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Mitski- Be the Cowboy

This album is an inspiring tale of getting along in modern America as an immigrant, specifically an Asian immigrant. Mitski partners emo and folk with modern country and sings about acceptance, specifically about when she was a child in school. Being the cowboy was an image she had in her head that represented Americans for her, and she chases that dream on this album as an older, wiser, and more proud individual compared to when she was processing these emotions for the first time.