Mitski: 'I Will' SXSW 2016 | NPR MUSIC FRONT ROW
Музыка
We have the benefit of hindsight when it comes to 1950s and '60s pop music. Songs about motorcycle crashes and broken hearts sound quaint now, but the sweet harmonies and four-on-the-floor beats reflected real anxieties of teens and twentysomethings. Mitski Miyawaki - who records under her first name - makes music that looks to that era, both in style and substance. The 25-year-old Brooklyn songwriter channels the "pop" reflection of everyday trauma. This is realness, often riddled with feedback, but more often sung in quiet and determined desperation.
This is why when she played our SXSW showcase, you could be forgiven in thinking that her songs about loss, heartbreak, aimlessness and identity carry a dark weight. Largely culling from 2014's Bury Me At Makeout Creek, Mitski's set was spare in its instrumentation, but cavernous in emotion. "Townie," the particularly doomy "I Don't Smoke" and the feedback-squealing closer "Drunk Walk Home" derailed into fuzz and wild vocal acrobatics, while "First Love" felt like a bedroom confessional.
But Mitski also performed two songs from the forthcoming Puberty 2, a record that opens up her sonic and lyrical palette. "Once More to See You," getting a first taste here, is like something out of a cloudy dream, with a space between guitar notes that's deliberate, yet disorienting. Mitski lets her voice breathe through the pauses like a lounge singer left alone in a velvet room. When she spoke with NPR about "Your Best American Girl," she said, "I am half Japanese, and it came from wanting to just fit into this very American person's life and simply not being able to." In Austin, it's a scorcher, riddled with sludgy distortion and crashing cymbals as if someone set off fireworks just above the stage. -- LARS GOTRICH
CREDITS
Producers: Saidah Blount, Mito Habe-Evans, Otis Hart; Technical Director: Josh Rogosin; Director: Mito Habe-Evans; Videographers: Nickolai Hammar, Katie Hayes Luke, Cameron Robert, A.J. Wilhelm, Lizzie Chen; Editor: Niki Walker; Audio: Timothy Powell/Metro Mobile; Assistant Audio Engineer: Loretta Rae; Production Assistants: Erin Conlon, Nathan Gaar; Editors: Niki Walker, Kara Frame. Photography: Adam Kissick. Special Thanks: SXSW, Stubb's BBQ; Executive Producer: Anya Grundmann.
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If you haven't heard, Mitski has said that she isn't the "I" in this song, she's the "you". In other words, this is what she wishes she could hear from someone else. Adds a whole nother level.
@nompond
4 жыл бұрын
Sophie Bradshaw fuck
@wren7574
4 жыл бұрын
Changes my whole view on this song
@gabrielledennis549
4 жыл бұрын
I HONESTLY CAN’T-
@haobinversed
3 жыл бұрын
DO NOT MAKE ME CRY LIKE THAT-
@Someone-fn3ij
3 жыл бұрын
this information changed me ngl
I love that this song never fully kicks in. It's like she's trying to let these feelings go but she can't it's beautiful.
@kiro6188
2 жыл бұрын
Edging core
@priyakochar7545
2 жыл бұрын
@@kiro6188 omg
@bigfatjuicyearthworm
7 ай бұрын
@@kiro6188😭😭😭
i hope she never stops playing this song. not just my favorite mitski song, but my favorite song period.
this song is holding my hand
@bonecag3
3 жыл бұрын
That’s the best way to describe this song
This song is simultaneously everything I want to be, everything I wish I did, everything I want to receive, and everything I'm afraid of at the same time. Thank you for this wonderful song mitski!!!
@PurtyPurple
Жыл бұрын
It's such a human thing, that desire for belonging and comfort and at the same time to give it.
The most beautifully aggressive mitski song
NO BC THE CONTROL SHE HAS WHILE SOUNDING LIKE SHES CRYING AND SINGING AT THE SAME TIME IS SO GOOD TF
it’s so hard to cry these days thank you mitski this helped
I swear I cry everytime I listen to this. I mean dude how can you even not with that lyrics?!?!?!?!
when she says "there's no need to be brave" etc then later on proceeds to say "I'll be brave".. i feel like the first one represents her loved one saying that to her then as time went on she lost that person, saying she'll still be brave for them.
she is so beautiful. what a gift to be alive the same time as her.
@kiyokomiyazaki
4 ай бұрын
Fr
I use this song to motivate self love. I will take good care of ME Cause I will always have me Love yourself because you deserve everything the world desires
@theseusinflames4301
2 жыл бұрын
this is already about self love! :D the 'you' in this song is mitski, she's singing to herself :)))
the way that this song just completely changes once you know the meaning. it's this beautiful love song with no conext, but with that context this song becomes a desperate plea into this abyss for anyone to love someone who has almost given up on trying. it's tragic, tear-jerking, gorgeous, and the best song ever made. i love you mitski
i love this drummer. what a king
Stunning voice. The most advanced American songwriter.
@moomwillyouwashmybackthiso4209
2 жыл бұрын
I see you everywhere youre the 1# mitski fan
@m1tskiss
Жыл бұрын
@@moomwillyouwashmybackthiso4209 fr
@m1tskiss
Жыл бұрын
Stop being everywhere 😭
I will take good care of you I will take good care of you Everything you feel is good If you would only let you I will wash your hair at night And dry it off with care I will see your body bare And still I will live here So stay with me Hold my hand There's no need To be brave And all the quiet nights you bear Seal them up with care No one needs to know they're there For I will hold them for you Cause' all I ever wanted is here All I ever wanted All I want is ALways you It's always you And we're not out of the tunnel I bet you though there's an end Stay with me Hold my hand There's no need To be brave And while you sleep I'll be scared So by the time you wake I'll be brave I'll be brave I'll be brave
just like the 1975's acoustic version of paris, this live version is so much better than the studio version--and the studio version stole my heart, shattered it into a million pieces, and remade it when i first heard it, and every single time since then
and still i will live here
@lorhenzlacsa9997
2 жыл бұрын
Amen
I could feel every emotion in her tone ...
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH
@jazzybloom
3 жыл бұрын
SO TRUE THOUGH
@myaayed3736
3 жыл бұрын
Same
@cinnamonteeth
3 жыл бұрын
mhm
@ceciliasmith935
3 жыл бұрын
right
@Someone-fn3ij
3 жыл бұрын
the most mitski comment
This made me cry, and I normally don't cry with her music unless I think too much :'(
me too mitski me too
This song is makes me cry everytime. Same, mitski. I want someone to sing me this too.
I love the song but listening to it live brings all the raw emotions and it's such a personal performance and I love ot better live
I swear anytime I hear Mitski sing this song she sounds like she’s on the verge of tears it breaks my heart
nothing can make me cry but this...
every one of her songs just hit so much harder live...
i will forever be fully inlove with this song.
0:42 That melody just carries me into heaven. I love this woman so much.
god this song is so beautiful
i literally have chills i love thsi song help
everything about this song and mitski is just so beautiful
te amo mitski
this song is genuinely so important to me
Better than the studio version
I love the guitar here so much...
this made me cry like a child in the best way
Dios te amo mistki, me siento jodidamente sola, incomprendida y que nadie me quiere pero te escucho y siento que tengo alguien que me acompaña y que sabe cómo me siento
I love this song more than I love myself
love u
Teamo Mitski
also does anyone have the tab for the guitar riff?
@ceciliamarques7832
4 жыл бұрын
B|-12-15-----------------15-12-15----------15-12 E|------------12--14-12----------------14-14--------- B|-12-15-----------------15-12-15-15~-14-12-10 E|------------12--14-12-------------------------------------- Sounds accurate to me
@Kevin-oe7cf
3 жыл бұрын
@@ceciliamarques7832 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
I love you
So intense...
❤❤
Yas
lenda
Stay with me hold my hand
por favor háganle un altar a esta mujer.
best 2:47 minutes of my life
nah if I have a guitar that means it's inspired by mitski😵
mitski is god
Matt Skis.
th9s song makes me wan t to kmyseld (in a positive waa
I love this song but honestly that guitar player kinda ruins it
@SchizoMuch
5 жыл бұрын
I think she's amazing. And her preformance in Drunk Walk Home makes it better than the studio version
@marissaburdock6550
3 жыл бұрын
I kinda liked it
@vanlalruatfela4965
3 жыл бұрын
I actually liked it