Mitski was born in Japan to an American father and a Japanese mother and is really a citizen of the world.
She lives in Nashville now. But I don't know that I'd call her Tenneseean.
Anyway, this 2018 song, from her album Be The Cowboy, is one of her best known - never released as a single but charted overseas anyway. It's kind of a weird ballad about.... well, a washing machine? Domestic bliss? The exact opposite of domestic bliss? At any rate, the throbbing keyboard and steady, hard beat are somewhat jarring up against the lyrics.
And yet it works. And you're going to be humming this song all day long.
Somehow, the live performance at the 2022 Glastonbury music festival in the UK is even more jarring. SHE DOES NOT BLINK. Also, the audience knows the words because, well, it was a hit.
Her fans know the song so well, she doesn't even need to sing it, and often, she doesn't.
Now THAT'S iconic.
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