WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.800 Hi, my name is mitski and this is the first time. 00:00:12.400 --> 00:00:15.200 So I have two answers to the question. 00:00:15.200 --> 00:00:18.500 First time. I was ever scared by a horror movie. 00:00:18.500 --> 00:00:20.300 The first one is the obvious one, 00:00:20.300 --> 00:00:22.100 which is on the Japanese film Jewel, 00:00:22.100 --> 00:00:25.000 which became the Hollywood version of The Grudge. 00:00:30.600 --> 00:00:31.600 Does not compare. 00:00:31.600 --> 00:00:32.600 I'm sorry. I'm sorry. 00:00:32.600 --> 00:00:35.600 Hollywood just doesn't compare I still to this day. 00:00:35.600 --> 00:00:41.600 Have nightmares about long-haired woman ghost and small Boy Child 00:00:41.600 --> 00:00:41.900 Ghost. 00:00:44.500 --> 00:00:47.500 But another one that's card me. 00:00:47.500 --> 00:00:52.500 My parents went to a party and brought me I guess and I was 00:00:52.500 --> 00:00:57.200 ushered into like the the children's room but a lot of the kids 00:00:57.200 --> 00:01:00.300 there were like teenagers or just older. 00:01:00.300 --> 00:01:02.200 They were playing this horror movie. 00:01:02.200 --> 00:01:04.900 And I'd I think it was a vampire movie I but I was like 00:01:04.900 --> 00:01:07.200 way too young and 00:01:08.600 --> 00:01:10.300 I wish I knew what film it was. 00:01:10.300 --> 00:01:12.000 It's just it's scarred me for ever. 00:01:12.000 --> 00:01:17.900 I've said in interviews before that. 00:01:17.900 --> 00:01:22.000 The first time I wrote a song officially was when I was either 00:01:22.000 --> 00:01:27.100 17 or 18, but now I'm remembering that the first time I wrote 00:01:27.100 --> 00:01:29.300 a song without knowing I was writing a song, 00:01:29.300 --> 00:01:33.100 I think it was first grade, second grade like a small child 00:01:33.100 --> 00:01:36.300 at the school bus stop waiting for my bus. 00:01:36.300 --> 00:01:41.200 I just made up a song to myself about how excited I was to 00:01:41.200 --> 00:01:41.700 go to school. 00:01:41.700 --> 00:01:45.600 I'm not going to sing it to you because that's between me and 00:01:45.600 --> 00:01:46.500 my child self. 00:01:48.200 --> 00:01:53.100 I don't remember the first time I ever played a guitar, 00:01:53.100 --> 00:01:57.100 but I do remember why I switched from piano to guitar. 00:01:57.100 --> 00:02:02.000 I was going to another gig why was playing keyboard and I was 00:02:02.000 --> 00:02:06.800 in New York and I was lugging this huge keyboard on the subway 00:02:06.800 --> 00:02:11.100 and everyone was just giving me death stares and I was like, 00:02:11.100 --> 00:02:12.800 I need a more portable instrument. 00:02:12.800 --> 00:02:15.000 This is not, this is not sustainable. 00:02:15.000 --> 00:02:16.900 So I switch to guitars. 00:02:16.900 --> 00:02:21.500 Oh my goodness. 00:02:21.500 --> 00:02:24.900 The first time, I am not a realtor. 00:02:24.900 --> 00:02:26.300 Let's be truthful here. 00:02:26.300 --> 00:02:30.900 It was like a GoFundMe funded College, 00:02:30.900 --> 00:02:34.800 glorified, College, trip with other bands from my school. 00:02:34.800 --> 00:02:36.500 It was really nice. 00:02:36.500 --> 00:02:38.700 Actually, you know, we stayed 00:02:39.400 --> 00:02:44.900 At everybody's parents, had was a lot of like beautiful 00:02:44.900 --> 00:02:48.900 Upstate areas. Pennsylvania, has nice. 00:02:48.900 --> 00:02:55.100 I don't remember the first time I'd like, 00:02:55.100 --> 00:02:56.300 officially went bacon. 00:02:56.300 --> 00:02:57.300 It was just like, 00:02:58.300 --> 00:03:02.300 my body doesn't like Dairy and so it was just 00:03:03.400 --> 00:03:08.800 easier to go with the vegan option instead of ask what's in something, 00:03:08.800 --> 00:03:10.800 you know, ask what the ingredients are, 00:03:10.800 --> 00:03:13.100 just go to a vegan restaurant or whatever. 00:03:13.100 --> 00:03:16.500 And then, as I got out of the habit of eating meat, 00:03:16.500 --> 00:03:19.800 I started to think about what it actually meant to eat an animal 00:03:19.800 --> 00:03:20.200 and 00:03:21.400 --> 00:03:24.000 I just didn't want to do it and then since I have the resources 00:03:24.000 --> 00:03:27.600 and, you know, access to vegan protein, 00:03:27.600 --> 00:03:31.200 I feel like I don't need animal protein, 00:03:31.200 --> 00:03:33.700 but on tour, it's hard on tour. 00:03:33.700 --> 00:03:36.200 I have eggs or whatever when I need my protein, 00:03:36.200 --> 00:03:37.900 you know, it's all about just 00:03:39.300 --> 00:03:46.300 Whether you have access to it, I don't know if this counts 00:03:46.300 --> 00:03:48.300 as the first time I ever stood up for myself, 00:03:48.300 --> 00:03:52.600 but when I was a kid, I used to always start every sentence 00:03:52.600 --> 00:03:54.700 with no, even when I was agreeing with you. 00:03:56.100 --> 00:03:57.800 I be like, no. 00:03:57.800 --> 00:04:02.600 Yeah, so it's just like I would start with an o so maybe that 00:04:02.600 --> 00:04:03.200 counts as 00:04:04.200 --> 00:04:05.500 Me standing up for myself. 00:04:05.500 --> 00:04:06.900 I don't know if it does though. 00:04:06.900 --> 00:04:15.500 I don't remember the first official show show I ever played, 00:04:15.500 --> 00:04:18.700 but I do remember the first like public performance. 00:04:18.700 --> 00:04:21.500 I did was in first grade, the School Musical, 00:04:21.500 --> 00:04:28.600 it was a Japanese school and it was a Japanese play called. 00:04:29.700 --> 00:04:31.800 Just something in the neck or which means, 00:04:31.800 --> 00:04:35.000 13 cats and we were all cats. 00:04:35.000 --> 00:04:36.300 They did a good job. 00:04:36.300 --> 00:04:37.900 Everybody. Got a solo. 00:04:37.900 --> 00:04:40.400 You know, I got it. 00:04:40.400 --> 00:04:41.200 I got a solo. 00:04:41.200 --> 00:04:49.800 I think the first time I ever fell in love with a movie was 00:04:51.000 --> 00:04:54.000 Princess Mononoke the Miyazaki movie. 00:04:59.800 --> 00:05:01.700 I don't have a favorite music key, 00:05:01.700 --> 00:05:05.600 but I bet is in the top five for sure.