Recorded and self-released as a student project during her time at Purchase College’s Conservatory of Music, the title “Class of 2013” likely refers to Mitski’s own cohort of graduates. Throughout the song she delivers a gut-wrenching expression of the terror that many graduates feel, as they are thrown into the beginning of their adult lives, having to find their own way in the world.

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