11. Mitski: “Nobody”

Director: Christopher Good

You know the feeling of being alone too long? Getting too comfortable talking to yourself, losing track of time, forgetting how to interact with other people? Mitski knows it too. And for all the Michel Gondry-indebted visual metaphors in her whimsical video for “Nobody,” it’s the singer’s own facial expressions that relate the sensation most vividly: She looks alternately bewildered, hopeful, terrified, and awestruck. There are other bodies around her—that is, disembodied arms, torsos with heads just out of frame. But the only eyes we can look to for answers belong to the narrator herself. As the song glitters onward, she looks just as confused and lonely as any of us. –Sam Sodomsky