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Mitski
American singer-songwriter (born 1990)
Mitski Miyawaki, known professionally as Mitski, is an American musician and singer-songwriter. She self-released her first two albums, Lush (2012), and Retired from Sad, New Career in Business (2013), while studying composition at Purchase College's Conservatory of Music.
Her third studio album, Bury Me at Makeout Creek, was released in 2014 on the label Double Double Whammy.
Mitsuki Laycock was born on September 27, 1990, in Mie Prefecture, Japan, to a Japanese mother and White American father. She has a younger sister. Mitski's mother, wanting her daughter to be born a Japanese citizen, flew while pregnant from the Democratic Republic of the Congo to Japan so Mitski would be born there, nearly giving birth mid-flight. She learned Japanese as her first language, and later adopted her mother's last name, Miyawaki.
Critics have primarily described Mitski's music as indie rock and art pop. Her first two albums were orchestrally driven while Bury Me At Makeout Creek and Puberty 2 heavily featured guitar centered punk rock music. Be the Cowboy and Laurel Hell were pop albums that utilized electronic instruments. E. Alex Jung described her as "an artist whose music feels like being ushered into a private opera house of melodrama" with lyrics full of "roiling fury, destructive impulses, humiliation, longing, heartache, and hunger". Angie Martoccio of Rolling Stone described her earlier albums as a "wry running commentary on twentysomething angst, raw desire, and often unrequited love". Lucy Dacus, a singer-songwriter who has at times opened for Mitski,...
"My Love Mine All Mine" is a song by American singer-songwriter Mitski. It was released as the third single from her seventh studio album The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We on September 15, 2023.
The song features country-influenced piano and pedal steel guitar, while its lyrics depict Mitski requesting the Moon to take her love when she dies and shine it back down to Earth.
Release and composition
"My Love Mine All Mine" originally appeared as the seventh song on Mitski's seventh studio album, The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We, which was released through Dead Oceans on September 15, 2023. Mitski had previously been widely known among music critics and in indie music circles before her 2018 single "Nobody" went viral on TikTok in 2020 and she subsequently found mainstream commercial success with the release of her sixth studio album, Laurel Hell (2022). Mitski did very little promotion for The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We or "My Love Mine All Mine" outside of a video explaining the latter's lyrics for Genius. Upon the release of the album, "My Love Mine All Mine" found success on TikTok, where it soundtracked more than 300...
Music video
The music video for "My Love Mine All Mine" was directed by A.G. Rojas and released simultaneously with The Land is Inhospitable and So Are We. It features Mitski stacking dining chairs on top of each other to create a tower. Before climbing to the top of the tower, she places an egg beneath one of the legs of the bottom chair. Upon reaching the top of the tower, she sits on the chair sculpture, puts her hand over her eye to mimic looking through a spyglass and sees a sunset over an ocean. Danielle Chelosky of Uproxx described the video as "eerie" and wrote that it "conveys the subtle poignance of the sprawling song".
Critical reception
"My Love Mine All Mine" was widely praised by music critics, several of whom deemed it a standout track of The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We, including Christopher J. Lee of PopMatters, who called Mitski's vocals on the song "gorgeous". Crack's Lauren O'Neill called it "the album's sweet, tender highlight", while Mia Hughes of NME wrote that it was "the album's most stunning track" and "a gorgeous slow-dance". For The Skinny, Rho Chung called "My Love Mine All Mine" the "fulcrum" of The Land is Inhospitable and So Are We, describing the song's lyrics as "always genuine, never cloying" and delivered with a "gentle, honest cadence". Alex Hooper of American Songwriter similarly wrote that the song "gets down to the core of the record"...
Covers and live performances
In 2023, Mitski performed the song during her international tour of intimate venues for The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We, where it was backed only by an acoustic guitar and a double bass. She gave an acoustic performance of "My Love Mine All Mine" for SiriusXMU in October 2023 with the same instrumental accompaniment.
"Washing Machine Heart" is a song by American singer Mitski, released in 2018 on her album Be the Cowboy. Although not released as a single, it is one of her most famous songs.
The song peaked at number 93 on the Irish Singles Chart as well as number 26 on the UK Indie charts. The A.V.
Background
AllMusic critic Marcy Donelson wrote, "stomping, clapping, and relentless keyboard bleeps permeate the brutal, danceable 'Washing Machine Heart', evoking the appliance as well as the wife's frustration ('I'm not wearing my usual lipstick/I thought maybe we would kiss tonight')."
Music video
A black and white music video for the song was released on November 1, 2018, directed by Zia Anger. Mitski credited Tidal with giving her the chance to make the video, and noted that the creative team was made up of her frequent collaborators. Anger also directed the music videos for Mitski's songs "Your Best American Girl" and "Geyser". Spin writer Maggie Serota said that in the video, "Mitski is lit and styled like a femme fatale from an old noir film, while her lyrics plead for a kiss, likely from the shirtless man lurking in the shadows." Consequence wrote that the music video is "a haunting accompaniment to Mitski' lilting run-on vocals, punctuated by catchy, bleepy synths in one of the stunning album’s most infectious earworms."
"Nobody" is a song by American singer Mitski, released in 2018 as the second single from her fifth studio album, Be the Cowboy. The song was lauded upon its release, with praise going toward's Mitski's lyricism and vocal performance, as well as the production.
Background and composition
"Nobody" was the second single released from Mitski's 2018 album, Be the Cowboy. She told The New Yorker in 2019 that she wrote the song in Kuala Lumpur on a toy piano that she bought from Toys "R" Us during Christmas time.
Music video
A music video for the song was released on the same day as the single, directed by Christopher Good. About the music video, Mitski said "We shot this video over five days, in both sides of Kansas City. I've never been able to take this much time to shoot a video, so it was wonderful to have the space to get the details right, as well as actually hang out and have fun with everyone involved. This video made me fall unexpectedly in love with Kansas City." She also said "It was actually hard to get this one little shot where the magnifying glass goes directly in front of my eye, because in one swift motion I had to raise the magnifying glass at exactly the right angle where the camera catches my blurry eye right behind it. We did a lot of the...
Reception
Pitchfork wrote, "despite the melancholy piano chords and simmering four-on-the-floor beat, Mitski embodies her album title: She sounds like a wallflower joining the aching, lonesome tradition of sad cowboys like Hank Williams. Her lyrics are raw and essential, the same mix of vulnerability and strength that made songs like 2014's 'I Don't Smoke' feel like emotional armor, and instantly classic."
