Anytime I hear Mitski say "Liquid Smooth" I picture someone with smooth and beautiful skin, but easily breakable, also describing the concept of beauty. Once you feel beautiful, it's so easy for it to be immediately derailed. I absolutely love how you saw it as easily manipulated, as I had never seen it that way. Love your videos!!
thank you for your comment! :) it's so interesting what you said about once someone feels beautiful, its easy for it to be derailed immediately, that's a great point! it's something coveted but so fragile...
Omg I love your analysis of her songs so much and how it’s evident that you enjoy braking them down and immersing yourself in the meaning of her lyrics. I literally binged watch all of them! You should definitely do “A Pearl” some time soon. Thank you so much for making these!
9:32 it's really interesting your opinion on how the protagonist sees beauty under a more "objective" perspective, the way I saw it was more of like her not wanting to care that much about it but ending caring because it's "her season", it's what people tell her. Sorry if my English isn't great, it's not my first language
This song always makes me think of how beautiful I tend to feel in certain phases of my menstrual cycle, and how quickly that is broken in other phases.
17:25 from my point of view, the use of the word "capture" goes in the direction of men always "chasing" women, the terror of being a woman walking alone and a man trying to capture her. I also view it in the aspects of abusives relationships, all of this is very common and I also think that when mitski says do it, capture me, take my picture (objectifing herself), she's giving up and following society's sexists expectations
i just discovered you and i love all your videos! in school we’re doing a song analysis and i wanted to do liquid smooth and u helped me so much by showing your interpretation of the lyrics
So, I think that Liquid Smooth means like their being taken advantage of their body and beauty, or that’s what I see in the first sentence of the first verse “I’m beautiful, I know ‘cause it’s the season” and I feel like it’s talking about overworking theirselves and body to earn someone else’s love. (Also, this is my opinion! All opinions are valid 🫶)
