“I Think I Lost a Day” brings a welcome sense of humor to Miist’s Mission
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Artists working around kindness and emotional well-being can easily drift into language that feels overly instructional.
Miist avoids that problem on “I Think I Lost a Day,” a new single that communicates its ideas through an odd premise, a playful chorus, and a video in which she wakes up late and appears to have landed in another era.
The opening lyrics establish a world where basic coordinates have become unreliable. “Wasn’t it yesterday?” she asks before wondering who moved her house and dog. The lines have the illogical quality of thoughts that arrive during a rushed morning, when a minor delay can make an ordinary neighborhood seem briefly unfamiliar.
The accompanying video amplifies that sensation. Shot in Los Angeles, it follows Miist as she races through town while surrounded by characters and visual details that evoke the 1970s. She appears to be operating according to today’s frantic expectations, while everyone around her belongs to a world with little interest in hurrying.
There is comedy in watching those two speeds collide. Miist’s urgent movements look increasingly unnecessary against the relaxed atmosphere of the people she encounters. Rather than forcing the period concept into every frame, the video uses it as a broad visual joke about how much pace and pressure contemporary life has come to normalize.
Musically, the track carries the same lack of rigidity. Tayte Nickols produces with an ear for live movement, while Familiar Faces gives the recording a communal quality. The musicians sound comfortable allowing small shifts in momentum, an approach that complements Miist’s puzzled vocal and the song’s deliberately repetitive refrain.
That refrain, “I think I lost a day / I think I lost my way / I think it’s okay,” is the song’s central move. The final phrase changes the stakes. Losing a day is framed as something that can be acknowledged without immediately becoming another problem to solve. From there, Miist begins looking for a route back to today and, eventually, back to another person.
The single connects naturally with the work Miist has pursued through The Love Project, her Make Me Smile book and podcast, and the World Smile Initiative. Those projects frequently encourage small actions rather than abstract declarations. Here, the action is simply to stop racing long enough to rejoin the people enjoying themselves.
Miist ultimately enters the 1970s gathering and begins singing with the group. It is a cheerful ending, though its point is practical. A day cannot always be recovered by trying to move faster. Sometimes the useful response is to arrive wherever you are, look around, and decide to take part.
