“Phone” is the second single from Lizzo’s debut extended play, entitled ‘'Coconut Oil’‘. The song was released 19 September 2016.

It discusses about how the world is slowly being consumed by its surroundings, specifically technology, and forgetting it’s real purpose. For instance, Lizzo sings about phones and how many people use it for social media, gaming, and many other uses. However, what people fail to realize is a phone’s real purpose, which is to call somebody, and that people can get so wound up in what else technology can do besides that.

In a 2019 Zachary Campbell interview Lizzo says this song was written in 10 minutes. Lizzo also says she was looking for her phone and was ask people “Where the f*ck my phone.” E. Bogart is one of the writers on this song wrote Halo and produced for Sia. Some heard her saying that, and they asked if it was a song and Lizzo said no it’s just something we say. So they immediately stopped the song they were working on, and the producer was told to play a little drum beat, and she starts singing the same line over and over “Where the hell my phone.” Lizzo says that it was Evan Bogart who was kind of her hypeman shouting out ideas of things for her to talk about, this song is mostly freestyled.