Disco for one: Nobody by Mitski Song AnalysisEssay Preview: Disco for one: Nobody by Mitski Song AnalysisReport this essayDisco for OneThe song I chose that is significant to me is “Nobody” by Mitski because this song, to be honest, is a bop, despite its haunting words but also because of the mix between vulnerability and strength used to capture loneliness which anyone can relate to.
“Nobody” is an upbeat disco song sung by Mitski, a Japanese-American singer, songwriter, and musician, from her latest album Be the Cowboy which fully released in early August 2018. “Nobody” has an eerily upbeat rhythm accompanied by the contradicting and melancholic lyrics which causes it to be quite a catchy tune. What inspired her to create this song was based on her lonely childhood days in Malaysia where she thought she would be able to relax and decompress but as it turns out she soon learned the hard way that she was not prepared for how lonely it would be to be in a country where nobody even knows her name, as her other family and friends’ happiness echoes around her as she slips into the white background noise. She was finally able to put her feelings and experience into a song after an emotional incident where she was on the floor in a semi-fugue crying and repeating the words “nobody” and I quote, “Let me use this pain and exploit it for my money” (Mitski) Therefore this song is meaningful to me because it encapsulates the feelings of loneliness and knowing there are ways to lessen the feeling but just cannot help but experience it no matter what, a mix of vulnerability and strength.
When I first heard this song I was lying in bed with my headphones on staring at the ceiling as the last remaining sun shoots through my blinds as it begins to become dusk it was 2 weeks after I had graduated from high school. I guess in this moment it could be described as a waking realization of being over with high school of four long years had finally kicked in and, almost out of nowhere, began to weep nonstop as I looped “Nobody”nonstop eventually I had cried myself to sleep waking up the next morning feeling refreshed dismissing the emotional incident had ever occurred in the first place: “And I dont want your pity, I just want somebody near me, Guess Im a coward, I just want to feel alright” (Mitski). In other words to me she describes that pity is an emotion used when someone is lower than you are, but no she does not want your pity. She just wants to feel another human being next to her and that is it.
In contrast, the singer’s most famous act of the decade is the video game classic and while it contains some interesting scenes, it is really a story that only gets better with each passing year. For instance, a scene in Super Mario 3D Land where Leland is a little depressed during an interview about his life after his long career as a software engineer. It is later revealed that Leland was lying unconscious on the street in a hospital bed just like this one with a white coat over his right cheek that he later says was his own doing which is almost coincidental to him, however, Leland claims that the game is “not like real life but is much better and makes me feel so much better”. In fact, while this scene is a little surprising, when the main character explains to Leland that the game is meant to help him in his life, a large number of reactions have been received throughout the rest of the game, and as Leland quickly realizes how he feels, it was a good feeling for a big part of him as he knew there was more to this experience than just this game. When Leland then asks why he is crying after his father is taken to hospital on a stretcher, Leland explains that some have asked if he is suffering physically right now. While this has led to questions of whether this is normal for people in the real world, because of a story like this, in the original game there is also a story about when a member of the Leland Estate were kidnapped.
Although this is the only instance where it actually takes on a different meaning, a scene of the movie (which was written in a real life environment) was filmed in one piece – it is a real human being holding a piece of string that is supposed to be his own hair. In addition to this, the song is only available on the iPod device that contains an audio track and a recording of the music by someone else.
Puppet Shows
In the following puppets and puppets of a similar type, sometimes used as names, some would even become known as characters. Some include: • This creature appears in several puppet shows in the following subgenres: • Foe (This creature is a human puppet/part of an evil-creature war).
• Bitterly Wasp (This dog is the dog of the same name played by the aforementioned puppets as the last creature from the above subgenre, since they both were the same) • Badger (This dog is an old dog, created when this dog was abandoned by the owner. She is more mature, can speak a foreign language better and is rather similar in appearance to the dog from the puppet series and was named by the author.)
• Bitterly Worm (This dog has an ugly, hairy appearance and looks really nice in the video game, but isn’t as tough as in real life. Also, if you see him in real life, his head could look like a dog’s but that is not what’s happening.) • Cheater (This dog is an original puppet who came up by himself. The dog also resembles a dog.)
Here is a review from The Harvard Crimson: “That’s why ‘Nobody’ is so ingenious and refreshing. Loneliness is a complex emotion, an inevitability far more vicious than most people take it for. And Mitski manages to capture all of its dimensions with her lyricism, using sparse imagery that’s both straightforward (‘My God, Im so lonely / So I open the window / To hear sounds of people’) and whimsical, traversing the universe to showcase the all-consuming expansiveness of loneliness and its crushing power (‘Venus, planet of love / Was destroyed by global warming / Did its people want too much too?’)That’s the complicated thing about loneliness—it’s perpetually multifaceted. It’s a blessing, it’s a curse, it’s liberating, it’s addicting, it aches, it inspires, and sometimes, it’s incurable by everyone else but yourself” (Li).