https://www.gq.com/story/mitski-writes-bangers-for-the-loners

Beyond music, she's a riot on Twitter. Hers is a timeline of unpretentious side-eye at human trivia. “Oh thank you,” she smiles awkwardly, as though bad news is around the bend. It's our loss that Mitski's Twitter honeymoon period is over.

One place where this idea manifests itself for Mitski is onstage. “I try to inhabit more of a swagger than I have in real life,” she says. “Kim Gordon has a quote. You should probably look it up because I'm paraphrasing: People pay to see somebody be confident onstage.” (I looked it up later. The quote is: People pay money to see others believe in themselves.) What Mitski speaks to is common among women. We act out our heroes when we walk into rooms. It's aspirational for us, but it's isolating for Mitski, particularly night after night under the spotlight. She nods. “You have thousands of people looking at you. But they're not looking at you. You're a performer.”