"washing machine heart" song meaning: taking on emotional labor to heal a relationship🙅🏻‍♀️| mitski

[@summersentiment]

♡ TIMESTAMPS ♡ 0:00 preview 0:18 intro 1:28 song title 3:44 verse 1 10:43 verse 2 13:18 chorus 15:24 closing thoughts

[@ananyabhatnagar2389]

finding this now, I always felt that in the song she chooses physical intimacy when she realizes her partner may be in love with someone else. So she finds her comfort in the intimacy but it still leaves her heart feeling used and ignored, like how you mentioned, no one really sits and hugs a washing machine

[@pinarinanc2987]

i think her asking for the dirty shoes to be tossed in her washing machine heart is also her way of asking for emotional intimacy from her partner. It can feel nice when someone opens up to you and trusts you with their baggage, and so she doesn’t realize it’s damaging her- or she thinks that that’s what love is supposed to be like, so she may to some degree desire it.

[@summersentiment]

that's a great point!✨ she may subconsciously want to create the illusion of more emotional intimacy or just try to welcome it in...in a way? i agree with your point, maybe she truly believes that's how love "works". i personally don't think her partner really wants that closeness and that's why the protagonist is feeling the lack of emotional intimacy. it should be a two way street, i don't get the sense that it is in this song

[@Morbid_Ishtar]

Very interesting take, I like it. I felt the lyrics "I know who you pretend I am" as the partner is dreaming of the one who got away, and the protagonist is the rebound / distraction.

[@kristopherkraft7497]

YAYYY IM SO HAPPY YOURE DOING MITSKI!! Her writing is so complex and poetic and beautiful

[@summersentiment]

her writing is SO wonderful!! i'm glad ya'll recommended her!! 😊✨

[@SS-yl5wo]

that literal explanation of verse 2 makes SO MUCH SENSE. i always thought of it as the protagonist intentionally ignoring that her partner may be cheating on her. but when we look at it from a literal perspective, it really goes in line with the storyline presented in verse 1 too 😭

[@summersentiment]

mitski is out here making us emotional😭😭 (also ty for your comment, you can def still think about it how you mentioned. it fits the song as well✨)

[@sunburnnnnnn1822]

“Toss your dirty shoes” i also think that this refers to the fact that shoes, dirty shoes, would’ve been used , either out in a dirty mud , or just used on the floor, making them germs dirty , and very used… Used being the key word here, someone else has him, i think the term dirty shoes refers to his heart, or maybe even him. and that they belong to someone else and that he always ends up coming back to her, to clean his “dirty” , used shoes.. basically saying that the antagonist/ romantic interest, Is using her heart to clean up and use her to get over other people, as a back up, someone he can come too , to f#%# / get attention to feel loved after this… and as @summersentiment says. The protagonist is very aware of how she’s getting treated but is okay with it, and maybe even starting to realise that he/she/ is messing with them. and it seems like they’re starting to get more aware of the situation. and maybe get tired of it

[@twicepilled]

YOU MADE THIS METAPHOR SO MUCH CLEARER 😭😭😭😭❤

[@summersentiment]

thank you so much! 💖💖💖

[@theolucero9571]

yassss i’ve been recommending mitski for so long, i knew you would love her poetry. LOVE U

[@summersentiment]

yay! ty for requesting her!! 💖💖💖

[@ola-gf9rq]

That’s really cool to have it stated with words from someone eles The way she wants her partner to vent anytime he wants for me it shows how she wanna feel more worthy with him or how he can “trust her” to dumb all these stuff on her

[@blazehaze233]

yessss more mitski songs pleaseee love your analysis

[@summersentiment]

will def be doing more mitski songs! and thank you!!😊

[@roderickarbre6822]

Loved your description, to add to it also its shes letting someone trauma dump and use her kindness and cos the washing machine heart is gonna break with shoes in it they take out their shoes after trauma dumping on her and they are still not clean and its not good enough for them 😢

[@omgkxrima]

OMG ty for saying the meaning bc I didn't know what it was

[@summersentiment]

of course! glad to help! 😊✨

[@eylemvdw2508]

such a good analysis !!:) really made me understand it better

[@summersentiment]

thank you!! i'm glad to hear that! 😊💖

[@delphinediamondheart7676]

I love this video, it helped me so much!! 💖 I am so glad you are doing Mitski songs💖

[@fatimaabp8120]

Great analysis! Thank you! You explained the song so well and I really enjoyed watching your interpretation. You brought more depth to the song for me and I love it❣️

[@summersentiment]

thank you so much for your kind words!! i really appreciate it! 😊✨

[@shasha8035]

14:25 Awwww no! Do mi ti part!😭💔🥺 Summer sentiment Thank you for this analysing! You're so Smart and Sweet!💖💖💖

[@share.theworld]

girl thank you, I 100% agree

[@TheJamGuy]

Woah thank you! This video is amazing and I love how well you describe the song :) Tysm!

[@summersentiment]

thank you for your kind words! 😊✨

[@nikitasingh0412]

loved your analysis!!

[@summersentiment]

thank you! glad you enjoyed! 😊

[@alicabanszka5384]

hey there! I just found you channel and I wanted to just write that I adore it and you are doing an amazing job! (also mitski is the best also I love your music taste) I really enjoy your videos! take care :) I would be excited to hear more of your opinions on mitski. especially "A pearl" and/or "Two slow dancers" as they are my absolute favourites.

[@summersentiment]

thank you for your kind words!! 💖 and thanks for the song recommendations as well :)

[@caliskaterdrummer]

I just found mitski and immediately searched the meaning… now I’m gonna search these two songs you recommended. I also enjoyed the explanation a lot

[@irele3246]

OMG I LOVE THISSSS

[@summersentiment]

yaay! glad to hear it!! 😊

[@irele3246]

Plz make more of Mitski

[@jasbirks]

3:13 PLS THIS IS SO FUNNY

[@jasbirks]

sorry selena

[@twesselblurench]

En momentos como este me gustaría entender inglés a la perfección.

[@rawzatt]

wdym I don't ask my washing machine out on a date

[@prakhar4547]

Am I the only one who thinks you kind of sound like mitski in her interviews

[@summersentiment]

👀

[@Fearlessflyersdancecompany]

This song has a backstory of a plane crash 💔

[@pookiebeshie]

YESSSSSSS

[@summersentiment]

💖💖💖

[@RiptxdeVR]

Hi! Loved the vid! But do you mind doing yungblud? Hes my favourite singer…but for some reason everyone i know hates him😢.

[@summersentiment]

thank you!! 😊 do you have any songs by him you'd recommend?

[@RiptxdeVR]

I think weird would be a good one!

[@ruzzelladrian907]

Why is Washing Machine Heart the theme song for plane crash.

[@leuris_khan2]

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