It is so rare to find middle aged men who truly respect and look out for music made my women, especially in Mitski's genre of music. I have loved her for so many years and it makes me so happy to see more people finding and loving her like I do! I appreciate your vulnerability at the beginning and all of your opinions throughout! AVAA
AVAA, and 2023 AOTY by a far margin! My thoughts are super unformed at the moment, but I feel like this is the album where Mitski finally finds acceptance living in an inhospitable land, mind, relationship, and career. With her prior albums it really sounded like she was unwell and wrestled with suicidal ideations, where I think this time around she’s more concerned about what she’ll leave behind when her time comes, choosing to be a beacon of love while accepting the darkness and negativity that comes with being an artist wrestling with her vices, her toxic thoughts, memories of her failed relationships, and an unforgiving consuming public. There are so many themes densely packed in this sparse album, but one I wanna fixate on is the theme of memory. When I think of all the people I loved in the past, a lot of my memories are tinged with melancholy and regret: How I didn’t love a certain person the way they could have received it. How I poured love into another person without it being reciprocated or appreciated. How down on myself that I couldn’t be unconditional in the way I loved. How I didn’t love a certain person enough or how I took them for granted. How I let jealousy and unregulated emotionality taint something so pure. And yet we play these memories over and over in our heads though they provide us immense pain because my love is mine all mine. Every song, every piece of art, every social media post, every UA-cam video, every family vacation is for the purpose of preserving and reliving the memories that we are living now, so that our (hopefully positive) essence can live on when we are gone. Because as flawed and as broken as we are, it’s good that we tried to use our limited time on earth to love each other and ourselves. And I think Mitski is showing us how messy and impossible and worth it that process is, and how it’s better to have a soul than to be as inhospitable as the land. I’ll close with my favorite quote of hers from the liner notes that made me cry when I read it: “I don’t have a self,” Mitski observes. “I have a million selves, and they’re all me, and I inhabit them, and they all live inside me.” Loving all of these selves does not yield the easy burst of a pop song. It’s the “long, complex, deep love, that you can never get to the end of, that’s always evolving, like a person. And there’s just no end to it. It feels like space travel.” P.S. the opposite of a Neophyte is a Agent Smith-ophyte
bro really said his thoughts are unformed and then proceeded to write one of the most thought-provoking, well written, most meaningful reviews of Mitski's whole discography
If you’re interested in getting a look into more of her vocal range I’d recommend her first album Lush. I think her voice really shines in the song Pearl Diver!
First time on the channel and I really loved listening to your stories. There's something so genuine and down-to-earth to the way you recorded that made me feel really comforted. I love MItski's music but it is difficult sometimes to feel the sad more-bitter-than-sweet emotions so earnestly sung! My favourite track of hers is First Love / Late Spring and honestly I can very rarely bring myself to listen to it, because it is as beautiful as it is gut-wrenching! On the other hand, I've been listening to this album on repeat since release and it provides not an overly sad but somber and mellow space to sit in. My Love Mine All Mine is now tied as my favel! AVAA!
I mean this in the best way possible, but this is the first video of yours I see and I feel like I'm falling in love with how genuine your thought process flows throughtout the video and the review! loved all the tangents, felt like I'm talking with a friend about this awesome album. The songs that stood out the most for me were My love all mine, Star and I'm your man. AVAA
AVAA short answer for 30:51 is that violin and fiddle are the same instruments with the terms utilized in different contexts. A longer answer would include how both terms are utilized in Euro-American (Western) classical and folk (especially Irish-Scottish-French) traditions, how both were used in African-American musical discourse, and even how the fiddle was played by the Tohono O’odham (the indigenous Desert People that straddle the border of the United States and Mexico), Hispanic Americans of New Mexico and southern Colorado, and a Mexican composer of indigent Otomi descent
AVAA!! glad to see you getting into mitski; and to answer your question about her blowing up on tiktok, afaik her song “nobody” was the one that skyrocketed her into gen z stardom.
also, strawberry blonde was used as a very popular tiktok audio years ago (see also, strawberry cow) and it made a lot of mitski fans frustrated that it was being misinterpreted
my top three albums from mitski (i cannot figure out an order), are Lush, Retired From Sad, and Puberty 2. top three songs from her (of All Time) are liquid smooth, pearl diver, and square, just because of the lyrical and musical storytelling, especially in the production. can't wait for you to go down the mitski rabbit hole!
I've been a ghost viewer for a while, really loved ur Arca review video on the kick series but also love this one. I'm a dude who also fell out with a friend that I considered a brother. hope L sees your video.
what a fantastic video. never seen you before but just loved your input and mini essay in the beginning. overall good vibes, excited to binge some more videos :)
I think you'd be interested to know thAt Mitski wasn't born here, which might'Ve been mentioned in the comment section. She was born in Japan and spent a lot of time there, but hAs lived in like 13 different countries. So much of her Angst has Always appeared to be from that type of not belonging that is furthered by not being from the country she lives in(she moved here by herself when she was 15, which I think is metal as hell) and she doesn't consider herself to be from anywhere. I think having lived in so many countries with so many different ways of storytelling among other forms of art might be part of the reason why her music doesn't really sound like anyone else's. I've always heard her music(my favorite album is Bury Me at Makeout Creek) and felt like it had already been really important to me in another life. I think this quality is obviously a mixture of so many talents, but I think the living everywhere might help with that.
You had me tearing up at the 6'. Here's to middle-aged people re-connecting with their friends from times gone by. I might take your cue and do the same with mine.
AVAA!!!!!! i’ve never found a youtuber who analyzes music using philosophy which are two of my main hobbies so i love these videos!! also if u enjoy nutty production her album bury me at makeout creek is diy punk and it’s very fun
Also, here's my Mitski tier list: S-Tier 1. Puberty 2 2. The Land is Inhospitable and So Are We 3. Bury Me At Makeout Creek A-Tier 4. Laurel Hell (I think is incredibly underrated and an incredible document of how ruinous fame is) 5. Be The Cowboy B-Tier 6. Retired From Sad, New Career in Business 7. Lush
@@MatauReviews The only reason it's in B-tier is that those two albums are the ones I'm least familar with! Perhaps it'll change over time :) I love Because Dreaming Cost Money & Class of 2013
I'd definitely put Retired From Sad in A-Tier and Laurel Hell in B-Tier. I like Laurel Hell but to me it just feels like there's something missing in that album.
@@ibmtltt please spend more time with them they're by far my favorite from her 😭 liquid smooth is such a masterclass of musical and lyrical storytelling, as is pearl diver and square!!! i adore her earlier works but she's definitely grown and experimented in beautiful ways with time.
AAVA, Professor! In the vein of Feminine/Female Country, you should totally check out Aimee Mann’s The Forgotten Arm! Excellent lyricism wrapped in a lot of Southern Rock sensibilities. It’s one of my favorites!
AVAA! I am in a similar boat with you except I listened to bury me at makeout creek instead of laurel hell. I enjoyed it but it didn't hit for me like I wanted it to. This new one sounds like it's right up my alley. Great review!
one thing i love about mitski (and also get frustrated over) is how her voice and the music are so well blended and complimentary and her themes are so interesting-- you hear a lyric, and you're still thinking about the lyric when it's on to another verse, and you have to stop and think, then start again. and read the lyrics again, and analyze, but then! the music combined w the newly comprehended lyric gives new meaning and emotion. So you listen to the album like 10 times and feel like you're still processing something grievous and so lovely, it's like a dream where your cat died in the swamps of sadness in the neverending story and you have to just trudge along thinking your stupid little thoughts and fearing forgetting things to The Nothing. all combined with the knowledge that you'd never write anything half as good, and that your stupid little brain will hear this album again in 2 years, and it will feel like a new album bc you were too stupid or at least not in the headspace or life-stage to REALLY get it before. maybe I'm just young w not enough sticky life experience and regret to glue her impact onto myself (right at the cusp where music is going to start not being as good as it used to be, according to your calculations), or maybe I'm suffering brain damage from law school (thank God I'm graduated, 10/10 do not recommend; will now, according to theme of this album, *regret* forcing my education/prospects-of-career-stability/qualifications-to-do-stuff-I-don't-like-doing down my throat for eternity-- should have gone to graduate school to become a literature professor specializing in russian literature as the fates intended) but Mitski really just feels like depression's well of forgetfulness and the bright mania that comes through the numbness whenever a lyric pokes you in the nipple and makes you giggle. AVAA.
I love how you talk about music so much. So much analysis’s on youtube now are just trying to figure it out, instead of saying how it made you feel. Its cliche to say but im Surprised you dont have more subs LOL
AVAA! The album has a ton of Ennio Morricone and Scott Walker influence which makes sense why I love it so much. Laurel Hell felt mildly underwhelming to me but this new album is some of Mitski's best work.
AVAA Beautiful review and loved your spiel about homoeroticism, totally relate and it made me ROFLMAO !! 😹 been your subscriber for a few years now. Cheers Skye
AVAA. I think this album and Laurel Hell are conversation pieces, that being Laurel Hell really informing the direction this album takes. Feels like a direct continuation of it. As for Puberty 2 being her best, I disagree. Gotta be either Be The Cowboy or Laurel Hell.
It is so rare to find middle aged men who truly respect and look out for music made my women, especially in Mitski's genre of music. I have loved her for so many years and it makes me so happy to see more people finding and loving her like I do! I appreciate your vulnerability at the beginning and all of your opinions throughout! AVAA
Oh the homoerotic male friendship that went wrong. I know the feeling
That "wall of sound" moment in The Deal is absolute perfection. I think it represents a bird panicking in a cage
Record was definitely inspired by Shiina Ringo, even the cup logo.
@@neromxxn2252omg i totally heard some sheena ringo inspo in there too
@@lipz1399 the deal reminds me a lot of funeral by sheena
avaa the time she says "it's mitskin' time" makes me cry every time
mitski is one of the best lyricists out there for me, i love the way she tells a story with her new album
AVAA, and 2023 AOTY by a far margin! My thoughts are super unformed at the moment, but I feel like this is the album where Mitski finally finds acceptance living in an inhospitable land, mind, relationship, and career. With her prior albums it really sounded like she was unwell and wrestled with suicidal ideations, where I think this time around she’s more concerned about what she’ll leave behind when her time comes, choosing to be a beacon of love while accepting the darkness and negativity that comes with being an artist wrestling with her vices, her toxic thoughts, memories of her failed relationships, and an unforgiving consuming public.
There are so many themes densely packed in this sparse album, but one I wanna fixate on is the theme of memory. When I think of all the people I loved in the past, a lot of my memories are tinged with melancholy and regret:
How I didn’t love a certain person the way they could have received it.
How I poured love into another person without it being reciprocated or appreciated.
How down on myself that I couldn’t be unconditional in the way I loved.
How I didn’t love a certain person enough or how I took them for granted.
How I let jealousy and unregulated emotionality taint something so pure.
And yet we play these memories over and over in our heads though they provide us immense pain because my love is mine all mine. Every song, every piece of art, every social media post, every UA-cam video, every family vacation is for the purpose of preserving and reliving the memories that we are living now, so that our (hopefully positive) essence can live on when we are gone. Because as flawed and as broken as we are, it’s good that we tried to use our limited time on earth to love each other and ourselves. And I think Mitski is showing us how messy and impossible and worth it that process is, and how it’s better to have a soul than to be as inhospitable as the land.
I’ll close with my favorite quote of hers from the liner notes that made me cry when I read it:
“I don’t have a self,” Mitski observes. “I have a million selves, and they’re all me, and I inhabit them, and they all live inside me.” Loving all of these selves does not yield the easy burst of a pop song. It’s the “long, complex, deep love, that you can never get to the end of, that’s always evolving, like a person. And there’s just no end to it. It feels like space travel.”
P.S. the opposite of a Neophyte is a Agent Smith-ophyte
Good stuff, you should start a podcast or something!
bro really said his thoughts are unformed and then
proceeded to write one of the most thought-provoking, well written, most meaningful reviews of Mitski's whole discography
The review equivalent of “I don’t speak English as a first language, so please excuse my grammatical mistakes.”
@@iantaakalla8180 ouch?
If you’re interested in getting a look into more of her vocal range I’d recommend her first album Lush. I think her voice really shines in the song Pearl Diver!
First time on the channel and I really loved listening to your stories. There's something so genuine and down-to-earth to the way you recorded that made me feel really comforted. I love MItski's music but it is difficult sometimes to feel the sad more-bitter-than-sweet emotions so earnestly sung! My favourite track of hers is First Love / Late Spring and honestly I can very rarely bring myself to listen to it, because it is as beautiful as it is gut-wrenching! On the other hand, I've been listening to this album on repeat since release and it provides not an overly sad but somber and mellow space to sit in. My Love Mine All Mine is now tied as my favel! AVAA!
Glad you enjoy my approach. There are a lot more videos on the channel and more to come.
you should definitely listen to more of her songs, she has alot more songs that are more vocally challenging
I mean this in the best way possible, but this is the first video of yours I see and I feel like I'm falling in love with how genuine your thought process flows throughtout the video and the review! loved all the tangents, felt like I'm talking with a friend about this awesome album. The songs that stood out the most for me were My love all mine, Star and I'm your man. AVAA
Also Sir I'm sorry but you're so handsome
AVAA short answer for 30:51 is that violin and fiddle are the same instruments with the terms utilized in different contexts. A longer answer would include how both terms are utilized in Euro-American (Western) classical and folk (especially Irish-Scottish-French) traditions, how both were used in African-American musical discourse, and even how the fiddle was played by the Tohono O’odham (the indigenous Desert People that straddle the border of the United States and Mexico), Hispanic Americans of New Mexico and southern Colorado, and a Mexican composer of indigent Otomi descent
AVAA!! glad to see you getting into mitski; and to answer your question about her blowing up on tiktok, afaik her song “nobody” was the one that skyrocketed her into gen z stardom.
also, strawberry blonde was used as a very popular tiktok audio years ago (see also, strawberry cow) and it made a lot of mitski fans frustrated that it was being misinterpreted
my top three albums from mitski (i cannot figure out an order), are Lush, Retired From Sad, and Puberty 2. top three songs from her (of All Time) are liquid smooth, pearl diver, and square, just because of the lyrical and musical storytelling, especially in the production. can't wait for you to go down the mitski rabbit hole!
I've been a ghost viewer for a while, really loved ur Arca review video on the kick series but also love this one. I'm a dude who also fell out with a friend that I considered a brother. hope L sees your video.
Haven't listened to Mitski before but this review has wanting to go ahead and give this a try! AVAA
First time here and I really loved the video! Thanks for sharing your view over Mitski’s album 😃
what a fantastic video. never seen you before but just loved your input and mini essay in the beginning. overall good vibes, excited to binge some more videos :)
I think you'd be interested to know thAt Mitski wasn't born here, which might'Ve been mentioned in the comment section. She was born in Japan and spent a lot of time there, but hAs lived in like 13 different countries. So much of her Angst has Always appeared to be from that type of not belonging that is furthered by not being from the country she lives in(she moved here by herself when she was 15, which I think is metal as hell) and she doesn't consider herself to be from anywhere. I think having lived in so many countries with so many different ways of storytelling among other forms of art might be part of the reason why her music doesn't really sound like anyone else's. I've always heard her music(my favorite album is Bury Me at Makeout Creek) and felt like it had already been really important to me in another life. I think this quality is obviously a mixture of so many talents, but I think the living everywhere might help with that.
You had me tearing up at the 6'. Here's to middle-aged people re-connecting with their friends from times gone by. I might take your cue and do the same with mine.
i love mitski, all of her songs are so relatable and just evoke so much emotion
AVAA! Please review Big Thief and Adrienne Lenker. I am a new subscriber and I really enjoyed this video.
I have!
AVAA!!!!!! i’ve never found a youtuber who analyzes music using philosophy which are two of my main hobbies so i love these videos!! also if u enjoy nutty production her album bury me at makeout creek is diy punk and it’s very fun
AVAA, Goat is correct that Puberty 2 is her best.
It's always Bury Me At Makeout Creek for me but Puberty 2 is a VERY close 2nd.
I didn't know the album was out yet. I've only listened to bug like an angel, star and heaven
2:40 im in love with what your saying... WHAT?! COWBOYS?! 😭😂
Also, here's my Mitski tier list:
S-Tier
1. Puberty 2
2. The Land is Inhospitable and So Are We
3. Bury Me At Makeout Creek
A-Tier
4. Laurel Hell (I think is incredibly underrated and an incredible document of how ruinous fame is)
5. Be The Cowboy
B-Tier
6. Retired From Sad, New Career in Business
7. Lush
Amazing list, laurel hell was such a masterpiece I was suprised when there was some backlash against it when it first came out
Retired From Sad is arguably her best
@@MatauReviews The only reason it's in B-tier is that those two albums are the ones I'm least familar with! Perhaps it'll change over time :) I love Because Dreaming Cost Money & Class of 2013
I'd definitely put Retired From Sad in A-Tier and Laurel Hell in B-Tier. I like Laurel Hell but to me it just feels like there's something missing in that album.
@@ibmtltt please spend more time with them they're by far my favorite from her 😭 liquid smooth is such a masterclass of musical and lyrical storytelling, as is pearl diver and square!!! i adore her earlier works but she's definitely grown and experimented in beautiful ways with time.
Be the Cowboy is my favourite album of hers, considering you had not one but TWO cowboy phases maybe you could get behind it 🤠
I really should ease into my third cowboy phase
@@professorskye it is time
Very very pleased to see that my comment was a little helpful!
Love you skye, you make me like music more
My favorite Mitski album is Bury Me At Makeout Creek, but they’re all incredible.
AAVA, Professor! In the vein of Feminine/Female Country, you should totally check out Aimee Mann’s The Forgotten Arm! Excellent lyricism wrapped in a lot of Southern Rock sensibilities. It’s one of my favorites!
AVAA! I am in a similar boat with you except I listened to bury me at makeout creek instead of laurel hell. I enjoyed it but it didn't hit for me like I wanted it to. This new one sounds like it's right up my alley. Great review!
one thing i love about mitski (and also get frustrated over) is how her voice and the music are so well blended and complimentary and her themes are so interesting-- you hear a lyric, and you're still thinking about the lyric when it's on to another verse, and you have to stop and think, then start again. and read the lyrics again, and analyze, but then! the music combined w the newly comprehended lyric gives new meaning and emotion. So you listen to the album like 10 times and feel like you're still processing something grievous and so lovely, it's like a dream where your cat died in the swamps of sadness in the neverending story and you have to just trudge along thinking your stupid little thoughts and fearing forgetting things to The Nothing. all combined with the knowledge that you'd never write anything half as good, and that your stupid little brain will hear this album again in 2 years, and it will feel like a new album bc you were too stupid or at least not in the headspace or life-stage to REALLY get it before.
maybe I'm just young w not enough sticky life experience and regret to glue her impact onto myself (right at the cusp where music is going to start not being as good as it used to be, according to your calculations), or maybe I'm suffering brain damage from law school (thank God I'm graduated, 10/10 do not recommend; will now, according to theme of this album, *regret* forcing my education/prospects-of-career-stability/qualifications-to-do-stuff-I-don't-like-doing down my throat for eternity-- should have gone to graduate school to become a literature professor specializing in russian literature as the fates intended) but Mitski really just feels like depression's well of forgetfulness and the bright mania that comes through the numbness whenever a lyric pokes you in the nipple and makes you giggle. AVAA.
Looking forward to seeing your review of the recent two LP double album project by The National (Frankenstein and The Laugh Track).
love the mime shirt. avaa
I love how you talk about music so much. So much analysis’s on youtube now are just trying to figure it out, instead of saying how it made you feel. Its cliche to say but im Surprised you dont have more subs LOL
AVAA! The album has a ton of Ennio Morricone and Scott Walker influence which makes sense why I love it so much. Laurel Hell felt mildly underwhelming to me but this new album is some of Mitski's best work.
AVAA! I hope you were able to reconnect with your old friend.
YESSSSS🎉🎉
AVAA Beautiful review and loved your spiel about homoeroticism, totally relate and it made me ROFLMAO !! 😹 been your subscriber for a few years now. Cheers Skye
please review smile from the streets you hold c:
The Frost is the best song, I've never heard such a raw description of loneliness
Opposite of neophyte : Expert, professional
AVAA cracking beard game prof
Day 178 of Asking you to Review Achilles Come Down by Gang of Youth
A rare fan of the early Willie Nelson. Awesomeness.
"family" scares me everytimes and I kinda like idk
AVAA!!!!!
Please, review the new Earl album! Voir Dire
Have you listened to Orville Peck yet? You should listen to Orville Peck. Amazing queer country stuff.
please someone tell me what avaa means
maybe protophyte
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i want yer shirt
If you've been a fan of Neko Case for a while does that mean your a fan of The New Pornographers? How do you feel about that band?
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acolyte ???????
No more VU & Nico 😢
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AVAA. I think this album and Laurel Hell are conversation pieces, that being Laurel Hell really informing the direction this album takes. Feels like a direct continuation of it. As for Puberty 2 being her best, I disagree. Gotta be either Be The Cowboy or Laurel Hell.
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