"Visibility on this level isn't the 35-year-old singer-songwriter's deal, and she has withdrawn, turning her social accounts over to her team and sparking prickly discourse criticizing fans who film her at shows. She does not care to be seen as a merchant of melancholia or to be devoured as a product, but the latter pays the bills."
"It's largely inspired by horror-mystery writer Shirley Jackson's 1962 novel We Have Always Lived in a Castle, a tale of sisters who've been ostracized by their community after the rest of their family dies suspiciously of poisoning. The album is also mindful of classic documents of colorful reclusiveness like Grey Gardens."
"She stressed that she doesn't want an album about shutting people out to feel smothering: 'Let's acknowledge the darkness that we're in but also laugh at it. Find humor in it. Find the fun, the fun of the mess of it all.'"
Mitski releases her eighth studio album 'Nothing's About to Happen to Me,' a project centered on intentional solitude and withdrawal from public life. The album draws inspiration from Shirley Jackson's 1962 novel 'We Have Always Lived in the Castle' and other narratives of colorful reclusiveness like 'Grey Gardens.' Mitski adopts the perspective of an agoraphobic loner who retreats from society with two cats, reflecting her ongoing tension between maintaining personal boundaries and navigating fame. The album represents her strongest work since 'Be the Cowboy,' successfully synthesizing different artistic phases across her career. In interviews, Mitski emphasizes balancing darkness with humor, finding levity within the complexities of isolation and public scrutiny.
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