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.

One cool thing about this album release has been all of the longform podcast interviews where I got to chat about the record, life, music, Kill Rock Stars, fashion, movies, and more — at length.

If you are curious about SOFTCORE and wanna hear me going on and on about stuff that I actually care about, this bud’s for you.

Thank you to Stereo Embers, Tour Stories, KXCI Inside Out, Music.gay, The 13th Floor (NZ), Baxies Musical Podcast, Revolutions Per Movie, Sticky Jazz, Indie BNB, and Too Much Effing Perspective for having me on.

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