Your Best American Girl

[2] "Your Best American Girl" was released on March 1, 2016, to digital retailers and label Dead Oceans' SoundCloud, where it was able to be streamed for free.

According to Pitchfork, the song "grows from an acoustic strum with some twinkling dream pop synths, to sharp bursts of feedback that would fit right in on Weezer's Pinkerton.

[10] Ciara Dolan of Consequence of Sound noted a possible continuation of Retired From Sad, New Career in Business's "Strawberry Blonde", calling "Your Best American Girl" "the [...] realization that [Mitski] can’t [...] change her own shape to fit into that of this all-American boy".

[9] In a review of Puberty 2, Ciara Dolan of Consequence of Sound called the song one of the "Essential Tracks" from its parent album.

Hamm of Under the Radar complimented the song's lyricism, guitars, and feedback, stating that the recording "[harks] back to the very best of alternative rock of the early '90s".

[14] "Your Best American Girl" was voted the fifth-best song of 2016 in The Village Voice's 44th annual Pazz & Jop critic's poll.

[17] Rating the "Your Best American Girl" the sixteenth best song of the year, Pitchfork called the track was "universally resonant and personally specific".

According to Mitski, the video "plays on the idea of, as a Japanese girl, never quite fitting in with the genre's surplus of white American guys.

Mitski sits on a black collapsible chair with her legs kicking upwards into the air. She's wearing a white shirts and black skirt and knee pads.
Mitski performing at St Jerome's Laneway Festival in Melbourne, Australia , in February 2019.