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Credits:
Starring Mitski, B Gosse and Jaclyn Chu
Director: Maegan Houang (@houangm)
Producer: John Lozada
Director of Photographer: Christopher Ripley
Production Designer: Terry Watson
Choreographer: Jas Lin
Co-Producer: Po-wei Su
1st AD: Ted Keffer
2nd AD: Chelsea Tummolo
Stunt Choreographer: Kimberly Frutoz
Costume Designer: Sajida Silva
Hair/Makeup: Moung āKellyā Park
Mask Designer: Ashley Eva Brock
Costume Asst: Marco Munoz
Hair/Makeup Asst: Hanwool Choi
Gaffer: Genevieve Evans
Key Grip: Mohamed Samra
BBG: Benjamin Champagne
Best Boy: Miguel Fernandez
1st AC: Felipe Larrondo
2nd AC: Darrell Ham
Covid Compliance Officer: Elena Rojas
Art Director: Jay Dizon
Lead Set Dresser: Marian Nusser
Set Dresser: Li-wei Chu, Nhan Le, Xingxi Wang
Propmaster: Alison Klein
Lead Man: Angel de la Rosa
Construction Lead: Vincent Quintana
āSweetieā Puppet Designer: Eric Fox
Puppeteer/Art Asst: Amelia Roesner
Editor Gus Spelman
Colorist: Andrew Francis
Assistant Editor: Daniel Witkin
Flame Artist: Tim Hendrix
VFX Artist: Matthew Wauhkonen
Sound Design: Grant Meuers
Set PA: Viacheslav āSlavaā Makaraov
BTS Photographer: Jeni Magana
Special Thanks: Henry Kaplan, Joanna Nguyen, Daniel Kwan, Penelope Essoyan, Devin
Conroy, Anna Gustafson & Craig Harmer, Kodak
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Lyrics:
Fury, pure and silver
You grip it tight inside
Like a knife
It glints in your eye
Itās why Iāve arrived, your sex god
Here to take you where
You need to go
To where the dark remembers you
Open up your heart
Like the gates of Hell
You stay soft, get beaten
Only natural to harden up
You stay soft, get eaten
Only natural to harden up
I am face down on my bed
Still not quite awake yet
Thinking of you ā
I tuck my hand under my weight
Just tell me what you want to do
Tell me what you want
To burn away
āCause I could be your stoker
Open up your heart
Like the gates of Hell
You stay soft, get beaten
Only natural to harden up
You stay soft, get eaten
Only natural to harden up
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Mitski - Stay Soft (Official Video)
#Mitski #StaySoft #LaurelHell
Views : 3,453,708
Genre: Music
Date of upload: Premiered Feb 3, 2022 ^^
Rating : 4.98 (780/158,529 LTDR)
RYD date created : 2022-04-09T19:16:05.213777Z
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YouTube Comments - 4,765 Comments
Top Comments of this video!! :3
Mitski, I apologize for all the nasties that gave you shit over you wanting to fully connect to your audience. You got me through really bad times and Iād be lucky to watch you perform and bathe in the moment together
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i think this song is an incredibly fucking complex deconstruction of how objectification and violence can shape a woman's relationship with sex. "stay soft" i think refers to wanting to stay away from it, to stay "innocent". but even THAT doesn't work, because there is always someone who will fetishize you even more for it- along with societal shame to get over it, reframing this mistreatment as just a part of growing up.
so instead of going at their own pace and comfort, many women feel pushed to sexualize themselves as a way of reclaimation and "empowerment". so trying to explore make sense of what YOU want, outside of what others tell you to like or put up with, can feel terrifying ("open up your heart, like the gates of hell"). and, like others pointed out, can lead to trauma responses like hypersexuality.
this has many more layers to it, with Mitski being a Japanese American woman in a society that both fetishizes and shames her for it. as ppl pointed out with the blonde/blue eyed demons, who watch her from afar before attackinh and forcing her to perform with them
maybe i'm wrong lol, but this hits harder than any other media i've seen that covers these same themes.
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I love this song, to me it's like she's saying that you are born soft but people beat you up and take advantage of you so you get harder. Opening your heart is like being vulnerable and it's hell. And at the end when she kills it's like she finally snapped and is tired of being used. I'm crying I love this so much.
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I am 45 years old. My daughter introduced me to this artist last year. Great fan of mitskiās work, very talented. Happy to see her continue her artistry.
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There is no language to express what Mitski's music makes me feel. It's almost like my brain melts with pleasure and comes out with my tears in a best way possible
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"You stay soft, you get beaten/ it's only natural to harden up" damn mitski. I think it refers to the feeling of being quite young and longing to be vulnerable and sensitive without being in danger, and when you do try to do that end up getting manipulated or abused, both physically and emotionally. As a result you find yourself in this cycle of wanting to be vulnerable but every time you are something else happens and you have to built up yet another wall, or even another circle, like the 9 circles of hell. ("Open up your heart like the gates of hell") And overall this song has so many references to other mitski songs, especially with her cutting her hand and her lyrics in 'Real men' and 'Me and my husband' where she finds herself in abusive situations yet wants to gain the validation of both herself and the abuser:(
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the bass in the second chorus has the effect of making the piano sound far more aggressive and louder it's very addicting to listen to
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That part when she's being dragged on the floor is such a great marrying of simple camera movement and creative choreography! Love it!
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my interpretation of this song is this: the plant is a reference to audrey 2 in little shop of horrors who is a plant that feeds off humans. mitski gives all her love to this thing that is hurting her as a child. this makes her feel vulnerable. these monsters are white and have the feautures she has said that she always wanted(blue eyes and blonde hair like she mentions in other songs) they take advantage of her by stripping her clothes and sexualizing her. she finally kills them and this feeds her self harm more which leads to her feeding them to her plant. as a assualt survivor this speak strongly to me wanting to sexualize yourself which further feeds your self harm. and the need and release you think will happen if you did kill your assaulter.
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This song hits hard for me.
I'm 16 year-old queer teen and lost my virginity to a guy years older than me, and at first, the thought of sexual intercourse, made me agitated, excited and curious, so I said yes.
It wasn't a good experience, rather it was traumatizing for me. I was overstimulated. It felt so painful and uneasy, yer all he said is that it's okay and it's normal. After that, I was like a blank paper, just staring at the wall, with regrets why did I even said yes.
But with all that, I need to toughen up and pave the way for everyday, I'm just ashamed that I gave myself to a person who never really cared about me. I felt like I have to stay soft. That I have to act the way the society wants me to be, disregarding the conditions I've experienced.
It was so dehumanizing and it felt like it will take me a very long time to regain self-worth again.
I hope this will be a lesson for all of us.
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u can really see mitskis degree in videography when u watch her music videos. she had originally gone to school to study videography but instead chose to change her major to music. love that she did but i cant get over how amazing her videos are
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mitski always gives a performance like it's the due date, she's so real and insane
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thank god mitski invented music
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i love this song so much and i donāt think iāll ever be tired of it. the lyrics themselves have so many meanings while the music video adds an entirely new context. the lyrics describe what itās like to be sexualized in society despite pressure to stay innocent, but combined with the music video, we see that it involves the fact that Mitski is Japenese and how that has effected her relationship with sex. itās very common for asian women to either act very timid and be the victim of the story in movies, which is why she is feeding her plants her blood in the beginning and being the innocent caregiver, but when the blonde/blue eyed āamericansā capture her and tear off her clothes, itās like they got tired of her just being an innocent little victim and wanted her sexually as well, despite her trying to please herself earlier (āi am facedown on my bedā¦ā) and being dragged away as punishment for being independent. eventually she kills the monsters and tries to go back to being innocent (feeding the plants blood again at the end) but sheās too far gone, sheās not a victim anymore. there are so many layers to this mitski is a genius the end. i hope i explained this right lol
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My interpretation of this video (I have yet to really read through the lyrics) is that Mitski had let herself be "soft", and had been vulnerable in her kindness to the plant (she is seen cutting herself happily in order to keep the plant fed, which could be seen as altruism to the point of self-destruction), which represents just one entity out of a whole garden of those who would take advantage of her kindness, and use it to harm her. I think her realization is that she can't protect herself from people who would take advantage of her and still stay soft. In the end, I think she was feeding bits of the masked people of the garden to the flower as if offering it a taste of its own medicine perhaps.
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that look toward the camera at the end- caught in a moment of defiance; against what is expected of her, what has been demanded, not just defending herself and refusing to be beaten, but violently lashing out in retaliation. my understanding of her look is her asking the audience "what did you expect?" She shows us she will not make herself small anymore, she will lie down and take it no longer. Fuck i love this video
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Mitski is a master of showing how painful and hard growing up actually is. "You stay soft, you get beaten / Only natural to harden up" she is talking about how now we are just to scared to open up after heartbreak, so we just try to build new relationships under the image of someone who's detached and distant even though we care a lot and just want someone who cares just as much.
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1:00 I dunno why but my favourite part of the song is the dissonant chord smash that happens here, and the lyric "open up your heart like the gates of hell".
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Fury, pure and silver
You grip it tight inside
Like a knife
It glints in your eye
It's why I've arrived, your sex god
Here to take you where
You need to go
To where the dark remembers you
Open up your heart
Like the gates of hell
You stay soft, get beaten
Only natural to harden up
You stay soft, get eaten
Only natural to harden up
I am face down on my bed
Still not quite awake yet
Thinking of you
I tuck my hand under my weight
Just tell me what you want to do
Tell me what you want
To burn away
'Cause I could be your stoker
Open up your heart
Like the gates of hell
You stay soft, get beaten
Only natural to harden up
You stay soft, get eaten
Only natural to harden up
You stay soft, get beaten
Only natural to harden up
You stay soft, get eaten
Only natural to harden up
1K |
@Nebulia
2 years ago
the last scene was by far my favourite, mitski is life
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