TIME STAMPS: 1:28 Liquid Smooth 8:04 Eric 15:13 Brand New City 17:44 Real Men 22:22 Wife 26:53 Abbey 31:44 Bag of Bones 38:01 Door 41:43 Pearl Diver FAVES: Liquid Smooth, Eric, Wife, Abbey, Pearl Diver.... tbh it was really hard to pick faves as I pretty much love the whole album besides BNC. SUBSCRIBE FOR MORE CONTENT :)

@maricelvelasco7242

2 жыл бұрын

What are ur favs though

@sherthetruth

2 жыл бұрын

@@maricelvelasco7242 added lol :)

@JesusGomez-ob2qt

2 жыл бұрын

Could you do her next album, retired from sad new career in business? It'd really underapppreciated but I feel her lyrics are at her best in that album. She has matured to a different level of poetry that she hasn't achieved in her other projects. I feel it's similar to Lana del reys honeymoon in the sense that it's really good but extremely underappreciated due to the songs being understated and not "in your face" to focus more on the songwriting

@ScutoidStudios

Жыл бұрын

By the way, you should definitely be listening to these with headphones. whole new experience.

@anotherdepressedmusician

Жыл бұрын

@@ScutoidStudios THIS!!! you aren't able to truly experience songs like eric and bag of bones w/o using headphones. they hit SO much harder with them.

"why she coming for my personal life" the mitski mood

(warning for discussion of rape) i'm sure many have said this already, but bag of bones is the first song mitski has ever written (at 17, no less!! just how) and i think that helps us understand the lyrical content better too-- particularly the line "i can take a little bit more/ let's shake this poet out of the beast". in an article that she wrote for the miscreant, she said "when i lost my virginity to rape by a drug dealer, i didn't become afraid-- i became his girlfriend. when i left school for a year after 10th grade and worked as a waitress, i lied about my age, stole groceries and clothes for that whole year, and overall broke many laws and got caught several times, but it never made me afraid. i am not glorifying any of this, in fact it's all very sad, because now that i am afraid of all of the above, i realize it's because i finally have things i care about, including myself, that i fear of hurting or losing". so yeah, i think ur interpretation of self-destruction as an intentional tool of/for creativity was right on point with that in mind. & i noticed a recurring theme of self-objectification throughout the album-- of both the sensual & existential kind. of course there's the more sexual types of self-objectification, especially with regards to male validation, in real men ("though honestly sir all i wanna do is get naked in front of you/ so you can look me up and down and tell me well done girl you're doing good"; "little boys hold me, color me, praise me"), but she also constantly compares her body to vortexes/ voids/ bags ("there is a door to me"; "i'm carrying my bag of bones"; "river rushing through my veins" and thus potentially "pearl diver, dive dive deeper" too) & gives herself-- especially her body-- slightly inhumane, definitely detached descriptions, & sometimes even treat it as a commodity ("biology, i am an organism, i'm chemical/ that's all, that is all"; "i'll sell, i'll sell my heart to you/ what's my, what's my, what's my price"), or something she does not own ("if i am not yours then what am i?"). i migggght be projecting a little bit, but as someone who experiences depersonalization, i kinda zeroed in on this constant introspection of the body as separate from the self. also!! there are so many parallels to be drawn between her discography but personally, the (probably intentional) comparison of door (from her debut) to everyone (from laurel hell, and according to some her last lp) drives me insane. especially "there is a door to me/ i've never seen it/ sometimes i get closer to it/ but i've never found it" + "i couldn't move underneath the dark but at least i finally found it/ it cried out a creak & opened to show me what's beyond it/ a hopeless violence: i named it love" versus "and i left the door open to the dark/ i said 'come in, come in, whatever you are'/ but it didn't want me yet".

@dominospikza

Жыл бұрын

this comment gave me goosebumps, seriously. very very well said

@moonly9722

Жыл бұрын

beautifully described thank you

@davidpatterson2925

Жыл бұрын

Wow. I’ve never heard someone convey those feelings so well. Mitski is so deep but something tells me she hasn’t even scratched the surface.

@bestbi3587

8 ай бұрын

i love you ⬆️

@acceptedsugar

2 ай бұрын

OMG I THOUGHT I WAS THE ONLY ONE THAT CONNECTED DOOR AND EVERYONE

this album, even tho the first of hers, is so raw and showcase emotions in such an unique way, i REAAAALLLYYY love it

@bellasmith3067

2 жыл бұрын

Absolute fav album is so unique

Fun fact, bag of bones was the first song Mitski ever wrote, she was 17 at the time the first draft of the song was created

@anastasia-ec4oi

2 жыл бұрын

no. way. bag of bones is my favorite

@greentea5095

2 жыл бұрын

17!?? Holy shit

@loudmoons

Жыл бұрын

she wrote Crack Baby at age 16!

‘I cannot bear you a son, but I will try. for if I am not yours, what am I?’ WOOF WOOF WOOF WOOF

Brand New City is one of my favorite Mitski songs ever!! I know it’s not your style but it’s definitely mine and it’s such a great song to sing along to!

@Sugaryi_deer

2 ай бұрын

Yes!

(warning for overdose mention) I think for me Brand New City is my favorite. My interpretation of it is during the repetition of "Honey what'd you take?" she's talking to someone who has either taken a hard drug or is overdosing. I get the overdosing from when she says "Honey look at me tell me what you took, what'd you take?" because you are scared to lose this person so you have to keep them looking at you. I agree the highlight of the song is the bridge. "If I gave up on being pretty I wouldn't know how to be alive" To me, I take this on a really personal level so it might be biased. I feel as if she's saying without feeling pretty and/or being told she's pretty she feels like she's a no-one. For me, I take it on a level of my identity. Lots of people will ask why someone who wants to appear androgynous dresses so feminine. Yet sometimes you just feel so much prettier in feminine things and/or just feel more comfortable doing that. So it's like if you don't feel pretty it makes you begin to feel like you weren't ever there, to begin with. That's just my interpretation of it because I tend to search for things I relate to. I also love the line after, "I should move to a brand new city and teach myself how to die". I feel like if you've ever dealt with depression sometimes you can relate to that line. I know I could for sure. This is all just my view! I love hearing yours! I think you also might love Superache by Conan Gray! If it sounds like something you would do I would love to watch your review and thoughts on it :)

eric is so special to me. something about the noises are so mysterious and it makes me want to scream, in the best possible way

@fishiefish2249

Жыл бұрын

ITS SO SCARY BUT IN A COMFORTING WAY YK. ITS LIKE WAITING FOR DEATH LIKE A TIMER AND IT KINDA FEELS LIKE FINDING COMFORT IN THE WAY YOU KNOW SOMETHING BAD IS GOING TO HAPPEN BUT YOURE OKAY WITH IT AND YOU WANT THE BAD THING TO HAPPEN JUST BECAUSE ITS FAMILIAR AND ITS ROUTINE

@graysonhubbard3979

Жыл бұрын

@@fishiefish2249 i love this explanation so much. i would describe the song sort of as vintage death. if that makes sense

@fishiefish2249

Жыл бұрын

@@graysonhubbard3979 yes!!!! :D

Lush is my favorite album by Mitski, mostly because this was her first album. She didn’t have expectations coming up to and nobody knew who she was really beforehand, this is just a raw emotion and feelings. This is her reaching out to the public so she can get a Fanbase. This is why I love lush, it’s the most underrated album she has put out and at the same time it is the most impactful and beautiful album she has ever written. Sounds like liquid smooth, brand-new city, and Eric just exude this idea of wanting and loneliness and feeling in touch with your body and how it affects you and other people. It’s just a beautiful album. As a longtime viewer I am so happy you finally reviewed this album. I would also recommend that you go into Hoziers album “hozier” That album it’s just pure poetry! Thank you for doing what you do ! You are one of my favorite KZread channels !!! 💜

i interpret real men as if she is talking about how men do all these things and get praised for it, get recognition and everyone cheers them, but then, a woman has to do the exact same things (thats why she says i am a real men) but nobody aknowledges their achivements, so women have to find the praise in other things, like appealing the male gaze or looking for male validation

@sherthetruth

2 жыл бұрын

thats so true... great interpretation. thanks for sharing!

My own personal interpretation of "Wife" is kind of the identity of women determined by their relationship to men. She wants to "bare a son", her home is the man etc. And it's called "Wife" just a role of women in society, not personal or even mentioned in the song. But that's just a quick explanation I have for it on the top of my head. Love the video tho as always 💕

the fact that she made this album when she was in uni is crazy

I feel like Abbey is kind of a part 1 to Crack Baby like how she's unsure of what to do and was born waiting for a purpose but she knows its there and she needs to search for it just like how crack baby depicts a wanting for a feeling you haven't experienced in a long time

@windowcleaner7629

2 жыл бұрын

i really like this way of think about the songs thank you for sharing!!

@Eatthispuzzee

4 ай бұрын

yess

bag of bones is probably one of the best written songs to exist……

Now you HAVE to do Retired from Sad, New Career in Business! It has a lot of similar imageries with a more constructed sound, and tons of metaphors to pick apart. She really excels in the storytelling in Retired from Sad, and it has a similar dark, brooding energy to Lush. It also just has some really banger songs, as well as possibly the saddest song ever (Class of 2013😭😭) I think you’d really enjoy this album as well :)

@1MitskiStann

Жыл бұрын

YEAAHHHH

@1MitskiStann

Жыл бұрын

Is my favorite álbum

@idontsm0ke

Жыл бұрын

Retired from sad is such a underrated album fr

i think that in Real Men, mitski is saying as men pursue stereotypical traits of masculinity, they end up little boys. Conversely, as women are forced into social constructions of femininity they end up achieving ideal emotional manhood. “real men don’t eat cause they’re above that… i’m gonna be a real man” She finds herself not eating in order to conform to feminine beauty standards. thats what i got anyway

THE WAY YOU FREAKED OUT ABOUT ERIC IS SO TRUE. I LVOE ERIC SOOOO MUCH ITS MY FAVORITE MITSKI SOOONG

She wrote bag of bones at 17 y/o, insane

@kalifiedmk6

2 жыл бұрын

she also wrote crack baby at 17 it’s crazy how good these songs are

@lgtg9268

2 жыл бұрын

@@kalifiedmk6 actually insane, a true prodigy

I love how in pearl diver, the music starts and ends with the same line "treasure hunter you are dead, the light of the world is fading" because she knew since the beginning that the treasure hunter would fail

love love love this kind of content. just a person with a camera sharing something they're passionate about.

I think the part where she says "But your skin, did you notice your skin it cries a soft weep like mine" can be a reference to how her partner has been in her position before, it makes me think about how maybe this said person used Mitski as an outlet for their pent up emotions. Maybe Mitski and this person have been in similar situations before yet they express their trauma in completely different ways. Hence the similarities in their skin. This is just my take on it!

although i prefer retired from sad over this album, i still think lush is very much stunning and absolutely impressive as a debut.

i LOVE this album so much. so many ppl i’ve shared this album with have hated it or just thought it was boring but it’s so beautiful and very very well written. i love it

BEEN WAITING FOR THIS FOR AGES NOW

@yassinelbadrawy2269

2 жыл бұрын

SLAY SHER MY LOVE

I’m actually doing a presentation on the title ‘how is love presented in poem x” for my year 11 exam and I chose liquid smooth as the poem I wanted to study. Just wanted to say this video was really helpful so thankyou :)

Ugh cannot wait for you to react to Retired from… it’s my favorite Mitski album!!

I AM DREAMING RIGHT NOW OH MY GODDD IVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS FOR MONTHS. havent even watched the video but i know you’ll love this album !! LOVE U GIRL❤️❤️❤️

Funfact this debut album along with the one after this, Is a college project !!!

YESSS!! HYPED to hear and see your reaction

The person performing after her 😮

THANK YOU SO MUCH!! seeing this made me so happy

So glad ur reacting to more of mitski!!!

YESSS IVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS !!

I’ve been so excited for this video!!

I LOVE this i knew you were going to love lush and watching this feels as if i’m hearing it for the first time again

im so excited to see u react to her other albums! i love ur commentary on her ^_^

YES PLEASE I LOVE LUSH THIS WAS SUCH A GREAT ALBUM AHDHHGAHAJDKKAVAJZKS THANK YOU 🙏 edit: liquid smooth is about how society deems women in their early to mid twenties beautiful, and her saying "i'm ripe, about to fall" is her way of saying she's scared of not being desired (?) not sure if that's the right word anyways love your videos❤️

so glad u decided to film this reaction for us!!! & right after the new regina video omg we’re really getting fed 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻💖💖💖

I’m so happy I found this reaction! It’s exactly the kind of review I’ve been looking for!! Thank you sm for appreciating this beautiful album~~

HELL YES!!!

I literally love your mitsi reactions You seem such a true person

YES YES YES

I might be way off, but I consider this album to be like a perspective of mitski's journey of self-love. I believe the love she's talking about in the song door is self-love. this album is heavily influenced with mitski's interactions with men, sexual experiences, and even human existence. But I believe those are usually the topics that people think about when trying to fall in love with them self either for the first time or trying to fall in love with themselves again. I think the themes of searching and self-destruction relates to her trying to find that self-love or even running away for it not wanting it. and with the history of this album and all the things she went through to write bag of bones (tw... rape), how she stayed with her assaulter (a horrible man) and lived a year of just breaking the laws it makes sense that at the end of it she starts to both question what self-love is and search for it again. and the fact this was school project is insane. this is not my favorite album of hers, but it is one of her albums that hits so deeply for me. I would also like to add I think in the song wife she says she cannot bear a son is relating to the theme of patriarchy (which is just so loud in this album) and it reminded me how in the old times they wanted the women to always bear a son never a daughter and that's kind of all that a women's life might. This might be a reach, but I believe that pearl diver is from the perspective of her personification of herself love kind of telling her what to do. to love yourself you must dive deep into yourself. The lines treasure hunter you are dead the light of the world is fading is kind of warning for mitski saying if she continues the way she has been acting towards herself she will in a way die and her world will die with her. or even you can take those lines like that she has given up loving herself (the treasure she searches for is self-love and she has kind of killed herself off so now her chance of living a good life is slipping through her fingertips.

Liquid smooth was one of my most favorite songs! because it was so relatable and all her songs just perfectly describe how I feel. I also do like her album retired from sad and would like to know what you think of that album!

do you ever think you could start reacting to music videos too? mitski has so many good videos that really add layers to her lyrics and songs, i’d love to see how you interpret them after seeing mitskis visual representations

@sherthetruth

2 жыл бұрын

maybe! good suggestion. Its hard to not get blocked so Ill have to edit it differently and not show much/

@westcoast2114

2 жыл бұрын

@@sherthetruth you can show the music vids with the opacity lowered to 50-60%, i am sure the vids wont get blocked

I was waiting for this! Thank you so much! I love watching your Mitski reactions, they're always so interesting and engaging 🥰

@sherthetruth

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you. Glad you enjoyed!

omg yes!!! i ve been waiting for your reaction on this album, loved the vid!!

OMG YES THANK YOU

so excited for this one!!! my fav mitski album always

Knowing how Mitski likes to personify things in her music, I wonder if wife is a metaphor about creation. Maybe even music itself. I can't give you what you want but I'll try, because if I'm not loved by people for my music, what am I loved for

"this gotta be tge best guy ever, i aint got time to cry today" so real

YOU’RE SO REAL FOR THAT REACTION TO ERIC OMG

FINALLY I was waiting to Lush 🙌🙌

i eat up all of mitskis lyrics theyre so relatable and i could name all of them that keep me in a chokehold

omg yay I was waiting for this one!! I think you’ll really enjoy retired from sad new career in business!!!

omg this is my favourite mitski album ! there was a time where all i would listen to was eric, bag of bones and wife ( my top 3 ). so glad i found this reaction.

my favorite mitski album!! so underrated

finally!!!!!

great interpretation! also you look really stunning :)

I just remembered your mitski stuff and you come out with another one!!??

Fun fact I wrote a hole essay for school about this album and I got an A 😊

i LOVE this reaction

only one more album and then the poet reacting to mitski trilogy is over for a bit 🥲

@1MitskiStann

Жыл бұрын

But Mitski have 6 albums

Brand New City is a nice song but I always thought the "But if I gave up on being pretty, I wouldn't know how to be alive/I should move to a brand new city and teach myself how to die" was too killer a line to belong to it lol

YESSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!

got 5sec in and already had goosebumps

my girl you need to react to Melodrama, it’s a masterpiece!! Can’t believe you’ve never reacted to liability…

MY FAV ALBUM

I think in real men she’s talking about what it would be like if the roles were reversed using all the things men think women shouldn’t do/say etc. I really love her perspective on the message and how she portrays it in the song

@anastasia-ec4oi

2 жыл бұрын

i saw someone say real men = women little boys = men which really changed my view on this song cause it makes so much sense. especially the “i think im a real man” and the “im gonna be a real men” at first i thought it was about toxic masculinity cause i took the real “men” literally but after this i did figure it’s about misogyny. love this song so so much.

@Ay-2077

2 жыл бұрын

I think it is more about the way in which men suffer for not meeting the standards of men imposed by society, strong, manly, etc. and that the song is from the perspective of a man who does not meet these standards...

@fishiefish2249

Жыл бұрын

@@Ay-2077 I think it’s more the case that while chasing for traditional masculinity, men tend to become little boys instead, while in the chase for traditional femininity women reach traditional masculinity instead.

girl what do you mean, THIS IS GOSPEL MUSIC !!!

I love your videos you are so beautiful this is my favorite artist and album

‘blue light, dark room, the white of your teeth’ RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH I GO INSANE

I would recommend Froot by Marina as it's very similar to Liquid smooth

loved your reaction on this one! i can’t wait for you to react to the album “Retired from sad, new career in business” by mitski!

I’m so excited to hear your thoughts on “Retired from sadness, new career in business” 😭

i really hope you to react to “retired from sad, new career in business” by mitski. the album gives me shivers

i think Real Men is just a criticism on the patriarchy as a whole. as we all know, the patriarchy typically works against women but it also isn’t a cakewalk for men either. the line “real men don’t flinch or bleed in public” probably references the idea that to be a “real man” in the eyes of the patriarchy, one should refrain from showing emotion or being “feminine” in any way. in this way, mitski satirizes the patriarchy and the way it affects women but also the way it affects men by causing them to grow up to be emotionally immature with a superiority complex, which affects women. this is why as the song goes on, she goes from talking about “little boys” to “real men” because they’re growing up and fulfilling their patriarchal role of seeing women as sexual objects. just my take though, it could be something totally different ! :D

it HITS when you listen to 'I want you' after listening to 'Door' 😭

@1MitskiStann

Жыл бұрын

ikr 😭

I would love for you to analyze sling by Clairo 👏

Wife destroyed me

I really hope you finish things off with Retired from sad

Hi Sher! It'd be great if you check out Lizzy McAlpine's Give Me a Minute album. It has great lyricss and mostly acoustic productions too

i'm requiring to react to "Retired from sad, new career in business"

great video! please react to retired from sad new carrer in business by mitski, it’s a 20min album and the lyricism is insanely good, i am sure you ll love it

Cant wait for retired from a sad new career in business, clas 2013 is probably her best song and its lyrics are sooo good, alo i want you

I am begging for you to listen to triple dog dare by Lucy dacus, it’s super dark and explores her sexuality and the lyrics are full of depth

“I ain’t got time to cry today”-then what are you doing-

please react to Carolina by Taylor

you definitely like quieter songs

I love the way that she paints hegemonic masculinity as detrimental to everyone in real men. “Real men” aren’t allowed to express emotions, and have to “suck it in” and bottle everything up. Satirically, she claims they “don’t eat ‘cause they’re above that, damn it,” and I think the parallel between not eating and not expressing emotions (both harmful to your mental and physical health) essentially means that in order to be a real man by society’s standards, you have to become inhuman, above basic human needs. Whereas little boys, perhaps on their way to becoming real men but younger and haven’t (yet) lost their emotional capacity, and are able to tell Mitski whatever it is that she wants to hear, and “make [her] feel lovely for a little while.” This ties into a theme of the album which is how women are taught that their value is completely dependent upon their appearance, fertility, and ability to be a worthy side character in the life of a man. I think her vocal delivery in these lines where she is requesting validation from men communicates frustration from the battle between self-awareness that it’s silly to need men to make you feel like you’ve been living correctly and still seeking it out anyway. It’s like she is just sick of it and she is completely over “real men” who think that they are doing her a favor by complimenting her body and physical appearance, whereas “little boys” are who she is seeking validation from because their love maybe feels more genuine but she is just incredibly angry that she is dependent on their validation despite knowing better.

RETIRED FROM SAD NEW CAREER IN BUSINESS ALBUM PLEASEE

ITS ALWAYS THE ERICS I SWEAR TO GOD

@moomwillyouwashmybackthiso4209

Жыл бұрын

Cartman 💔

As a fan of brand new city, i feel like you have a good understanding of it to really like it. I didn’t like it at first either but it REALLY grew on me e.

胸がはち切れそうで

third?