In true Mitski fashion, the Maegan Houang-directed clip is heavily choreographed and deeply disturbing
. “This album has been a punk record at some point, and a country record. Then, after a while, it was like, ‘I need to dance.’ Even though the lyrics might be depressing, I need something peppy to get me through this.”Allowing one’s sensitivity to become a weakness is something Mitski knows all too well. The singer explained tohow her recent absence from the music world was prompted by the emotional and psychological exhaustion of her career.
“When the world put me in this position, I didn’t realize that I was making this deal where in exchange for giving me this platform and attention, I was supposed to give myself,” she said. “In order for me to survive in the music industry as it exists, I had to stuff a pillow over my heart and tell it to stop screaming, and be like, ‘Shut up, shut up, take it,’ ” she said. “After a few years of doing that every single day, my heart really did start to go numb and go silent. And the problem with that is that I actually need my heart — my feelings — in order to write music. It was this paradox.
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