Delete Forever Explained

Delete Forever
Cover:Grimes - Delete Forever (single cover).png
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Type:single
Artist:Grimes
Album:Miss Anthropocene
Label:4AD
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Producer:Grimes
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Delete Forever
Year:2020
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Next Year:2020

"Delete Forever" is a single recorded by Canadian musician Grimes. It was released on February 12, 2020, under the label 4AD as the fifth and final single off of her fifth studio album, Miss Anthropocene. The song is a folk, Britpop, and dance composition.

Background

In an interview with Zane Lowe for Apple Music's Beats 1, Grimes revealed that "Delete Forever" was written on the night of American rapper Lil Peep's death, while its lyrics were inspired by the death of the singer's friends due to opioid addiction.[1]

Composition

"Delete Forever" is an "earnest and heartbreaking"[2] and "folkily melodic"[3] acoustic ballad, which employs a banjo, strings, "incredibly clean" acoustic guitar, electronic drums and bass.[4] [5] In an interview with Zane Lowe for Apple Music's Beats 1, Grimes described "Delete Forever" as a "pretty bummer song [...] about the opioid epidemic".[1] Sonically, the record "incorporates folk, Britpop, and dance".[6]

Music video

On February 12, 2020, the song's music video premiered on YouTube.[7] It depicts the singer in "brightly-colored pigtails and ethereal makeup"[8] playing "a queen looking over her crumbling empire".[9] Grimes revealed that the video was based on the fourth volume of the Japanese cyberpunk manga Akira, while its setting was created in a 3D modelling program.[9]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Watch "Grimes on "Delete Forever"" posted by Zane Lowe on Apple Music . . March 16, 2020 . February 11, 2020.
  2. Web site: D'Souza . Shaad . The 20 best pop songs right now . . March 16, 2020 . March 2, 2020.
  3. Web site: Renshaw . David . Grimes shares new song "Delete Forever" . . March 16, 2020 . February 12, 2020.
  4. Web site: White . Adam . Grimes review, Miss Anthropocene: A problematic fave finds her humanity on a masterful, genre-spanning triumph . . March 16, 2020 . February 21, 2020.
  5. Web site: Daly . Rhian . Grimes - 'Miss Anthropocene' review: an iconoclast continues to march to the beat of her own drum . . March 16, 2020 . February 20, 2020.
  6. Web site: Sharples . Grant . Grimes Finds a Creative Spark on the Magnificent Miss_Anthrop0cene . Consequence. March 16, 2020 . February 17, 2020.
  7. Web site: Grimes . Grimes - Delete Forever (Official Video) . . March 16, 2020 . February 12, 2020.
  8. Web site: Zhou . Tori . Grimes' "Delete Forever" Addresses The Culture Of Opioid Addiction . . March 16, 2020 . February 12, 2020.
  9. Web site: Torres . Eric . Grimes Dissects the Visual World of Miss Anthropocene . . March 16, 2020 . March 10, 2020.