For nearly a decade, her intimate, intricate songcraft has earned a devoted cult following.
Now the rest of the world is catching up.
Mitski knows about your memes.
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(One user described the latter song, fondly, as “a calm panic attack.")
“I’m still unpacking it,” she admits of her success.
That has always been the goal….
Mitski’s ‘Laurel Hell’.
I mean, it’s too late now,” she adds with a laugh.
“I have no other skills.
My only resume is all the waitressing jobs that I did, oh, 10 years ago.
Mitski performing at Way Out West festival in Gothenburg, Sweden.Rune Hellestad - Corbis/Corbis via Getty Images
So this has to work out.”
“It was my way into a community.”
Who is this girl?'
And then I’d leave.
It would always be a fun little joke I played with myself."
It was also the first time Miyawaki had a chance to really choose her own home.
“I wouldn’t even get past the first round ofAmerican Idol.
I don’t have that sort of technique,” she says.
“It’s just about ‘Am I communicating a feeling?
Am I connecting with another person?’
That’s all that matters.”
Mitski’s latest album,Laurel Hell,is out Feb. 4.
