It was a real-life instance of being a lone figure that led Mitski to pen Be The Cowboy's lead single, "Nobody." After touring in Australia and Asia, Mitski realized a flight back to the U.S. during the holidays would be too expensive, so she instead traveled to Malaysia for the end of December. "What happened was I was all alone in a country where no one knew me during the holidays when everyone I knew in my family was kind of together, and I just felt very desperately alone in a way I didn't expect because I thought I was a solitary person," Mitski recalls. "I didn't plan for loneliness at all. I didn't have any instruments but I wanted to write a song, so I walked to the nearest Toys R Us, I got a toy piano — it had about two octaves — and I wrote 'Nobody' on it to kind of dispel that feeling of loneliness."

"Nobody" is from Mitski's 2018 album Be The Cowboy, available on Dead Oceans.

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