With Her New Concert Film, Mitski Earns The Big-Screen Treatment

Lexie Alley/Derrick Rossignol In 2017, I visited a mid-budget hotel near the Mall Of America in suburban Minneapolis to interview Mitski for my podcast. The night before, I watched her play a sold-out show at a local rock club. She was, at the time, a critical favorite just starting to become indie-famous. Her most recent album, Puberty 2, made year-end lists but didn’t top them. I was a fan, though I wouldn’t have predicted the path her career would eventually take. She was just a really good artist, I thought, not necessarily a budding pop superstar. For about a half hour, we talked in