"Where's My Phone?"

29 January 2026

3 mins 02s

Where's My Phone?

Note the complete absence of a welcome mat in the promo for Mitski's 'Where My Phone?' The Japanese American singer-songwriter wants her and her younger sister (Madison Wada) to be left alone, God damn it, but everyone from the postie to the milkman, carol singers to the local Romeo wants inside. They're here for the girl, but Mitski refuses to let her go without a fight.

The more people converge on the house (the kind of place that belongs in a Gothic mystery novel), the more desperate and feral she becomes. To make matters worse, her sister's not the least bit fussed by the influx of strangers. If anything, Mitski's violent behaviour scares her more than the mob (she does rearrange a man's face with her bare hands).

Her lyrics point to a grim climax ("I keep thinking surely somebody will save me/At every turn I learn that no one will"), as does the guitar solo that could raze a small town. How it comes to pass is pure, deranged agony—to paraphrase Joan Baez, that agony is director Noel Paul's triumph.

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