how much of Mitski's discography can I endure as first listener straight male?
>>127955246>as a first listener straight male derpity derpa derpnone. If you're so preoccupied with what demographic you fit into, and whether an artist matches with your fragile-ass clinging to said demographic, then Mitski is definitely not for you.Her most recent one (The Land is Inhospitable and so are we ) was on my 2023 AOTY list
Bury Me At Makeout Creek and Puberty 2 are great. Everything else is kind of meh. Her fanbase is insufferable.
>>127955286seconding this assessment
>>127955246>worried about any of this>listening to mitski>claiming he's straightyeah right anon
GUys OP is the straightest straight to ever straight he can't hear us over how straight he's being right now
>>127955246Did Moses hit those tits or something? Cause theyre parting like the Red Sea
>>127955246Flapjack tiddies
>>127955459what does that mean?
>>127955246If you're White? All of it. It's made for White chads.
I love that she got fatter and got a bowl haircut now. she's embracing the old asian aunt vibe.
>>127955459lol, you prefer fake balloon ones? No taste.
>>127955246 Fuck you faggot
>>127956768wtf
>>127955246she's not as shallow as a lot of full-on pop stuff but she's pretty middling outside of like 5 hits. I don't really love her discography but I'd say it's worth feeling out, although I couldn't give less of a fuck about listening to chick music if I like it
>>127955246I can envision the audience of Redditor simps agog gazing up at her during her concerts. Ick.
Be the Cowboy [Dead Oceans, 2018]Fourteen structurally cunning, melodically engaging, verbally coherent songs that for a compact 33 minutes address romantic angst from a disquieting angle. When women dig into their love lives men usually come out the bad guys, as they should, because men mistreat and undervalue the women they're with much more than vice versa. But the few times the singer tries to reconnect with an unattainable ex she blames the disconnect on herself because she made the approach, and more often she's the unattainable one and wishes she wasn't. The lead "Geyser" hints that the culprit is the music she's hung up on instead, and in "Remember My Name" that becomes explicit: "I gave too much of my heart tonight/Can you come to where I'm staying and make some extra love/That I can save till tomorrow's show?" But her loneliness is so ingrained that it's just as likely she got stuck on music because human love felt beyond her to begin with. That's why she's so disquieting, and so original. But by definition it doesn't make her more lovable. A-
>>127956736If only there was a third option...
>>127962279Patrick Hyland exaggerated a bit on the clumsily arranged Be the Cowboy (Dead Oceans, 2018), an album that packs 14 songs in 32 minutes. The effect is to sometimes trivialize loneliness and heartbreak, for example in the bombastic Geyser, in the dance-pop of Why Didn't You Stop Me, in the sprightly singalong Washing Machine Heart (a strong beat coupled with vintage synth), in the even more danceable single Nobody (feverish funky guitar and steady disco beat), and in the soaring operatic A Pearl, perhaps the most theatrical moment. On the other hand, the more introverted tunes, starting with the emotional orchestral pop of Pink in the Night and the country lament Lonesome Love, sound less charming than their predecessors. The bugglegum pop of Me and My Husband, the folk carillon of Old Friend and the ethereal Blue Light try a bit too hard to make her unhappiness sound entertaining. Two Slow Dancers returns to the chamber pop of her first two albums, A Horse Named Cold Air is a solemn piano elegy worthy of her first album, 6/10
