Mitski Interview: New Album 'Laurel Hell,' Quitting, Return to Music - Rolling Stone

Her vulnerable songwriting made her a star. Making peace with what that meant was harder. Now, with a new album on the way, she reveals why she’s coming back

M itski has been having nightmares. The 31-year-old musician has always suffered from performance-anxiety dreams, but lately they've gotten more terrifying, more elaborate. During one in particular, her cat was stuck in a tree, and she was late to soundcheck. When she finally arrived at the venue, she found out she'd be performing with an orchestra she'd never rehearsed with. "Everyone was side-eyeing me," she recalls. "As I was trying to do vocal warmups, the whole orchestra was like, 'That's a good idea!' and started doing vocal warmups too. I couldn't hear myself, so I kept trying to go dee

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