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Feb 5, 2022 · im bored so i decided to make one of grimes' new hits this song is a bop go watch it now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzPElFdxMCM she's one of my favori...
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Feb 20, 2024 · In “Shinigami Eyes,” Grimes inhabits both an enchanting goddess of death with eyes that kill and an AI pop-star touring Rainbow Road in the year 3000. And she looks the part — a skintight suit as...
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Jan 27, 2022 · “Shinigami Eyes” is slated to appear on Grimes’ forthcoming Angels Cum First EP.
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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 (now X) post of Grimes, which was written in binary code.
On July 25, 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.
•The lyric 'And young men's love doth lie, never in their hearts, only in their eyes' is taken from William Shakespeare's tragedy Romeo and Juliet, where the narrator comments on Romeo's many instances of falling in love as “young men's love then lies / Not truly in their hearts, but in their eyes.”
•The original (demo) version of Shinigami Eyes used to be much slower in tempo than the release version.
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Jan 27, 2022 · After months of teasing clips of the track on TikTok, Grimes has finally unleashed “Shinigami Eyes,” the strobing and expansive single from her cheekily titled and newly announced EP, Fairies...
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Jan 26, 2022 · Grimes has released a futuristic music video for her new single ‘Shinigami Eyes’, featuring cameos from some famous friends. The track was originally previewed by the artist last summer when...
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Jan 26, 2022 · Grimes has returned with “Shinigami Eyes,” the next installment from her forthcoming project. The Canadian singer released the dark-yet-poppy track with a video on Wednesday (Jan. 26), and gave...
