Genesis (Grimes song)
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| "Genesis" | ||||
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| Single by Grimes | ||||
| from the album Visions | ||||
| B-side | "Ambrosia" | |||
| Released | 2012 | |||
| Recorded | August 2011 | |||
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| Length | 4:15 | |||
| Label | 4AD | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Grimes | |||
| Producer(s) | Grimes | |||
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| Music video | ||||
| "Genesis" on YouTube | ||||
"Genesis" is a song by Canadian singer and songwriter Grimes, released in 2012, as the lead single from her third studio album, Visions (2012).[3] The song is one of Grimes' most successful releases so far, as a result of the song's music videos becoming viral, mostly through micro-blogging site Tumblr. The NME placed the song at number 16 on its list of 50 Best Tracks of 2012.[4]
The self-directed video for "Genesis" premiered on August 22, 2012.[5] 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."[6]
