Mitski’s 90-minute concert was a peculiar and inventive display that blended performance art, avante-garde cabaret and interpretive dance.
Mitski performs behind a curtain near the beginning of her performance at the Auditorium Theatre in Chicago on March 21, 2024. Mitski performs at the Auditorium Theatre in Chicago on March 21, 2024. Mitski performs at the Auditorium Theatre in Chicago on March 21, 2024. Mitski performs at the Auditorium Theatre in Chicago on March 21, 2024.
Offering a refreshing rebuke of now-customary projection screens, Mitski incorporated imaginative lighting, moody colors and a few basic props to frame her singing and pantomiming of 25 songs. Wearing a white dress shirt and ankle-length pants, she spent nearly all her time on a raised circular platform center stage. Pushed toward the rear, and off to the sides, the band members assumed an anonymous disposition.
Ditto the music’s predominantly melodic sweep and organic character, arguably the most accessible aspects of a vocalist whose arrangements eschew obvious structures and whose ability to fill a 3,900-person capacity space for four evenings might surprise some listeners. Large halls remain off-limits to most indie artists who favor similar degrees of complexity, experimentalism and rawness.
Former President Barack Obama cited Mitski’s “The Only Heartbreaker” on his 2021 list of favorite songs. Her two most recent records reached the Top 5 of multiple Billboard charts. Mitski’s collaborative song for the film “Everything Everywhere All at Once” landed a Grammy nomination. She finally cracked the Top 40 singles chart last fall with “My Love Mine All Mine,” which initially lit up TikTok and inspired Obama to put it on his latest lineup of picks.
She pleaded for someone to drown her out and wondered how people get through their day . Resorted to gluttonous distractions and tiresome labor to keep her from thinking about memories . Sacrificed freedom to be rid of her tortured soul . Invited wicked fates as punishment for acts of betrayal and destruction that led to her abandonment .
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