I'm beautiful, I know cause it's the season But what am I to do with all this beauty? Biology, I am an organism, I'm chemical That's all, that is all I'm liquid smooth, come touch me, too And feel my skin is plump and full of life I'm in my prime I'm liquid smooth, come touch me, too I'm at my highest peak, I'm ripe About to fall, capture me Or at least take my picture Kuzurete yuku maeni I'm pulsing, my blood is red and unafraid of living Beginning to end I'm liquid smooth, come touch me, too And feel my skin is plump and full of life I'm in my prime I'm liquid smooth, come touch me, too I'm at my highest peak, I'm ripe About to fall How I feel this river rushing through my veins With nowhere else to go, it circles 'round I'm liquid smooth, come touch me, too And feel my skin is plump and full of life I'm in my prime I'm liquid smooth, come touch me, too I'm at my highest peak, I'm ripe About to fall, capture me
ive always interpreted this as her being tired of being objectified yet still craves validation especially because of the lyrics “i’m an organism, that is all” she wants to feel like people see her as a human but also wants to be seen as beautiful “come touch me too”
I feel like it’s also about women being told they have an expiration date and have to marry before a certain since youth is related to beauty in our society
My personal take on it is that it shows this feeling that people have when faced with age and being unwanted at an older age. A lot of people seem to think that it's about how men treat women, but I'd like to think it's something more: beauty being a fleeting thing and the fear that comes with it. Even guys can sympathize with the idea that the older we get, the less interested people are in us. This song helps remind everyone that beauty (and even other things that come with being young) are temporary and will be gone in the blink of an eye. To me, it's really beautiful and painful to see this feeling of "please be with me, while I'm still desirable".
i also think it’s about thr pressure women are under in society; like how they “lose value” in the eyes of society as they age whereas men are praised at whatever age.
as a sa victim, i constantly feel objectified as if the only reason a man would talk to me is to manipulate into me giving my body in. yet every day i try my hardest to feel pretty, just feel worth. i relate to this song so much, and the lyric "at least take my picture" is so good, i just want someone to notice me of my effort.
this song gives a meaning that she's a woman and in this society is only seen like she has something to give when she's "ripe" or at her "prime". basically she's interperting that women are seen only for their beauty but not for their feelings, thoughts, themselves or being a human in general. "how i feel this river rushing through my veins" she feels her blood, she feels as a human being but others can't see that or feel that so that's why it circles round and doesn't get to anyone. nobody wants to acknowledge that she is a human being too, that she can give more than her beauty. that's why she's liquid smooth
i see this song as not being able to see your worth unless youre sexualizing yourself for validation and feeling like youre only needed if youre pretty. like the line “or at least take my picture” is so findhsjdhdhdnhfbd
as a woc i honestly relate to this song so much by the way i look at it. like im so stereotyped and expected to have these perfections and when i finally do, im asking everyone to love me before i fall back until my old cycle.
i’m a woc and to me this song feels like that feeling when you find yourself beautiful and worthy of love, but others are chasing something else, most often, a white girl (your best american girl, lol). it’s like this yearning for people who won’t recognize your beauty when you still want love and to feel like you are something to be loved, if that makes sense. and when enough people start not loving you despite this, your own belief that you are pretty starts to waver. it feels almost feels like a “i’m soft and i’m pretty too, i’m young, love me too” to people who won’t look beyond the color of your skin before deciding that you’re not worth loving.
i interpret this (as a 20 y/o who has never been in a romantic relationship) being someone knowing that they are “in their prime” and their body should be appreciated now, but mourning their past body and how it was innocent and not viewed as an object. but also mourning their future body because they only have this short moment in time where they will still be beautiful in societies eyes. it feels rushed,desperate, and sad, but is sung with notes that crack mimicking moans or wailing which both indicate strong positive and negative feelings.
The line ‘I’m in my prime’ rlly gets me since i know I’m only 14 and not in my prime yet. However, I also know once I’m in it I will desperately try to hold onto it, refusing to grow.
I think this song may be about how there is a prime for a woman's beauty. She doesn't want her beauty to wasted because it will soon fade and soon people's attraction will go away. She doesn't want her beauty to be wasted so she wants someone to appreciate it and use it while it's still there. Society and culture do not want actors or people who are older in age because they are less attractive and less beautiful than those younger in their "prime".
@@elle4630 EXACTLY! She has such a unique voice and I love how you can really feel the emotions she's trying to display through the music and her voice???
i was confuse at first to understand the meaning of this song and after i do some research thru comments and relistening again, this so is so relateble to me. I been open to p0rngraphy at a very young age. (i was like around age of 3-4 that time) and thru my childhood, i dont feel like a child at all like others. I focusing on my body and very sexualises myself because i believe people will love me more and being thinking/thought myself as a pleasure even i disgusted it, i feel loved by it. flashbacks thru those moments makes me so traumatizes and hating at myself that time how naive and a fool i am.
this song to me is me thinking of my former "beauty". being raised a women, i was taught that women are there to please men. and because of this, i was desperate for male validation, and ended up repressing my transness to satisfy men. because without their validation, i didn't feel whole. i was always objectified even at a young age, and that only reinforced that idea.
I really feel this, growing up afab and plus-sized, the fat positivity I was exposed to always boiled down to 'don't worry, there are still guys out there that wanna fuck you' meaning that, if I wanted a snowball's chance in hell of feeling good about myself and my body, I had to sexualize it. The most obvious thing to sexualize about my body was my boobs, so I grew up being kinda weird about them and about how big they are. Now, whenever I start feeling dysphoric about my chest, I have this urge to beat back the very thought of binding, because without my boobs, no man will want to fuck me. As if that's the thing that should determine my worth as a human being, my potential for loving and being loved.
I used to love this song,it comforted me but not anymore because somebody stole the song from me but that’s okay I hope they find happiness from it like I did
Reading thru this comments disturb me,about how many people relate to it,im also the part of the comment who relate to this song,its fcking disturbing how many people relate to it,its so fcked up,im sorry for all the people who have went thru all those things,im proud tho we were able to find comfort and tell our stories because of this song.
I got in to mitski songs from washing machine heart then nobody then me and my husband now I'm listening to all her songs she's Tru the best and she has such a great angelic voice
In my view, this song is about two things: being a woman+ and menstruation. It's about the objectification of women and how society expects girls to grow up too fast according to their biology. To me, it feels like a girl realizing that she had her first period and immediately being subjected to numerous expectations and violence as her body changes. The terror that comes as a girl loses her innocence while becoming a woman.
I really like that you connected the parts where mitski talked about biology to menstruation. I can definitely agree with this theory, and I think anyone who’s had their first period can relate!
Bro this is my favorite song, even when I found out the like theme of this song it just made it more interesting on how Mitski comes up with these songs and adds these themes into it, Mitski sounds very strong but soft in this song, I love this song sm it’s crazy
As a 2 years of sexual trauma fallen into sa situations survivor (which is me), I always find this so comfortable and super calming but as the same time, so accurate and relatable. Especially that line "I am liquid smooth, come touch me too. And feely my skin is plump and full of life, I am at my Prime". It feels so close to home. Even being objectified to be sexualized for 2 years 12-15 years old me getting through this. Yes I do had 2 abusive relationships. The 1st relationship was very somehow A bit abusive and brainwashing and the 2nd relationship was very sexually abusive and super depressing. But thankfully at the age 15 it has finally stopped. I was already brutally graped and gr00med in the 2nd relationship, I was also groomed and harassed in the 1st relationship but not in the sexual way thankfully. Mitski always be my favorite
AAAA feel my skin is plump and full of life I'm in my prime I'm liquid smooth, come touch me, too I'm at my highest peak, I'm ripe About to fall, capture me That part omg
I have always seen this song as a teenage girl in school with raging daddy issues that develops a crush on a English teacher. She always wants him around but doesn’t like the idea that he is older. He doesn’t care and he likes her too. But they know there love is forbidden. The decide to run away together and he leaves his wife for the little girl, and they leave town and live a life together but he cheats and she finds out and the little girl shoots him and dumps his body in the river.
Then she feels guilty and shoots her self, with her last words “ we will be together for ever my love, just not now” as she floats down the river with him
"im liquid smooth, come touch me too. and feel my skin is plump and full of life" -mitski “I’m liquid rizz, come goon me too. And feel my gyatt is plump and full of life” -rizzski
Art is made to cope, not for leisure. The rich have the right of leisure the creative have the right of bleeding out emotion for them to objectify and frame it. So how we doing fellow Mitski listeners cause I sure am here for a reason 😎
Honestly this reminds me of something a bit strange, well maybe It reminds me of a pop star who dosent set boundaries for his fans (well say said pop star is a male for now) wich means they can touch him anywhere, wich is where “come touch me too” comes in, he knows it’s bad but keeps the act up and all this madness so it won’t ruin his reputation, but. One day the music gets screwed up and makes this loud screeching noise causing him to finally come to his sense and snap. “How I feel this river rushing through my veins” could Imply reality hitting him so fast he was no time to react Sorry if I dident explain it well I’m not good at explaining :)
@@elle4630 AND A ADD ON!!! When it gets to “with nowhere else to go it circles round” I could see all his fans just keep on cheering whiles he’s standing there in pain but has to parented all is fine, we can’t make the fans upset.
I wes listening to this while reading lost in the cloud, and i wes on chapter 53 and it got so well with the song it wes like magic i wes so shocked!!😍🙏
(I'm a trans boy) i was told my breasts would distract boys for the first time when I was 9, catcalled for the first time when I was 12 (being alone to boot), mitski really is The Woman Ever
I can see other people‘s opinion on this, however my interpretation differs a bit from what i‘ve seen in the comments. This song for me sais how we are from birth damned to be merely organisms, controlled by our emotions and desires, and that she is confronting the perceived fact that the only point of our existence, a woman’s beauty, emotions, is essentially sex. This reduction on procreation makes us worthless when we are no longer attractive. Women are trapped in this destiny from birth. I feel like she is expressing her despair about it, about being an animal(which we all are).
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