Mitski: Nothing's About to Happen to Me

"On Nothing Is About to Happen to Me, her eighth and strangest album, she bypasses the scalding emotional intensity of her early work and lands on the edge of the unreal, seeing no one. The music is skilfully marshalled: sober and lucid even while hallucinogenic and deranged."

"The lyrics take place almost entirely in a single setting: Mitski's once scrupulously tidied psychic home, now abandoned to her daydreams and overrun by mold and dust, with possums living in the attic. Throughout the record, Mitski's narrator is harried by stray cats, the dogs of dead girls, and crowds intent on embalming her."

"Increasingly, Mitski has been drawn to theater, one of the last vestiges of in-person, ephemeral experience, where meaning resists degradation and the fourth wall seals her world in place. She is currently writing music and lyrics for a stage adaptation of The Queen's Gambit."

Following her unexpected TikTok breakthrough with 'My Love Mine All Mine,' Mitski released her eighth album featuring live instrumentation from her touring band. The album takes place within a single setting: her abandoned, deteriorating psychic home overrun with mold, dust, and animals. Throughout the record, Mitski's narrator confronts stray cats, crowds attempting to embalm her, and her own slipping sanity. She struggles to preserve memories of an absent lover while fantasizing about death. The album reflects Mitski's growing interest in theater and ephemeral experience, with gothic instrumentation influenced by her concurrent work on a stage adaptation of The Queen's Gambit.

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