About “Your Best American Girl”

“Your Best American Girl” is the lead single on Mitski’s 4th album, Puberty 2. The song represents the turmoil that one feels when they experience a relationship that brings them great joy, but also must come to terms with the fact that they are different from their new partner on a multitude of levels and they are likely committing to a fantasy.

In an interview with NPR, Mitski says that this song was inspired by “wanting so badly to fit into this very American person’s life, and simply not being able to, just fundamentally being from a different place and feeling like I would just get in the way of their progression in their life”.

In a second interview with NPR, she followed-up about the song,