The CHIEF November 2021

Music Review

By Paige Olson

Music Review: Mitski

After a two-year hiatus, indie singer-songwriter Mitski shocks and surprises her fans with her newest single, "Working for the Knife." She sets aside her common usage of flowery lyrics, seen in songs such as "Upon a Burning Hill" and "I Bet on Losing Dogs," and instead adopts a much more blunt presentation of her thoughts. Lines like, "I always knew the world moves on/I just didn't know it would go without me" and "I used to think I'd be done by twenty/Now at twenty- nine, the road ahead appears the same" are nearly gut wrenching in their realism. While the song is somewhat brief at two minutes and forty seconds, Mitski is able to communicate with her audience how frustrated she is with having to exploit her pain and heartbreak to make a living. The success of her single being released caused the pre-sale tickets for her upcoming 2022 tour to be sold in mere hours; now myself and many other fans will be "working for the knife" in order to pay for resale prices.

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