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Mitski Miyawaki (born Mitsuki Laycock) is a Japanese-American singer-songwriter.
Mitski Miyawaki was born in Japan to a white American father and a Japanese mother. Her first language was Japanese, growing up in a small town in Mie Prefecture. She moved frequently while growing up due to her father’s job at the United States Department of State, living in countries such as Turkey, China, Malaysia, the Czech Republic, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo before settling in the United States. She sang in a choir in high school and was 18 when she wrote her first song on the piano.
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Mitski‘s lyrics often explore her anxieties and have been coined by some as ‘sad indie girl music,’ a category many women who write emotional lyrics are put into. E. Alex Jung described her as “an artist whose music feels like being ushered into a private opera house of melodrama” with lyrics full of “roiling fury, destructive impulses, humiliation, longing, heartache, and hunger”.
Angie Martoccio of Rolling Stone described her earlier albums as a “wry running commentary on twentysomething angst, raw desire, and often unrequited love”. Lucy Dacus, a singer-songwriter who has at times opened for Mitski, described her music as “really visceral … She’s connected to a part in herself that wants to scream. Maybe you don’t live in a space where you can scream, or maybe you don’t have the words for what has happened to you. Mitski provides a space for that.”
Similarly, Mitski has described her music as a place where people “can put all of their feelings, their ugliness, that doesn’t have a place in their own lives.” As a result, Mitski has stated in interviews that she has an uneasy relationship with her fans because she finds their relationship to her and her music overwhelming.
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Mitski reflects her eclectic cross-cultural identity as “half Japanese, half American but not fully either”, a feeling that is often reflected in her music, which occasionally discusses issues of belonging. She said that she uses the descriptor “Asian-American” mostly for the benefit of others but does not think of herself that way.
On October 4, 2017, Lorde announced that Mitski would open for her on some dates on her Melodrama World Tour. On November 1, a short film starring Mitski called Sitting was released.
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In 2019, Mitski performed at Lollapalooza along with other including Kings of Leon, Twenty-One Pilots, Khalid, Billie Eilish, Hozier, Martin Garrix, Swedish House Mafia, Rex Orange County, Alan Walker and Dean Lewis.
On April 19, 2022, Mitski‘s cover of “Glide”, from the soundtrack of All About Lily Chou Chou, was released. The song was previously available as a bonus track on physical versions of Laurel Hell and was used in the 2022 film After Yang. Mitski appears on the song “This Is a Life” from the soundtrack for the 2022 film Everything Everywhere All at Once. The song also features David Byrne, and Son Lux, for which she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song of 2023.
Her discography includes six studio albums, three extended plays, and 16 singles.
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