Mitski’s “A Pearl” Gets the Music Video Treatment with Amazing Results
Written by: Miguel Torrellas
The incomparable Mitski Miyawaki continues her victory lap after the release of the amazing “Be the Cowboy,” a project that among many distinctions was recognized as the best album of the year by both Pitchfork and Consequence of Sound, with the release of the music video for the song “A Pearl.”
Directed by Saad Moosajee, Art Camp, and Danae Gosset and made in collaboration with Spotify, the video is a pastel-colored dive into the unnerving emotions conjured by the track. Once the energy kicks in, the protagonist, possibly one the many personas embodied by Mitski in “Be the Cowboy,” is thrown into a free-fall of shifting dimensions illustrated by hundreds of independently crafted frames.
“A Pearl” is the fourth song of the album to receive the music video treatment, after “Nobody,” “Geyser,” and “Washing Machine Heart” respectively, but we certainly hope that more of these amazing short films keep coming as she returns for her “Solo Tour of Beautiful Places” later this year.
I leave you with the video below, be sure to let us know in the comments what you think of it.
And for good measure, here’s the video of my favorite track of the album, “Washing Machine Heart.” Enjoy!