History Music / Mitski

* AntiLoveSong: "I Love Me After You" is a joyful song about the joys of solitude after a break-up.

* DownerEnding: Pretty much all of her albums end this way.

* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Her proper birth name is romanized as "Mits'''u'''ki", though "Mitski" is a close approximation of its pronounciation in correct Japanese.

* WalkingWasteland: In the video for "The Only Heartbreaker" she walks through a forest unwittingly burning it to ashes with her touch, until everything is reduced to a desert [[spoiler:and the planet itself gets destroyed]].

* GratuitousJapanese: {{Justified}} since Mitski was born in Japan and is of Japanese origin.

In 2022, she collaborated with Music/DavidByrne and Music/SonLux on a song for ''Film/EverythingEverywhereAllAtOnce'', "This is a Life", which was nominated for [[UsefulNotes/AcademyAwardForBestOriginalSong Best Original Song]] at the 95th UsefulNotes/{{Academy Award}}s.

!!''I'm just asking for the tropes; give me some good, honest tropes'':

* AnimalMotifs: Dogs on "I'm Your Man." She lyrically compares herself to a dog and says she'll "meet judgment by the hounds," and the sound of dogs barking comes in towards the end.

** ''The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We" shifts again to a new sound, with more influence from folk, country, and even choral music.

* GenreShift: ''Laurel Hell'' has more synth-pop and disco influences than her previous albums.

* VerbalTic: She's fond of putting the word "baby" in her lyrics. "I Bet on Losing Dogs" is a major offender.

Her sixth album, 2022's ''Laurel Hell'', featured prominent influences from {{electronic music}}, and was reportedly originally conceived in the genres of {{punk|Rock}} and {{country|Music}}. She released her seventh album, ''The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We'', in 2023; described by her as her "most American album" and centered around "the theme of love", the album contains a stripped-back acoustic sound as well a 17-person choir and further use of an orchestra.

Mitski released her fifth album, ''Be the Cowboy'', in 2018, which brought back orchestral elements alongside her now-signature guitar. It became her first album to chart on the ''Billboard'' 200, and has been described as her mainstream breakthrough. However, in late 2019, Mitski announced that the final performance of ''Be the Cowboy''[='=]s tour would be her last show indefinitely; [[https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/mitski-new-album-laurel-hell-cover-story-1272973/ in a 2021 interview]], she admitted that she truly intended to quit music entirely after the show. By early 2020, she changed her mind and decided to return to music, partly because she still owed her label another album. She later explained that her initial decision was motivated by her struggles in grappling with her newfound indie stardom and the inner workings of the music industry, which led to her fearing that she would end up making music she didn't care about.

Mitski released her fifth album, ''Be the Cowboy'', in 2018, which brought back orchestral elements alongside her now-signature guitar. It became her first album to chart on the ''Billboard'' 200, and has been described as her mainstream breakthrough. However, in late 2019, Mitski announced that the final performance of ''Be the Cowboy''[='=]s tour would be her last show indefinitely. By early 2020, she changed her mind and decided to return to music, partly because she still owed her label another album. [[https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/mitski-new-album-laurel-hell-cover-story-1272973/ She later explained]] that at the show in 2019, she truly intended to quit music entirely due to her struggles in dealing with her newfound indie stardom and the inner workings of the music industry, which led to her fearing that she would end up making music she didn't care about.

Mitski released her fifth album, ''Be the Cowboy'', in 2018, which brought back orchestral elements alongside her now-signature guitar. Her sixth album, 2022's ''Laurel Hell'', featured prominent influences from {{electronic music}}, and was reportedly originally conceived in the genres of {{punk|Rock}} and {{country|Music}}. She released her seventh album, ''The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We'', in 2023; described by her as her "most American album" and centered around "the theme of love", the album contains a stripped-back acoustic sound as well a 17-person choir and further use of an orchestra.

Born in Tokyo from an American father and a Japanese mother, she grew up moving from country to country before eventually settling in New York in order to attend college. She decided to pursue a musical career and enrolled in the SUNY Purchase College, where she created her self-released first two albums, ''Lush'' and ''Retired from Sad, New Career in Business'', as her ambitious junior and senior school projects. In them, she exhibited a classical sound, with ample use of piano melodies and even a 60-piece student orchestra.

Exhausted from the experience (and from working outside jobs to support herself financially), Mitski had a brief stint as vocalist of a prog-metal band before starting to work on her third album. Switching to a rawer, guitar-driven sound, ''Bury Me at Makeout Creek'' was recorded in makeshift studios in friends' homes and was her label debut. She would continue in this sound for her next album ''Puberty 2'', which alongside ''Makeout Creek'' received critical acclaim and greatly elevated her popularity. A year after its release, she ended up opening for Music/{{Lorde}} as part of the world tour for her album ''Melodrama'', and her song "Francis Forever" was covered by Olivia Olson (as Marceline the Vampire Queen) in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime''.

Mitski released her fifth album, ''Be the Cowboy'', in 2018, which brought back orchestral elements alongside her now-signature guitar, and her sixth album ''Laurel Hell'' in 2022. She collaborated with Music/DavidByrne and Music/SonLux on a song for ''Film/EverythingEverywhereAllAtOnce'', "This is a Life", which was nominated for Best Original Song at the 95th UsefulNotes/{{Academy Award}}s.

Mitski Miyakawi, mononymously known as Mitski (born Mitsuki Francis Laycock on September 27, 1990), is a Japanese-American singer-songwriter.

Exhausted from the experience (and from working outside jobs to support herself financially), Mitski had a brief stint as vocalist of a prog-metal band before starting to work on her third album. Switching to a rawer, guitar-driven sound, ''Bury Me at Makeout Creek'' was recorded in makeshift studios in friends' homes and was her label debut. She would continue in this sound for her next album ''Puberty 2'', which alongside ''Makeout Creek'' received critical acclaim and greatly elevated Mitski's popularity. A year after its release, she ended up opening for Music/{{Lorde}} as part of the world tour for her album ''Melodrama'', and her song "Francis Forever" was covered by Olivia Olson (as Marceline the Vampire Queen) in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime''.

Mitski released her fifth album, ''Be the Cowboy'', in 2018, which brought back orchestral elements alongside her now-signature guitar, and her sixth album ''Laurel Hell'' in 2022. She collaborated with Music/DavidByrne and Music/SonLux on a song for ''Film/EverythingEverywhereAllAtOnce'', "This is a Life", which was nominated for Best Original Song at the 95th Academy Awards.

Mitski released her fifth album, ''Be the Cowboy'', in 2018, which brought back orchestral elements alongside her now-signature guitar.

* AxCrazy: Unfortunately for the protagonist in the video for "Happy", her husband is not having an affair, he is [[spoiler: hacking women to pieces with an hatchet in their basement and giving her their jewellery.]] Said husband is not happy when she finds out. [[spoiler: He pulls her to the ground and starts choking her but she manages to grab the hatchet in the nick of time and kill him.]]