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I have my privileges, but I do feel like at every turn there is such resistance.

Mitski

I’m Japanese, and I’m also white American, and neither camp wants me in their camp.
MITSKI

Also Camp Country Neither Want White
Sometimes when I perform, and it’s obvious the audience is just there to party, or if I feel a wall between me and the audience, I get existential about it.
MITSKI

Audience Between Existence Feel Just Obvious Party Perform Sometimes
When someone is a musician – trying to make a living off being a public figure – it’s really easy for people to see me as a face on a screen that doesn’t have a personal life.
MITSKI

Being Figure Live Make Musician Public Someone Try
I guess you can say I ‘do the Twist.’ I like playful dance moves that aren’t too serious.
MITSKI

Can Dance Guess Move Playful Say Serious Too Twist
Everything is so chaotic and messy in the world, and I have always felt kind of dirty.
MITSKI

Always Chaostic Dirty Everything Felt Messy So World
Miyazaki movies were what I was raised on. I’ve watched them since I was very young, and I’ve been greatly shaped by them.
MITSKI

Greatly Movie Raise Shape Since Them Very Watch Young
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.
MITSKI

Belief Everyone Made Maybe Myself Preserve Purpose
When I go onstage and am performing the way I want to… I finally feel like myself.
MITSKI

Feel Finally Like Myself Onstage Perform Want Way
People started calling me that, and I started being treated in a specific way.
MITSKI

Being Call People Specific Start Treat Way
When you are a minority, it’s your job to bend, and when you love someone, you really want to make it work.
MITSKI

Bend Job Love Make Minority Really Someone Want Work
I think my real influences are out of my control, which are the things that entered my brain when I was a kid growing up.
MITSKI

Brain Control Entered Growth Influence Kid Out Thing Think
All I want to do at karaoke is sing Mariah Carey.
MITSKI

Al Do Karaoke People Person Sing Want
Tour isn’t good for writing, but it’s good for inspiration.
MITSKI

Good Inspiration Tour Writing
I think it’s very dangerous as an artist to be comfortable.
MITSKI

Artist Comfortable Dangerous Think Very
What I have a problem with is when it becomes another form of tokenization, of shrinking me into a symbol instead of a multilayered, female Asian artist.
MITSKI

Another Female Mukttilayer Problem Sgrink Symbol Token
On tour, people know that if they ever ask me what I want to eat, I will always say Asian food. I’m becoming a stereotype, but it’s what I want to eat. I want to eat rice.
MITSKI

Ask Eat Ever Know People Want Your

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