My Movie Star turns 7 today.

Made this double album and several short films with actor and comedian Jay Mohr (SNL, Jerry Maguire) over the course of several years. Some of it was written on Malibu Beach, some in Hollywood, and some in Portland. All of the vocals were recorded live with only a piano at The Hallowed Halls. No idea why we did it that way but we did! I think I was trying to be raw or something lol.

A bunch of these songs made their way into TV shows, which was cool — and it will always be a career highlight to have collaborated with Tiffany, The Dandy Warhols, and a bunch of other heroes on one record.

In the spring of 2017 I had the chance to sit down with Mitski to talk about music, self-care, and what was happening in her life at the time as she transitioned from being an IYKYK indie artist to being very well known across the globe. During that conversation she said a bunch of thoughtful, incredibly tender things, but this part has always stuck with me:

“I think the most important process for understanding the world and what’s going on in yourself is to name things. We name streets, flowers, people, experiences, identities – we need to name a thing in order to make sense of it. I think songwriting is another naming process, where you give a name to a big muck inside you, or at least a little part of the big muck, in order to feel like you know it, and know where to put it. So I could say that writing songs has been a gateway to a deeper understanding of myself, but I actually think songwriting has given me a much simpler understanding of myself, in that all these messy, dark, unknowable things can be named, and become 3-minute songs to put on an iPhone instead of stirring in the big goop of the mind.”

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MITSKI x LOGAN LYNN

“Naming The Big Muck Inside You”

Read our chat in full HERE.