's so raw and powerful and she's not afraid to sound real instead of sounding good. it's so much more beautiful and meaningful this way.
This is my favorite NPR performance and one I revisit often. It's such an incredibly flawed performance; she's off-pitch half the performance and her guitar playing is all over the place. But oh my god, there's something so raw and vulnerable that hits me on a deep personal level that I just can't explain. I think you either immediately understand, or you hate it.
dont lie to yourself
There are people who judge performances like a gymnastics competition and there are people who listen to the music.
@@RoyaleExtreme i agree but I also think it’s not as bad as you described, and I also know you weren’t saying it was really bad, so I’m just adding further thoughts on what you said! But it’s “bad” in the way that punk music is bad, which is a genre that’s respected for what it is. I think her singing is beautiful actually, like objectively? It’s like art-punk femme emo folk. It would be weird to overly judge it since every performance by any artist is full of idiosyncrasies. This performance is clearly very special. (To be clear, not disagreeing or arguing w ur main points, was just adding on to your thoughts!) :)
Björk vibes?
mitski: "mom will you wash my back this once and then we can forget and I'll leave what I'm chasing for the other girls to pursue"
the npr employees who came in thinking this was gonna be a normal day at work: 👀
"I always wanted to die clean and pretty, but I'd be too busy on working days."
lamo they cried
i thought it was "watch my back"
Happy pride everyone :D
she walks the line between delicate and devastating so gracefully. mitski forever
I dig her angst.
it took me a couple of listens but class of 2013 had me teary eyed like when i listened to my smashing pumpkins and death cab for cutie cds... it hurts but in a way that is familiar and comfortable. i hope one day i can get to that level of musicianship
she has an ocean of it. Her songs are also weirdly arranged, something that is not quite represented here. It's a blast
mitski singing raw is actually something that can be so personal
I love how Mitski wears her bare face.
Watching this for the first time as a 13 year old girl, I felt something indescribable till this day. She’s one of my role models
as a 16 y/o who experienced what u are experiencing right now (i discovered mitski at 13) I’m proud of u
POV: you are very sad
The way i come here like every month 😭😭
that is correct
Oh so sad
@@txtnines i come here every day
im not ok
as a senior in high school class of 2013 hit me hard. it’s so scary growing up and having to make such life defining decisions. i want to make my parents proud, i don’t want to be a failure. sometimes i just want to be young again. i haven’t cried to many songs. god she’s so real and amazing.
omggg same samee
100% feel your pain rn especially
yeah ❤️
Ya know the one good thing about having a dad who you always disappoint and are never good enuff for is that you dont have to worry about making them proud because it will never come
bro SAME i feel exactly like this Mitski is so so good
You are here for Class of 2013 AGAIN???? are you okay?
nah i'm here for townie xoxo
I’m here for the liberty bell that’s a replica held in it’s original walls.
No and it wasn't a phase it's a chemical imbalance I needed medication
I hope wherever mitski is rn she is happy, this looks so painful
She has such a beautiful, powerful anger that she's channeled into beautiful art, and she wears it proudly. Her music is an ode to the messier sides of ourselves that we're taught to repress. At least, that's what it meant to me.
this was exactly what I was thinking
Mitski really woke up put on a tanktop went to tiny desk and made us emotional
Don’t shame the tank top
I simply love last words of a shooting star, at the same time that the song is calming the song sounds like the end of life, the freedom of death
am I the only one who tears up at "mom, will you wash my back this once?" my mom used to do it when I was little and it still touches me
I never cry but ONCE I HEART THIS LINE I WAS TEARING UP
I'm still cleaning the tears oh boy
This line KILLS me 😭
3:34 "mom" Mitski sang, calmly.
i really don’t know if I should laugh or cry rn
@@mapl_xx6346 let's cry together😭
I was sobbing and this made me giggle like a mf 😭
THE GOBLET OF FIRE REFERENCE
The steel balls on this fantastic fantastic artist to come on here bare faced, raw, amelodic, and SCREAMING INTO A OPEN-STRUMMED GUITAR........ and then revealing the lilting beauty of her voice in the last song.... im such a lesbian
Watched this religiously when I was 16 and now I'm nearly 20 and nothing has changed 💀
i am so tired and sad
me too, may we both get better
I've heard Class of 2013 multiple times, I'd even watched this version before, but as someone graduating from college in a few months, it really kicked in this time and listening her sing about the real fears of failure and feeling like a burden on your parents while still mourning your childhood/youth absolutely made me cry this time.
Mitski's lyrics may be beautiful and poetic, but there's nothing vague about them; they hit right to the heart of the most specific relatable fears and desires and I love her so much for it.
First time I heard this song was in my last semester of college just as covid was getting bad in America and we were all going into lockdown. I was so scared about my future and whether I should move home or move out, and class of 2013 was a real comfort to me. All I wanted was for my mom to tell me things were going to be okay, just like when I was little-but with the world falling apart, our government’s lack of response, and everyone losing their jobs, I had little hope. Things are better now-I’ve got a steady job and I decided to move out-but there are times I still just want my mom to tell me things will be okay.
what i love is that she appeals to universal feelings through very specific experiences. So maybe i am not asian american or biracial, but i still feel Your best american girl deep in my gut because it talks about feeling like you’re not enough, like you will never fit in
When she starts Class of 2013 dear god IT HURTS
Suzane Araujo like a hot knife every time.
Guess what broke my heart in this set? Not "i always wanted to die clean and pretty" or "i'm not gonna be what my daddy wants me to be," but "Did you know the Liberty Bell is a replica?" No I did not, and that broke something in me.
mitski, i love you
as a closeted bisexual who deals with suicidal thoughts by myself, there's something so powerful about class of 2013 that i wish i could share with my friends, but i can't without being exposed. the secrecy and closeness with which i hold her music to my heart makes it so much more powerful and so much more lonelier, but im just grateful that someone out there wrote a song i can wail along to when im alone in the shower
edit : thank you all for your kind words, im in a much better situation as of now. im glad to find out that im not alone in feeling this but im also saddened. remember, you are loved, always. don't be afraid to talk to someone :)
hi, rando here, so tell me if this is weird, but i'm glad mitski's work brings you this comfort i hope you're doing fine. i'm sorry you have to deal with these thoughts alone, i hope you get through them when they arise
you might like a song called gold star by the greeting committee. it's written by a lesbian, and i don't know if the words will resonate with you at all, but to me they are a direct punch to the face. Every time I listen to that song, it's like i'm staring in a mirror.
most secrets are lighter than they seem. gl x
Not so in the closet anymore after that comment.
i hope you’re doing better now bb, i’m kinda struggling too i came out as bi a couple months ago and i’m starting to think i’m a lesbian but i’m too scared to say anything and it’s a very lonely struggle. you’re always welcomed to vent to me bc i think i can understand to a certain extent :)
I dig it. She didn't sing into the guitar pickup so much to get her voice picked up (standard coiled pickups need a much rougher kinetic energy generated by a magnetic moving body) as to get the strings to resonate sympathetically. That's the sort of technique early 20th century classical composers used to get unusual timbres on pianos and harps and things, and it's no less bad-ass today IMO.
Her voice is pretty damn silky too, when she moves it in that direction.
Her Strat has humbucking pickups at the bridge and neck so they might react differently to a pressure wave. My Tele has one at the neck. I'm going to try this. BTW did you see the LP she played on Colbert? Sweet!
I sing into my ukulele and I thought I was just being weird oh my god-
Zakiyah Grayson check out Radiohead’s 2001 gorge performance. Mainly the the ending of the song “climbing up the walls”
What genre is mitski in? (music wise ofc)
@@chicana_barbie9288 indie most of the time
3:51 the guitar faintly being in sync with her is now my favorite thing ever
i realized the reason i love suddenly out of tune instruments and random vocal runs etc. is cuz it makes me feel incomplete. even more incomplete than i already were listening to sad music. it's painful, a good painful :D
Class of 2013 is such a beautifully painful song. I have to almost ration myself with listening to it bc I’ve still never listened without crying
sitting here crying wondering the exact same thing, just brings up something so raw and she executes it so well.
townie:
There's a party and we're all going
And we're all growing up
Somebody's driving and he will be drinking
And no one's going back
'Cause we've tried hungry and we've tried full and
Nothing seems enough
So tonight, tonight
The boys are gonna go for
More more more
And I want a love that falls as fast
As a body from the balcony, and
I want a kiss like my heart is hitting the ground
I'm holding my breath with a baseball bat
Though I don't know what I'm waiting for
I am not gonna be what my daddy wants me to be
Smell that, it's wet grass, and smoke in my hair
I think I've had enough
But he wants a finale and I came prepared
And we're not going back
And I've tried sharing and I've tried caring
And I've tried putting out
But the boys boys boys keep coming on for
More more more
And change change change is gonna come, but
When when when?
And I want a love that falls as fast
As a body from the balcony, and
I want a kiss like my heart is hitting the ground
I'm holding my breath with a baseball bat
Though I don't know what I'm waiting for
I am not gonna be what my daddy wants me to be
And I want a love that falls as fast
As a body from the balcony, and
I want a kiss like my heart is hitting the ground
I'm holding my breath with a baseball bat
Though I don't know what I'm waiting for
I am not gonna be what my daddy wants me to be
class of 2013:
Mom, I'm tired
Can I sleep in your house tonight?
Mom, is it alright
If I stay for a year or two?
Mom, I'll be quiet
It would be just to sleep at night
And I'll leave once I figure out
How to pay for my own life too
Mom, would you wash my back?
This once, and then we can forget
And I'll leave what I'm chasing
For the other girls to pursue
Mom, am I still young?
Can I dream for a few months more?
last words of a shooting star:
All of this turbulence wasn't forecasted
Apologies from the intercom
And I am relieved that I'd left my room tidy
They'll think of me kindly
When they come for my things
They'll never know how I'd stared at the dark in that room
With no thoughts
Like a blood-sniffing shark
And while my dreams made music in the night
Carefully
I was going to live
You wouldn't leave till we loved in the morning
You'd learned from movies how love ought to be
And you'd say you love me and look in my eyes
But I know through mine you were
Looking in yours
And did you know the liberty bell is a replica
Silently housed in its original walls
And while its dreams played music in the night
Quietly
It was told to believe
I always wanted to die clean and pretty
But I'd be too busy on working days
So I am relieved that the turbulence wasn't forecasted
I couldn't have changed anyways
I am relieved that I'd left my room tidy
Goodbye
thank youuu!!
thank you
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what beautiful beautiful rage she's got
this is my Roman Empire
her music is like an open wound and these live performances are like ripping the bandaid off, bleeding, vulnerable, real. every part of this fills me with pure emotion. i wouldve never guess how much i would cry over some songs, but thats the power it has.
Seeing her grab the empty water bottle after her last song, forgetting for a split second that she finished it after the previous song, then not knowing what to do with it, I can relate to that