Genesis (Grimes song)

"Genesis"
Single by Grimes
from the album Visions
Released January 9, 2012
Recorded August 2011
Genre Future pop,[1] Art pop, Art techno
Length 4:15
Label Arbutus
Writer(s) Grimes
Producer(s) Grimes
Grimes singles chronology
"Genesis"
(2012)		 "Oblivion"
(2012)

"Genesis" is the lead single from the 2012 album Visions by Canadian recording artist Grimes, released January 9, 2012.[2] The song is one of Grimes' most successful releases so far due to its music video starring American Rapper Brooke Candy becoming viral, mostly through micro-blogging site Tumblr. NME Magazine listed the song as #16 on it's list of 50 Best Tracks of 2012.[3]

Music video

The self-directed video for "Genesis" premiered on August 22, 2012.[4] It was filmed in Los Angeles and co-stars rapper and stripper Brooke Candy, whom Grimes describes as "a very contemporary muse". In the video, Grimes is seen alongside a group of friends while driving an Escalade in the desert, holding an albino python in the back of a limousine, and posing in the woods. She said of the concept of the video: "It's loosely based on this painting by my favorite painter, Hieronymus Bosch, called The Seven Deadly Sins and the Four Last Things. I wanted to play with Medieval/Catholic imagery. I was raised in a Catholic household and went to a Catholic school, and my childhood brain perceived medieval Catholicism as an action movie: There's this crazy omnipresent guy who can destroy you at any moment."[5]

References

  1. ↑ http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/reviews/v6gw
  2. ↑ "Genesis – Single by Grimes". iTunes Store US. Apple Inc. Retrieved February 22, 2012.
  3. ↑ http://www.nme.com/bestalbumsandtracksoftheyear/2012. Retrieved March 11, 2015. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  4. ↑ "Watch The New Video for 'Genesis' by Grimes". 4AD. August 22, 2012. Retrieved January 6, 2013.
  5. ↑ Battan, Carrie (August 27, 2012). "Director's Cut: Grimes: "Genesis"". Pitchfork Media. Retrieved January 6, 2013.

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