Tied for the fifth spot on Village Voice’s Pazz & Jop poll of the best 2016 singles is Mitski’s ‘Your Best American Girl.’ Mitski’s fourth studio album, Puberty 2, shows up at #15 on the albums list.
Who is Mitski, you ask? Well, I did, anyway. She is a half-Japanese, New York-based singer-songwriter. This track is about meeting an American man and realizing they aren’t compatible enough to stay together.
It’s a good song. Lots of emotion, lyrically interesting. I dig Pazz & Jop when it introduces me to something like this, whether or not I ever listen to it (or her) again.
If I could, I’d be your little spoon
And kiss your fingers forevermore
But, big spoon, you have so much to do
And I have nothing ahead of me
You’re the sun, you’ve never seen the night
But you hear its song from the morning birds
Well I’m not the moon, I’m not even a star
But awake at night I’ll be singing to the birds
[Pre-Chorus]
Don’t wait for me, I can’t come
[Chorus]
Your mother wouldn’t approve of how my mother raised me
But I do, I think I do
And you’re an all-American boy
I guess I couldn’t help trying to be your best American girl
[Verse 2]
You’re the one
You’re all I ever wanted
I think I’ll regret this
[Chorus]
Your mother wouldn’t approve of how my mother raised me
But I do, I finally do
And you’re an all-American boy
I guess I couldn’t help trying to be the best American girl
Your mother wouldn’t approve of how my mother raised me
But I do, I think I do
Meet Me In Montauk 
You’ve never heard of Mitski? Glad to see that she’s back to her roots after that disasterous third album where she tried to do country hip hop. 😀