Mitski

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Works

1

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Film & TV

Sound · Mie, Japan

Mitsuki Miyawaki (born Mitsuki Laycock; September 27, 1990), known professionally as Mitski, is an American singer-songwriter. She self-released her first two albums, Lush (2012) and Retired from Sad, New Career in Business(2013) while studying studio composition at Purchase College's Conservatory of Music. The albums were initially made as her senior project. Her third studio album, Bury Me at…

Known for

• Mitski: The Land — Self2025
• Sitting — Our Heroine2017
• The Late Show with Stephen Colbert — Self - Musical Guest2015
• Jimmy Kimmel Live! — Self - Musical Guest2003
• Later... with Jools Holland — Self - Performer1992
• Austin City Limits — Self1975
• The Door

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Female

Origin

United States

Active from

1990

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

3,312,703

Total plays

676,609,317

Mitsuki Laycock (born September 27, 1990), also known as Mitski Miyawaki, and professionally as Mitski, is an American singer-songwriter. She self-released her first two albums, "Lush" (2012) and "Retired from Sad, New Career in Business" (2013), while studying composition at Purchase College’s Conservatory of Music. Her third studio album, "Bury Me at Makeout Creek", was released in 2014 through Double Double Whammy. She signed with Dead Oceans in 2015 and released "Puberty 2" (2016) <a href="h

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Recent publications · Crossref

2 total works indexed

1. SPinPong - Virtual Reality Table Tennis Skill Acquisition using Visual, Haptic and Temporal Cues

   · 2021 · cited 82x

2. A Tabletop System Using an OmniDirectional Projector-Camera

   · 2018 · cited 4x

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Music

Quotes

• ““In tenth grade—this says a lot about how developmentally delayed I was—I had in my mind that it was the proper thing for me to have a love interest. And you’d see in movies where two characters instantly see each other and are, like, I’m in love!, and then it just cuts to them on a date or interacting...A lot of my adolescence was like that. Me thinking I was doing the right thing by re-creating a movie scene that I’d seen but then realizing that’s not how it happens in real life.””
• ““When people looked at me they couldn’t recognize any of the history of me, like, ‘Where is she from? What’s her ethnicity? Who is she?’ I just didn’t make sense to anybody.””
• ““By the time it was done my heart was pounding like I just saw the rest of my life. I was fucking doomed.””
• ““I’ve always grown up feeling lonely or other, but through my music, I can be like: ‘Look, we’re the same, we’ve felt the same thing, so we’re not so different. I belong here.’ It’s almost like a hungry monster that’s just a constant need to feel connection.””
• ““I was always bothered when people say, ‘I cry to your music, it sounds like a diary, it sounds so personal,’…Yes, it is personal. But that’s so gendered. There’s no feeling of, ‘Oh, maybe she’s a songwriter and she wrote this as a piece of art.’””
• ““I like to say something in as little time as possible…I don’t think I have the fundamental confidence necessary to write a four-minute meandering song. Number one – because I'm impatient. But number two – because I’ve never been someone who is listened to. No one would stop to listen to me. I'm not a white guy noodling on a guitar for 45 minutes. No one would stay for me. I learned from a young age to be concise because there’s a very small window for me to grab someone's attention.””

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Key facts

Musical artist.name

Mitski

Musical artist.image

MitskiUnionChap111023 (13 of 30) (53252051563) (cropped) 2.jpg

Musical artist.alt

Mitksi smiling while holding a microphone.

Musical artist.caption

Mitski performing in 2023

Musical artist.birth_name

Mitsuki Laycock

Musical artist.alias

Mitski Miyawaki

Musical artist.birth_place

Mie Prefecture, Japan

Musical artist.years_active

2012–present

Musical artist.origin

New York City, U.S.

Person.embed

yes

Person.signature

Mitski sig.svg

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Wikidata facts

Instance of

human

Gender

female

Citizenship

United States

Place of birth

Mie Prefecture

Occupation

singer

Languages spoken

English language

Notable work

The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We

Genre

J-pop

Instrument

bass guitar

Record label

Don Giovanni Records

Official website

mitski.com

Image

MitskiUnionChap111023 (13 of 30) (53252051563) (cropped).jpg

Residence

Nashville

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