Pop artists work really hard, and they might not work for the same things that indie artists do, but they’re still musicians, and they’re still making art.
MITSKII tend to not want to do that anymore. It’s not even that I don’t like it anymore: it’s that I keep trying to find ways for people to dislike me.
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I tend to not want to do that anymore. It’s not even that I don’t like it anymore: it’s that I keep trying to find ways for people to dislike me.
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Growing up, I never really felt like anything was my own. I moved a lot, and I never belonged anywhere.
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Being an outsider makes you a really good writer.
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The whole ‘grunge-girl’ comparisons certainly are the easiest to pick out, and I appreciate that music journalists are rushed.
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I didn’t fit in anywhere when I grew up, but I was always American, so to survive,
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I could never enter that dream. That all-American white culture is something that is inherited instead of attained.
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It’s very tempting, when somebody says they like this about you, to want to do that over and over.
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Often I’ve had problems automatically bending to a lover’s will, becoming what I know they want me to be. Immediately, I learn all the music they love, listen to it, study it, instead of being like, ‘This is what I love!’
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I think the pressure gets to me when I play shows and there’s more people in the audience than I’m used to.
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I remember I took a music course in junior year of high school, and some girl brought in ‘Teardrops On My Guitar,’ and she was like, ‘Isn’t this song great?’ And everyone was like, ‘Who’s Taylor Swift?’ And now, every time I listen to Taylor Swift, I remember that moment.
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I think my whole identity is formed around not knowing where I’m from. It might even be that I find comfort in that confusion.
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I have this thing about being acknowledged and accepted by institutions.
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In my first few years of being in New York, I had a major identity crisis because I’d never stayed in one place for so long.
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I’ve been very careful to always make clear that I am a real person. That’s why I’m on social media a lot.
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People started calling me that, and I started being treated in a specific way.
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I think your ego gets in the way of making something good because it kind of blinds you from the actual art.
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Maybe this is a made-up belief to preserve myself, but I do believe that everyone has a purpose, and my purpose is to put out music that means something.
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I think people don’t realize how little of being an artist is making art.
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I lived abroad most of my life in insular international communities.
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I would love for Rivers Cuomo to listen to my music and see what he thinks.
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I really like The Cars. They’re just so over the top and super pop, but I don’t feel guilty. I’m proud of all the music I listen to.
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You can be heartbroken about a relationship but also, from it, realize you are you, and you’re okay with who you are or where you came from.
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With solo shows, you have complete control over the set list. If you feel like you want to do something different or do a new song, you can just work it in. You can talk to the audience or not talk to the audience. There’s nothing that’s set.
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I’m so smart. I am good at doing math really quickly in my head.
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It would actually feel forced or unnatural to try to do a different singing style or to try to change my sound completely.
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I hate that my opinions are gonna be on record… that my opinions of other artists are going to be on record.
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