Mitski - I Bet On Losing Dogs (Austin City Limits 6/4/19)

Mitski performing "I Bet On Losing Dogs" on Austin City Limits on 4 June 2019
air date: 01/18/20
I do not own anything etc. etc.

[@kamikazegirl666]

funny how she invented dogs

[@to-y1530]

nice try. but mitski is actually god and invited everything.

[@uniiqzx2824]

@@to-y1530 right!

[@user-ie3du5vl2c]

@@to-y1530 yes.

[@ezrasometimes1870]

I WISH ALL MITSKI STANS A BETTER RELATIONSHIP WITH THEIR MOTHERS

[@idkmd6288]

AND ALSO THEIR FATHERS😭

[@aliali-bun]

T H A N K Y O U

[@shuou2794]

💔

[@haleemaarif2738]

ITS NOT GOING WELL BUT YEAH

[@deftuunes]

IM CRYING OKAY?!

[@melaniestevenson2231]

fun fact: she invented everything

[@azelearose]

Stfu be original

[@keyowo3498]

@@azelearose lmao jokes aren’t always gonna be original and calm down you got so mad for no reason 😭

[@ginaverses]

tired of seeing this

[@lep2525]

True. We wouldn't exist without Mitski.

[@unlockme7763]

This was so abstract I think I just got smarter

[@Otra_Chica_de_Internet]

I don't really think there's any meaning to it tho, I think she's just Like That

[@moonmoon-dc8lu]

@@Otra_Chica_de_Internet what are u saying

[@rayleakss]

@@Otra_Chica_de_Internet como assim?

[@towel1636]

@@Otra_Chica_de_Internet ?

[@cykablyat114]

@@moonmoon-dc8lu like they are saying that its just mitskis personality shes not trying to be abstract or shit shes just being her and expressing her feelings.

[@sza_lvrrr]

mitski: crawls all over a table us: AAAAAAAAANSNBFBBSBS MITSKIMISTKIMISTKSI

[@lueur2073]

I was a fan but after watching this I became an air conditioner

[@arisa835]

LMFAOOO

[@icanhearsirensviolins]

Haha Mitski invented breathing

[@aliali-bun]

nice joe pfp ^^

[@icanhearsirensviolins]

@@aliali-bun thank you! :)

[@aliali-bun]

@@icanhearsirensviolins np ^u^

[@isathena]

Mitski invented vocal chords

[@khaayyee]

queen of physical fitness

[@majorscreamer]

😭

[@catcollector1257]

no one: the CC: i’ll be your baby mitski 😭

[@qloasqueroso1467]

fun fact: she literally created the earth

[@ester______]

and Venus

[@Plasmagal]

@@ester______ Venus, planet of love.

[@Cloud99464]

​@@Plasmagal Destroyed by global warming

[@natasha-c]

The way this woman performs is so fucking mesmerising. I’m stunned

[@tokyolhtl]

MITSKI COME BACK PLS I MISS YOU

[@shuou2794]

💔

[@alex-tx5hs]

SHE FINALLY DID

[@shamestille]

the captions😭

[@user-ie3du5vl2c]

Mitski invented the solar system, the milky way, and all the planets

[@chibrina]

THIS RECORDING IS SO NICE WHERE DID IT COMD FROM IVE NEVER SEEN IT

[@franciscochavez5851]

She did a whole concert for Austin City Limits. I think it’s like 5 bucks to subscribe and view all their concerts. Check PBS website

[@chibrina]

@@franciscochavez5851 Omg thanks so much!!!

[@junejune5326]

HOW LONG HAVE YOU HAD THIS

[@no_peace]

Haha

[@ithinkiwoulddie9196]

i will never be the same after watching this

[@val-hr4xe]

her voice is so ethereal

[@amnahs7097]

I'm currently binging on watching her performances and it's making me emotional I love mitski

[@darkinstinctful123]

I'd be dead if she just sat infront me with that gravitas.

[@ella-gy2kw]

mitski i am so stoned and crying

[@vampz666]

this song makes me feel it all. Everything blossoms once I listen to this and feel the lyrics, the melodies, everything in my soul, it makes me feel so magical, yet so sad and confused. It's beautiful and shocking how one human can make someone feel so much with a simple song. I relate this with my mother, how our relationship fell once, but we are much better, it never made me feel so seen and beautiful before, but now it does. And I thank mitski for writing this beautiful flower of a song.

[@misanthropist9602]

it’s a proven fact yknow mitski actually invented music 🤨

[@sondermoth]

this is beautiful

[@liars0nly]

i listen to this every night before bed😩👌

[@allaboutrayy559]

SAMEEE

[@liars0nly]

@@allaboutrayy559AS WE SHOULD

[@berthetrepat5626]

how do you do that? i can’t even listen to it without crying like a baby

[@liars0nly]

@@berthetrepat5626 i do it just to cry ahaha plot twist🥲🥲

[@StonedJudxs]

Are you okay?

[@blueberrygacha9162]

I cant stop i have to listen to every song now

[@notfwdamovement]

I’m OBSESSED

[@deftonera777]

i miss her sm

[@lyndseymichele]

and the kneepads. eyes. I am hooked.

[@leajohnson1437]

fun fact: mitski creating betting on losing dogs !

[@kafeiio]

THE PEOPLE WHO WITNESSED THIS IN PERSON R SO LUCKY AAGGHH 💓💓💓

[@haruiilol143]

I love mitski so much

[@blakejester]

CRYING OVER THE SUBTITLES

[@user-ie3du5vl2c]

Fun fact: mitski is god she invented everything on earth, even humans.

[@jacklim8184]

MITSKI MITSKI MITSKI

[@sophiehalpin28]

the captions are making me giggle

[@jsunksnat]

I hope i one day get the honour to see her live. Her music means so much to me, and to have actually heard it from herself live would be incredible

[@bugeye1917]

i love her sm omg

[@cristroke]

My baby, my baby You're my baby, say it to me Baby, my baby Tell your baby that I'm your baby I bet on losing dogs I know they're losing and I'll pay for my place By the ring Where I'll be looking in their eyes when they're down I'll be there on their side I'm losing by their side Will you let me, baby, lose On losing dogs I know they're losing and I'll pay for my place By the ring Where I'll be looking in their eyes when they're down I wanna feel it I bet on losing dogs I always want you when I'm finally fine How you'd be over me looking in my eyes when I come Someone to watch me die Someone to watch me die I bet on losing dogs

[@overxdosage]

“I always want you when im finally fine” ☹️

[@lilshit4200]

this is giving me nicki anaconda fitness vibes also i cried

[@marlowe5767]

those dislikes are from the loosing dogs

[@TheMaskedNate]

Ughhh I love this version so muchhh, maybe even more than the record.

[@blakegrimley]

mitski invented babies and dogs. powerful

[@yuxugo2167]

mitski is god

[@cookie08]

i’m just binging thru mitski lives now

[@moonharmony]

*im going to cry*

[@mika9132]

THE CAPTIONS PLEASE

[@amanda_113]

The captions 💀

[@queeferqueef]

THE CAPTIONS- GAVABAB

[@angelcake6869]

THE CAPTIONS LMAO

[@kindakassibawi7148]

omg the captions

[@coconutcreamcameron785]

The captions lol

[@mothRequiem]

i am so in love with her please please please

[@juanivazquez7673]

queeeeeen

[@no_peace]

Someone to watch me die

[@hanazaatri]

Yo the subtitles tho- 😭

[@theotherjack576]

Captions were a nice touch

[@alinapihkanen44]

funny how she invented performing

[@kellenleee]

THE SUBTITLES LMAO

[@cockdoodle3315]

I LOVE THE PAUSE IN THE LIVE VERSION SO BAD

[@user-kg6rr9jc4n]

This is so emotional wtg

[@sarak114]

How do i tattoo this on my forehead

[@hottie286]

pls why is she censoring herself?

[@potato.pancake]

you can tell she said it by her lips; it was likely removed in post production which makes sense bc the op said this is from pbs lol

[@potato.pancake]

censorship like that is very common is televised performances

[@luffy-gamez2825]

I have captions on and I find It funny on beginning from what you said

[@myaayed3736]

I love mitski but what does any of this mean? I understand most of the time but this is a little more abstract than usual. Can someone explain??

[@snips5699]

Personally it always resonated to me as betting on toxic relationships and people while knowing it's not going to work...

[@potato.pancake]

i thought it was about being in a relationship with someone who you know is going to let you down, specifically cheating on you. “tell your baby that i’m your baby” - tell the person you’re cheating on me with that you’re dating me “i bet on losing dogs” - for context, i assume this is a reference to wrestling, though i don’t know much about wrestling so this is an assumption lol. the “losing dog” is the person who she knows is going to cheat on her but she keeps putting her faith into them, i.e. “i bet”. “i know they’re losing and i pay for my place by the ring, where i’ll be looking in their eyes when they’re down” - this continues the wrestling metaphor. she knows they’re going to cheat on her/are cheating on her (“i know they’re losing”) and are going to break her heart (“pay for my place”), but she holds on anyway. “i’ll be looking in their eyes when they’re down” is, to me, about the moment where the person confronts her about their “loss,” i.e. the fact that they cheated, and she has to deal with this knowledge. i believe the lines “i wanna feel it” and “how you’d be over me looking in my eyes when i c*m” shows that this relationship isn’t made of mutual love. it’s already been established (by my interpretation) that the person she’s with cheats on her, and these lines show she only stays in the relationship bc she believes it will make her feel something, and feeling anything, even if it’s not a genuine attraction, feels better than feeling nothing. music is fluid and this is just my interpretation! i hope it helps :D

[@potato.pancake]

oh yeah “i pay for my place” has a double meaning, the first being literal and following the wrestling metaphor of how people bet (like with money) on who they think will win a match, aka her staying in a relationship with this person, and the second being having to deal with the consequences of her decision.

[@ladyp0mp0m487]

I see it as a motherly figure helping a “losing dog”- a child of theirs. As if the child is drifting away she wishes them to be her baby again. The child is going through a hard time but the mother still bets on her “losing dog”.

[@annikas_archives]

I think the “I bet in losing dogs” is a reference to illegal dog fights. Where the dogs both go at it and the fight’s over when one of them dies.

[@xinsoull]

LOLL THE CAPTION

[@carrington8662]

THE CC LMAOOOO

[@luvvved]

[@Rybore13]

The closed captions 😂😂😂

[@mitskiisoursavior]

jesus christ i would evaporate

[@finnreilly607]

the subtitles are killing me

[@gisele8836]

THE CAPTIONS PLSSS

[@nairobiawilson7806]

the yaaaaaaasss at the start was too hilarious

[@P.S-P4444S]

LMFAO THE CAPTIONS

[@stinkeyrat7552]

CAN I PLEASE BE THAT TABLE OR THAT CHAIR OR THAT FLOOR PLS PLS PLS????????????

[@ynezlee]

THE CAPTIONS 😭😭

[@kiannaspov]

BRO I NEVER KNEW SHE PERFORMED IN MY CITY IM SO FUDGING LATE UGHHH

[@user-xu5nh4yn9t]

2:09

[@lucasgdrezes]

2:13 lmao

[@robin2957]

LMAO THE CAPTIONS

[@laney3873]

youre fucking kidding i literally live in austin and didnt get to see her

[@ermia1890]

the subtitles

[@teamomitskii]

AAAAAAA EU AMOOO TANTO ELA

[@henrycouch1040]

god

[@coolbeans5992]

Mitski is so silly

[@bam98765432]

the captions LMAOOO

[@krissywilliams1714]

the captions LMAOOOO

[@abel6865]

The captions got me dead

[@liahmabel4164]

HAHAHA THE SUBTITLES

[@user-ym7eh2yr4f]

The translation LMAO 😭😭

[@My.Name.Is.Dark.]

1:40 when I sprayed the roach with raid

[@mesmerthing]

PLS THE CAPTIONS

[@yashiro3568]

THE SUBTITLES LMAOOOOOOOO ASDGJSSDNS

[@lukaslourd]

❤

[@teamomitskii]

I BET ON LOSING DOGSS

[@serenaloy4149]

i cannot believe I’m going to see her omg. tour date 2/26/22!!! What’s yalls dates 🧚🏼‍♀️

[@eva-uy3so]

fun fact: mitski acc invented humans