Mitski: 'I Will' SXSW 2016 | NPR MUSIC FRONT ROW

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  • Опубликовано: 26 сен 2024
  • We have the benefit of hindsight when it comes to 1950s and '60s pop music. Songs about motorcycle crashes and broken hearts sound quaint now, but the sweet harmonies and four-on-the-floor beats reflected real anxieties of teens and twentysomethings. Mitski Miyawaki - who records under her first name - makes music that looks to that era, both in style and substance. The 25-year-old Brooklyn songwriter channels the "pop" reflection of everyday trauma. This is realness, often riddled with feedback, but more often sung in quiet and determined desperation.
    This is why when she played our SXSW showcase, you could be forgiven in thinking that her songs about loss, heartbreak, aimlessness and identity carry a dark weight. Largely culling from 2014's Bury Me At Makeout Creek, Mitski's set was spare in its instrumentation, but cavernous in emotion. "Townie," the particularly doomy "I Don't Smoke" and the feedback-squealing closer "Drunk Walk Home" derailed into fuzz and wild vocal acrobatics, while "First Love" felt like a bedroom confessional.
    But Mitski also performed two songs from the forthcoming Puberty 2, a record that opens up her sonic and lyrical palette. "Once More to See You," getting a first taste here, is like something out of a cloudy dream, with a space between guitar notes that's deliberate, yet disorienting. Mitski lets her voice breathe through the pauses like a lounge singer left alone in a velvet room. When she spoke with NPR about "Your Best American Girl," she said, "I am half Japanese, and it came from wanting to just fit into this very American person's life and simply not being able to." In Austin, it's a scorcher, riddled with sludgy distortion and crashing cymbals as if someone set off fireworks just above the stage. -- LARS GOTRICH
    CREDITS
    Producers: Saidah Blount, Mito Habe-Evans, Otis Hart; Technical Director: Josh Rogosin; Director: Mito Habe-Evans; Videographers: Nickolai Hammar, Katie Hayes Luke, Cameron Robert, A.J. Wilhelm, Lizzie Chen; Editor: Niki Walker; Audio: Timothy Powell/Metro Mobile; Assistant Audio Engineer: Loretta Rae; Production Assistants: Erin Conlon, Nathan Gaar; Editors: Niki Walker, Kara Frame. Photography: Adam Kissick. Special Thanks: SXSW, Stubb's BBQ; Executive Producer: Anya Grundmann.
    Support for NPR Music comes from Blue Microphone.

Комментарии • 106

  • @sophiebradshaw4157
    @sophiebradshaw4157 5 лет назад +2016

    If you haven't heard, Mitski has said that she isn't the "I" in this song, she's the "you". In other words, this is what she wishes she could hear from someone else. Adds a whole nother level.

    • @nompond
      @nompond 5 лет назад +17

      Sophie Bradshaw fuck

    • @wren7574
      @wren7574 5 лет назад +64

      Changes my whole view on this song

    • @gabrielledennis549
      @gabrielledennis549 4 года назад +28

      I HONESTLY CAN’T-

    • @haobinversed
      @haobinversed 3 года назад +36

      DO NOT MAKE ME CRY LIKE THAT-

    • @Someone-fn3ij
      @Someone-fn3ij 3 года назад +16

      this information changed me ngl

  • @owenselwyn3154
    @owenselwyn3154 4 года назад +1012

    I love that this song never fully kicks in. It's like she's trying to let these feelings go but she can't it's beautiful.

  • @ROMELYMEISSA
    @ROMELYMEISSA 3 года назад +502

    this song is holding my hand

    • @bonecag3
      @bonecag3 3 года назад +13

      That’s the best way to describe this song

  • @katereynolds7137
    @katereynolds7137 5 лет назад +570

    i hope she never stops playing this song. not just my favorite mitski song, but my favorite song period.

  • @kayla-uc5xr
    @kayla-uc5xr 2 года назад +243

    This song is simultaneously everything I want to be, everything I wish I did, everything I want to receive, and everything I'm afraid of at the same time. Thank you for this wonderful song mitski!!!

    • @PurtyPurple
      @PurtyPurple 2 года назад +16

      It's such a human thing, that desire for belonging and comfort and at the same time to give it.

  • @joshcavanagh8558
    @joshcavanagh8558 7 лет назад +337

    The most beautifully aggressive mitski song

  • @Tipsy_Turby
    @Tipsy_Turby 8 месяцев назад +28

    NO BC THE CONTROL SHE HAS WHILE SOUNDING LIKE SHES CRYING AND SINGING AT THE SAME TIME IS SO GOOD TF

  • @fi4072
    @fi4072 3 года назад +276

    it’s so hard to cry these days thank you mitski this helped

  • @ana-yz4jl
    @ana-yz4jl 2 года назад +40

    when she says "there's no need to be brave" etc then later on proceeds to say "I'll be brave".. i feel like the first one represents her loved one saying that to her then as time went on she lost that person, saying she'll still be brave for them.

  • @didepp9466
    @didepp9466 6 лет назад +232

    I swear I cry everytime I listen to this. I mean dude how can you even not with that lyrics?!?!?!?!

  • @guyhanji3085
    @guyhanji3085 3 года назад +78

    she is so beautiful. what a gift to be alive the same time as her.

  • @seraph9351
    @seraph9351 2 года назад +54

    I use this song to motivate self love.
    I will take good care of ME
    Cause I will always have me
    Love yourself because you deserve everything the world desires

    • @theseusinflames4301
      @theseusinflames4301 2 года назад +7

      this is already about self love! :D
      the 'you' in this song is mitski, she's singing to herself :)))

  • @kmk130
    @kmk130 4 года назад +86

    i love this drummer. what a king

  • @malmpardon9249
    @malmpardon9249 2 года назад +41

    I will take good care of you
    I will take good care of you
    Everything you feel is good
    If you would only let you
    I will wash your hair at night
    And dry it off with care
    I will see your body bare
    And still I will live here
    So stay with me
    Hold my hand
    There's no need
    To be brave
    And all the quiet nights you bear
    Seal them up with care
    No one needs to know they're there
    For I will hold them for you
    Cause' all I ever wanted is here
    All I ever wanted
    All I want is
    ALways you
    It's always you
    And we're not out of the tunnel
    I bet you though there's an end
    Stay with me
    Hold my hand
    There's no need
    To be brave
    And while you sleep
    I'll be scared
    So by the time you wake
    I'll be brave
    I'll be brave
    I'll be brave

  • @jinh605
    @jinh605 Год назад +21

    the way that this song just completely changes once you know the meaning. it's this beautiful love song with no conext, but with that context this song becomes a desperate plea into this abyss for anyone to love someone who has almost given up on trying. it's tragic, tear-jerking, gorgeous, and the best song ever made. i love you mitski

  • @pictureparlour000mitski
    @pictureparlour000mitski 3 года назад +79

    Stunning voice.
    The most advanced American songwriter.

  • @eviejoy_
    @eviejoy_ 3 года назад +18

    and still i will live here

  • @djork6518
    @djork6518 5 лет назад +91

    just like the 1975's acoustic version of paris, this live version is so much better than the studio version--and the studio version stole my heart, shattered it into a million pieces, and remade it when i first heard it, and every single time since then

  • @thehoseaeffect122
    @thehoseaeffect122 11 месяцев назад +5

    I could feel every emotion in her tone ...

  • @mimikacchan
    @mimikacchan 3 года назад +22

    This made me cry, and I normally don't cry with her music unless I think too much :'(

  • @cole6447
    @cole6447 3 года назад +180

    AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH

  • @cauanjo
    @cauanjo 3 года назад +18

    me too mitski me too

  • @sitrakarandria9293
    @sitrakarandria9293 3 года назад +11

    This song is makes me cry everytime. Same, mitski. I want someone to sing me this too.

  • @Strwbrry_rat
    @Strwbrry_rat 6 месяцев назад +2

    I swear anytime I hear Mitski sing this song she sounds like she’s on the verge of tears it breaks my heart

  • @DiminishingLight
    @DiminishingLight Год назад +4

    0:42 That melody just carries me into heaven. I love this woman so much.

  • @ameligotrizz
    @ameligotrizz 8 месяцев назад +2

    i will forever be fully inlove with this song.

  • @mammon.3y
    @mammon.3y Месяц назад +2

    everyone moved on but im still here

  • @luminity2936
    @luminity2936 2 года назад +10

    every one of her songs just hit so much harder live...

  • @bazlamasalva8736
    @bazlamasalva8736 3 года назад +7

    nothing can make me cry but this...

  • @all7son
    @all7son 3 года назад +10

    god this song is so beautiful

  • @kyleybangers
    @kyleybangers 3 года назад +6

    i literally have chills i love thsi song help

  • @hi-co2pf
    @hi-co2pf Год назад +1

    everything about this song and mitski is just so beautiful

  • @WelfareChrist
    @WelfareChrist 5 лет назад +38

    Better than the studio version

  • @icantsleepanymore2843
    @icantsleepanymore2843 2 года назад +3

    I love this song more than I love myself

  • @tetertere341
    @tetertere341 3 года назад +5

    I love you

  • @bettermiyatwin
    @bettermiyatwin 10 месяцев назад

    I love the guitar here so much...

  • @alishbamalik2868
    @alishbamalik2868 2 года назад

    this made me cry like a child in the best way

  • @Kuaaakkmm
    @Kuaaakkmm 3 месяца назад

    Teamo Mitski

  • @djork6518
    @djork6518 5 лет назад +40

    also does anyone have the tab for the guitar riff?

    • @ceciliamarques7832
      @ceciliamarques7832 4 года назад +30

      B|-12-15-----------------15-12-15----------15-12
      E|------------12--14-12----------------14-14---------
      B|-12-15-----------------15-12-15-15~-14-12-10
      E|------------12--14-12--------------------------------------
      Sounds accurate to me

    • @Kevin-oe7cf
      @Kevin-oe7cf 3 года назад +1

      @@ceciliamarques7832 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

  • @lukaslourd
    @lukaslourd 7 месяцев назад

    ❤❤

  • @hollielolliepop
    @hollielolliepop Год назад

    love u

  • @bradpittballbuddies
    @bradpittballbuddies 5 месяцев назад

    Yas

  • @arjitjere1559
    @arjitjere1559 2 года назад

    So intense...

  • @andreanicole251
    @andreanicole251 2 года назад +3

    por favor háganle un altar a esta mujer.

  • @osiosis5632
    @osiosis5632 3 года назад +11

    te amo mitski

  • @Aghostlivesher3
    @Aghostlivesher3 6 месяцев назад

    Stay with me hold my hand

  • @angelikit4515
    @angelikit4515 9 месяцев назад +1

    best 2:47 minutes of my life

  • @laisnazareth8916
    @laisnazareth8916 2 года назад

    lenda

  • @akiraportor3684
    @akiraportor3684 2 года назад +2

    nah if I have a guitar that means it's inspired by mitski😵

  • @bermudessilva
    @bermudessilva Год назад

    mitski is god

  • @freestylescooter1360
    @freestylescooter1360 8 лет назад +5

    Matt Skis.

  • @rennnxs
    @rennnxs 5 месяцев назад

    th9s song makes me wan t to kmyseld (in a positive waa

  • @M17K18KO
    @M17K18KO 23 дня назад

    her guitarist gives so much lesbian energy

  • @jaimelazcano9615
    @jaimelazcano9615 6 лет назад +16

    I love this song but honestly that guitar player kinda ruins it

    • @SchizoMuch
      @SchizoMuch 5 лет назад +61

      I think she's amazing. And her preformance in Drunk Walk Home makes it better than the studio version

    • @marissaburdock6550
      @marissaburdock6550 3 года назад +3

      I kinda liked it

    • @vanlalruatfela4965
      @vanlalruatfela4965 3 года назад +3

      I actually liked it

  • @swissmissinstantpiss8400
    @swissmissinstantpiss8400 Год назад +1

    this song is genuinely so important to me

  • @nicochavez278
    @nicochavez278 2 года назад +8

    I love the song but listening to it live brings all the raw emotions and it's such a personal performance and I love ot better live

  • @ximed6624
    @ximed6624 2 года назад +3

    Dios te amo mistki, me siento jodidamente sola, incomprendida y que nadie me quiere pero te escucho y siento que tengo alguien que me acompaña y que sabe cómo me siento