JIMIN FACE ERA (2023)

JIMIN ✦ FACE ERA (2023)

i don’t care what the most streamed song ever is i don’t care who sold the most albums i don’t care what the most viewed mv of all time is i don’t care about these inflated achievements i don’t care about the sales or the streams or the views all i care about is if i like it or not hope this helps

But I’m a Cheerleader BTS

Random Excerpts :

“The best thing I ever did in my life was to love people,” Mitski says. “I wish I could leave behind all the love I have, after I die, so that I can shine all this goodness, all this good love that I’ve created onto other people.”

feels like the album is an exercise in negative capability – a fearless embodiment and absorption of the pain of other bodies.

When I ask her what the album would look like, if it were a person, she says it would be someone middle-aged and exhausted, perhaps someone having a midlife crisis. But through the daily indignity and exhaustion, something enormous and ecstatic is calling out

The toggling between hope and despair

reinforces the album’s tug-of-war between the intoxication of love and the pain of isolation.

"I’ve always been the person on the outside watching. And I’ve also done that with myself… outside of myself, witnessing myself, watching myself." She thinks that she might have adopted this habit as a condition of being a woman of color, and that it’s led to the occasional post-apocalyptic fantasy of being the only person left in the world

“I don’t have a self,” Mitski observes. “I have a million selves, and they’re all me, and I inhabit them, and they all live inside me.”

MITSKI - THE LAND IS INHOSPITABLE AND SO ARE WE, Will Arbery , Brooklyn 2023

random collage while listening to the album , very disconnected from the theme but just based on the vibe

“The Art of Violin Design” by Sergei Muratov

the parallels between confession booths and bathroom stall gloryholes are not lost on the intellectual homosexuals