Mitski's new album 'The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We', featuring the song "My Love Mine All Mine" is out now. Watch the music video: ruclips.net/video/vx4kLgnFexo/видео.html Listen to the album: mitski.lnk.to/TLIIASAW
i remember seeing people on tumblr refer to mitski and her music as "cottagecore" and "feral," and now i realize that to dilute her to some aesthetic is borderline criminal
This song makes me have butterflies in my stomach during the "How i feel this river rushing trought my VEINS with nowhere else to it circles round. I'M LIQUID SMOOTH"
"Liquid Smooth" I'm beautiful, I know 'cause it's the season But what am I to do with all this beauty Biology- I am an organism I'm chemical, that's all that is all I'm liquid smooth Come touch me too And feel my skin is plump and full of life I'm in my prime I'm liquid smooth Come touch me, too I'm at my highest peak I'm ripe, about to fall Capture me Or at least take my picture Kuzurete yuku maeni * I'm pulsing My blood is red and unafraid of living Beginning to end I'm liquid smooth Come touch me too, And feel my skin is plump and full of life I'm in my prime I'm liquid smooth Come touch me, too I'm at my highest peak I'm ripe, about to fall How I feel this river rushing through my veins With nowhere else to go It circles round I'm liquid smooth Come touch me too, And feel my skin is plump and full of life I'm in my prime I'm liquid smooth Come touch me, too I'm at my highest peak I'm ripe, about to fall Capture me *it's in japanese, it means something like "before I collapse/crumble/fall apart"
@@bonzi_bonzi it can be interpreted differently but i think it’s about being used for how you look (especially being very young) and knowing that you will only get worse from there. as well as about SA.
honestly, this reminds me of how my mom is so frantic to still seem young, and how she thinks that she’s so ugly even though she is wonderful the way she is. i’ve watched her in this almost panicked state all my life, and it’s beginning to rub off on me. it’s obvious that she feels so pressured to stay sexy and whatnot, and it honestly kind of breaks my heart. i’m afraid of aging, i’m afraid of losing my youth. i’m afraid of losing the little bit of beauty that i have, if any. n’ i’m afraid that i’m missing out on what it’s like to b a teen.
im late to this but i relate so much. my mom will always talk about her younger self as if that version was somehow an entirely different person to her current self. she views herself now as ugly and old even though i, and many people believe she is still gorgeous. and honestly i feel for her but at the same time she has made me so scared of aging and has even made me insecure with my current features. i wish they realized talking down on themselves, at whatever age they are, can have a negative affect on their children. if they don’t even like themselves, how are we supposed to be comfortable with ourselves either?
This hit so hard. My mom is always buying products that she think will make her look younger (they probably won't), and I just want her to truly recognize her beauty as it is. Society in general, has this strange obsession with the younger generations- I've heard someone say, "it's if your life ends when you get to 40".
My mom is the same. She’s depressed now because she turned 40, she’s always crying, sleeping, suffering, hating her body and wrinkles, crying about how she’s not young anymore and how men won’t ever love her (it’s true, men are cruel and superficial). I’m 23, almost 24, I’m still a virgin, I’m pretty but waiting my youth because I’m afraid of men using me
I'm in my 20's and this song sums up this part of my life. "I'm beautiful i know cause it's the season but what am I to do with all this beauty?" "I'm ripe about to fall, capture me or at least take my picture" this is exacly how it feels know that you will never be that young again and feel anxiety thinking that you're not living life enough and you're not being praised as you think you should.
*As someone who is on the ace spectrum, but who also experiences hypersexual episodes, I’ve found a strange sense of comfort in this song. It just strikes a cord with me that not many songs have been able to. It’s so beautiful yet so deep at the same time. It perfectly captures how it feels to be almost totally repulsed by sex but also be obsessed with the thought of it endlessly, at least for me. Mitski is a goddess, all of her songs are bangers but this is one of the few that hit me where it hurts*
Not in a mean way but, if it's not too personal-how does that work? I'm not an ace person so I don't want to be rude but if it's okay I'd like to hear from someone who's experienced it what that feels like/means 👉👈
@@carythacker8049I think they have periods where they are not interested in sex and then become a sex werewolf or something every now and then, but I could be wrong.
Not sure why ppl think this song is explicitly about sex. In fact, when I first heard it I thought it was about realizing youth and beauty are a privilege and desiring for others to recognize it in you before it fades (“capture me.. or at least take my picture”-enjoy how young and beautiful I am in this moment ; “I’m liquid smooth, come touch me too... my skin is plump and full of life, my blood is red and unafraid of living, *I’m in my prime* ”-all references to how beautiful and fearless we are, almost by default, in our youth) The beginning of the song referencing how we’re just chemicals, organisms, biology and asking what are we to do with so much beauty. Asking for someone to capture it because it won’t be around forever (“at my highest peak, about to fall” and the part in Japanese relating to crumbing and falling apart) (Yes, of course sex could be a part of this but I’ve always heard this with the tone that suggests fleeting youth and being afraid of wasting it or having it go to waste, rather, and for that reason, I’ve never heard this as a sexual song... but a sad, even, scary one)🌹🥀
i think the sex drive, the desire, angle of it is deliberate in its sadness. she (the voice in this song, not necessarily mitski) wants someone to desire her while she is young and pretty, and doesn't want her youth to be wasted alone, as she has been conditioned to think it would be by beauty standards, by society. its not a good sexual, she doesnt really want it for herself
the craziest part about this entire album is that she made it when she was 20 in her college dorm for one of her classes. she delivers such a beautiful vocal performance in this song
I love this song, it feels like a song about women sexuality and how it’s portrayed in media, how when you are a certain age, you are told that you are in ripe and in your prime, and certain things have to be done at a certain age, like “yeah, come get me, I’m ripe like a fruit come get me” biology I am an organism I’m chemical and that’s all really says “I’m objectified, just an organism” and at least take my picture Kuzurete yuku maiani (before I crumble/fall apart) really says “come get me before I’m not ripe anymore, before I spoil”
I interpret this song as a cry of despair at realising you're at your "peak beauty" and yearning to be loved/noticed before it's too late. Craving for validation. It's like reaching the top of a cliff and realising that there's nowhere else to go from the highest point - it's just a free fall, which I interpret as the process of getting older. There's nothing wrong with getting older, but being a woman in this century I totally understand this perspective, having passed my mid-20s I've found myself having the same thoughts that the lyrics describe.
possibly my favourite mitski song, its so poetic and meaningful - even a comment on society and the pressure women and teenage girls are under to 'live freely' while they can; and the instrumentals are amazing,
@selfproclaimedesper778 I hate when people belittle "unconventional" SA (ie. Child on child. Same sex, male victim, older person being the victim) Everyone deserves love and support. Especially male victims cause often they're only used as a gotcha to women. Like people only suddenly care about them when it's to put others down.
@@ney_1534 I mean even if a song has a meaning the point of songs is that people can interpret in many different ways and see their own experience in a song even if that's not the original meaning. As long as the actual meaning isn't ignored, nothing wrong with interpreting it in your own way
Man, listening to this while smoking is kinda a transcendent experience. Feeling the rush of calm and slightly lamenting beauty of it is really grounding
her voice range is absolutely unreal. this song is so atmospheric and genius. in 40 years time mitski will be remembered the way we remember classic rock legends, i just hope she gets more appreciation right now for the amazing work she's doing and the barriers she's breaking down. she has so much substance and meaning behind her style. we are truly in the presence of a once in a generation genius.
this hits so much harder when you've been sexually assaulted and you feel like you need to sexualize yourself to feel anything or get any praise for anything
I have no words for how much I love every single one of mitski's songs...the pure artistry and raw emotion, her range, poetic lyricism, the genuinity of it all.
It really does, and it's probably not intentional, but it's definitely kinda ironic. Bond movies (especially the older ones) have so much sexualization of young women, and are representative of the ultimate male fantasy, things that mitski is criticizing in the lyrics.
@@ohutchie, I’m not sure she is criticizing the male fantasy… more so speaking on her, and by extension, many women’s fear that if they don’t find love quickly nobody will ever love them.
This song makes me sad because its how i feel everyday. I feel that my life, my youth is slipping away and im wasting it and im not having fun and going out like all the other young people
this hits different when all you want it validation. And to be seen as beautiful not by yourself but by others. it’s hits different when you wake up at 6 in the morning to do your hair, skin, uniform, jewellery, everything. hoping to be seen beautiful in everyone’s eyes. it hits different when you have to suck in everywhere you go and live in pain and uncomfortableness every where you are because you need to look beautiful. it hits different when you’ve been sexualised your whole life to that you now need validation by those around you to be seen as beautiful.
I told my music teacher to listen to this specific Mitski song this weekend, I am determined to turn him into a Mitski Stan by the end of the year Update: I didn't have much luck with the music teacher, but with my tech teacher I did! He likes Puberty 2 and Retired from sad, New Career in business!
"Im liquid smooth come touch me to" Honestly makes me wanna cry bc of how I've always been tossed and thrown around nobody has ever tried to help and just want someone to actually touch me and care about how I feel
@@Alexiii-b8m I know i'm a stranger and this may seem weird but I really hope everything gets better, I'm sorry you're going through whatever you're going through right now and I genuinely wish the best for you!!
This song fr reminds me of how much I want to be wanted so much so that I've thrown myself in to harms way and let older men have their way with me shit makes me fucking cry bro
You can still relate to this song if you’re not a woman. I think anyone with sexual trauma understands that feeling of needing to be wanted and being scared you’re undesirable.
@@Otra_Chica_de_Internet I don’t understand what you’re asking or how that’s relevant to what I’m saying, as I was saying anyone with sexual trauma has feelings like the song is describing- not that the song is about the effects of sexual trauma.
@@Otra_Chica_de_Internet Music is all about how you interpret it. As many of the other comments explain, some feel it’s about sexual assault or the hypersexualization of children and women. There’s tons of different interpretations :)
To me this song is about how a teen or young adult has never been noticed romantically before and because of society is scared that their “clock” of youth is running out of time, thus they won’t have any experiences at all and try to grasp at what they can while they can, thinking that aging will make them less desirable or loved so they must act now or they’ll never get a chance “what am I to do with all this beauty” is that they want to use their beauty while their “in my prime” or “ripe” or have someone “at least take their picture” so they won’t lose all this beauty of their youth on nothing or something futile, so they want to experience what having a romantic experience or partner is like
i feel like this song is about everyone telling women 16 to 23 that they are at their prime and should live life then and find a man and settle down before they fall and get unattractive. so i feel like this is a woman not knowing what to do with her ending prime time and getting desparate.
Ik a lot of people interpret this song to be about over sexualization, but personally I think it's about being so desperately affection starved/feeling like you are wasting your youth by not being "loved". Especially "or at least take my picture" (at least love me for a bit) and "beginning to end" (she is at the peak of her youth, or at least she thinks she is, and she will soon become older, and in her perspective -undesirable.)
Exactly. I scrolled through the comments and all I see is oversexualisation and SA references but... it doesn't have to be about that. It can just be about the crushing weight of knowing now you're in your best shape, but no one will ever love you.
I'm beautiful, I know cause it's the season But what am I to do with all this beauty? Biology, I am an organism, I'm chemical That's all, that is all I'm liquid smooth, come touch me, too And feel my skin is plump and full of life I'm in my prime I'm liquid smooth, come touch me, too I'm at my highest peak, I'm ripe About to fall, capture me Or at least take my picture Kuzurete yuku maeni I'm pulsing, my blood is red and unafraid of living Beginning to end I'm liquid smooth, come touch me, too And feel my skin is plump and full of life I'm in my prime I'm liquid smooth, come touch me, too I'm at my highest peak, I'm ripe About to fall How I feel this river rushing through my veins With nowhere else to go, it circles 'round I'm liquid smooth, come touch me, too And feel my skin is plump and full of life I'm in my prime I'm liquid smooth, come touch me, too I'm at my highest peak, I'm ripe About to fall, capture me
I know I’m late to this but I wanna ramble. I don’t know if this is what this song is about, but I relate to it in a “hopeless romantic” kind of way. This song perfectly reminds me of the feeling of being touch starved and longing for someone, anyone, to just come and care for me and hold me. Even if they don’t actually love me I just want to feel cared for. It’s a strong feeling of loneliness and longing that this song perfectly gets down
i agree with you, but for this song i think female fits, because not everyone born a female identifies as a woman but they were still born a female and understand the struggles and oppression that all females have faced
@@evilnefariousalien yeah i guess i also mean afab ppl because they’re usually burdened with standards from a very young age and that’s not really only exclusive to people who identify as a woman
When I was 19 I "sold" my body to an American couple that was visiting my country. I spent 3 days with them in a hotel, one of em was 45 while the other 50 something. Back at my parents I played this song while in my room and never felt more connected to it I felt both disgusting and pleasure knowing what I have done.
This is Mitski’s best album. I mean all her albums are beautiful but this one is from the core of her heart, the production complements her voice perfectly.
definitely about the fact how a girl feels like her beauty and youth and womanhood needs to be used enough before she becomes undesirable to society because of age
the angry and manic tone of the instruments paired with the meaning of the lyrics perfectly describe a feeling i thought that no one else felt now if you'll excuse me i've got to go angrily sob and wait for the day that i feel clean again
I'm beautiful, I know, 'cause it's the season But what am I to do with all this beauty Biology, I am an organism I'm chemical That's all, that is all I'm liquid smooth come touch me too and feel my skin is plump and full of life I'm in my prime I'm liquid smooth come touch me too I'm at my highest peak, I'm ripe, about to fall Capture me or at least take my picture Kuzurete yuku maeni [Japanese] I'm pulsing my blood is red and unafraid of living beginning to end I'm liquid smooth come touch me too and feel my skin is plump and full of life I'm in my prime I'm liquid smooth come touch me too I'm at my highest peak, I'm ripe, about to fall How I feel this river rushing through my veins with no where else to go, it circles round I'm liquid smooth come touch me too and feel my skin is plump and full of life I'm in my prime I'm liquid smooth come touch me too I'm at my highest peak, I'm ripe, about to fall Capture me...
idk this song makes me anxious about growing up and then suddenly instead of staying how i want myself to be, starting to grow old im 14 and im scared of growing up ok i dont want people who i love to die and myself to get all wrinkled and alone, its scary
I am 20 and do not worry about death - it will come and there is nothing you can do about it, and that's alright. There is this quote, i don't remember exactly, it goes like "Life is like a play, not judged by length but by how good the story and the actors are." You can check out Seneca's letter to Lucillius, it helped me edit: Sry the book's name was "Moral letters to Lucilius"
You are fourteen so you are allowed to not want to be grown up. You dont have to worry now because it is still years away before you will be an adult. So, I know it is easier said than done, but I recommend trying to not think about the future too much. If you focus more on the now, I think you wont really notice that you are maturing. Then, when you are older, I think you will not be as scared anymore because you have lived and cherished your youth and are ready and well-equiped for your next steps in life and you wont want to be fourteen anymore. It is the natural process of growing up. As an adult you have agency over your own life. You can choose what to engage yourself in, who you want to meet, who you want to spend your life with. To me, death is the least scary part of life; I see it as a whole state of peace without worries. But if you take control over your life and, most importantly, try to do things you enjoy with people you enjoy, your adult life wont be made up of fear, but rather of freedom and joy.
so many things make this hit hard. being a teen wasting away bc of covid, being lonely, the guilt of being trans, regretting not doing more with your life, jesus
hey, I don't know if I have the right to sympathize with you but... I'm bigender and the guilt is real for me too but that doesn't mean that both of us won't be free from that. Let's go and walk forward with our chins up, since that's the only thing we can do right now so far.
You ever wanna rip off every vestige of your womanhood and scream in the dark of a cave? Alone, truely unknown, always truthfully unloved. But you just kinda have to sit in the world empty in every way but the way you wanna be.
i feel like this is showing how we (women) are treated as we are just a body to be toyed with. nothing more. but if that is all we are then that’s what we should talk about. almost like the only way we can have any sort of love is having a fresh body. i feel like she is saying that she is an "organism" and she is "plump" and "full of life" meaning that she is "fresh enough" so this is the only way she could gain any sort of love. her body is liquid smooth. she is an object. the writing is disgustingly beautiful. it shows how hard being a women is. not to mention how women of color are constantly fetishized. she is just an object to be used. and we cant gain anymore "love" when we are old. thats why she says things like "im ripe" and "im in my prime"
this video feels like looking in the mirror and feeling good for just about a couple of minutes before the dysmorphia and self-depreciation sets in and the desperation of realizing you only have a limited amount of time
Can we just talk about how amazing and emotional mistki voice is? The cracks and how it still sounds clear idk how to explain it but it makes me feel and understand the emotions and sounds more realistic like shes really hurting.
The first chord of this is the same chord that ends When She Loved Me from Toy Story 2, so it is an AMAZING but also SPOOKY transition whenever you listen to Toy Story and then this
this song to me is what it feels like to work incredibly hard and not be recognised for it, to beg others to even look at you while you stay achieving because you know you will burn out. and you keep working yourself to the core because that is the only way others can know you, talk to you and like you
" I'm chemical, that's all, that is all" this lyric is so relatable yet, so sad. I honestly believe I serve no purpose so I go many nights restless or unable to sleep because of thinking about death or why we live to just die. Or that In the grand scheme of everything, I don't technically matter. Or just the feeling of this song, the desperation of being touched or wanting someone, something, anything; but honestly hating anyone actually touching you. Wanting a hug without the physical touch of another person, I feel like if someone touches me I'll begin to like them or they'll think I'm fat, or weird, or gross. Honestly The rush of anything, pain, fear, or excitement is better than the bitter emptyness I feel on the inside sometimes. Im not smart or pretty, not really anything I'm just,, here. So much has happened and so fast I begin to wonder if any of it was real. lol. Life flies by so fast but just 60 seconds is so long. This song is the feeling of being in a crowd of people and feeling alone.
this song encapsulates the woc experience of not being considered the beauty standard and then forming a sense of self within the male gaze and you hypersexualize yourself to feel worthy because in this world you are only beautiful if you are desirable and mitski just brings it to life perfectly
this album is so slept on, especially pearl diver. i think people need to appreciate just every little thing about this woman, her music is so powerful and she just means every single word she sings. she has feelings in each song, her music is just so powerful, especially for woc.
this song sums up so perfectly what i love about mitski - the way her music and voice are able to channel the feeling of despair. it feels so raw and emotional and it impacts me so differently to other artists' music somehow
''I'm liquid smooth, come touch me, too I'm at my highest peak, I'm ripe About to fall, capture me'' you're writing is just so beautiful, Mitski. So so beautiful.
I understand that this song can be relatable/enjoyable to all women/afab people, but it hits especially hard as a woman of color (same with strawberry blonde). I know Mitski makes music for everyone, but some of her music IS about her experience as a woman of color, and it makes me feel really seen.
This is literally an underrated masterpiece. I was just on Spotify, and by the first few notes I was intrigued. But man, once she started singing, and the chorus hit, it was literally so beautiful. This song is so perfect in so many ways, I love it so much.
i love how this song invokes a sense of a downward spiral, utter dread - the same dread a lot of us who were or are raised as women feel, to push yourself to that societal expectation of being young and sexy, because youre just ripe enough to seem sweet. but once you start getting older, stress appears on your face, the wrinkles and lines and gouges and marks, it all shows. things begin to sag. flab appears on your belly, your legs, your arms, your chest. youre no longer seen as beautiful by the public, despite you trying so hard to be perfect, and appealing. thats when that dread kicks in. you dont have enough time. nobody does. but now, youre going rotten and moldy - at least, thats what the public sees. youre only aging, youre only changing. you cant help it, but everyone still loathes you for it regardless. you have to present yourself as some perfect entity, not even human anymore, because youve been forced to show your body so many times that youre seen as a commodity, until youve run out of stock. and i know its especially hard for people or women of color. im not one myself, but youre expected to be perfect to the white mans eye, and if youre not, youre a freak. feral. unworthy. dirty. every slur that you could be called, even if it doesnt fit, you will be called it. you dont have the privilege to be seen as beautiful by default - you have to earn it the hard way, and yet, youre still expected to fulfill it. youre either fetishized and gawked at, or pushed aside and regarded with scorn. nobody can keep that beauty sacred forever. sorry for the heavy rant. i wanted to ramble and god damn this is the place to ramble
This song felt like a woman so constricted by the people who says "You should get married before 30" or "You're almost 30 and you haven't even got a boyfriend! You're gonna grow old and no one will want you anymore!" or "You're so old and you haven't even got a boyfriend? That's why I told you to fix how you dress yourself and your attitude!" It's really sad that some people still think that way. Women are beautiful no matter what age.
Mitski's new album 'The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We', featuring the song "My Love Mine All Mine" is out now. Watch the music video: ruclips.net/video/vx4kLgnFexo/видео.html
Listen to the album: mitski.lnk.to/TLIIASAW
Can I get a shoutout please? 😢
Mitski, I know you'll never see this but I LOVE YOU
My love mine all mine is literally a masterpiece (note all Mitskj sobgs are masterpieces)
te amo
you are soo talented..
i remember seeing people on tumblr refer to mitski and her music as "cottagecore" and "feral," and now i realize that to dilute her to some aesthetic is borderline criminal
Absolutely.
The way Mitski expresses herself is more like visceral.
i will punt someone if they call her music feral😐
white people
feral??? mitski makes music for woc
therapy: expensive and long
Listening to mitski on repeat: free and easy
me
love her to death, but i think we all know that she's the reason we need therapy.
Honestly
you can lie to your therapist but you cant lie to mitski 😍🤞
real!!!!
This song makes me have butterflies in my stomach during the "How i feel this river rushing trought my VEINS with nowhere else to it circles round. I'M LIQUID SMOOTH"
SAME
FOR REAL
YESSS
REAL
Same
i know she has a few hits, but she's still slept on :(
literally
yes ikr and i wish more people talked about A Loving Feeling
the sad reality of most incredibly talented WOC
Excactly
fr
"Liquid Smooth"
I'm beautiful, I know 'cause it's the season
But what am I to do with all this beauty
Biology- I am an organism
I'm chemical, that's all that is all
I'm liquid smooth
Come touch me too
And feel my skin is plump and full of life
I'm in my prime
I'm liquid smooth
Come touch me, too
I'm at my highest peak
I'm ripe, about to fall
Capture me
Or at least take my picture
Kuzurete yuku maeni *
I'm pulsing
My blood is red and unafraid of living
Beginning to end
I'm liquid smooth
Come touch me too,
And feel my skin is plump and full of life I'm in my prime
I'm liquid smooth
Come touch me, too
I'm at my highest peak
I'm ripe, about to fall
How I feel this river rushing through my veins
With nowhere else to go
It circles round
I'm liquid smooth
Come touch me too,
And feel my skin is plump and full of life I'm in my prime
I'm liquid smooth
Come touch me, too
I'm at my highest peak
I'm ripe, about to fall
Capture me
*it's in japanese, it means something like "before I collapse/crumble/fall apart"
Thank you sm❤❤
the bee says thanks
what is the song about
@@bonzi_bonzi it can be interpreted differently but i think it’s about being used for how you look (especially being very young) and knowing that you will only get worse from there. as well as about SA.
@@sageishere2237 ohhhhhhhhhhh tyvm ^^
honestly, this reminds me of how my mom is so frantic to still seem young, and how she thinks that she’s so ugly even though she is wonderful the way she is. i’ve watched her in this almost panicked state all my life, and it’s beginning to rub off on me. it’s obvious that she feels so pressured to stay sexy and whatnot, and it honestly kind of breaks my heart.
i’m afraid of aging, i’m afraid of losing my youth. i’m afraid of losing the little bit of beauty that i have, if any. n’ i’m afraid that i’m missing out on what it’s like to b a teen.
im late to this but i relate so much. my mom will always talk about her younger self as if that version was somehow an entirely different person to her current self. she views herself now as ugly and old even though i, and many people believe she is still gorgeous. and honestly i feel for her but at the same time she has made me so scared of aging and has even made me insecure with my current features. i wish they realized talking down on themselves, at whatever age they are, can have a negative affect on their children. if they don’t even like themselves, how are we supposed to be comfortable with ourselves either?
This hit so hard. My mom is always buying products that she think will make her look younger (they probably won't), and I just want her to truly recognize her beauty as it is. Society in general, has this strange obsession with the younger generations- I've heard someone say, "it's if your life ends when you get to 40".
My mom is the same. She’s depressed now because she turned 40, she’s always crying, sleeping, suffering, hating her body and wrinkles, crying about how she’s not young anymore and how men won’t ever love her (it’s true, men are cruel and superficial).
I’m 23, almost 24, I’m still a virgin, I’m pretty but waiting my youth because I’m afraid of men using me
Can yo mom speak this 1:21???
Teenage years isn't one's prime.
I'm in my 20's and this song sums up this part of my life. "I'm beautiful i know cause it's the season but what am I to do with all this beauty?" "I'm ripe about to fall, capture me or at least take my picture" this is exacly how it feels know that you will never be that young again and feel anxiety thinking that you're not living life enough and you're not being praised as you think you should.
saw your shinji pfp and thought you should listen to class of 2013 bc it reminds me of asuka
*As someone who is on the ace spectrum, but who also experiences hypersexual episodes, I’ve found a strange sense of comfort in this song. It just strikes a cord with me that not many songs have been able to. It’s so beautiful yet so deep at the same time. It perfectly captures how it feels to be almost totally repulsed by sex but also be obsessed with the thought of it endlessly, at least for me. Mitski is a goddess, all of her songs are bangers but this is one of the few that hit me where it hurts*
I relate a lot to this
Not in a mean way but, if it's not too personal-how does that work? I'm not an ace person so I don't want to be rude but if it's okay I'd like to hear from someone who's experienced it what that feels like/means 👉👈
why is this in bold 😭
couldn’t have said it better
@@carythacker8049I think they have periods where they are not interested in sex and then become a sex werewolf or something every now and then, but I could be wrong.
i want to decompose and moss to cover me whole while this song is playing
this comment is perfect
Okay hozier
my feelings exactly
I'm imagining it right now and wow.
songs to decay and rot to
Not sure why ppl think this song is explicitly about sex. In fact, when I first heard it I thought it was about realizing youth and beauty are a privilege and desiring for others to recognize it in you before it fades (“capture me.. or at least take my picture”-enjoy how young and beautiful I am in this moment ; “I’m liquid smooth, come touch me too... my skin is plump and full of life, my blood is red and unafraid of living, *I’m in my prime* ”-all references to how beautiful and fearless we are, almost by default, in our youth) The beginning of the song referencing how we’re just chemicals, organisms, biology and asking what are we to do with so much beauty. Asking for someone to capture it because it won’t be around forever (“at my highest peak, about to fall” and the part in Japanese relating to crumbing and falling apart)
(Yes, of course sex could be a part of this but I’ve always heard this with the tone that suggests fleeting youth and being afraid of wasting it or having it go to waste, rather, and for that reason, I’ve never heard this as a sexual song... but a sad, even, scary one)🌹🥀
i think the sex drive, the desire, angle of it is deliberate in its sadness. she (the voice in this song, not necessarily mitski) wants someone to desire her while she is young and pretty, and doesn't want her youth to be wasted alone, as she has been conditioned to think it would be by beauty standards, by society. its not a good sexual, she doesnt really want it for herself
in time she legit said it’s about sex at a concert
@Nicholas Hansen I mean almost four hundred people did, and it's not pretentious at all?
Whatever lets you sleep at night
@Nicholas Hansen idc they were spittin
2:02 gosh, I absolutely adore this part
I love you
SAME
Marry me
Marry me also
Concubine
the craziest part about this entire album is that she made it when she was 20 in her college dorm for one of her classes. she delivers such a beautiful vocal performance in this song
didn't she get like a C or something?-
@@IsaacSteel-l8hpurely rumour, there’s no source proving it but then again there isn’t any disproving it ig 🤷♀️
@@IsaacSteel-l8hI think it was a d😨
@@IsaacSteel-l8h i believe it was because she didnt follow the assignment correctly but im not sure
@@mushroomscav that's criminal, lush makes me wanna live and die at the same time, it's a masterpiece
I love this song, it feels like a song about women sexuality and how it’s portrayed in media, how when you are a certain age, you are told that you are in ripe and in your prime, and certain things have to be done at a certain age, like “yeah, come get me, I’m ripe like a fruit come get me” biology I am an organism I’m chemical and that’s all really says “I’m objectified, just an organism” and at least take my picture Kuzurete yuku maiani (before I crumble/fall apart) really says “come get me before I’m not ripe anymore, before I spoil”
I interpret this song as a cry of despair at realising you're at your "peak beauty" and yearning to be loved/noticed before it's too late. Craving for validation. It's like reaching the top of a cliff and realising that there's nowhere else to go from the highest point - it's just a free fall, which I interpret as the process of getting older.
There's nothing wrong with getting older, but being a woman in this century I totally understand this perspective, having passed my mid-20s I've found myself having the same thoughts that the lyrics describe.
possibly my favourite mitski song, its so poetic and meaningful - even a comment on society and the pressure women and teenage girls are under to 'live freely' while they can; and the instrumentals are amazing,
Agreed
A HIDDEN GEM. THIS SONG IS BEAUTIFUL
Yes yes it is
Yep
Not hidden anymore :(
@@Otra_Chica_de_Internet it has less than a million views..
@@Otra_Chica_de_Internet Doesn't really matter if it's hidden or not. All it means is that more people can appreciate this masterpiece.
As a male SA victim I can say this hits hard.
I'm so sorry love
I'm so sorry :(
I hope you find healing, just know you aren't alone
Thank god y’all have him support instead of demonizing him. Faith in humanity restored
@selfproclaimedesper778
I hate when people belittle "unconventional" SA (ie. Child on child. Same sex, male victim, older person being the victim)
Everyone deserves love and support. Especially male victims cause often they're only used as a gotcha to women. Like people only suddenly care about them when it's to put others down.
Aw honey im so sorry. I pray you’ll be okay. Sending love 💕
Lush is such an underrated album smh my head
facts
right
You just said shaking my head my head
it's my favorite album by mitski, it's so raw and dark
@@hshsbaja6228 tomoko
This song makes me wanna die before I turn thirty
That's a dark way to put it but I totally understand what you mean
that is what im planning
@@terapia2914 same lol
@@terapia2914 same haha
I hope so lol
crazy how mitski made biology
This song invented ATP and kreb's cycle
@@BanPan6710 and Mitochondrion and DNA😍
Ik and I hate her for that 😍 /silly
Fr fr
Dungeon meshi pfp spotted >:D
This hits different when your a WOC you are always between being hypersexualized, fetishized or ostracized and unwanted
This!
@@salvatore3835 I’m so happy someone understands! But also sad 🥲
What does WOC stand for??? :o
@@boy-dq8zs woman of color :)
@@boy-dq8zs oh it stands for “Women of Color”
This just hits harder when you are wasting your youth in covid times
YES
This hurt lol
No please. Its more than that.
@@ney_1534 I mean even if a song has a meaning the point of songs is that people can interpret in many different ways and see their own experience in a song even if that's not the original meaning. As long as the actual meaning isn't ignored, nothing wrong with interpreting it in your own way
u completely missed the point of this song lmaoooooo
How can this masterpiece be 11 years old already?
Man, listening to this while smoking is kinda a transcendent experience. Feeling the rush of calm and slightly lamenting beauty of it is really grounding
Your skin isn't going to be plump and full of life 😭
@@jess5427 dude, thank you this is a spectacular comment
Dont Smoke!!!!!!!!!
shouldn't romanticise smoking
damn sorry these people took you talking about your own experience smoking and made it about how “durr smoking bad!1!1”
her voice range is absolutely unreal. this song is so atmospheric and genius. in 40 years time mitski will be remembered the way we remember classic rock legends, i just hope she gets more appreciation right now for the amazing work she's doing and the barriers she's breaking down. she has so much substance and meaning behind her style. we are truly in the presence of a once in a generation genius.
this hits so much harder when you've been sexually assaulted and you feel like you need to sexualize yourself to feel anything or get any praise for anything
😢 you're worth so much more than that.. cmon now
song make me bus
bust*
I feel like that so often, I feel like people would only want me for sex
@@QuintinMattaini most people know that, its just not easy to change a mindset so popularized and unhealthy
I have no words for how much I love every single one of mitski's songs...the pure artistry and raw emotion, her range, poetic lyricism, the genuinity of it all.
声が綺麗！（特に0:57の高音に上がる感じが好きです！）
私の今の能力では歌詞の内容を深く理解する事ができないけどこれから頑張りたいと思います！ずっと応援し続けます！
i love you
日本語コメ見つけて嬉しい
@@drake12917 I’m happy to find Japanese rice too
@@sparkyfrostninja3111 Haha, the word it translated as "rice" is just an abbreviation for the Japanese word for comment.
忍耐は果実だ
Ooh... this song sounds so badass with her beautiful voice combined with the sinister, villain-like instrumental.
Her songs have so much depth and meaning to them and they are so skillfully produced, what did we do to deserve this queen 👑😭😭😭
I dont know why but it souds much like a bond song to me.. and i love it!
Yessss omggg
It really does, and it's probably not intentional, but it's definitely kinda ironic. Bond movies (especially the older ones) have so much sexualization of young women, and are representative of the ultimate male fantasy, things that mitski is criticizing in the lyrics.
I agree!
@@ohutchie theyre probably just talking about the instrumental but ok
@@ohutchie, I’m not sure she is criticizing the male fantasy… more so speaking on her, and by extension, many women’s fear that if they don’t find love quickly nobody will ever love them.
This song makes me sad because its how i feel everyday. I feel that my life, my youth is slipping away and im wasting it and im not having fun and going out like all the other young people
felt
I adore Mitski’s music, and right now I’m trying to get through her entire discography :)
its such a sad and nice experience
this hits different when all you want it validation. And to be seen as beautiful not by yourself but by others. it’s hits different when you wake up at 6 in the morning to do your hair, skin, uniform, jewellery, everything. hoping to be seen beautiful in everyone’s eyes. it hits different when you have to suck in everywhere you go and live in pain and uncomfortableness every where you are because you need to look beautiful. it hits different when you’ve been sexualised your whole life to that you now need validation by those around you to be seen as beautiful.
6?
@@lemqnshark what
@@jxri._579 you only get up at 6 and can still do all that?
no not really
@@yazzie7901 not for u.
I told my music teacher to listen to this specific Mitski song this weekend, I am determined to turn him into a Mitski Stan by the end of the year
Update: I didn't have much luck with the music teacher, but with my tech teacher I did! He likes Puberty 2 and Retired from sad, New Career in business!
good luck on ur journey! :]
son of a bitch did it
Youre amazing for this and so is he
i hope you come back and update this after some time
jjLKFJHEHQGEVHEWIPJHPEJVE HELL YEAH
You are an amazing human or, like, lemon (?).
I love how at 1:20 she mixes in some Japanese into the song! Absolute masterpiece!
do you know any another song where she speaks japanese?
@@churrascquito first love/ late spring
sounded more malaysian to me but idk
@@32123ABCBA she said 'kuzurete yuku maeni', meaning 'before it crumbles'
@@32123ABCBAshe is a Japanese
"Im liquid smooth come touch me to" Honestly makes me wanna cry bc of how I've always been tossed and thrown around nobody has ever tried to help and just want someone to actually touch me and care about how I feel
Are You okay?
@@kailvr9545 mentally no
@@Alexiii-b8m I know i'm a stranger and this may seem weird but I really hope everything gets better, I'm sorry you're going through whatever you're going through right now and I genuinely wish the best for you!!
This song fr reminds me of how much I want to be wanted so much so that I've thrown myself in to harms way and let older men have their way with me shit makes me fucking cry bro
I am do sorry for what these men've done to you. you deserve so much better and I hope you find people who will show this to you❤
this woman makes so many people, especially women of color like me , feel heard . I love mitski so much
@deagleninja why do you feel the need to comment this.
@deagleninja literally nobody said that mr privileged calm down
@deagleninja nobody asked
@deagleninja shit like this is why women hate us, just stfu man God damn
@deagleninja literally noone said that, shut up please 😭
You can still relate to this song if you’re not a woman. I think anyone with sexual trauma understands that feeling of needing to be wanted and being scared you’re undesirable.
@Sawyer McLean My clearest memory of it is from when I was 9. I think it might’ve been happening when I was around 4? Though
The song isn't about sexual trauma tho??
@@Otra_Chica_de_Internet I don’t understand what you’re asking or how that’s relevant to what I’m saying, as I was saying anyone with sexual trauma has feelings like the song is describing- not that the song is about the effects of sexual trauma.
@@Otra_Chica_de_Internet Music is all about how you interpret it. As many of the other comments explain, some feel it’s about sexual assault or the hypersexualization of children and women. There’s tons of different interpretations :)
@@Otra_Chica_de_Internet it can have multiple meanings
To me this song is about how a teen or young adult has never been noticed romantically before and because of society is scared that their “clock” of youth is running out of time, thus they won’t have any experiences at all and try to grasp at what they can while they can, thinking that aging will make them less desirable or loved so they must act now or they’ll never get a chance “what am I to do with all this beauty” is that they want to use their beauty while their “in my prime” or “ripe” or have someone “at least take their picture” so they won’t lose all this beauty of their youth on nothing or something futile, so they want to experience what having a romantic experience or partner is like
You are spot on, this is EXACTLY how I feel and I am 16, about to turn 17 in December.
THIS OMFG
i feel like this song is about everyone telling women 16 to 23 that they are at their prime and should live life then and find a man and settle down before they fall and get unattractive. so i feel like this is a woman not knowing what to do with her ending prime time and getting desparate.
@@lavendermilk3010 what
@@lavendermilk3010 nono they have a point-
@@swimminginthestars_ yea i guess
I feel it girl
@@lavendermilk3010 what
Ik a lot of people interpret this song to be about over sexualization, but personally I think it's about being so desperately affection starved/feeling like you are wasting your youth by not being "loved". Especially "or at least take my picture" (at least love me for a bit) and "beginning to end" (she is at the peak of her youth, or at least she thinks she is, and she will soon become older, and in her perspective -undesirable.)
Exactly. I scrolled through the comments and all I see is oversexualisation and SA references but... it doesn't have to be about that. It can just be about the crushing weight of knowing now you're in your best shape, but no one will ever love you.
Like yes, that's exactly what I'm thinking about too. I guess everyone interpret this song as they like to
i feel this so much i just wish i knew how it feels to be loved and i feel like my time is running out
literally
I always feel like I'm about to watch a Bond film when I listen to this.
im shaking you guys
mitski is so powerful
Rainbow77Girl big mood
I'm beautiful, I know cause it's the season
But what am I to do with all this beauty?
Biology, I am an organism, I'm chemical
That's all, that is all
I'm liquid smooth, come touch me, too
And feel my skin is plump and full of life
I'm in my prime
I'm liquid smooth, come touch me, too
I'm at my highest peak, I'm ripe
About to fall, capture me
Or at least take my picture
Kuzurete yuku maeni
I'm pulsing, my blood is red and unafraid of living
Beginning to end
I'm liquid smooth, come touch me, too
And feel my skin is plump and full of life
I'm in my prime
I'm liquid smooth, come touch me, too
I'm at my highest peak, I'm ripe
About to fall
How I feel this river rushing through my veins
With nowhere else to go, it circles 'round
I'm liquid smooth, come touch me, too
And feel my skin is plump and full of life
I'm in my prime
I'm liquid smooth, come touch me, too
I'm at my highest peak, I'm ripe
About to fall, capture me
Thank you
I know I’m late to this but I wanna ramble. I don’t know if this is what this song is about, but I relate to it in a “hopeless romantic” kind of way. This song perfectly reminds me of the feeling of being touch starved and longing for someone, anyone, to just come and care for me and hold me. Even if they don’t actually love me I just want to feel cared for. It’s a strong feeling of loneliness and longing that this song perfectly gets down
ILL CARE 4 YOU BBG 😍
This is exactly how this song makes me feel!
1:57 , my favorite part, this song is so underrated and beautiful, and it has more meaning than you would think
Same
this song just sums up the whole woman experience to be honest
Women. Let’s not call women females dude
i agree with you, but for this song i think female fits, because not everyone born a female identifies as a woman but they were still born a female and understand the struggles and oppression that all females have faced
is the bus running and i mean like the biological sex you were born male / female, like genitals/biological stuff
@@evilnefariousalien yeah i guess i also mean afab ppl because they’re usually burdened with standards from a very young age and that’s not really only exclusive to people who identify as a woman
I feel like it sums up the whole woc experience ☹️
When I was 19 I "sold" my body to an American couple that was visiting my country. I spent 3 days with them in a hotel, one of em was 45 while the other 50 something. Back at my parents I played this song while in my room and never felt more connected to it I felt both disgusting and pleasure knowing what I have done.
Even though this is Mitski's first song, it's SO GOODDDD
@ᵔ◡ᵔ oh ty!
This is Mitski’s best album. I mean all her albums are beautiful but this one is from the core of her heart, the production complements her voice perfectly.
this song makes me fly
definitely about the fact how a girl feels like her beauty and youth and womanhood needs to be used enough before she becomes undesirable to society because of age
the angry and manic tone of the instruments paired with the meaning of the lyrics perfectly describe a feeling i thought that no one else felt now if you'll excuse me i've got to go angrily sob and wait for the day that i feel clean again
It's mind blowing how this was released 10 years ago. Mitski truly is an artist ahead of time
This song is me after getting a compliment
Sameee
You’re expressing how you’re hypersexualised but dehuminized at the same time for something you can’t control or hide?
.... are we listening to the same song🤨
You have to be white to say that...
@@unhavenly right😟😟
I'm beautiful, I know, 'cause it's the season
But what am I to do with all this beauty
Biology, I am an organism
I'm chemical
That's all, that is all
I'm liquid smooth
come touch me too
and feel my skin is plump and full of life
I'm in my prime
I'm liquid smooth
come touch me too
I'm at my highest peak, I'm ripe, about to fall
Capture me
or at least take my picture
Kuzurete yuku maeni [Japanese]
I'm pulsing
my blood is red and unafraid of
living
beginning to end
I'm liquid smooth
come touch me too
and feel my skin is plump and full of life
I'm in my prime
I'm liquid smooth
come touch me too
I'm at my highest peak, I'm ripe, about to fall
How I feel this river rushing through my veins
with no where else to go, it circles round
I'm liquid smooth
come touch me too
and feel my skin is plump and full of life
I'm in my prime
I'm liquid smooth
come touch me too
I'm at my highest peak, I'm ripe, about to fall
Capture me...
Thanks
I couldn’t find any lyric videos so this was a lifesaver! Thanks so much!
Bless your heart
i didnt expect it to be that good
she sounds like she is going insane in all of her songs and that’s why i love her so much. like she’s at the point of breaking.
this makes me cry because its just so real, such a real experience for women especially woc.
Right , sometimes i feel like the only time we’re wanted is when we’re fetishized or in the ‘season’ like we’re trends or something
Can’t any woman go through this? Just last week I saw a white woman get literally cat called and also a woc. It’s everyone. Not just woc
That build up gives me goosebumps all over my arms and down my back... elegant, simplistic, and oddly sensual.
idk this song makes me anxious about growing up and then suddenly instead of staying how i want myself to be, starting to grow old
im 14 and im scared of growing up ok i dont want people who i love to die and myself to get all wrinkled and alone, its scary
same 😔
I am 20 and do not worry about death - it will come and there is nothing you can do about it, and that's alright. There is this quote, i don't remember exactly, it goes like "Life is like a play, not judged by length but by how good the story and the actors are." You can check out Seneca's letter to Lucillius, it helped me
edit: Sry the book's name was "Moral letters to Lucilius"
@@xiwei-huang thank you, it actually kinda helped
You are fourteen so you are allowed to not want to be grown up. You dont have to worry now because it is still years away before you will be an adult.
So, I know it is easier said than done, but I recommend trying to not think about the future too much. If you focus more on the now, I think you wont really notice that you are maturing. Then, when you are older, I think you will not be as scared anymore because you have lived and cherished your youth and are ready and well-equiped for your next steps in life and you wont want to be fourteen anymore. It is the natural process of growing up.
As an adult you have agency over your own life. You can choose what to engage yourself in, who you want to meet, who you want to spend your life with. To me, death is the least scary part of life; I see it as a whole state of peace without worries. But if you take control over your life and, most importantly, try to do things you enjoy with people you enjoy, your adult life wont be made up of fear, but rather of freedom and joy.
I'm so scared of growing up literally the thought scares me
so many things make this hit hard. being a teen wasting away bc of covid, being lonely, the guilt of being trans, regretting not doing more with your life, jesus
Please dont feel guilty about being trans. You are you! You are finally you.
@@arlefurilover "you are finally you" is the most comforting thing ivew ever heard i want to kiss your forehead
@@dajs2987 awhh
hey, I don't know if I have the right to sympathize with you but... I'm bigender and the guilt is real for me too but that doesn't mean that both of us won't be free from that. Let's go and walk forward with our chins up, since that's the only thing we can do right now so far.
If Liquid Smooth has a million fans,I’m one of them.
If Liquid Smooth has only one fan, I’m THAT one.
If liquid Smooth has no fans,I’m dead.
This woman is criminally slept on. People just can’t look past “Me and My Husband”
The emotion that Mitski puts in her songs is insanly good
MITSKI TE AMO
yo😊
rohan pfp :0
A Siren Song
You ever wanna rip off every vestige of your womanhood and scream in the dark of a cave? Alone, truely unknown, always truthfully unloved.
But you just kinda have to sit in the world empty in every way but the way you wanna be.
i feel like this is showing how we (women) are treated as we are just a body to be toyed with. nothing more. but if that is all we are then that’s what we should talk about. almost like the only way we can have any sort of love is having a fresh body. i feel like she is saying that she is an "organism" and she is "plump" and "full of life" meaning that she is "fresh enough" so this is the only way she could gain any sort of love. her body is liquid smooth. she is an object. the writing is disgustingly beautiful. it shows how hard being a women is. not to mention how women of color are constantly fetishized. she is just an object to be used. and we cant gain anymore "love" when we are old. thats why she says things like "im ripe" and "im in my prime"
this video feels like looking in the mirror and feeling good for just about a couple of minutes before the dysmorphia and self-depreciation sets in and the desperation of realizing you only have a limited amount of time
I can sleep to this ngl her voice is so soft and nice
Can we just talk about how amazing and emotional mistki voice is?
The cracks and how it still sounds clear idk how to explain it but it makes me feel and understand the emotions and sounds more realistic like shes really hurting.
all of her songs have meaning and are always heart touching and she’s such an amazing artist
This song makes me feel confident, and I cry when singing it. That’s how powerful it is.
I love the way she sings
The first chord of this is the same chord that ends When She Loved Me from Toy Story 2, so it is an AMAZING but also SPOOKY transition whenever you listen to Toy Story and then this
This song is so beautiful
this song to me is what it feels like to work incredibly hard and not be recognised for it, to beg others to even look at you while you stay achieving because you know you will burn out. and you keep working yourself to the core because that is the only way others can know you, talk to you and like you
그녀의 목소리는 천사처럼 들린다
she is a angel
it's been years since she released lush album and it's still as good as it was.
God I'm so in love.
are u still?
@@kkkk-wb8ov haha
" I'm chemical, that's all, that is all" this lyric is so relatable yet, so sad. I honestly believe I serve no purpose so I go many nights restless or unable to sleep because of thinking about death or why we live to just die. Or that In the grand scheme of everything, I don't technically matter. Or just the feeling of this song, the desperation of being touched or wanting someone, something, anything; but honestly hating anyone actually touching you. Wanting a hug without the physical touch of another person, I feel like if someone touches me I'll begin to like them or they'll think I'm fat, or weird, or gross. Honestly The rush of anything, pain, fear, or excitement is better than the bitter emptyness I feel on the inside sometimes. Im not smart or pretty, not really anything I'm just,, here. So much has happened and so fast I begin to wonder if any of it was real. lol. Life flies by so fast but just 60 seconds is so long. This song is the feeling of being in a crowd of people and feeling alone.
I have never loved a song more in my life. Like floating on clouds. Such beauty.
This is the most beautiful song I’ve ever heard
HAPPY 12TH YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF MITSKIS LUSH ALBUM!! TY MITSKI FOR MAKING THESE BANGERS 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
this song encapsulates the woc experience of not being considered the beauty standard and then forming a sense of self within the male gaze and you hypersexualize yourself to feel worthy because in this world you are only beautiful if you are desirable and mitski just brings it to life perfectly
liquid smooth > therapy
YES
this album is so slept on, especially pearl diver. i think people need to appreciate just every little thing about this woman, her music is so powerful and she just means every single word she sings. she has feelings in each song, her music is just so powerful, especially for woc.
this song sums up so perfectly what i love about mitski - the way her music and voice are able to channel the feeling of despair. it feels so raw and emotional and it impacts me so differently to other artists' music somehow
mitski sums up the entire woc experience so beautifully
''I'm liquid smooth, come touch me, too
I'm at my highest peak, I'm ripe
About to fall, capture me''
you're writing is just so beautiful, Mitski. So so beautiful.
I understand that this song can be relatable/enjoyable to all women/afab people, but it hits especially hard as a woman of color (same with strawberry blonde). I know Mitski makes music for everyone, but some of her music IS about her experience as a woman of color, and it makes me feel really seen.
truly a woman of COLOR pfp experience
Color has NOTHING to do with her music
This is literally an underrated masterpiece. I was just on Spotify, and by the first few notes I was intrigued. But man, once she started singing, and the chorus hit, it was literally so beautiful. This song is so perfect in so many ways, I love it so much.
i love mitski so much its not even a joke anymore i legitimately cannot live without her music seriously
THIS SONG DESERVES SO MUCH MORE ATTENTION ITS SO PERFECT
the versatility of mitski is unmatched there is truly no artist like her out there
i love how this song invokes a sense of a downward spiral, utter dread - the same dread a lot of us who were or are raised as women feel, to push yourself to that societal expectation of being young and sexy, because youre just ripe enough to seem sweet. but once you start getting older, stress appears on your face, the wrinkles and lines and gouges and marks, it all shows. things begin to sag. flab appears on your belly, your legs, your arms, your chest. youre no longer seen as beautiful by the public, despite you trying so hard to be perfect, and appealing. thats when that dread kicks in. you dont have enough time. nobody does. but now, youre going rotten and moldy - at least, thats what the public sees. youre only aging, youre only changing. you cant help it, but everyone still loathes you for it regardless. you have to present yourself as some perfect entity, not even human anymore, because youve been forced to show your body so many times that youre seen as a commodity, until youve run out of stock.
and i know its especially hard for people or women of color. im not one myself, but youre expected to be perfect to the white mans eye, and if youre not, youre a freak. feral. unworthy. dirty. every slur that you could be called, even if it doesnt fit, you will be called it. you dont have the privilege to be seen as beautiful by default - you have to earn it the hard way, and yet, youre still expected to fulfill it.
youre either fetishized and gawked at, or pushed aside and regarded with scorn. nobody can keep that beauty sacred forever.
sorry for the heavy rant. i wanted to ramble and god damn this is the place to ramble
This song felt like a woman so constricted by the people who says "You should get married before 30" or "You're almost 30 and you haven't even got a boyfriend! You're gonna grow old and no one will want you anymore!" or "You're so old and you haven't even got a boyfriend? That's why I told you to fix how you dress yourself and your attitude!" It's really sad that some people still think that way. Women are beautiful no matter what age.