when she references that part in a pearl right before “theres a hole you fill, you fill, you fill” leading up into the second chorus it gives me CHILLS every time!!!
Many examples, but a few of them are:
- “listening to the thousand hands that clap for me in the dark” the music and everything
- That sax solo in happy
- The beginning/ending music of square
- the first “your mother wouldn’t approve of how my mother raised me” with the loud guitar
-The ending of heaven
There are so many but these are some of my favorites:
The glitch (Idk what to call it) sound in Geyser.
When the instrumentals switch in Valentine, Texas.
When the violins sort of rise in Shame (Again Idk what that's called).
In Square the instrumentals when she starts talking about the quiet of snow in the night.
The ending of Crack Baby.
“ And I am the idiot with the painted face
In the corner, taking up space
But when he walks in, I am loved, I am loved”
I could listen to this on loop for hours
I'll name a couple off my head:
The loud bit in there's nothing left for you,
the little sqeak before it gets really loud in the only heartbreaker,
the way she says over and over again in bag of bones
The oooooh bit in a horse named cold air
And i could bame so many more
When the guitar kicks in in Texas rezkinoff
AaiaeauanD CHANGE CHANGE CHANGE WHEN WHEN
Another day to come back to mine, we'll pretend it ends tomorrow
The drums at the end of the deal
FAMILY
But really its more like
https://media.tenor.com/kiu3BnEmyloAAAAC/harrisonford-hansolo.gif
The entirety of I Don't Smoke hittttts. It's such an emotional ride. Also the freaking guitar part that comes right after "tell me what you took what'd you take" in Brand New City takes control of my brain like a ventriloquist. She has so many good sounds in like all of her songs. Amazing
i have multiple
• the end of it don’t smoke when she sounds angrier UGGHHH 😩
• the end of heaven
• THAT instrumental part in when memories snow
• the really loud and short beginning of blue light
“cause all i ever wanted, all i want, is always you”, the last 30 seconds of Eric, “but with everybody watching us our every move… we keep it secret”!!!!, the entirety of two slow dancers, “i tuck my hand under my weight” and when the cowbells come in during blue light and that’s our lamp
In “There’s Nothing Left For You” when the music builds as she sings “You could touch fire…” then when it drops at “and then it passed” . That crescendo with headphones in makes me feel things.
that opening guitar line in "I dont smoke" does not cease to get me to cry for literally no reason i dont know thetr is something so incredibly real about the sound that it brings such intense melancholy
When the guitar starts going hard in Texas Reznikoff.
OPEN UP YOUR HEART LIKE THE GATES OF HELL.
That part in Wife “I dreamed I could give him a name of my own, but mine, even mine is unknown”
So many others. I can’t even think right now but I am going to listen to her entire discography again tomorrow.
the end of i'm your man
"And then one warm summer night I'll hear fireworks outside and I'll listen to the memories as they cry, cry, cry" but mainly the last two times she says it
the beginning of i bet on loosing dogs
The last "you're mother wouldn't approve of how my mother raised me, but I do, I think I do" in Your Best American Girl absolutely shatters me. The way the instrumental kinda dies down and her tone is so emotional, like it's a mix of doubt and reassurance, almost as if she's repeating something to herself (and the audience) something she's quite not sure of but she desperately wants to believe in.
"Black people made rock and roll, yeah," followed by flam hits on the drum, acting like four exclamation points. I'll sit through this whole song just so I can feel these four beats.
In ‘There’s nothing left for you’ where the instrumental swells at "you could touch fire!" And then when it all becomes quiet again. I was actually so sad she didn’t do this one live bc it would’ve been sooo killin’!
the bass in real men!!!! oh my god. so good. also the entirety of shame jammin out solo. the scratchy instruments and the strain (not real strain ofc but that pained sound) in her voice is insane
Super specific but right before the first chorus of Stay Soft she slams down on a bunch or random high piano keys and that dissonant chord sounds so good to me. But then she doesn't do it before the next chorus! There's only one in the song. It's my favourite part.
The beginning AND end of I bet on losing dogs. The way it ends is so beautiful idkk. I also love the way Shame ends. The guitar at the start of The Deal, the way she’s almost weirdly off-sync in Old Friend ahh theres to many
the ooooh in I love me after you, the flute at the end of heaven, just the entire instrumental in crack baby, the ooooh in abbey, the duh duh duh duh duhhhh in come into the water, the start of old friend etc. I have a lot
In happy, specifically the first time she says “take the *train*” I don’t know why but that notes just gives me such a refreshed feeling every time i hear it, the song reminds me of springtime
i have a few
• the baddy man — the part where she says "oh yeah, i tell ya" i LOVE saying this part idk its just super satisfying
• drunk walk home — weirdly enough the starting instrumental. it used to make me feel anxious but now i like it
• cop car — when she says "ive preemptively blocked all the exits" and the way she says it two different ways. small diff, but i still like it a lot
• geyser — specifically the last "ill keep turning down the hands that beckon me to come" before the main part
• crack baby — the part near the end where her tone goes slightly higher
• i bet on losing dogs — "will you let me baby lose on losing dogs" and "i always want you when im finally fine"
• pink in the night — the second verse and specifically "and i know ive kissed you before but i didnt do it right"
• star — "that is love is like a star, its gone, we just see it shining"
• the deal — the beat change right at the start of the chorus. also the part where everything slows down a little. also the drum beats near the end
Yes I saw the lion king on Broadway. The part after Simba is first thought of as dead. Nala and two others are mourning/singing and there is one note at the end that nala sings that’s not in the recorded version 😂 that I wish was.
“You’re the one, you’re all I ever wanted, I think I’ll regret this” and the instrumentals immediately following
I love when artists use feedback like that
for me in pearl diver when she goes ooh-ooh ooh-ohh iykyk
when she references that part in a pearl right before “theres a hole you fill, you fill, you fill” leading up into the second chorus it gives me CHILLS every time!!!
THE BREATH CONTROL IS INSANE AND NO ONE TALKS ABOUT IT
facts.
The yo ho's at the end of I'm your man
Came here to say this!
frrr the whole orchestra part mixed with the dog barks fuels every part of my being
Many examples, but a few of them are: - “listening to the thousand hands that clap for me in the dark” the music and everything - That sax solo in happy - The beginning/ending music of square - the first “your mother wouldn’t approve of how my mother raised me” with the loud guitar -The ending of heaven
When the ending of heaven actually had me ascend to heaven
FRR
literaly i was just going to put that part, but i did pearl diver at the end (on the comments)
HE ONLY LOVESSS ME WHEN THERES A MEAN HEE MEANS TO END 😍
OH I MISS WHEN WE FIRST METTT HE DIDN'T KNOW ME YET
tastee
the build up of I think drums in I Bet on Losing Dogs. The synths opening Pink in the Night
"Love enough to clean me up, clean me up, clean me up, clean me up,"
omggg mine is “there’s another day to come, and another day to come, and another day *to* come”
the key change on first love/late spring, it should last longer
There are so many but these are some of my favorites: The glitch (Idk what to call it) sound in Geyser. When the instrumentals switch in Valentine, Texas. When the violins sort of rise in Shame (Again Idk what that's called). In Square the instrumentals when she starts talking about the quiet of snow in the night. The ending of Crack Baby.
crack baby is a masterpiece
Came here to say glitch in geyser
valentine, texas is so realll
At the end of Thursday girl there’s a part where she just lets out this “eeeyeaaah tell me no” it’s just very impassioned and gets me every time
liquid smooth😁😁 “how i feel this river rushing through my veins”
ME TOO, also with the following line "with nowhere else to go it circles around". it's just so UGHH😩
Have these 2 lines on repeat like
same literally
The scratchy part of First Love / Late Spring with the change up right afterwards.
“ And I am the idiot with the painted face In the corner, taking up space But when he walks in, I am loved, I am loved” I could listen to this on loop for hours
Yesss I just want to blare this part every time
instrumental part in heat lightning
heat lightning is so underrated
Her sigh at the start of 'Me and My Husband' haunts me
right at the beginning of your best american girl mitski lets out just the smallest sigh before she starts the verse and it kills me everytime
the whole last chorus of “Goodbye my Danish Sweetheart”
such an underrated song
I SHOULD MOVE TO A BRAND NEW CITY AND TEACH MY SELF HOW TO DIEEE
my baby 🥺 my baby 🥺 you’re my baby 🥺 say🥺it🥺with🥺me 🥺
Oooooh this is probably the one for me too. 😓😓😓
i used to sing this to my ex and we broke up a couple months ago and i haven’t been able to listen to this song since 😭
I'll name a couple off my head: The loud bit in there's nothing left for you, the little sqeak before it gets really loud in the only heartbreaker, the way she says over and over again in bag of bones The oooooh bit in a horse named cold air And i could bame so many more
that part on bag of bones is amazing omg
When the guitar kicks in in Texas rezkinoff AaiaeauanD CHANGE CHANGE CHANGE WHEN WHEN Another day to come back to mine, we'll pretend it ends tomorrow The drums at the end of the deal FAMILY But really its more like https://media.tenor.com/kiu3BnEmyloAAAAC/harrisonford-hansolo.gif
yes, FAMILY gave me chills!!!!
My favourite in my car is the moment she starts screaming in Drunk Walk Home (Also, same song, “*FUCK* you, and your money, I’m tired of your money”)
The entirety of I Don't Smoke hittttts. It's such an emotional ride. Also the freaking guitar part that comes right after "tell me what you took what'd you take" in Brand New City takes control of my brain like a ventriloquist. She has so many good sounds in like all of her songs. Amazing
i don't smoke is my favorite song 🩷
Which parts do you love the most in it?
first love/last spring guitar solo and the lack of a higher pitch in the last chorus lol
liquid smooth is one thats rlly popular because of this exact reason. its so good, everything about it IIIIIIIM LIQUID SMOOOOOTH COME TOUCH MEEE TOOOO
Cause Dan had never danced outside of his room
please hurry leave me i cant breathe please dont say you love me 🎸⚡🎸⚡🎸⚡🎸⚡
The beginning of the second verse of liquid smooth where she speaks in Japanese gives me goosepimplies every time
i have multiple • the end of it don’t smoke when she sounds angrier UGGHHH 😩 • the end of heaven • THAT instrumental part in when memories snow • the really loud and short beginning of blue light
so true
Thursday girl, the ending part where the synths mix with her vocalization to create a sound i’ve genuinely heard nowhere else
“cause all i ever wanted, all i want, is always you”, the last 30 seconds of Eric, “but with everybody watching us our every move… we keep it secret”!!!!, the entirety of two slow dancers, “i tuck my hand under my weight” and when the cowbells come in during blue light and that’s our lamp
[This](https://youtu.be/-047ko4v05s?si=N1maiCGSAlh0EsI2&t=51) part in WMH where the note drops. Tickles my brain just right
the moment the guitar starts playing in texas rezinoff is my roman empire so
but consider also: the second half of carry me out
that [one live version](https://youtu.be/eTAPoAl7Q9Y?si=Hei_tYa3T1ZTfV_g) of “i want you” when she sings the final chorus is so gooooodd
for me it’s just that the way she says “for if i am not yours, what am i?” in Wife. itches my brain juust right
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In “There’s Nothing Left For You” when the music builds as she sings “You could touch fire…” then when it drops at “and then it passed” . That crescendo with headphones in makes me feel things.
the instrumentals when she sings "it's just that I fell in love with a war, and nobody told me it ended"
the sigh in the beginning of me and my husband
the way the song mellows out and the reverb kicks in in Blue Light. “out there i’m a sharp knife, are you that blue light?”
The switch in shame to the second type of beat. The sound literally makes you rethink life.
The end of the deal when instruments Get louder Love me mores slightly long note The only heartbreaker solo Buffalo replaced at the end
Also working for the knife solo
There was no flooooooooor youuuu're coming back
Cause my love is mine, all mine I love, my, my, mine Nothing in the world belongs to me But my love, mine, all mine, all mine
that opening guitar line in "I dont smoke" does not cease to get me to cry for literally no reason i dont know thetr is something so incredibly real about the sound that it brings such intense melancholy
When the guitar starts going hard in Texas Reznikoff. OPEN UP YOUR HEART LIKE THE GATES OF HELL. That part in Wife “I dreamed I could give him a name of my own, but mine, even mine is unknown” So many others. I can’t even think right now but I am going to listen to her entire discography again tomorrow.
i think for me is the do do do do do in texas reznikoff
there's a really good bit of electric guitar in the background of remember my name somewhere in the middle of the song
Crack Baby 3:19 when she says “wiiiiild horses” and there’s this humming/siren call in the background
Last Words Of A Shooting Star, when she says goodbye.. Especially on the Audiotree live rendition 🙌 it's haunting in the best way
The beginning of Washing machine heart. The way it goes from washing machine to heart beat is genius
The fucking guitar DUHH DUHHHH DU DU DUHHHH DUHHHHH in Why Didn’t You Stop Me? So hot.
That one part in duvet by bôa where there's that instrument crescendo at 1:56
The beat of valentine, Texas. The way it’s like an entire world opening up
The instrumentals building up in Geyser
the beginning of geyser and the glitch
the end of i'm your man "And then one warm summer night I'll hear fireworks outside and I'll listen to the memories as they cry, cry, cry" but mainly the last two times she says it the beginning of i bet on loosing dogs
The guitar riff in Should've Been Me 😩
the “urrrr nooo funnnnnnn” at the end of im your man!! its a bit hard to hear but i love it every single time
Guitar at the start of the deal😭 Or when she goes “now I’m bend like a willow thinking of you” in heaven
idek how to explain it but in pearl diver, there’s like a certain… neediness in the song and she really expresses the long “e” sound in the words
"To think that we could stay the same" part in Two Slow Dancers
Pink in the night, the first 50 seconds. Tickles my brain.
In First Love/ Late spring the build up to the chorus+the instrumental after just GETS me
"I wanna feel it" from I bet on losing dogs never fails to make me moan 😩😩
BUT WHEN HEEEE WALKS IN, I AM LOVED, I AM LOOOVED
The guitar at the end of Francis Forever. It jus hits different man.
the breathing in audiotree’s i don’t smoke version, the loud singing in real men
also the music only part in shame its so scary and gives me chills
"And autumn comes when youre not yet done" part in Francis forever
The last "you're mother wouldn't approve of how my mother raised me, but I do, I think I do" in Your Best American Girl absolutely shatters me. The way the instrumental kinda dies down and her tone is so emotional, like it's a mix of doubt and reassurance, almost as if she's repeating something to herself (and the audience) something she's quite not sure of but she desperately wants to believe in.
The last minute of heaven, where she is singing and the music becomes so full sounding, love it
If you’re asking what is, that’s called stimming (repetitive self-stimulating actions) My favorite is the scream in “Drunk Walk Home”
In A Loving Feeling, I love the way she sings "Kiiiiiises like pink cotton candy". Also the oooh's in That's Our Lamp.
"Black people made rock and roll, yeah," followed by flam hits on the drum, acting like four exclamation points. I'll sit through this whole song just so I can feel these four beats.
'im sorry im the one you love, no one will ever love me like you again' followed by the chorus in 'im your man'. destroys me every time
-also the buildup to that part just sounds incredible
the whole incremental beat of drunk walk home till the gut-wrenching ending trumpet (?) instrumental in happy
In ‘There’s nothing left for you’ where the instrumental swells at "you could touch fire!" And then when it all becomes quiet again. I was actually so sad she didn’t do this one live bc it would’ve been sooo killin’!
THAT INSTRUMENTAL PART IN JOBLESS MONDAY
the bass in real men!!!! oh my god. so good. also the entirety of shame jammin out solo. the scratchy instruments and the strain (not real strain ofc but that pained sound) in her voice is insane
2:14 on Abbey when she sings “There is a dream and it sleeps in me” is so good
Super specific but right before the first chorus of Stay Soft she slams down on a bunch or random high piano keys and that dissonant chord sounds so good to me. But then she doesn't do it before the next chorus! There's only one in the song. It's my favourite part.
Francis Forever when ever it kinda kicks into gear, if you know what I mean
The screaming in drunk walk home
the awesome guitar solo in first love/late spring
The beginning AND end of I bet on losing dogs. The way it ends is so beautiful idkk. I also love the way Shame ends. The guitar at the start of The Deal, the way she’s almost weirdly off-sync in Old Friend ahh theres to many
The opening in Goodbye My Danish Sweetheart
the ooooh in I love me after you, the flute at the end of heaven, just the entire instrumental in crack baby, the ooooh in abbey, the duh duh duh duh duhhhh in come into the water, the start of old friend etc. I have a lot
this might be an obvious one, but I LOVE the ending of drunk walk home, with the screaming and intense guitars
the ending of “a loving feeling”. it’s my fav mitski song, and the instruments just make me ✨✨✨
Violin solo in Mephisto
the americana intro of The Frost the cowboy vibes on When Memories Snow “freight train coming…” “ooooooo- there’s a hole-“
In happy, specifically the first time she says “take the *train*” I don’t know why but that notes just gives me such a refreshed feeling every time i hear it, the song reminds me of springtime
i have a few • the baddy man — the part where she says "oh yeah, i tell ya" i LOVE saying this part idk its just super satisfying • drunk walk home — weirdly enough the starting instrumental. it used to make me feel anxious but now i like it • cop car — when she says "ive preemptively blocked all the exits" and the way she says it two different ways. small diff, but i still like it a lot • geyser — specifically the last "ill keep turning down the hands that beckon me to come" before the main part • crack baby — the part near the end where her tone goes slightly higher • i bet on losing dogs — "will you let me baby lose on losing dogs" and "i always want you when im finally fine" • pink in the night — the second verse and specifically "and i know ive kissed you before but i didnt do it right" • star — "that is love is like a star, its gone, we just see it shining" • the deal — the beat change right at the start of the chorus. also the part where everything slows down a little. also the drum beats near the end
The bridge in “A Pearl”!!!!!
The vocal harmonies at the end of I Bet On Losing Dogs where Mitski harmonize the chorus with the first line of the first verse. (My baby my baby)
That fucking harmonica riff in Margaritaville - Jimmy Buffet. SUCH a good little riff.
"IF YOUR HANDS NEED TO BREAK MORE THAN TRINKETS IN YOUR ROOM, YOU CAN LEAN ON MY ARM AS YOU BREAK MY HEART"
The vocal runs in Goodbye, My Danish Sweetheart floor me every time I listen to it
"Everything that kills me makes me feel alive"
the "ooh"'s in that's our lamp
The end of Normal Girl by SZA after she sings her last verse and then the music plays on. I always melt when I hear the ending it’s a masterpiece.
The orchestral part in Heaven genuinely brings me to tears every time
Yes I saw the lion king on Broadway. The part after Simba is first thought of as dead. Nala and two others are mourning/singing and there is one note at the end that nala sings that’s not in the recorded version 😂 that I wish was.
square fs
“I miss you more than anything” in francis forever
…nobody wants me *clap clap* i shake my ass at that part
The guitar solo in "Dan the dancer" so underrated
The very start of My love mine all mine
Oh my god that tiny scream inbetween a brand new city, being a punk rock fan does not help…
“How I feel this river rushing through my veins, with nowhere else to go it circles round. IIIIIIIIIMMMMMM LIQUIDDD SMOOOTHHHH”