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In her new video for “Elevator Operator,” Courtney Barnett is surrounded by people who treat her like crap. She’s taken on the role of an elevator operator, after all, and is clad in a maroon uniform with a bewildered look on her face.

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We went behind the scenes for her music video

“I still haven’t found it, with a capital I,” she explains. “In the U.S., I don’t quite feel American and I don’t quite feel white enough. But then, to fellow Asian people or in Japan, I’m also a foreigner. I’m mixed, I’m half white, I’m not Asian enough, I don’t understand… I’m stuck in this kind of middle ground of not being allowed in either camp. I also didn’t grow up in the U.S. and I also didn’t really grow up in Japan. I grew up moving around because of my father’s occupation, so I truly, fundamentally don’t belong anywhere. That’s always difficult when it comes to relating to other people or being part of a community or being in a relationship because you need some sort of point of reference; you need kind of a basis or a foundation where you can relate to each other.”

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This single in particular is maybe one of the most groundbreaking and Earth shattering things I’ve heard all year and she is so just so … Everything

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Mitski - Happy (trigger warning: violence/gore)

“The juxtaposition between the title of the song ‘Happy’ and the sober tone of the music reminded me of 1950s melodramas where things look so beautiful, but people feel so emotionally tortured and trapped… Stylistically, Douglas Sirk, particularly All That Heaven Allows, was the main inspiration for the video, as well as Wong Kar Wai’s In the Mood For Love.

It was important to me to cast an Asian American female as the lead as we rarely see Asian American women portrayed in the past, even though they did exist. When I was growing up I never saw anyone that looked like me – I’m half-Asian – on screen so to see someone like Mitski, who is also half-Asian, connect with so many people is very inspiring.”

Director Meagan Houang for Fact Magazine

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Mitski is such a next level artist