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“Your Best American Girl” by Mitski
From the album Puberty 2 (2016)
“Your Best American Girl” by Mitski appears on 3 radio countdowns from 2 stations between 2023 and 2025. It was first released in 2016 on the album Puberty 2. Its best result is #408 on the 90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of the 21st Century. In the combined RockLists rankings it is #4,353 indie & aaa song of all time.
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Mitski put "Your Best American Girl" out on March 1, 2016, as the first taste of her fourth album, Puberty 2, and it lands like a diary entry with the amps turned all the way up. She wrote it from her own life: longing for someone while accepting that her race and the way she was raised keep the two of them apart. It aches, and it knows exactly why.
Patrick Hyland produced and mastered it, and it was cut at the since-shuttered Acme Studios in Westchester, New York. Strummed acoustic guitar and dream-pop synths share the space with a grungy, distorted guitar in a punk and pop-punk rush just over three and a half minutes long. Dead Oceans let fans stream it free on SoundCloud, and anyone who pre-ordered the album on iTunes got it instantly.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Indie & Adult Alternative
All Rock Formats
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 854 | 90.9 The Bridge | 90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of All Time | 909 |
| 2024 | 453 | WXPN | WXPN The 885 Greatest Songs of the 21st Century (2024) | 885 |
| 2025 | 408 | 90.9 The Bridge | 90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of the 21st Century | 909 |
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