{"id":378417,"date":"2026-01-19T13:09:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T13:09:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/378417\/"},"modified":"2026-01-19T13:09:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T13:09:12","slug":"mitskis-new-single-wheres-my-phone-is-a-surprising-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/378417\/","title":{"rendered":"Mitski\u2019s new single \u2018Where\u2019s My Phone?\u2019 is a surprising return"},"content":{"rendered":"

We\u2019re barely two weeks into 2026 and nobody wants to be here. That\u2019s the sense, anyway, from a new social media trend<\/a> which involves posting wistful photos from the halcyon year of 2016. In some obvious ways, Mitski\u2019s<\/a> new single \u2018Where\u2019s My Phone?\u2019 is a throwback, too. Its jaunty, unabashedly fuzzy guitars already have longtime fans invoking \u2018Bury Me At Makeout Creek\u2019, the 2014 album she recorded in houses and makeshift studios. The American artist\u2019s more recent material has been defined by stately, melodic balladry \u2013 not least \u2018My Love Mine All Mine\u2019<\/a>, the 2023 viral single that was Mitski\u2019s entry on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.<\/p>\n

\u2018Where\u2019s My Phone?\u2019 is an energetic change of pace, and not just because we\u2019re hearing gritty guitars again casually obscure and slowly swallow Mitski\u2019s voice, which in her recent chamber-pop outings has been isolated in the spotlight, gently cushioned by beautiful and sometimes ornate instrumentation. One of indie\u2019s most offline songwriters (she quit social media in 2019) has returned with a chorus that could double as a digital native\u2019s panicked inner monologue. Is the bleep of the word \u2018fuck\u2019 in the second verse a cheeky nod to TikTok<\/a> and its self-censoring contortions?<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Thankfully, Mitski is too dignified to lurch headfirst into our brainrot era. \u201cI\u2019ll stay out until my mind is like a clear glass \/ A clear glass with nothing going on,\u201d she sings, crafting another compelling, timeless image in a canon full of them; the \u201cbug floating in the melted amber of a citronella candle\u201d nods to the sad, squashed insect of \u2018Bug Like An Angel\u2019<\/a>. She also refuses a full regression to performing stripped-back, guitar-forward \u2018authenticity\u2019 and instead hams it up as a housebound paranoiac in Noel Paul\u2019s zany, character-packed music video, which was inspired by a Shirley Jackson novel. After dwelling in \u2018Laurel Hell\u2019<\/a> and contending with an inhospitable land<\/a>, on her eighth album Mitski declares \u2018Nothing\u2019s About To Happen To Me\u2019. \u2018Where\u2019s My Phone?\u2019 is a welcome first dose of delusion.<\/p>\n

Mitski\u2019s \u2018Nothing\u2019s About To Happen To Me\u2019 is out February 27 on Dead Oceans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We\u2019re barely two weeks into 2026 and nobody wants to be here. That\u2019s the sense, anyway, from a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":378418,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[96,3583,128,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-378417","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-indie","10":"tag-music","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom","13":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=378417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378417\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/378418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}