Mitski: 'I Will' SXSW 2016 | NPR MUSIC FRONT ROW

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  • čas přidán 5. 04. 2016
  • 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.
    Support for NPR Music comes from Blue Microphone.
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Komentáře • 103

  • @sophiebradshaw4157
    @sophiebradshaw4157 Před 5 lety +1975

    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.

  • @owenselwyn3154
    @owenselwyn3154 Před 4 lety +991

    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.

  • @uraffie1406
    @uraffie1406 Před 3 lety +486

    this song is holding my hand

    • @bonecag3
      @bonecag3 Před 3 lety +13

      That’s the best way to describe this song

  • @katereynolds7137
    @katereynolds7137 Před 5 lety +557

    i hope she never stops playing this song. not just my favorite mitski song, but my favorite song period.

  • @joshcavanagh8558
    @joshcavanagh8558 Před 7 lety +329

    The most beautifully aggressive mitski song

  • @kayla-uc5xr
    @kayla-uc5xr Před 2 lety +238

    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
      @PurtyPurple Před 2 lety +16

      It's such a human thing, that desire for belonging and comfort and at the same time to give it.

  • @fi4072
    @fi4072 Před 3 lety +273

    it’s so hard to cry these days thank you mitski this helped

  • @Tipsy_Turby
    @Tipsy_Turby Před 6 měsíci +22

    NO BC THE CONTROL SHE HAS WHILE SOUNDING LIKE SHES CRYING AND SINGING AT THE SAME TIME IS SO GOOD TF

  • @didepp9466
    @didepp9466 Před 6 lety +231

    I swear I cry everytime I listen to this. I mean dude how can you even not with that lyrics?!?!?!?!

  • @ana-yz4jl
    @ana-yz4jl Před 2 lety +35

    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.

  • @guyhanji3085
    @guyhanji3085 Před 3 lety +75

    she is so beautiful. what a gift to be alive the same time as her.

  • @seraph9351
    @seraph9351 Před 2 lety +52

    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
      @theseusinflames4301 Před 2 lety +6

      this is already about self love! :D
      the 'you' in this song is mitski, she's singing to herself :)))

  • @kmk130
    @kmk130 Před 4 lety +83

    i love this drummer. what a king

  • @malmpardon9249
    @malmpardon9249 Před 2 lety +36

    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

  • @djork6518
    @djork6518 Před 4 lety +91

    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

  • @jinh605
    @jinh605 Před rokem +20

    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

  • @LanaDelMitski
    @LanaDelMitski Před 3 lety +77

    Stunning voice.
    The most advanced American songwriter.

  • @eviejoy_
    @eviejoy_ Před 2 lety +17

    and still i will live here

  • @mimikacchan
    @mimikacchan Před 3 lety +22

    This made me cry, and I normally don't cry with her music unless I think too much :'(

  • @cole6447
    @cole6447 Před 3 lety +180

    AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH

  • @cauanjo
    @cauanjo Před 3 lety +18

    me too mitski me too

  • @thehoseaeffect122
    @thehoseaeffect122 Před 9 měsíci +5

    I could feel every emotion in her tone ...

  • @sitrakarandria9293
    @sitrakarandria9293 Před 2 lety +11

    This song is makes me cry everytime. Same, mitski. I want someone to sing me this too.

  • @Strwbrry_rat
    @Strwbrry_rat Před 4 měsíci +2

    I swear anytime I hear Mitski sing this song she sounds like she’s on the verge of tears it breaks my heart

  • @luminity2936
    @luminity2936 Před 2 lety +10

    every one of her songs just hit so much harder live...

  • @nicochavez278
    @nicochavez278 Před 2 lety +8

    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

  • @bazlamasalva8736
    @bazlamasalva8736 Před 3 lety +7

    nothing can make me cry but this...

  • @DiminishingLight
    @DiminishingLight Před rokem +4

    0:42 That melody just carries me into heaven. I love this woman so much.

  • @WelfareChrist
    @WelfareChrist Před 5 lety +38

    Better than the studio version

  • @all7son
    @all7son Před 3 lety +10

    god this song is so beautiful

  • @kyleybangers
    @kyleybangers Před 3 lety +6

    i literally have chills i love thsi song help

  • @osiosis5632
    @osiosis5632 Před 3 lety +10

    te amo mitski

  • @hi-co2pf
    @hi-co2pf Před rokem +1

    everything about this song and mitski is just so beautiful

  • @ameligotrizz
    @ameligotrizz Před 6 měsíci +1

    i will forever be fully inlove with this song.

  • @swissmissinstantpiss8400
    @swissmissinstantpiss8400 Před 11 měsíci +1

    this song is genuinely so important to me

  • @alishbamalik2868
    @alishbamalik2868 Před 2 lety

    this made me cry like a child in the best way

  • @bettermiyatwin
    @bettermiyatwin Před 8 měsíci

    I love the guitar here so much...

  • @djork6518
    @djork6518 Před 4 lety +40

    also does anyone have the tab for the guitar riff?

    • @ceciliamarques7832
      @ceciliamarques7832 Před 4 lety +30

      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
      @Kevin-oe7cf Před 3 lety +1

      @@ceciliamarques7832 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

  • @ximed6624
    @ximed6624 Před 2 lety +3

    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

  • @icantsleepanymore2843
    @icantsleepanymore2843 Před 2 lety +3

    I love this song more than I love myself

  • @tetertere341
    @tetertere341 Před 3 lety +5

    I love you

  • @livelaughkyuho
    @livelaughkyuho Před 12 hodinami

    everyone moved on but im still here

  • @hollielolliepop
    @hollielolliepop Před rokem

    love u

  • @arjitjere1559
    @arjitjere1559 Před 2 lety

    So intense...

  • @Kuaaakkmm
    @Kuaaakkmm Před 2 měsíci

    Teamo Mitski

  • @lukaslourd
    @lukaslourd Před 6 měsíci

    ❤❤

  • @bradpittballbuddies
    @bradpittballbuddies Před 3 měsíci

    Yas

  • @andreanicole251
    @andreanicole251 Před 2 lety +3

    por favor háganle un altar a esta mujer.

  • @laisnazareth8916
    @laisnazareth8916 Před rokem

    lenda

  • @ForlornStars
    @ForlornStars Před 4 měsíci

    Stay with me hold my hand

  • @angelikit4515
    @angelikit4515 Před 7 měsíci +1

    best 2:47 minutes of my life

  • @akiraportor3684
    @akiraportor3684 Před 2 lety +2

    nah if I have a guitar that means it's inspired by mitski😵

  • @bermudessilva
    @bermudessilva Před rokem

    mitski is god

  • @freestylescooter1360
    @freestylescooter1360 Před 7 lety +5

    Matt Skis.

  • @rennnxs
    @rennnxs Před 3 měsíci

    th9s song makes me wan t to kmyseld (in a positive waa

  • @jaimelazcano9615
    @jaimelazcano9615 Před 5 lety +16

    I love this song but honestly that guitar player kinda ruins it