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“My Love Mine All Mine” originally appeared as the seventh song on Mitski’s seventh studio album, The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We, which was released through Dead Oceans on September 15, 2023.

 Mitski had previously been widely known among music critics and in indie music circles before her 2018 single “Nobody” went viral on TikTok in 2020 and she subsequently found mainstream commercial success with the release of her sixth studio album, Laurel Hell (2022). Mitski did very little promotion for The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We or “My Love Mine All Mine” outside of a video explaining the latter’s lyrics for Genius. Upon the release of the album, “My Love Mine All Mine” found success on TikTok, where it soundtracked more than 300,000 videos by October 2023. 

“My Love Mine All Mine” is written in the key of A-half-flat major, with a concert pitch of A434. The song has a tempo of 60 beats per minute. Mitski’s vocals range from E♭3 to F4 and are backed by “subdued” piano, pedal steel guitar, and a choir. Its lyrics see Mitski saying her love is the only thing that she owns (“Nothing in the world belongs to me / But my love, mine all mine all mine”) and asking the Moon to hold onto it after she dies to immortalize it so that it can be shined back down to Earth. Kaelen Bell of Exclaim! called the song “dusky lounge”,

Marcy Donelson of AllMusic wrote that it was “seductively languid” with “orchestrated country stylings”,and Brenna Ehrlich of Rolling Stone wrote that it was a “goth-country epic”.Christopher J. Lee of PopMatters called it a “slow dance number” that depicts love as “a social condition experienced as part of the wider world”, contrasting it with her previous albums’ idea of it as “an insular situation between two people”.For Far Out, Elle Palmer also contrasted it from her earlier work about love and wrote that it was “a far calmer look at love than her discography has previously allowed for”.Under the Radar’s Marc Abbott likened the song’s sound to Lana Del Rey.

The music video was directed by A.G. Rojas and released simultaneously with The Land is Inhospitable and So Are We. It features Mitski stacking dining chairs on top of each other to create a tower supported at the bottom by a small egg before climbing to the top. She doesn’t struggle or fall on her journey up, and when she reaches the top she sits on the chair sculpture, puts her hand over her eye as of she’s looking through a spyglass and sees a beautiful sunset over an ocean. Danielle Chelosky of Uproxx described the video as “eerie” and wrote that it “conveys the subtle poignance of the sprawling song”.

The song became her first entry on the UK Singles Chart, and reached number eight in October 2023.

 

Photo Credit: Ebru Yildiz