as more and more people recoil and obsessively say “but Mitski!!! it IS sad girl hours!!!!!” in the tags of the video where Mitski herself says that she thinks it’s reductive and tired to deem her as #sadgirl music, I’m more inclined to believe that some of you are so self-absorbed that you cannot begin to comprehend that a human being wouldn’t want to be consumed. no one is stopping you from being sad. no one is stopping you from feeling any emotion while listening to the music you listen to. what people ARE saying is that it’s fucked up to look at Mitski and her music and essentially assign it to a reductive category that doesn’t even begin to encapsulate what her art is meant to signify.
sorry that consumerism has rot your brain and your only form of identity is fucking 90s anime edits with INDIE AND DEPRESSING LYRICS set over them, and you can’t seem to conceptualize a reason to be partaking in that art for any single thing other than “it’s just my aesthetic!!!”, but sometimes people make art to find connection in the world and express a part of themselves that they don’t see anywhere else. i am truly baffled by the amount of people who listen to Mitski and think of it as just sad girl music, or just like… break up songs??? because they’re literally not. and at that point what are you getting out of listening to Mitski!!! not as a transaction!!! if you are truly engaging with her art in a way that reduces it to a fraction of itself, what are you gaining??? what’s the fucking point??? u can engage with stuff however you want but at this point, it’s more consumption than anything. and she’s not like, an object.
I keep thinking about this interview. and it’s so… I don’t even know. telling? symptomatic of something? frustrating? that this sentiment is SO obvious in her music. and that some of you absolutely refuse to extend some modicum of the same sentiment (of recognizing her as a full human person) to her.
