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Crack Baby · Mitski · Mitski
Puberty 2
℗ 2016 Dead Oceans
Released on: 2016-06-17
Main Artist: Mitski
Main Artist: Mitski
Producer: Patrick Hyland
Studio Personnel: Patrick Hyland
Composer: Mitski Miyawaki
Lyricist: Mitski Miyawaki
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Views : 6,128,289
Genre: Music
Date of upload: Jun 16, 2016 ^^
Rating : 4.947 (996/74,380 LTDR)
RYD date created : 2022-04-09T20:21:19.883004Z
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Top Comments of this video!! :3
This song hits different when you have trauma repressed so hard that you can't even remember it and everyone insists that "nothing happened" when you know something did
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When she starts singing about dem horses i ***transcend***
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You know when you’re not 100% sure about the meaning of the lyrics to a song, but some kind of turmoil inside you tells you that you are no stranger to that feeling? Like, I’m not even sure what Mitski meant with this song, but it just pokes something inside me that I can’t quite place what it is...
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She put it into words. Into music. Oh god I thought I was alone
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As someone who suffered a lot of emotional neglect as a child, this song hurts me. The primary verse of "Crack baby you don't know what you want but you know that you had it once and you know that you want it back" and "Crack baby you don't know what you want but you know that you needed it and you know that you need it bad" just perfectly reflects the feeling of not having felt love and care in so long, and the "You know that you had it once" just serves as a perfect reminder of that fact, reminding you how you were once loved and reminding you how much it hurts that you haven't felt that way in so long that you fail to even recognize it anymore. The second verse reflects the fact of knowing that you needed to be cared for and loved while growing up but you were rarely ever given such a gift. It hurts so badly, but you just have to live with the fact that it's something you can't change.
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it's so weird hearing ppl analyze this song when it isn't multiple metaphors but the whole song is a metaphor
the whole song is comparing this insatiable feel to a drug addicted baby and it's done so well
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Down the street sniffing glue me and you
Blank open eyes watch the moonflower
bloom
It's been a hard twenty-year summer
vacation
All these twenty years trying to fill the void
Chorus:
Crack baby you don't know what you want
But you know that you had it once
And you know that you want it back
Crack baby you don't know what you want
But you know that you're needing it
And you know that you need it bad
With wild horses running through your hollow bones
Wild horses running through your hollow bones
Went to your room thinking maybe you'll feel something
But all I saw was your burning body waiting
All these twenty years on a vacation
Crack baby you don't know what you want
But you know that you had it once
And you know that you want it back
Crack baby you don't know what you want
But you know that you're needing it
And you know that you need it bad
Crack baby you don't know what you want
But you know that you want it
Yeah you know that you want it
You know that you
Chorus 1x
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It's crazy to think that Mitski invented Crack Cocaine just for this song. Now that's devotion
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This song is such a study in lyrical genius to me. From like line 1, the use of sniffing glue, a poor person's drug, a desperate & self-destructive kind of drug. The use of "you know that you had it once", not only bringing up fucking yourself up so much your past self is unrecognizable (not unrelatable to me ^^) , but deflecting the popular unsympathetic image of an addict in poverty to contextualize this unknown need, as something personal, avoidable, tragic. Not a lack of capacity for happiness or humanity, not an inborn defect. It is so compassionate, both in writing & in Mitski's beautiful delivery.
The instrumentals, too. That theremin(?) starting at 4 seconds; a thrum like inexorable pressure deep in the body. In combination with the mention of night ("watch the moonflower bloom") it makes me think of an old fluorescent light buzzing, lost moths fluttering and starving around it.
The instrument at 1 minute 56 that sounds like a chill going through you, the lyrics about a burning body waiting, making me think of the cold/hot mix of a fever. Every part of this song fits perfectly together. It has this perfect poetry of instruments, lyrics & delivery which is so much more than the sum of its parts; I couldn't imagine any of it any different. I feel like I could write 20 pages about this song. There are so many other choices I could praise, barely even having thought about it.
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oh, this song. I replayed it innumerable times yesterday while trying to study but it is impossible to not give full attention to it...it is that beautifully tragic. Let's say I procrastinated quite a bit. I woke up dreaming it the next day. I'm very excited about this artist and I haven't been feeling excited about new music in a while.
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THE TRANSITION FROM A LOVING FEELING TO THIS SONG AAA
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So haunting. It'll be in my head forever.
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There's an odd key change after the second chorus that seems to signal a sudden snap into focus. The whole melody jumps a half step up and suddenly we're no longer hearing all the flat chords from the first half of the song, but instead hearing more familiar major and minor chords. Brilliant songwriting.
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this feels uncomfortable but in a good way
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the abused-child anthem
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i think this song is about revisiting high school memories... maybe feeling that feverish energy of being a teenager again but being unable to reconcile it with your current life as an adult, leaving the feeling that somehow high school never really ended and all that time without it has been some liminal space, perpetually waiting for that undefinable but familiar feeling to return
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my god this is so dark and sad... the atmosphere is almost suffocating. mitski, this song has truly reached me. thank you.
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This song sounded so cool on my blown out car speakers, the deep sound would just be like BRRRRRRRR
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i’m crack baby
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@jin50ul
4 years ago
remember when mitski invented music
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