 Genius Meanings
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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 – 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
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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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – A Burning Hill
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“A Burning Hill” is the denouement to Puberty 2’s heartbreaking climax – a quiet and intimate examination of modern sadness.
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Mitski – Dan the Dancer
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[Verse 1] / Dan had very long limbs from leading day to day / Hanging onto a cliff that stretched him everyday / And when she'd ask to hold hands / He would smile and let one of
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Mitski – Once More to See You
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[Verse] / In the rearview mirror I saw the setting sun on your neck / And felt the taste of you bubble up inside me / But with everybody watching us, our every move, we do have
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MARINA – Are You Satisfied?
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The song is the opening track from Marina and the Diamond’s first LP. The track references Marina’s thought process as everything she’s dreamt of is coming true, but she is still
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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 – 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 – Your Best American Girl
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“Your Best American Girl” is the lead single on Mitski’s 4th album, Puberty 2. The song represents the turmoil that one feels when they experience a relationship that brings them
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Mitski – Have Yourself a Mitsuki Little Christmas
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[Verse 1] / Have yourself a merry little Christmas / Let your heart be light / From now on, our troubles / Will be out of sight / [Verse 2] / Have yourself a merry, merry Christmas
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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 – 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 – 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 – My Body's Made of Crushed Little Stars
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In this rapid burst of punk rage, Mitski repeatedly juxtaposes existential ideas with the pedestrian concerns of life. This highlights the disconnect between the grand scope of her
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Mitski – I Want You
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[Verse 1] / I want you / I hold one card / That I can't use / But I want you / [Pre-Chorus] / You're coming back / And it's the end of the world / We're starting over / And I love
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Radiohead – Creep
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According to Thom Yorke, “Creep” tells the tale of an inebriated man who tries to get the attention of a woman to whom he is attracted by following her around. In the end, he lacks
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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 – 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 – Brand New City
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[Intro] / One, two / Honey, what'd you take? / [Verse 1] / Think my brain is rotting in places / I think my heart is ready to die / I think my body is falling in pieces / I think
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Phoebe Bridgers – Garden Song
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Since Phoebe’s 2017 debut album, Stranger in the Alps, Phoebe Bridgers makes her solo return with the lead single “Garden Song” for her sophomore album Punisher.
In an interview
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Son Lux (Ft. David Byrne & Mitski) – This Is A Life
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[Intro: Mitski & David Byrne] / Ooh / Ooh / [Chorus 1: Mitski] / This is a life / Free from destiny / Not only what we sow / Not only what we show (We) / [Chorus 2: Mitski, David
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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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Ryan Hemsworth (Ft. Keaton Henson & Mitski) – Wait
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[Intro: Keaton Henson] / I'd wait / Waiting [now?] / I'd wait for you / [Verse 1: Keaton Henson] / All your speeches / Sound like dying words to me / All your leeches / Suck me dry
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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 – Bug Like an Angel
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“Bug Like An Angel” is the lead single from Mitski’s seventh album The Land Is Inhospitable And So Are We. Featuring impactful gospel choral backing vocals that contrast Mitski’s
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Mitski – Star
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[Verse 1] / Remember when we met? / We acted like two fools / We were so glad / So glad to have found it / [Chorus] / That love is like a star / It's gone, we just see it shinin
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Allie X (Ft. Mitski) – Susie Save Your Love
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“Susie Save Your Love” is the ninth track off Allie X’s sophomore album Cape God. It is a collaboration with singer-songwriter Mitski, who makes her first appearance as a featured
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beabadoobee – the way things go
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[Refrain] / And there's so much left to say / I guess I'm just the bigger guy / And there's too much on my mind / That I don't even want to try / Guess it's not far from the
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bôa (UK) – Duvet
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The opening theme of the 1998 anime series Serial Experiments Lain, released as the 3rd track to Bôa (UK)’s 1998 album The Race of a Thousand Camels and later the first track on
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Mitski – Washing Machine Heart
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“Washing Machine Heart”, the twelfth track off Be the Cowboy, is sonically upbeat, but lyrically explores the “manic” nature of Mitski’s protagonist, who, in her words:
…is a
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Mars Argo – Using You
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“Using You” was originally released in 2011 off Mars Argo’s EP Linden Place, which one can purchase and listen to here. However, In late 2014 the band decided to revise the song
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