{"id":3369,"date":"2017-01-29T21:47:52","date_gmt":"2017-01-30T04:47:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocc.org\/?p=3369"},"modified":"2017-01-29T21:47:52","modified_gmt":"2017-01-30T04:47:52","slug":"song-of-the-day-mitski-first-lovelate-spring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/socc\/2017\/01\/29\/song-of-the-day-mitski-first-lovelate-spring\/","title":{"rendered":"SONG OF THE DAY: Mitski \u2013\u2013 First Love\/Late Spring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am definitely late in terms of boarding the Mitski train, which is surprising \u2013\u2013 she\u2019s toured with Frankie Cosmos, whom I\u2019m a huge fan of, and is generally considered an integral part of the DIY indie scene (or whatever the \u201ccorrect\u201d name for this kind of music is). I\u2019d tried listening to her in the past, and was, I guess, a little put off by what I thought was a much more aggressive, rocky sound than I was expecting. \u00a0All I can say is that I must have listened to the wrong songs, or had gone temporarily deaf, because dang! This girl can sing! (and write).<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes she seems to look into the soul of the classic American sadboy (or girl); other times, she writes from her own perspective \u2013\u2013 that of a triculture disillusioned outsider. Either way, her music is almost always very emotionally evocative. The song below, for example, instantly transported me back into the days of all-encompassing, identity-dissolving and unhealthy first love. It\u2019s off her third album that came out in 2014: \u201cBury Me at Makeout Creek.\u201d Have a listen!<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Spotify Embed: First Love \/ Late Spring\" style=\"border-radius: 12px\" width=\"100%\" height=\"152\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/track\/1Ac5BDsGUMQ3tsW2vnc52x?utm_source=oembed\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am definitely late in terms of boarding the Mitski train, which is surprising \u2013\u2013 she\u2019s toured with Frankie Cosmos, whom I\u2019m a huge fan of, and is generally considered an integral part of the DIY indie scene (or whatever the \u201ccorrect\u201d name for this kind of music is). I\u2019d tried listening to her in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1121,"featured_media":3370,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12,20],"tags":[92,125],"class_list":["post-3369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","category-music-of-the","tag-mitski","tag-song-of-the-day"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa7fJU-Sl","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/socc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/socc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/socc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/socc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1121"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/socc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/socc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3369\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/socc\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/socc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/socc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/socc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}