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Mitski – First Love / Late Spring
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The title “First Love/Late Spring” is a juxtaposition, mirroring the turmoil of the song’s themes of restlessness and unease. “First love” is a common theme in music, usually
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Mitski – Nobody
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Mitski’s ninth track off her 2018 album Be the Cowboy, “Nobody” was released as a single on June 26.
The song touches on themes of alienation and estrangement, but over a disco-
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Mitski – Everyone
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“Everyone” sees Mitski speak on her music career and her sudden rise to fame in a metaphorical manner.
Mitski breaks down the inspiration for the song’s production and the
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Mitski – My Love Mine All Mine
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In “My Love Mine All Mine,” Mitski recognizes the beauty of her love and asks the Moon to capture it, for it to shine down and preserve even after her passing. It was the third
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Mitski – Door
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[Verse 1] / There is a door to me / I've never seen it / Sometimes I get closer to it / But I've never found it / At twilight, I almost had it / But then the night fell / I looked
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Mitski – Valentine, Texas
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[Verse 1] / Let's step carefully into the dark / Once we're in, I'll remember my way around / [Chorus] / Who will I be tonight? / Who will I become tonight? / [Post-Chorus] / I'll
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Mitski – Circle
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There's a lie that I told to you / That now I can't tell the truth / And it ate me inside, so one soft drunken night / I slept with a man you knew / And in the morning I walked
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Mitski – Fireworks
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In the words of Jon Caramanica, the fourth track on Mitski’s Puberty 2 is “an ode to stoic forgetting”, focusing on depression and the banality of triggers.
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Mitski – Blue Light
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“Blue Light”, the thirteenth track off Be the Cowboy, portrays a sense of unease, a part of Mitski’s slow unraveling at the latter end of this album.
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Mitski – The Only Heartbreaker
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“The Only Heartbreaker” is the second single released from Mitski’s sixth album Laurel Hell. It was released on November 9, 2021, alongside a music video where she burns down a
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Mitski – Happy
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“Happy” is the opening track on Mitski’s album Puberty 2. The track, along with the album, has received widespread acclaim. Speaking with NPR, Mitski talked about some of the
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Mitski – Come Into the Water
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“Come into the Water”, the eighth track off Be the Cowboy, extends the more domestic metaphor explored in the previous track (“Me and My Husband”) and Mitski summarizes it as:
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Mitski – A Loving Feeling
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[Chorus] / What do you do with a loving feeling / If the loving feeling makes you all alone? / What do you do with a loving feeling / If they only love you when you're all alone
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Mitski – Abbey
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[Verse 1] / I am hungry / I have been hungry / I was born hungry / What do I need? / I am something / I have been something / I was born something / What could I be? / [Chorus 1
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Mitski – I Bet on Losing Dogs
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[Verse] / My baby, my baby (Ooh-oh) / You're my baby, say it to me (Ooh-oh, ooh-oh) / Baby, my baby (Ooh, ooh-oh) / Tell your baby that I'm your baby (Ooh-oh, ooh-oh) / [Chorus
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Mitski – Humpty
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Eggshells feature prominently as a metaphor for frailty and vulnerability in “Humpty”, whose title and coda allude to English nursery rhyme character Humpty Dumpty. Mitski spends
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Mitski – Love Me More
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On, “Love Me More”, Mitski reflects on the choice she made to become an artist. While the song was written before the COVID-19 pandemic, it explores themes of isolation that have
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Mitski – Square
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Stereogum called this song
…a chronicle of a decaying relationship, a convoluted interrogation of why things seem so complicated when “God’s very simple and love shouldn’t burn”.
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Mitski – Cop Car
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Previously an unreleased song that Mitski had played live (the first song on this 2014 show, played live in studio for KVRX Radio and WNYU Radio) the song was recorded and released
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Mitski – Heat Lightning
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The third promotional single from Mitski’s sixth studio album, Laurel Hell, “Heat Lightning” follows “Working for the Knife” and “The Only Heartbreaker”.
Mainly focused on
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Mitski – That's Our Lamp
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The 11th track on Mitski’s Laurel Hell, “That’s Our Lamp”, closes the standard release of the album. The song itself sounds a bit like a goodbye, as it reminisces on the time when
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Mitski – I Will
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Mitski has said in interviews that she wrote this song to be a love song, but she didn’t have anyone to write it about, so she wrote it about the things she wanted to hear from
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Mitski – There's Nothing Left for You
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[Verse 1] / There's nothing left for you, nothing in this room / Try and go outside, nothing waits for you / You had it once before, not anymore / So go on to that sweetheart's
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Mitski – Me and My Husband
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“Me and My Husband” is the seventh track of Mitski’s fifth studio album Be The Cowboy released in August 2018.
Like earlier tracks on the album such as ‘Nobody’, ‘Me and My Husband
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Mitski – Carry Me Out
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[Verse 1] / At night on the roof top, I untie my hair / And watch from my plastic chair / As my dark hair unleashes the night / [Verse 2] / The scent of flowers / Still in bloom
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Mitski – I Love Me After You
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[Intro] / Hmm / Hmm / [Verse 1] / Brushin' my hair naked / Spritz my face with toner / Splash water on my neck / Laughin' in the mirror / Cool water in a glass / Drink it down
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M. Roosevelt & Mitski – Ego
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If when I die, my desire is buried with me / Would it sprout up into a tree? / Would it bear fruit / And who would taste you in it? / If when I'm burned, my desire dances up to the
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Mitski – Geyser
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“Geyser” is the first song from Mitski’s 2018 album Be the Cowboy, released on May 14th along with a music video. “Geyser” had previously been played live at shows (like this one
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Mitski – Liquid Smooth
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[Verse 1] / 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 / [Chorus
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Mitski – Let's Get Married
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“Let’s Get Married” is reimagined here for Terrible Thrills Vol. 3. The lyrics are identical to the original release, without the samples, but the production is more
sparse.
This
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Mitski – Lonesome Love
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Keeping with the ‘Old West’ theme of the album, the title “Lonesome Love” is a play on Lonesome Dove, the 1985 Western epic miniseries starring Robert Duvall and Tommy Lee Jones.
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Mitski – Francis Forever
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With a powerful melody carried by a tired voice, “Francis Forever” presents itself as a dark soft ballad that builds towards an epic ending, with some grunge influences.
Like in
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Mitski – Working for the Knife
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The lead single from her sixth album Laurel Hell, “Working for the Knife” sees Mitski singing with her characteristically expressive voice about characteristically cynical subjects
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Mitski – Thursday Girl
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In this haunting song about self destructive behavior, Mitski sings about the rawness of the night and the desperation for someone to care enough about her to help her end this
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Mitski – Remember My Name
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“Remember My Name” is the sixth track from Mitski’s fifth studio album Be the Cowboy, released in 2018.
It deals with the clash between Mitski’s deep desire to be immortal
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Mitski – Crack Baby
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In a press release, through her label Dead Oceans, Mitski explained that the theme in her record, Puberty 2, and therefore this song, is that:
Happiness fucks you. Happiness is up
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Mitski – A Horse Named Cold Air
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In this song, Mitski uses the metaphor of an aging racehorse to tell the story of someone who, looking back on their life, finds that they’ve just “circled the same old sin”.
This
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Mitski – Fireproof
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This track is Mitski’s cover of One Direction’s “Fireproof”, for the album Our First 100 Days, which consists of 100 songs by different artists and aims to raise funds for various
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Mitski – Strawberry Blond
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Memories as shapes (of a body, of a trip with a romantic interest, of a potential relationship voided and thwarted by its unrequitedness) and as a hair colour are all Mitski can
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Mitski – Last Words of a Shooting Star
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In this track, Mitski takes a frightening experience on a turbulent plane as a way to reflect on her life before death. The “shooting star” from the title is literally the plane in
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Mitski – Townie
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In this song, Mitski captures the self-destructive fatalism of youth coupled with coming-of-age attitudes of anarchy against parental principles.
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Mitski – I'm a Fool to Want You
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[Verse 1] / I'm a fool to want you / I'm a fool to want you / To want a love that can't be true / A love that's there for others too / [Verse 2] / I'm a fool to hold you / Such a
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Mitski – Because Dreaming Costs Money, My Dear
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“Because Dreaming Costs Money, My Dear” is a shift in lyrical work for Mitski as she relays what possibly sounds like tensions between what she envisioned for her future and her
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