 Genius Meanings
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Grimes – Oblivion
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The third track off Grimes' third studio album, Visions. It was named by Pitchfork as the best track of the decade so far.
In an April interview, Boucher explained the song’s true
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Grimes – Genesis
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The bouncy bass leads to “Genesis” open up an enthralling track detailing a darker perspective on falling in love, contrasting the rosy idealism observed in popular love songs with
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Grimes – Kill V. Maim
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“Kill V. Maim” is Grimes‘ favorite track off of her fourth LP, Art Angels. She told Q Magazine:
“Kill V. Maim” is written from the perspective of Al Pacino in The Godfather Pt II
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Grimes (Ft. HANA) – We Appreciate Power
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“We Appreciate Power” is Grimes' first new song since the release of her critically-acclaimed 2015 album Art Angels. The single features longtime collaborator HANA, and is the
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Grimes & i_o – Violence
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“Violence” is a love song that seems to be sung from the perspective of the Earth and personifies the relationship between humans and climate change as an abusive one, a
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Grimes – Pin
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“Pin” is the 9th track off Grimes' fourth album : Art Angels.
The artwork drawn by Grimes herself for the song shows a monkey, a killer whale and an eagle, with the word “fairy
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Grimes – Delete Forever
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“Delete Forever” – originally titled “Black Swan Blues” – is the third track on Grimes‘ 5th album Miss Anthropocene. Grimes wrote and produced the guitar-based song herself.
The
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Grimes – Player of Games
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On July 22nd 2021 Grimes first previewed a teaser of the track via TikTok alongside the caption:
“Player of Games… demo ? #grimes #Space #dancer #fans #burningman made with @
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Janelle Monáe (Ft. Grimes) – PYNK
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“PYNK” is the third single released from Janelle Monáe’s fourth studio album Dirty Computer. The song features artist and producer Grimes who previously collaborated with Janelle
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Grimes – 4ÆM
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“4 AM” (stylized as 4Æm) is a song Grimes teased on Twitter on June 5, 2018. It appears in the soundtrack for Cyberpunk 2077, a video game released in 2020.
Grimes stated in her
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Grimes – Artangels
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The title track, “Artangels”, or “Art Angels”, depending on what you prefer on a given day. After replying to fan with the chorus' lyrics, Grimes revealed that this song was “an
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Grimes (Ft. Bleachers) – Entropy
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Grimes and Bleachers team up once again, this time for a song for HBO’s Girls, starring Jack Antonoff’s (Bleachers) girlfriend, Lena Dunham.
FMRDX put it well in their review of “
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Grimes – California
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As stated on her siriusXM takeover, “California” is a hate track towards the music website Pitchfork. This hate may be the result of various misinterpretations of her words, and
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Grimes – You’ll miss me when I'm not around
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Originally titled Last Call, You’ll miss me when I’m not around is the 8th track in Miss Anthropocene, corresponding to the Demon of Suicide.
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Grimes – David
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David is an unreleased song from one of Canadian artist Grimes‘ scrapped albums, a project which she worked on in the time between between the release of albums Visions and Art
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Grimes – Symphonia IX (My Wait Is U)
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Symphonia IX (My Wait Is U) is the tenth track on Canadian recording artist Grimes' third studio album, Visions. IX is the roman numeral corresponding to the Latin number 9.
The
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Grimes & Illangelo – I Wanna Be Software
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[Verse 1] / I wanna be software / Upload my mind / Take all my data / What will you find? / I wanna be software / Battery heart / Infinite options / State of the art / I wanna be
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Grimes – REALiTi
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“REALiTi” was originally recorded for the follow-up to Grimes' 2012 breakthrough album, Visions, before she scrapped the whole thing. The song was then later released via a music
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Grimes – Life in the Vivid Dream
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“Life in the Vivid Dream” is the second half (or “act” in the video) of the first single, “Flesh without Blood”. They were released simultaneously on October 26, 2015 in a YouTube.
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Grimes – So Heavy I Fell Through the Earth (ANNA Remix)
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[Refrain] / O silly love / Coming here / When I said, "Go" / [Pre-Chorus] / Weigh me down / O love / Me now / O love / [Chorus] / Yeah, oh / So heavy, I fell through the earth
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Grimes – New Gods
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A track from Grimes' fifth album Miss Anthropocene. It is a slow, dramatic piano ballad where Grimes' voice is the main feature.
Grimes spoke about the song during her Live
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Grimes (Ft. Janelle Monáe) – Venus Fly
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“Venus Fly” features Janelle Monáe, and is one of Grimes‘ favorite tracks off her fourth record Art Angels.
This song encapsulates Boucher and Monáe interrogating someone for
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RL Grime (Ft. 24hrs) – UCLA
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[Chorus] / She just moved to LA / Go to UCLA / And she drive a Maserati / Damn, she got a body / She be tryna party / She be tryna party / She just moved to LA / Go to UCLA / And
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Grimes – IDORU
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On June 5, 2018, she posted a demo snippet of the song recorded through her phone on twitter.
https://mobile.twitter.com/Grimezsz/status/1003875361224945666
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Grimes – laughing and not being normal
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“laughing and not being normal” by Grimes kicks off her fourth release Art Angels with an operatic and floaty introductory track. The artwork of the song is a drawing made by
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Ashnikko (Ft. Grimes) – Cry
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“Cry” is the lead single from Ashnikko’s mixtape DEMIDEVIL. The song was officially announced on May 27th, 2020, with a release date of June 3rd, 2020. However, the release date
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