Mitski - Two Slow Dancers (Live on KEXP)

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  • KEXP.ORG presents Mitski performing "Two Slow Dancers" live in the KEXP studio. Recorded October 31, 2018.
    Host: Troy Nelson
    Audio Engineer: Kevin Suggs
    Cameras: Alaia D'Alessandro, Scott Holpainen & Justin Wilmore
    Director: Jim Beckmann
    Editor: Scott Holpainen
    kexp.org
    mitski.com

Komentáře • 129

  • @matthewcross2991
    @matthewcross2991 Před 3 lety +705

    it’s like a hug and a slap all in one

  • @peachyshoes4113
    @peachyshoes4113 Před 5 lety +796

    3:20-3:42
    Felt like she was becoming more and more hopeful and optimistic
    Then she suddenly withdraws UGHhh
    Her gestures are life

    • @leahcedula2779
      @leahcedula2779 Před 4 lety +71

      the way she does it is so delicate and she really makes the audience feel her words...

    • @miguelricardo4751
      @miguelricardo4751 Před 2 lety +17

      Its being near to that point in time you think you'll reach 'em but as the sudden realization took it away from you; passage of time.

  • @HyrumLentz
    @HyrumLentz Před 2 lety +204

    I just came from my great-grandpa's funeral. He was abandoned as an infant, and grew up in an orphanage until he started working for a living at age 15. He loved music and dancing, and when he was 17, he managed to take a ballroom dance class. There, he met who would become his wife, my great-grandma. Decades later, my great-grandma developed a disease that made it so that she was gradually unable to use her limbs. My great-grandpa took it upon himself to ease her pain as best as he knew how, including taking her on trips around the world, wheeling her around in a wheelchair all the while. He also learned to play the piano just so that he could play for her. A few years ago, she passed away, and he lived the last few years of his life without her. I knew most of this already, but hearing it at his funeral was different. It had a sense of finality to it. Their story is complete, and I couldn't help but think that this song is that story. I went home and listened to this performance, and sobbed. I don't know if I believe in an afterlife, but if there is such a thing, I hope that they're dancing with each other again, just like they did when they first met, over 70 years ago.

    • @DevonClark-vh9ll
      @DevonClark-vh9ll Před 5 měsíci +4

      They're up there dancing - hand in hand. I'm certain of it. I know you commented this long ago, Hyrum, but I hope that you're well. I wish to someday have a love like theirs. Thank you for sharing their story.

    • @aleajy4
      @aleajy4 Před měsícem +1

      i cried to this. i hope theyre happy and together now.

  • @nicholasofficial4141
    @nicholasofficial4141 Před 5 lety +544

    To me, Mitski is the biggest star in the world.

  • @nomuulinnamdag7805
    @nomuulinnamdag7805 Před 5 lety +300

    The bare piano really brings out the vocals in this live version. I'm so deeply moved every time I hear this.

  • @everaced
    @everaced Před 3 lety +195

    When she reached out, she reached into my chest-and tore my heart out when she pulled back

  • @weirdskyreallyweird.5519
    @weirdskyreallyweird.5519 Před 3 lety +207

    I love how much Mitski emotes with her hands and her body. I just watched a performance of you best American girl in Korea and she moves so much, it’s amazing.

    • @viachicago
      @viachicago Před 3 lety +1

      Here is that performance of Your Best American Girl.
      czcams.com/video/Hrf1P-iVVIY/video.html

  • @carriebrute3627
    @carriebrute3627 Před 2 lety +40

    Is been 3 years and no one is gonna talk about her shirt ? 😭

  • @FakeFlourescentSkies
    @FakeFlourescentSkies Před 5 lety +200

    3:42
    Oh my GOD

    • @SunjayVideos
      @SunjayVideos Před 4 lety +34

      i can't believe how Mitski just invented hands

    • @rheakybele4952
      @rheakybele4952 Před 4 lety

      Sunjay Hauntingston was turunan a a tygood was

  • @hvziel
    @hvziel Před 5 lety +141

    I love this sad cowboy so much

  • @bethecowboy22
    @bethecowboy22 Před 4 měsíci +7

    my airpod case is two slow dancers.. I learned two slow dancers on the piano.. I’m hanging up two slow dancers on my wall.. its my most listened to song ever.. i have a playlist that is just two slow dancers with like 7000 times… I am two slow dancers biggest fan

  • @incubus8610
    @incubus8610 Před 5 lety +105

    To think that we could stay the same...
    🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺

    • @TheTrampolineCrazy
      @TheTrampolineCrazy Před 4 lety +2

      Mr. Baphy symmetra definitely did not stay the same😭 she was my kween😭

  • @notyourdaughter666
    @notyourdaughter666 Před 2 lety +55

    life is just a series of me unlocking the ability to relate to all the mitski songs out there, and this is one i’ve finally unlocked.
    the good memories were worth it. being in love is worth it. i wouldn’t take it back for anything. but the yearning after it’s over, after it’s over not by your own choice…. that’s something that i wish i hadn’t ever felt.

  • @Someone-fn3ij
    @Someone-fn3ij Před 3 lety +63

    imagine being loved by mitski... bye

  • @adrianacoto2312
    @adrianacoto2312 Před 5 lety +179

    Does it smell like a school gymnasium in here?
    It's funny how they're all the same
    It's funny how you always remember
    And we've both done it all a hundred times before
    It's funny how I still forgot
    It would be a hundred times easier
    If we were young again
    But as it is
    And it is
    We're just two slow dancers, last ones out
    We're two slow dancers, last ones out
    And the ground has been slowly pulling us back down
    You see it on both our skin
    We get a few years and then it wants us back
    It would be a hundred times easier
    If we were young again
    But as it is
    And it is
    To think that we could stay the same
    To think that we could stay the same
    To think that we could stay the same
    But we're two slow dancers, last ones out
    We're two slow dancers, last ones out
    Two slow dancers, last ones out

    • @peripateticmind8461
      @peripateticmind8461 Před 4 lety +5

      Thanks. It's a whole experience to listen to the song, and another to read the lyrics TT

  • @maitearanguren4498
    @maitearanguren4498 Před 3 lety +102

    this is so beautiful im writing this while im crying

  • @Waynimations
    @Waynimations Před 5 lety +74

    Everybody’s heart is exploding

  • @ladylala0251
    @ladylala0251 Před 3 lety +59

    When I first heard this I was sobbing for no reason. Now I’m sobbing for a reason and damn it hits

  • @bellaagusta5968
    @bellaagusta5968 Před 4 lety +55

    mitski is my religion... i keep coming back to this video

  • @graciek8996
    @graciek8996 Před 2 lety +138

    if tiktok gets its filthy filthy fucking hands on this one im actually throwing myself in front of traffic

    • @sockaponch
      @sockaponch Před rokem +8

      💀girl-

    • @SirDinoIV
      @SirDinoIV Před rokem +7

      real

    • @maow-
      @maow- Před 5 měsíci

      real

    • @belynda1224
      @belynda1224 Před měsícem

      I saw a narumitsu edit to this one on tiktok so that’s the exception ig (also can we stop gatekeeping??)

  • @johnmullarks3555
    @johnmullarks3555 Před 4 lety +131

    Totally thinking on hypotheticals and what ifs but if I ever get married and do the big wedding thing, I hope this is the first Dance song

    • @raeGAO
      @raeGAO Před 3 lety

      I thought the same thing!

    • @lia928
      @lia928 Před 3 lety +3

      now I want to get married

    • @unkaleidoscoped8194
      @unkaleidoscoped8194 Před 3 lety +29

      Why tho? This isn't even really romantic. It's tragic

    • @calcifer6142
      @calcifer6142 Před 3 lety +15

      @@unkaleidoscoped8194 romance is tragic in its very nature.

    • @unkaleidoscoped8194
      @unkaleidoscoped8194 Před 3 lety +35

      @@calcifer6142 I get that Shakespeare but do you really want tragic at your WEDDING?

  • @nothinglike1586
    @nothinglike1586 Před 5 lety +53

    For some reason went straight to Asleep by The Smiths after this...and then to and fro a few times, like a drug eliciting melancholy.

  • @carseatheadrestt
    @carseatheadrestt Před 3 lety +16

    mitski i cantf do this tonight

  • @ratswithhatss4631
    @ratswithhatss4631 Před 2 lety +15

    i broke up with my first highschool love about a week ago. 4 years is all over. I miss him so much my body hurts. I would do anything to make him look at me the way he used to. Anything to make it feel how it used to. I will never not want to marry that man no matter how much I tell myself I can't. My early 20s feel so wrong without his guidance. to think that we could stay the same :(((

  • @lia928
    @lia928 Před 3 lety +21

    I don't think I'll ever recover from this level of pain

  • @sage2155
    @sage2155 Před rokem +12

    at the first chord, my eyes well up. i love mitski.

  • @rin.tatakae
    @rin.tatakae Před 2 lety +15

    I’m literally breaking my own heart at this point

  • @jasbirks
    @jasbirks Před 3 lety +16

    hey mitski! i cant do this today 🗣

  • @balegdah6115
    @balegdah6115 Před 4 lety +471

    😭 shes tryna make us kill ourselves

  • @lowestlifeforlife
    @lowestlifeforlife Před 3 lety +19

    mitski mostly makes music about yearning and its all i ever needed :’)

  • @Cr1tt3rrr
    @Cr1tt3rrr Před 2 lety +11

    Can we appreciate her shirt? Please?

  • @alva1496
    @alva1496 Před 3 lety +12

    i am in shambles please

  • @muribs8137
    @muribs8137 Před 5 lety +34

    breaks my heart

  • @VioletResonance
    @VioletResonance Před 2 lety +17

    This song makes me want to cry. Mitski is so beautiful especially when performing.

  • @jejfuawjjrsiskfj7267
    @jejfuawjjrsiskfj7267 Před 3 lety +21

    Mitski makes me miss my friends even though I never had

  • @Francisah
    @Francisah Před 5 lety +98

    Who hurt you?!

  • @apric0tt
    @apric0tt Před 3 lety +9

    Pls I cried 10 hours straight to this 😵👋🏼 /srs

  • @TavridaGorro
    @TavridaGorro Před 5 lety +24

    oh, my heart......

  • @danielaecheverri4282
    @danielaecheverri4282 Před 3 lety +10

    KEXP, I LOVE YOU. MITSKI, I LOVE YOU.

  • @manueloviedo1306
    @manueloviedo1306 Před rokem +4

    I always get back to this song when I feel hopeless

  • @thomasmarliere2505
    @thomasmarliere2505 Před 5 lety +21

    wow, that voice, that song, so emotional ❤️

  • @WOWMelted
    @WOWMelted Před 11 měsíci +2

    This makes me cry for no reason yet for every reason in the world.

  • @beatrizhonorato6266
    @beatrizhonorato6266 Před 3 měsíci +1

    Just lost a friend and he had the most beatiful soul. Miss him everyday, and it feels like my bones are melting in pain. The first time a boy broke my heart he took me to dance, we kissed while we were dancing, never talked about that kiss. We were fourteen ate thist time i think he was hopefull about life, he lost it. I talk about him everytime i listen to something that remind me of him and i remimber him everyday.

  • @curtisflynn4972
    @curtisflynn4972 Před 2 lety +6

    Seeing this live was heartbreaking

  • @rollieshepherd9235
    @rollieshepherd9235 Před 3 lety +4

    crying.

  • @c0pycvt
    @c0pycvt Před 2 lety +6

    this is so good + underrated oml

  • @crimetimedocs
    @crimetimedocs Před 5 lety +5

    crying

  • @137magdiel
    @137magdiel Před 5 lety +14

    LINDISSIMA

  • @amf7650
    @amf7650 Před 5 lety +9

    god damn

  • @cima1897
    @cima1897 Před 5 lety +10

    It killed me.

  • @Lanadeleeykid
    @Lanadeleeykid Před rokem +1

    This song is so underrated

  • @Selim6800
    @Selim6800 Před 5 lety +9

    Beautiful melancholia

  • @dhdhdjskk935
    @dhdhdjskk935 Před 3 lety +18

    i know i wasn’t the only one that busted at 3:42

    • @notyourdaughter666
      @notyourdaughter666 Před 2 lety +2

      i busted but not in the way you’re probably thinking i did

    • @vampcorix
      @vampcorix Před rokem +6

      i cant tell if you were being creepy or just used really bad wording for this comment

  • @lukaslourd
    @lukaslourd Před 7 měsíci +1

  • @yolieal
    @yolieal Před 3 lety +18

    this woman HATES me

  • @lucasfrey89
    @lucasfrey89 Před rokem

    i’m sobbing

  • @tia3932
    @tia3932 Před 9 měsíci

    beautiful

  • @AlyssaRueckert
    @AlyssaRueckert Před 5 lety +7

    OUCH

  • @kinimobb490
    @kinimobb490 Před 2 lety +2

    the first time i met and talked to my first love was in our school's gymnasium, give me a breakk

  • @aivee5063
    @aivee5063 Před 3 lety +1

    love uuuu

  • @fromallan
    @fromallan Před rokem +1

    i love how i can download this

  • @lobstring
    @lobstring Před 5 lety +9

    o que foi essa versão nossa senhora

  • @julietagarcia3133
    @julietagarcia3133 Před 3 lety +5

    Yo ya estaría chillando si fuera la del piano :’v

  • @MiniMatt317
    @MiniMatt317 Před 5 lety +34

    Oh wow!!...................... I think there are ninjas chopping onions in the kitchen!

    • @werm1634
      @werm1634 Před 5 lety +2

      MiniMatt317 “why is it because she’s Japanese”

    • @macabre_mess
      @macabre_mess Před 5 lety +2

      WE Rm ... wow

    • @moonmoon-dc8lu
      @moonmoon-dc8lu Před 2 lety +1

      no because onions makes u cry lmfaoo

  • @anaclaranascimentocoutinho88
    @anaclaranascimentocoutinho88 Před 5 měsíci +3

    her tshirt plsssss

  • @Porpentein
    @Porpentein Před 3 lety +16

    Yep, that’s divorce. 😢

  • @laisnazareth8916
    @laisnazareth8916 Před 2 lety

    lenda

  • @moodyalmond4830
    @moodyalmond4830 Před 11 měsíci +2

    WHAT IS HER SHIRT AM I MISSING SOMETHING

  • @marsxvj
    @marsxvj Před 3 lety +3

    3:41

  • @infin1te_
    @infin1te_ Před 2 lety +5

    i'm trying to get in my feels, but god, that shirt. it keeps staring at me. help.

  • @lilidsouza2322
    @lilidsouza2322 Před rokem

    Mitski, you're my mother

  • @november6701
    @november6701 Před 18 dny

    Is nobody going to talk about mitskis shirt 😭

  • @rosegraham5609
    @rosegraham5609 Před 3 lety +8

    can we please talk abt her t shirt😀

  • @elisfurtado9913
    @elisfurtado9913 Před rokem

    Metade das views são minhas

  • @antoniettemaglinao9748
    @antoniettemaglinao9748 Před 3 lety +2

    saket naman

  • @ferruhbyferruh
    @ferruhbyferruh Před 5 lety +1

    ❤️👁️👃👁️❤️

  • @effinloser1112
    @effinloser1112 Před rokem +1

    this reminded me how miserable i really am

  • @pairuh5021
    @pairuh5021 Před 3 lety +9

    sad song and alll but what in the hell is she wearing

  • @moonmoon-dc8lu
    @moonmoon-dc8lu Před 2 lety +1

    l

  • @poisonoussnakes906
    @poisonoussnakes906 Před 2 lety +1

    Idk but picture this- yk what happened at the end of avengers infinity war where everybody got dusted. This song feels like ur hugging someone while thats happening- oki bye

  • @TranscendentalPie
    @TranscendentalPie Před rokem

    Sigh