Mitski - The Only Heartbreaker

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🗓️ 29 March 2022

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Mitski - "The Only Heartbreaker" from the 2022 album Laurel Hell on Dead Oceans.

Mitski's latest album, Laurel Hell, went through a few different phases during its creation. "This album has been a punk record at some point, and a country record," she told Rolling Stone. "Then, after a while, it was like, 'I need to dance.' Even though the lyrics might be depressing, I need something peppy to get me through this." Today's Song of the Day definitely fits the bill. "I needed that Breakfast Club dance-sequence music."

Today's Song of the Day also marks the first time Mitski has teamed up with another songwriter: Dan Wilson, formerly of the band Semisonic. "I was just sitting on it forever. I have so many iterations of it. Nothing felt right," she told Apple Music. Wilson was able to give her the guidance she needed. "It turned out he's really good. He helped me solve so many of the problems and kind of lead me out of the labyrinth of it. And yeah, I'm really glad that I took that chance with him."

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0:00.0	If you would just make one mistake, what a relief that would be, but I think for as long
0:22.8	as we're together, I'll be the only hard breaker, I'll be the only hard breaker,
0:39.6	I'll be the only hard breaker, so I'll be the loser in this game,
1:04.5	I'll be the bad guy in the play, I'll be the water main, let's burst in the flooding,
1:15.9	you'll be better when you're only watching, I'll be the only hard breaker,
1:35.9	I'll be the only hard breaker,
2:05.9	I'll be the only hard breaker,
2:35.9	so I'll be the only hard breaker,

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