Mitski: 'Once More To See You' 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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Пікірлер: 81
Show-stopping. Never the same. I have no choice but to stan.
@sukileese8552
3 жыл бұрын
i always see you in the comments of mitski videos lol
@gabrielledennis549
3 жыл бұрын
@@sukileese8552 2020 was a year full of emotion lol
@sofi_182
11 ай бұрын
is that your cat??? yours looks exactly like mine omfg😭
i am OBSESSED with this song
@yoonie3263
2 жыл бұрын
same
@awizard9835
2 жыл бұрын
Me too
@usernamesnamesnames
2 жыл бұрын
aren't we all
@aliamamdouhhamdy4845
Жыл бұрын
SAME
@anshuuu9708
Жыл бұрын
Me toooo
Her voice is absolutely stunning
I can't believe majority hasn't seen this master piece yet.
@abdullahlataifeh2203
11 ай бұрын
Fr
Even after 7 years nothing tops Mitski, for me shes *THE GOAT*
I really like this version of once more to see you. The beginning beats feels like a heartbeat to me. Whenever i feel overwhelmed i listen to this to calm myself. Reminding that im still here at this moment and in the end nothing will matter so just do whatever i want. This song gives me butterflies when im happy and reassure me when im panicking. I love it so much
I love how she can be so emotional
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 reputations We keep it secret Won't let them have it So come inside and be with me Alone with me Alone With me alone If you would let me give you pinky promise kisses Then I wouldn't have to scream your name atop of every roof in the city of my heart If I could see you Once more to see you Come inside and be with me Alone with me Alone With me alone If you would let me give you pinky promise kisses Then I wouldn't have to scream your name atop of every roof in the city of my heart If I could see you Once more to see you If I could see you Once more to see you
this is easily on my top 3 mitski songs
@holycrapitsmili
Жыл бұрын
so real for that
this is so beautiful i CAN NOT put in words, definitely the best recording version of this song, the instruments are just on the spot, and it leaves such a pretty vibe to the song.
i have been here ! and i have been aching !
@Lulywulsin
3 жыл бұрын
I feel that ache, may it heal for you
2:02 Come inside and be with me alone with me alone. Scream your name atop of every roof in the city of my heart This is just heaven heaven 💙❤️💙❤️❤️❤️
i love this woman so much. her music devastates me in ways words can't even begin to describe
Stunning voice. So sweet.
@Lara-vo6rp
2 жыл бұрын
I find you everywhere on almost every mitski video haha
i love mitski mitski loves me
I love how tired this version sounds, instead the wistful original version. I think its fits better with the song as a concept
To be alive is to be vulnerable.
Sigh Goddess, her sighs are heavenly.
I am at a loss for words I love mitski she is so amazing and inspiring
an angel
I love her and her voice!!
Thank you once again mitski
A voz dela deixa meu coração quentinho, sinto-o bater lentamente e os suspiros vêm sem que eu perceba. Incrível, Mitski!
this song is so great
pretty sure that from those 12 k views it was me in at least 4 k of the cases
@evakashyap3876
4 жыл бұрын
And me the other 6k
@evakashyap3876
4 жыл бұрын
Oww we are left with 2k you take that we both 6k 6k
Enchanting
TE AMO MITSKI
I LOVE MITSKI STAN HER LOVE HER SHES LITTLERY A GOD
La amo tanto
i wanna know who are the 5 people who disliked this video SO WE CAN HAVE A CONVERSATION
@KG0605
2 жыл бұрын
they’re gone now
Amazingg
la amo mucho
But with everybody watching us our every move we do have reputation we keep it secret won’t let them have it
💘
She's like a real live Marceline
@Victoria-ib8gz
5 жыл бұрын
lol mitski is way bettet
@alexis896
3 жыл бұрын
marceline did a cover of her song too
@weenis1139
2 жыл бұрын
@@Victoria-ib8gz true dat
IDK why I always lose track of time listening to this and when I awake I hear clapping and I m like it ended very soon and I keep on playing it on n on and it keeps happening on and on I really never heard this after the very first time I feel like and she made me bi I mean while.i am absolutely bi in reality I m straight
@lycanles
3 жыл бұрын
just curious... do you still ID as straight
@evakashyap3876
3 жыл бұрын
@@lycanles hhaha yes I am straight
listen to this at 1.5x
this is the best mistake song of all time
Depeche mode, A question of lust anybody?
@Madriley1
7 жыл бұрын
I was just about to comment this!
@diegoleiva2841
5 жыл бұрын
also boyish by japanese breakfast, yeah
cok kotu oldum anne
I honestly think that I’d die if she sang in front of me
I would sell my bones for mitski (I am not joking) (god she’s so ethereal)
Pov: you're inlove with you're childhood bestfriend
@chofi._.2882
2 ай бұрын
That was personal.
@Cloud99464
2 ай бұрын
@chofi._.2882 hehehehege
the lighting at 2:35 is so bisexual and ethereal, i love her 🥺
@hannahmccabe7527
Жыл бұрын
BISEXUAL
@halle9606
7 ай бұрын
@@hannahmccabe7527the lighting is so bisexual…! UwU
@Misteine
7 ай бұрын
@@halle9606its been 10 months
2:22
men could never understand the weight of this song
satosugu this is for u
@issabelladocman8855
22 күн бұрын
NOOO 😭😭😭
meudeus mitski isso aqui foi de fuder hein
Enchanting.