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

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  • Опубліковано 29 вер 2024
  • 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.

КОМЕНТАРІ • 106

  • @sophiebradshaw4157
    @sophiebradshaw4157 5 років тому +2025

    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
      @nompond 5 років тому +17

      Sophie Bradshaw fuck

    • @wren7574
      @wren7574 5 років тому +64

      Changes my whole view on this song

    • @gabrielledennis549
      @gabrielledennis549 4 роки тому +30

      I HONESTLY CAN’T-

    • @haobinversed
      @haobinversed 3 роки тому +36

      DO NOT MAKE ME CRY LIKE THAT-

    • @Someone-fn3ij
      @Someone-fn3ij 3 роки тому +16

      this information changed me ngl

  • @kmk130
    @kmk130 4 роки тому +86

    i love this drummer. what a king

  • @owenselwyn3154
    @owenselwyn3154 4 роки тому +1015

    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.

  • @katereynolds7137
    @katereynolds7137 5 років тому +570

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

  • @ROMELYMEISSA
    @ROMELYMEISSA 3 роки тому +502

    this song is holding my hand

    • @bonecag3
      @bonecag3 3 роки тому +13

      That’s the best way to describe this song

  • @kayla-uc5xr
    @kayla-uc5xr 2 роки тому +245

    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 2 роки тому +16

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

  • @didepp9466
    @didepp9466 6 років тому +232

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

  • @joshcavanagh8558
    @joshcavanagh8558 7 років тому +337

    The most beautifully aggressive mitski song

  • @fi4072
    @fi4072 3 роки тому +277

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

  • @cole6447
    @cole6447 3 роки тому +180

    AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH

  • @ana-yz4jl
    @ana-yz4jl 2 роки тому +41

    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.

  • @malmpardon9249
    @malmpardon9249 2 роки тому +41

    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

  • @seraph9351
    @seraph9351 2 роки тому +54

    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 2 роки тому +7

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

  • @Tipsy_Turby
    @Tipsy_Turby 8 місяців тому +29

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

  • @guyhanji3085
    @guyhanji3085 3 роки тому +79

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

  • @pictureparlour000mitski
    @pictureparlour000mitski 3 роки тому +79

    Stunning voice.
    The most advanced American songwriter.

  • @djork6518
    @djork6518 5 років тому +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 Рік тому +21

    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

  • @djork6518
    @djork6518 5 років тому +40

    also does anyone have the tab for the guitar riff?

    • @ceciliamarques7832
      @ceciliamarques7832 4 роки тому +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 3 роки тому +1

      @@ceciliamarques7832 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

  • @mimikacchan
    @mimikacchan 3 роки тому +22

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

  • @eviejoy_
    @eviejoy_ 3 роки тому +19

    and still i will live here

  • @cauanjo
    @cauanjo 3 роки тому +18

    me too mitski me too

  • @WelfareChrist
    @WelfareChrist 5 років тому +38

    Better than the studio version

  • @osiosis5632
    @osiosis5632 3 роки тому +11

    te amo mitski

  • @sitrakarandria9293
    @sitrakarandria9293 3 роки тому +11

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

  • @luminity2936
    @luminity2936 2 роки тому +10

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

  • @thehoseaeffect122
    @thehoseaeffect122 11 місяців тому +5

    I could feel every emotion in her tone ...

  • @nicochavez278
    @nicochavez278 2 роки тому +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

  • @all7son
    @all7son 3 роки тому +10

    god this song is so beautiful

  • @DiminishingLight
    @DiminishingLight Рік тому +4

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

  • @bazlamasalva8736
    @bazlamasalva8736 3 роки тому +7

    nothing can make me cry but this...

  • @mammon.3y
    @mammon.3y Місяць тому +2

    everyone moved on but im still here

  • @kyleybangers
    @kyleybangers 3 роки тому +6

    i literally have chills i love thsi song help

  • @tetertere341
    @tetertere341 3 роки тому +5

    I love you

  • @ximed6624
    @ximed6624 2 роки тому +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

  • @angelikit4515
    @angelikit4515 9 місяців тому +2

    best 2:47 minutes of my life

  • @Strwbrry_rat
    @Strwbrry_rat 6 місяців тому +2

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

  • @ameligotrizz
    @ameligotrizz 8 місяців тому +2

    i will forever be fully inlove with this song.

  • @andreanicole251
    @andreanicole251 2 роки тому +3

    por favor háganle un altar a esta mujer.

  • @akiraportor3684
    @akiraportor3684 2 роки тому +2

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

  • @icantsleepanymore2843
    @icantsleepanymore2843 2 роки тому +3

    I love this song more than I love myself

  • @M17K18KO
    @M17K18KO 26 днів тому

    her guitarist gives so much lesbian energy

  • @hi-co2pf
    @hi-co2pf Рік тому +1

    everything about this song and mitski is just so beautiful

  • @Kuaaakkmm
    @Kuaaakkmm 3 місяці тому +1

    Teamo Mitski

  • @rennnxs
    @rennnxs 5 місяців тому

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

  • @freestylescooter1360
    @freestylescooter1360 8 років тому +5

    Matt Skis.

  • @Aghostlivesher3
    @Aghostlivesher3 6 місяців тому

    Stay with me hold my hand

  • @bettermiyatwin
    @bettermiyatwin 10 місяців тому

    I love the guitar here so much...

  • @bradpittballbuddies
    @bradpittballbuddies 5 місяців тому

    Yas

  • @alishbamalik2868
    @alishbamalik2868 2 роки тому

    this made me cry like a child in the best way

  • @lukaslourd
    @lukaslourd 7 місяців тому

    ❤❤

  • @bermudessilva
    @bermudessilva Рік тому

    mitski is god

  • @hollielolliepop
    @hollielolliepop Рік тому

    love u

  • @arjitjere1559
    @arjitjere1559 2 роки тому

    So intense...

  • @laisnazareth8916
    @laisnazareth8916 2 роки тому

    lenda

  • @jaimelazcano9615
    @jaimelazcano9615 6 років тому +16

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

    • @SchizoMuch
      @SchizoMuch 5 років тому +61

      I think she's amazing. And her preformance in Drunk Walk Home makes it better than the studio version

    • @marissaburdock6550
      @marissaburdock6550 3 роки тому +3

      I kinda liked it

    • @vanlalruatfela4965
      @vanlalruatfela4965 3 роки тому +3

      I actually liked it

  • @swissmissinstantpiss8400
    @swissmissinstantpiss8400 Рік тому +1

    this song is genuinely so important to me