i took the line "went to your room thinking youd feel something, but all i found was your burning body waiting" to mean she was in search of an emotional connection with the person but found they only wanted a physical/casual relationship
I interpreted as a disconnection from your own feelings, one can try to go to the room to "feel something" because the room is private and maybe you are more likely to be vulnerable when people are not around.
“And I’ve been a forest fire, I am a forest fire. And I am the fire, and I am the forest, and I am a witness watching it” is such a beautiful way of saying, I am the problem and I am the victim and I am the bystander altogether. Mitski’s lyrical genius is at work.
i think this persepctive. It feels to me like Mitski presents all these stories and situations that tend to happen during one's younger ages, especially during Puberty; Short/Silly love, sex, drugs, questioning her position in society. She uses these metaphors to present depression, insecurities, and loneliness. For example one may listen to Dan the Dancer and think that it's of Mitski's first time, which I'd agree with, yet there are so many layers in which one can interpret the true meaning of this story. I believe this album shows Mitski's harmful mindset in her adulthood, reminiscent of the love and emotion shed feel during her young adulthood , calling it Puberty 2.
This is probably it. Only that rather than reminiscing, all these things are happening right now in the viewer's adulthood. A sort of late bloom situation. Youve already passed through your biological puberty, and youre only experiemcing these things people associate with puberty late into your 20s.
I personally disagree with your interpretation of a burning hill. She's not happy, she's just tired, tired of being disappointed and used. She's going to work, doing boring mundane things and trying to love the little things to fill up that hole. Depression is slowly making her decay she doesn't know herself anymore and doesn't have the energy of doing anything risky because of how scared she is of getting hurt because she KNOWS she wouldn't be able to handle it. She's trying to find happiness in the little things so she doesn't fall apart because she feels she has a responsibility to live and exist but she doesn't feel a purpose
to me Thursday Girl is a girl going out partying on thursdays (already) instead of the socially acceptable times like friday and saturday. She is getting lost in the partying/drug scene and she wants someone to stop her for this/ call her out
i like to think that the album's title comes from how after all this self destruction, she sort of reinvented herself. it was like a metamorphasis - a second puberty. but that also makes me feel pretty fucking defeated. i'm barely 16 and i've had enough. i'm four attempts in ffs. i've been thinking about my future more often lately and it sucks how you can't just turn 18 and magically mature and stop being sad and unpredictable and horny and impulsive and awkward. it seems like this second puberty lasts for most of your twenties but i've already had enough of my first puberty. the lie of maturity i've been told my whole life is being reconstructed and honestly it sucks. sorry for the rant. i just want to be grown.
hi kiddo!! I don't know if this will help at all, but I'm currently 21 (22 this year) and my childhood/teenagehood was terrible. abuse, bullying, poverty, etc. I was planning on ending at 18 actually. but here I am, three years after and I've come to find my life is extraordinarily better. like, so good I didn't think it would ever be this good. I have a partner, a stable job, a lot of my own personal life goals have been met already and I'm only 21. I'm so unbelievably sorry that you're so young and already so burdened with what life has done unto you. you're allowed to be angry, and frustrated, and resentful. but please keep going, because from one chronically mentally ill person to another, it DOES indeed get better. it will take time but the time WILL come and you will thank your past self for still pushing forward. you're a kid, so don't be hard on yourself. the world is hard enough and you need to be your own safe haven. learn, live, please live. you've got a destiny worth fulfilling and someday you will find yourself staring back at the empty void you escaped with nothing but a garden of hope ahead of you. don't worry about meeting anyone else's expectations; when you find yourself at a point where you're satisfied with life and someone criticises it, tell them this - just because your mountain touches more of the sky than mine doesn't mean mine isn't touching it at all. Extraordinary means different things to different people, and nobody but you knows the full context of your life. you're gonna make it, I know it kiddo. with love.
I feel you SO much. Im also 16, close to 17, and mate is this hard. I dont think ive been through that much in life but I may be underestimating it. I dont even know, tried to write something coherent here and ended up about a lot of stuff, but the important part is that I am now reflecting about some things and it kinda made me realize about some of the ways I damage myself, so thanks for commenting and helping a random person 8 months later do something. And thanks for being alive, because it is worth it, for the good moments, for making a good life. Even if those moments are scarce now, they will slowly become more and more frequent, better, you just gotta live to experience them. If some of this helps a bit im glad. If not, Im sorry, just know there is people that ubderstand you, even tho its 1 am and I should really go to sleep, even if our mother tounge is not the same and we are absolute randoms on the Internet, there are people who can relate to you, who can and are willing to understand you, care for you, try to help you. So live to meet them. Live to listen to the next mitski álbum. Live and keep going. Please, stay alive. Sorry for all of this, Just wanted to say something.
This was one of my favorite video essays in a while. I loved all of your interpretations, and how you tied them all together with a very distinct editing style (and interspaced humor). I know these videos take a long time to make, but if it means anything I think it was well worth it :)
CAN YOU POST A VIDEO FOR OTHER ALBUMS TOO?? i've been listening to her music for a long time and since then i believed that the meaning of the songs was personal and it depended on the experiences of the listener but for some songs i cant even build up a storyline and they dont make sense that much so i really wonder the meaning behind them. yes i can look it up but trust me this video was the most clear one compared to what ive read before. ty so so so much!!
I think the best part of happy is that the actual part with happy in it lasts only about 30 seconds, with the remaining time being Mitski wishing about him. It’s the same as the fleeting feeling of happiness (or orgasm) after a night with someone
on thursday girl: she was also born on a thursday (on my birthday) so that could add another layer of destiny and maybe breaking it? at least wanting to... but rather than being triumphant in some glorious (ha) battle, shattering some cross-cultural barrier (what would happen if ybag was resolved), she concedes and take the mundane (littler things) path.. i am so incredibly and respectfully in love with this woman
pleas please PLEASE do an interpretation of Bury Me at Makeout Creek, I feel like it's got some of mitksi's best songs and some really cool interpretations could be made with them.
Puberty 2’s lyricism reminds me a lot of Tidal by Fiona Apple… not necessarily how it’s written but it’s vulnerability. I think it’s just that they describe intimacy with words like “taste” 😅
My Body is Made of Crushed Little Stars and Burning Hill will always make me cry. My God Mitski is amazing. Beautiful video essay and lyric analysis. :D
i do love these interpretations, though i think ascribing them to being autobiographical in most cases can be misleading. in an interview, mitski has said that when she writes, she focuses on a specific feeling and the songs are written to express that feeling as best as possible (rather than pulling from lived experiences) also: this analysis made me realize how much of a heteronormative lens ive been viewing her songs, i didnt even consider a queer perspective on once more to see you but it makes sm sense woah
As a Mitski enjoyer I appreciated this greatly. I'd love to see you annalyse her other albums but I'd definitely understand if you don't want to, they are heavy as fuck.
this entire album reminds me so much about Aiko Tanaka. it's really sad that she couldn't get away from that rabbit hole and all her story it's hopelessly catastrophic, as well as the rest of the Oyasumi Punpun mangá, in most parts. me as a Mitski fan have a place in my heart for this manga and if you like Mitski as well I recommend you to read it, unless you have some triggers or are in a rock bottom phase of your life, cause it will destroy you, certainly.
Just found this channel and watched both of your videos, really good work honestly. Perfect mix of humor and also smart analysis. Definitely earned a subscriber and I’m excited to see what you do in the future if you choose to continue :)
I went in expecting nothing and learned so many meanings, of course there's things I don't agree with but this was very well done and thank you sm for making it
The way I’ve interpreted Thursday girl is that she in a hypersexual point in her life and the only way she can feel connected to people is sex but that’s all anyone wants from her they won’t tell her no and sit down with her to find out what’s wrong the on her knees in my head referring to sex but probably also praying
this is such a nice video, I adore mitski because she not only makes beautiful music but also because she is not afraid to talk about topics that some people aren't comfortable with and/or people don't want to accept
Honestly i feel like many people interpretating Your best American girl forget that another important thing in that song is how it speaks about being raised by a toxic mother.
Puberty 2, especially fireworks is without a doubt her masterpiece, I always recommend Puberty 2 to anyone who is new to Mitski because I know that the overpowering emotion and incredible lyricism in every song will completely swallow them. Absolutely her best album.
When I first heard my body’s made of crushed little stars, I I thought she was saying “I better erase that interview, I told them that I’m not afraid to die I better erase that interview”
love the video, but I think you slightly skimmed over the meaning of Dan the Dancer. I think unlike the rest of the album, it does present sex as something positive in "Clifton"'s life - the whole thing about his "bedroom dancer". beyond the obvious sexual metaphor I think it could also represent some sort of emotional intimacy and closure he finds in his partner.
I realy loved your analysis on this album,cried for at least half of the video lol, I am susbcribing,hoping you will make a video about her other albums.
also for dan the dancer, interpreted it as whoever is hold “dan’s” hand is eventually going to go down to, and eventually started to crumble after going down with him.
your best american girl is about being a woman of colour in love with a white man in America xxxx 'the sun' = white american man 'the moon' = beautiful white women 'a star' = unconventionally attractive white woman/very conventionally attractive woc (this has been debated a lot) 'the night' = mitski and other women of colour who share her experience 'you've never seen the night but you hear its song from the morning birds' = you (white man) don't understand the plight of the night (mitski/other woc) but you hear its song from the morning birds (you only partially understand it from media representation, it gets misconstrued, you'll never truly understand me etc 'your mother wouldn't approve of how my mother raised me' = this line is why it cant be about just immigrants, it is specifically about woc/poc because a russian or Italian etc immigrant who meets her boyfriends mother will not be shunned for it, it is more likely that she will be thought of as cute for not understanding the traditions, whilst an asian or black person for example is much more likely to be 'disproved of' by the white mans mother. mitski ofc would want everyone to appreciate and enjoy her music in whatever way they want, but it is necessary to understand and appreciate the intended meaning because it is an important message. for once instead of educationally learning about things like racism we are feeling the raw pain of mitskis experience with not being able to be the 'best american girl' which is very important as it helps us to empathise with her pain. thanks for reading and hope u learnt something new!
(12:49) For me thursday girl takes a complete different significant, On the song start when mitski tell us about glory of the night i think it means about that the night is a state of peace, a state where someone can be alone without any judgement, when she goes on her knees i think is because she prays to the night as you said but instead of praying to someone to take all her destructive behaviours, i think that she begs to the night to take o make her forget all (i think this is because on the night we usually sleep, but if we stay awake we will start to feel sleepy and dizzy, like mostly to let all the things go or feeling less heavy) On this state mitski begs for someone to tell her no(the part of the song that hits me more hard) for me this means about she is begging someone to tell her that her situation is not bad as she thought, that she is just exaggerating a situation, like avoiding the truth that she is in a bad state and that she will end of the state of up and down(depresion or forced to live like that). This song hits me hard because the way that the instrumental is perfect and clean at the starting to slowly desencadenate on emotional bells is just beautifull, this means like a breakdown on the night, one caused of the avoiding of this problems or issues that hits you in your life. As I said the song gets a meaning of me, since i recognize that i been spinning on the circle where i denied a situation that happend in my life, one that is symbolized with medussa, where i was closely abused in public, and probably humilliated, a situation that triggered other situations in my life, a situation that if i told most of people that effectvly it where s3xu4l abuse, but where a responsible adult will tell me it was a heavy joke. A joke that caused self harm, self hate and multiple suicide attempts, a joke that caused me fear to express my feelings and fear of looking myself on the mirror. a joke that kicked the innocense of a 13year old kid that just wanted to draw stories. The song represents for me how someone wants to deny a bad havit of their life, wanting to get rid of something or ignoring it, and just cover it with a layer of "just a situation in life" or a "joke". Mitski prays to the night to tell her that her state is not as bad a she tought.
I forgot something, about the title ,i don't know much about the poem of the days of the week child poem, because i grown in a hispanic culture but for me thursday can be refference to something personal,(i guess its because the situation that i lived hit me constantly on thursdays, and specifically it where a thursday where i got the worst joke)
i took the line "went to your room thinking youd feel something, but all i found was your burning body waiting" to mean she was in search of an emotional connection with the person but found they only wanted a physical/casual relationship
I wish I could like this comment a hundred times, Crack baby is my favorite song but I never was able to decode this line, thank you :)
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That is such a good interpretation. I kind of interpreted it as the person in the room had od and died......
I interpreted as a disconnection from your own feelings, one can try to go to the room to "feel something" because the room is private and maybe you are more likely to be vulnerable when people are not around.
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Addition to Thursday girl, mitski was born on a Thursday
“And I’ve been a forest fire, I am a forest fire. And I am the fire, and I am the forest, and I am a witness watching it” is such a beautiful way of saying, I am the problem and I am the victim and I am the bystander altogether. Mitski’s lyrical genius is at work.
i think this persepctive. It feels to me like Mitski presents all these stories and situations that tend to happen during one's younger ages, especially during Puberty; Short/Silly love, sex, drugs, questioning her position in society. She uses these metaphors to present depression, insecurities, and loneliness. For example one may listen to Dan the Dancer and think that it's of Mitski's first time, which I'd agree with, yet there are so many layers in which one can interpret the true meaning of this story. I believe this album shows Mitski's harmful mindset in her adulthood, reminiscent of the love and emotion shed feel during her young adulthood , calling it Puberty 2.
i was so high when i made this comment im not even kidding im so sorry
@@mthmn9591 okay but you ate and i agree
This is probably it. Only that rather than reminiscing, all these things are happening right now in the viewer's adulthood. A sort of late bloom situation. Youve already passed through your biological puberty, and youre only experiemcing these things people associate with puberty late into your 20s.
I personally disagree with your interpretation of a burning hill. She's not happy, she's just tired, tired of being disappointed and used. She's going to work, doing boring mundane things and trying to love the little things to fill up that hole. Depression is slowly making her decay she doesn't know herself anymore and doesn't have the energy of doing anything risky because of how scared she is of getting hurt because she KNOWS she wouldn't be able to handle it. She's trying to find happiness in the little things so she doesn't fall apart because she feels she has a responsibility to live and exist but she doesn't feel a purpose
was going to say this- I feel it's the opposite of hope or light, more so a surrender or giving up
i love watching depressed people explain an entire mitski album to me, thank u so much
Mitski songs always sound better when you know the meaning.
I interpret Thursday Girl very differently, but maybe that's just because I see it through the prism of my own experiences
how do u interpret it?
to me Thursday Girl is a girl going out partying on thursdays (already) instead of the socially acceptable times like friday and saturday. She is getting lost in the partying/drug scene and she wants someone to stop her for this/ call her out
@@keroline oh wow, that's a very interesting perspective! im not too sure how to interpret this song, so thanks for your input :)
I love your illustrations they’re very inspiring
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the little ms paint drawings that show up now and then are hilarious lmao, nice analysis
i like to think that the album's title comes from how after all this self destruction, she sort of reinvented herself. it was like a metamorphasis - a second puberty.
but that also makes me feel pretty fucking defeated. i'm barely 16 and i've had enough. i'm four attempts in ffs. i've been thinking about my future more often lately and it sucks how you can't just turn 18 and magically mature and stop being sad and unpredictable and horny and impulsive and awkward. it seems like this second puberty lasts for most of your twenties but i've already had enough of my first puberty. the lie of maturity i've been told my whole life is being reconstructed and honestly it sucks.
sorry for the rant. i just want to be grown.
hi kiddo!! I don't know if this will help at all, but I'm currently 21 (22 this year) and my childhood/teenagehood was terrible. abuse, bullying, poverty, etc. I was planning on ending at 18 actually. but here I am, three years after and I've come to find my life is extraordinarily better. like, so good I didn't think it would ever be this good. I have a partner, a stable job, a lot of my own personal life goals have been met already and I'm only 21. I'm so unbelievably sorry that you're so young and already so burdened with what life has done unto you. you're allowed to be angry, and frustrated, and resentful. but please keep going, because from one chronically mentally ill person to another, it DOES indeed get better. it will take time but the time WILL come and you will thank your past self for still pushing forward. you're a kid, so don't be hard on yourself. the world is hard enough and you need to be your own safe haven. learn, live, please live. you've got a destiny worth fulfilling and someday you will find yourself staring back at the empty void you escaped with nothing but a garden of hope ahead of you. don't worry about meeting anyone else's expectations; when you find yourself at a point where you're satisfied with life and someone criticises it, tell them this - just because your mountain touches more of the sky than mine doesn't mean mine isn't touching it at all. Extraordinary means different things to different people, and nobody but you knows the full context of your life. you're gonna make it, I know it kiddo. with love.
@@cynthiasoolihua2410 this made me cry thank you so much!!!
I feel you SO much. Im also 16, close to 17, and mate is this hard. I dont think ive been through that much in life but I may be underestimating it. I dont even know, tried to write something coherent here and ended up about a lot of stuff, but the important part is that I am now reflecting about some things and it kinda made me realize about some of the ways I damage myself, so thanks for commenting and helping a random person 8 months later do something. And thanks for being alive, because it is worth it, for the good moments, for making a good life. Even if those moments are scarce now, they will slowly become more and more frequent, better, you just gotta live to experience them. If some of this helps a bit im glad. If not, Im sorry, just know there is people that ubderstand you, even tho its 1 am and I should really go to sleep, even if our mother tounge is not the same and we are absolute randoms on the Internet, there are people who can relate to you, who can and are willing to understand you, care for you, try to help you. So live to meet them. Live to listen to the next mitski álbum. Live and keep going. Please, stay alive. Sorry for all of this, Just wanted to say something.
This was one of my favorite video essays in a while. I loved all of your interpretations, and how you tied them all together with a very distinct editing style (and interspaced humor). I know these videos take a long time to make, but if it means anything I think it was well worth it :)
THANKS!!
WAIT I GET TO DO AN ESSAY ON A MITSKI SONG OF MY CHOICE THIS YEAR THIS CAN HELP ME PICK ONE ILY
CAN YOU POST A VIDEO FOR OTHER ALBUMS TOO?? i've been listening to her music for a long time and since then i believed that the meaning of the songs was personal and it depended on the experiences of the listener but for some songs i cant even build up a storyline and they dont make sense that much so i really wonder the meaning behind them. yes i can look it up but trust me this video was the most clear one compared to what ive read before. ty so so so much!!
I think the best part of happy is that the actual part with happy in it lasts only about 30 seconds, with the remaining time being Mitski wishing about him. It’s the same as the fleeting feeling of happiness (or orgasm) after a night with someone
on thursday girl: she was also born on a thursday (on my birthday) so that could add another layer of destiny and maybe breaking it? at least wanting to... but rather than being triumphant in some glorious (ha) battle, shattering some cross-cultural barrier (what would happen if ybag was resolved), she concedes and take the mundane (littler things) path.. i am so incredibly and respectfully in love with this woman
pleas please PLEASE do an interpretation of Bury Me at Makeout Creek, I feel like it's got some of mitksi's best songs and some really cool interpretations could be made with them.
Puberty 2’s lyricism reminds me a lot of Tidal by Fiona Apple… not necessarily how it’s written but it’s vulnerability. I think it’s just that they describe intimacy with words like “taste” 😅
yes!! both are some of my fav albums ever
My Body is Made of Crushed Little Stars and Burning Hill will always make me cry. My God Mitski is amazing. Beautiful video essay and lyric analysis. :D
i do love these interpretations, though i think ascribing them to being autobiographical in most cases can be misleading. in an interview, mitski has said that when she writes, she focuses on a specific feeling and the songs are written to express that feeling as best as possible (rather than pulling from lived experiences)
also: this analysis made me realize how much of a heteronormative lens ive been viewing her songs, i didnt even consider a queer perspective on once more to see you but it makes sm sense woah
I’m spending my saterday watxhing and hour long video about the meaning of Mitski’s songs and mitski covers and mitski interviews and mitski concerts
As a Mitski enjoyer I appreciated this greatly. I'd love to see you annalyse her other albums but I'd definitely understand if you don't want to, they are heavy as fuck.
this entire album reminds me so much about Aiko Tanaka. it's really sad that she couldn't get away from that rabbit hole and all her story it's hopelessly catastrophic, as well as the rest of the Oyasumi Punpun mangá, in most parts. me as a Mitski fan have a place in my heart for this manga and if you like Mitski as well I recommend you to read it, unless you have some triggers or are in a rock bottom phase of your life, cause it will destroy you, certainly.
Just found this channel and watched both of your videos, really good work honestly. Perfect mix of humor and also smart analysis. Definitely earned a subscriber and I’m excited to see what you do in the future if you choose to continue :)
if only i could make sense out of math like this bro what a sexy, sexy analysis
I went in expecting nothing and learned so many meanings, of course there's things I don't agree with but this was very well done and thank you sm for making it
please make a video like this for every album
i interpret Thursday girl as losing yourself in others, pleasing them to find approval (hence walking on her knees)
I hope that every Mitski album gets this type of video
The way I’ve interpreted Thursday girl is that she in a hypersexual point in her life and the only way she can feel connected to people is sex but that’s all anyone wants from her they won’t tell her no and sit down with her to find out what’s wrong the on her knees in my head referring to sex but probably also praying
I should be doing homework, but...
Great video, btw :))
Ugh literally same
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im 14 and this is so deep
actually real💀💀💀
unironically yes
omfg FINALLY an actual analysis to this album!!! great video
obsessed with this, please make one for the other albums
for years ive been trying to find out more ab this album, i know every words but nvr fully saw the whole picture. great analysis
Iloveyou pleas continue on doing videos cus icant live without you them
Love the video
10/10 recommended to watch again
this is such a nice video, I adore mitski because she not only makes beautiful music but also because she is not afraid to talk about topics that some people aren't comfortable with and/or people don't want to accept
i love all the shitty little pixel drawings so much
summary: all of the songs are about depression
Did he just dropped 2 masterpieces into videos and dissapeared?? Nah I want his reaction to mitski's latest album
yea this is EXACTLY what I look for when I open this silly little app! Thank u
best youtube video I've seen by far, I love Mitski and love this channel def subscribed!!
thank you, for now i have an even better understanding of our queens songs 😼😼
i loved this video bro PLS do her other albums too
I relate so much to crack baby
Honestly i feel like many people interpretating Your best American girl forget that another important thing in that song is how it speaks about being raised by a toxic mother.
you need to do more albums i love thiss
absolutely obsessed with this video.. it was so good pls keep doing them omg
how did you know im procrastinating math and art hw
I really enjoyed this video. Thanks!
Omg thank you for this I never analyse her lyrics cause I’m dumb so this was such a helpful video
This was actually so educative. Could you do make video for lush also?
this is incredible, please make more
Dude please make one for every album you are amazing
this analysis is so well done I thought you were a famous RUclipsr... Great job!
I have been waiting YEARS for a video like this tysm ur the best
i loved this sm pls do Bury Me At Makeout Creek, ur shits fire bro
i love this video/analysis so much GREAT EDITING I LOVE IT SO MCUH
Puberty 2, especially fireworks is without a doubt her masterpiece, I always recommend Puberty 2 to anyone who is new to Mitski because I know that the overpowering emotion and incredible lyricism in every song will completely swallow them. Absolutely her best album.
oh my god i absolutely LOVE lyric analysis' so much. this video is acc so good you should make some of these for other mitski albums
When I first heard my body’s made of crushed little stars, I I thought she was saying “I better erase that interview, I told them that I’m not afraid to die I better erase that interview”
very entertaining video, looking forward to more content from you! (assuming you're planning on making more videos)
Need one of these for lush my fav album
thank you for mitski analysis very cool enjoyed
I love the random fucking GI clips with lyrics on top of them 😭
Don't call me out for procrastination
Awesome! Please made a Bury Me at Makeout Creek Analisys!
16:50 BASIL
PLEASE do bury me at makeout creek- ur other video does such a good quick analysis i need to hear it more in depth
My mitski obsession is slowly coming back..
love the video, but I think you slightly skimmed over the meaning of Dan the Dancer. I think unlike the rest of the album, it does present sex as something positive in "Clifton"'s life - the whole thing about his "bedroom dancer". beyond the obvious sexual metaphor I think it could also represent some sort of emotional intimacy and closure he finds in his partner.
yeah i think your right there is a whole aspect to that song i skipped over (the whole virginity / intimacy part) i guess i forgor
Now you need to do one for every album
This album has saved my life so many times genuinely
istg you will never understand how much i loved this video
one of my fav albums fr
I´m begging for a part 2 with BMAMC😭😭 GREAT VID
I realy loved your analysis on this album,cried for at least half of the video lol, I am susbcribing,hoping you will make a video about her other albums.
also for dan the dancer, interpreted it as whoever is hold “dan’s” hand is eventually going to go down to, and eventually started to crumble after going down with him.
underrated album and underrated channel
Please make more videos, you’re really funny in a dry kind of way.
These videos are so so good ty!!!!!
your best american girl is about being a woman of colour in love with a white man in America xxxx
'the sun' = white american man
'the moon' = beautiful white women
'a star' = unconventionally attractive white woman/very conventionally attractive woc (this has been debated a lot)
'the night' = mitski and other women of colour who share her experience
'you've never seen the night but you hear its song from the morning birds' = you (white man) don't understand the plight of the night (mitski/other woc) but you hear its song from the morning birds (you only partially understand it from media representation, it gets misconstrued, you'll never truly understand me etc
'your mother wouldn't approve of how my mother raised me' = this line is why it cant be about just immigrants, it is specifically about woc/poc because a russian or Italian etc immigrant who meets her boyfriends mother will not be shunned for it, it is more likely that she will be thought of as cute for not understanding the traditions, whilst an asian or black person for example is much more likely to be 'disproved of' by the white mans mother.
mitski ofc would want everyone to appreciate and enjoy her music in whatever way they want, but it is necessary to understand and appreciate the intended meaning because it is an important message. for once instead of educationally learning about things like racism we are feeling the raw pain of mitskis experience with not being able to be the 'best american girl' which is very important as it helps us to empathise with her pain.
thanks for reading and hope u learnt something new!
Plzzz come back i miss you I am nothing without you🥺🙏🙏
this is my fav album of all time
(12:49) For me thursday girl takes a complete different significant, On the song start when mitski tell us about glory of the night i think it means about that the night is a state of peace, a state where someone can be alone without any judgement, when she goes on her knees i think is because she prays to the night as you said but instead of praying to someone to take all her destructive behaviours, i think that she begs to the night to take o make her forget all (i think this is because on the night we usually sleep, but if we stay awake we will start to feel sleepy and dizzy, like mostly to let all the things go or feeling less heavy) On this state mitski begs for someone to tell her no(the part of the song that hits me more hard) for me this means about she is begging someone to tell her that her situation is not bad as she thought, that she is just exaggerating a situation, like avoiding the truth that she is in a bad state and that she will end of the state of up and down(depresion or forced to live like that).
This song hits me hard because the way that the instrumental is perfect and clean at the starting to slowly desencadenate on emotional bells is just beautifull, this means like a breakdown on the night, one caused of the avoiding of this problems or issues that hits you in your life. As I said the song gets a meaning of me, since i recognize that i been spinning on the circle where i denied a situation that happend in my life, one that is symbolized with medussa, where i was closely abused in public, and probably humilliated, a situation that triggered other situations in my life, a situation that if i told most of people that effectvly it where s3xu4l abuse, but where a responsible adult will tell me it was a heavy joke. A joke that caused self harm, self hate and multiple suicide attempts, a joke that caused me fear to express my feelings and fear of looking myself on the mirror. a joke that kicked the innocense of a 13year old kid that just wanted to draw stories. The song represents for me how someone wants to deny a bad havit of their life, wanting to get rid of something or ignoring it, and just cover it with a layer of "just a situation in life" or a "joke". Mitski prays to the night to tell her that her state is not as bad a she tought.
I forgot something, about the title ,i don't know much about the poem of the days of the week child poem, because i grown in a hispanic culture but for me thursday can be refference to something personal,(i guess its because the situation that i lived hit me constantly on thursdays, and specifically it where a thursday where i got the worst joke)
the editing really spoke to me
I feel like I’m gonna start hyperfixation on mitski’s music. I love her :3
Loved this videoooo, if you make a similar one for bury me at makeout street I'll owe you for the rest of my life.
could you do this from your favorite album which is bury me at makeout creek
YESS
PLEASEEEEEEEE
The best album of all time so true
i’ll go apeshit for that video 🙏
sobbing while listening to this‼️
I love this so much! Please do lush it's my favorite mitski album
U UNDERSTAND ME MITSKI I UNDERSTAND U I LOVE U GOD U GET IT 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭💔💔💔💔💔
this video essay made me really happy
the genshin memes in the middle r killing me, great vid
amazing video
i love this, please do it with lana's new album it's so lyrically complex and genius lyrics cannot do it justice. this is amazing!
come back i miss your videos 😢