Don’t use “Where Is My Mind?” as your morning alarm, especially if you have a Google phone. Android Police has revealed a funny phenomenon owing to a quirk of art colliding with technology: The Pixies’ iconic Surfer Rosa track is inadvertently causing major problems for the phone’s Assistant alarms.
Last year Google rolled out a feature allowing users to turn off alarms and timers on devices with the Assistant software, including Pixel phones, by simply saying, “Stop.” “Where Is My Mind?” famously begins with Kim Deal singing a high-pitched “Oooh!” and Black Francis curtly interrupting, “Stop!” You can see where this is going. For one Redditor, the following scenario played out:
For the past few months, I could not figure out why on random days, with seemingly no reason, sometimes my alarm would either not go off, or turn itself off very quickly. Maybe once every other week or so, I would wake up 30 minutes
If you're a Pixies fan who uses the Google Assistant app to help wake you up, you might literally be asking yourself, "Where is my mind?" According to the site&