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Jan 27, 2022 · The Meaning Of Grimes' "Shinigami Eyes" Comes From This Famous Manga. And is there a deeper story to the song? by Steffanee Wang. Jan. 27, 2022. After months of teasing clips of the track on...
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Shinigami Eyes is a song by Grimes. It is the second single for her upcoming sixth studio album, Book 1.
On June 17, 2021, the song was first teased by a Twitter post of Grimes, which was written in binary code.
On July 25th, 2021, the song was played along with other upcoming ones as part of a virtual DJ set.
On August 12, a snippet of the song was released exclusively on YouTube Music.
Shinigami Eyes was supposed to be by the fictional A.I group NPC for their EP Fairies Cum First, but this idea appears to have been scrapped. Instead, the song was released as a single as a “label executive decision“ due to it being one of the only songs that was not part of the Book 1 lore and thus commercially promising.
•Shinigami Eyes is a reference to the well-known manga and anime series Death Note. Shinigamis, also known as death gods, are supernatural beings that lead you and others towards death directly or indirectly. In the anime, a Shinigami shows up in the human world when a human makes contact with a Death Note fallen from the sky - it’s a book that kills people once their names are written on it. With every death, the person’s remaining life span is added to the Shinigami’s.
If a human with a Death Note makes a deal with a Shinigami to get their eyes, the human will know other people’s names and their remaining lifespans by just seeing their face. The price for these eyes is half of the human’s remaining lifespan, which will be added to the Shinigami’s as well.
Within the context of the song, the metaphor is about when the Shinigami come into the human world just to amuse themselves with people’s deaths.
•Shinigami Eyes, even though it is apart of Book 1, has no relation to it. Grimes said that she and Illangelo made the song because they liked watching Death Note.
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Jan 26, 2022 · Shinigami Eyes by Grimes. Tags. Shinigami Eyes (Video Version) Lyrics: I like making friends with demons / You need special eyes to see 'em / Have you got your Shinigami eyes on? /...
Nov 5, 2023 · “Shinigami Eyes,” released on Grimes’ 2012 album “Visions,” presents a dark and ethereal atmosphere that embodies the essence of her musical style. The song’s title, borrowed from the Japanese manga series “Death Note,” instantly evokes curiosity and intrigue.
