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Listen to Puberty 2: mitski.deadoc.co/puberty-2
New album Laurel Hell out now.
Listen + order: mitski.deadoc.co/laurel-hell
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Credits:
Director / Zia Anger
Producer / Rachel Wolther
Cinematographer / Ashley Connor
Art Director / Caiti Hawkins
Gaffer / Danny April
1st AC / Will Castellucci
2nd AC / Kimberlee Venable
Key Grip / Shawn Gradwell
Hair & Makeup / Marina Baskova
Bro / Tyler Gardella
Babe / Candace Bryant
Mitski's wardrobe provided by Creatures of the Wind
Mitski's guitar provided by Gibson
Thank You / Theo Anthony, Giovanna Flores, Michael Walls, Corey Deckler
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Lyrics:
If I could, I'd be your little spoon
And kiss your fingers forevermore
But, big spoon, you have so much to do
And I have nothing ahead of me
You're the sun, you've never seen the night
But you hear its song from the morning birds
Well, I'm not the moon, I'm not even a star
But awake at night I'll be singing to the birds
Don't wait for me, I can't come
Your mother wouldn't approve of how my mother raised me
But I do, I think I do
And you're an all-American boy
I guess I couldn't help trying to be your best American girl
You're the one
You're all I ever wanted
I think I'll regret this
Your mother wouldn't approve of how my mother raised me
But I do, I finally do
And you're an all-American boy
I guess I couldn't help trying to be the best American girl
Your mother wouldn't approve of how my mother raised me
But I do, I think I do
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Mitski - Your Best American Girl (Official Video)
#Mitski #YourBestAmericanGirl #Puberty2
Views : 8,937,198
Genre: Music
Date of upload: Apr 13, 2016 ^^
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Top Comments of this video!! :3
i think the girl wearing the "native" clothing and having the fake native tattoo also symbolises how white men (or even our own men) dont like our features when its on us but when its on a white woman, they love it.
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cant believe she invented america just for this song thats crazy 🦅🇺🇸🔥
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“you’re the sun, you’ve never seen the light, but you hear the song from the morning birds” im sobbing
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i feel like a really cool detail in the music video is that mitski is kind of the one that everyone is touching up? like she’s the one in lipstick and a pantsuit and the person everyone is trying to fix , like with hairspray and other things. meanwhile the “all-american boy” is just there, in nothing but a grey tank top and some pants, with no one trying to “fix him”. they can’t fix him because to them, he’s already perfect. he’s the standard.
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the line “Your mother wouldn’t approve of how my mother raised me, but I do, I finally do” is simply the best thing ever written, and i could do a whole thesis about it
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i grew up in poverty and especially relate to the “your mother wouldn’t approve of how my mother raised me” because my mother often had to resort to desperate measures to get food on the table and pay bills, and we were often criticized by others for how we looked and acted, we barely took showers to lower the cost of our water bill. thank you mitski, this song means a lot to me.
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as a black women whos still in her "i wish i was white" era i adore this song with all of my heart
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whenever i feel rejected I just come to this comment section because it’s literally just full of women of color who feel the EXACT. SAME. WAY.
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the reference of the sun and moon/ day and night is a callback to “Sun and Moon” from Miss Saigon, which is a song about Kim (who is Viet) and Chris (who is white). the line “you’re the sun, you’ve never seen the night but you hear its song from the morning birds” symbolizes how white people never will truly face racism and are lucky to have only hear it from others (the morning birds) . when mitski says that she’s “not the moon” and she’s “not even a star” she talks about how she isn’t even the desirable parts of the night. this verse is also when the white woman appears, dressed in a culture that is not hers, which the white man is interested it, culture being the “stars” and the “moon” in the metaphor of the verse.
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My obsession with her is unhealthy at this point. I've been blasting her music into my ears for the past 5 hours and I enjoyed every second of it
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i'm an asian immigrant. and listening to this song just describes everything i've felt for so long that i couldn't put into words. it was just too hard to admit it to myself. i remember reading this story in my english class called "the other family," about a little girl who draws her family as a white family and how her mother reacts to it– and it never truly clicked that that was ME. i am that girl. at 5 and 6 years old, i was living in america, drawing myself as a blonde girl with blue eyes, and i still have those drawings.
it feels so invalidating. because no one ever hurt me for being asian. no one ever made fun of me. no one has ever called me a slur. and yet growing up in this world made me, even at 5 years old, feel so ashamed of my own race i didn't even want to be myself. i wanted to be someone else. i can't believe how even at 12 years old, i was still looking at my white friends and myself in the mirror and thinking that i'm pretty, but i'd be prettier if i was white. or that people would treat me better if i'm white.
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what I love the most about her songs is that they start off slow, innocent, and accoustic. Then out of nowhere, they EXPLODE into an emotional, electric guitar whirlwind. She's perfect
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"Your mother wouldn't approve of how my mother raised me"
oof as a child of immigrant parents this really hit home
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わたしは日本に生まれて日本で生きる純日本人で、mitskiの感じた苦悩を永遠に理解することが出来ないからこそこの歌とmitskiに惹かれました。
叶うならライブで聴きたい。
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this song hits different when ur a woc/poc .
a few weeks ago a old white lady told me a backhanded compliment …. “you’re so pretty to be a chinese” umm ok, yes i'm east asian but not her assuming that i'm chinese and tbh that made me so uncomfortable and also made me cry all the night cuz i was finally accepting and loving my ethnicity, culture and features and that lil “compliment” made me again (like when i was a kid-tween) wanted to look white, to be white so bad:( ik that from the non poc vision this sounds stupid but i swear that for me it wasn’t
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I know this was written from an Asian-American woman perspective - but as an Indigenous woman, I can't help but relate to this song so much. I feel like I can never fit into the perfect American image, which is ironic because I am Native. No matter how much I try, I don't fit in their world. But like Mitski, I love myself and I will be okay.
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as someone who’s getting out of their ‘i wish i was white’ phase this is such an empowering song to hear thank you so much!
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I think it’s so beautiful in the second chorus she says “I finally do”, talking about her accepting her background despite the despair of being rejected for it
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I like when she's like 'you're the one, you're all I ever wanted...I think I'll regret this.'
Its the strange dichotomy of knowing that you'll regret how untrue you're being to yourself and at the same time not caring because you want to fit in that bad.
I also love the fact that she portrays herself as the unseen person in the video but finishes it off with herself walking off stage and she's the star of the show with white women in the background.
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@Zelgaro
4 years ago
The thing is Mitski is mixed, so she looks Asian to Americans but when she goes to Japan she looks white to them. Makes you feel like you don't belong anywhere.
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