The rock DNA running through this pop anthem deserves your full attention. Pop has always borrowed from rock when it needed a spine, and ‘Get Off Your Phone’ has got one, a muted, kinetic guitar part that drives the whole track forward like someone who’s just had enough and is finally saying it. Rock listeners will know that energy. They’ll recognise the attitude too.
‘Get Off Your Phone’ comes from that same restless, genre-straddling place that always produces the most interesting pop records. The press release name-checks Avril Lavigne and Olivia Rodrigo as reference points, and that’s a fair lineage, but what actually jumps out is how the track refuses to over-produce itself. In an era when pop music frequently buries its guitars under layers of digital sheen, the instrumental here stays lean and slightly raw.
The verse sets the scene lyrically (‘Today I saw a shooting star / Not far from where you are’) with a spare, almost country-folk economy of language, before the chorus hits with a completely different emotional register. That tonal shift, from wistful to exasperated, is where the rock sensibility lives.
The video doubles down on this. By placing an iPhone literally in front of the camera lens and letting it film Andréa mid-performance. We are the phone. The screen is us. It’s the kind of smart, low-budget concept that a major label would overthink and a genuine artist just executes. Andréa executes it.
Hanna Andréa is a Norwegian-American artist whose biography reads like a deliberate act of bridging worlds. Born into a bilingual, bicultural life, the stark landscape of Northern Norway on one side, the American prairie on the other, she approaches music with the kind of layered perspective that most artists spend a career trying to fake.
She has been compared to AURORA and Laufey, artists whose appeal cuts across genre lines precisely because they commit so completely to their own sonic vision. ‘Get Off Your Phone’ is, in some ways, her most accessible song yet, but accessibility and authenticity aren’t in conflict here.
Watch the video to ‘Get Off Your Phone’ here:
