"Genesis" | ||||
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Single by Grimes | ||||
from the album Visions | ||||
B-side | "Ambrosia" | |||
Released | January 9, 2012 | |||
Recorded | August 2011 | |||
Genre | ||||
Length | 4:15 | |||
Label | 4AD | |||
Songwriter(s) | Grimes | |||
Producer(s) | Grimes | |||
Grimes singles chronology | ||||
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Music video | ||||
"Genesis" on YouTube |
"Genesis" is a song by Canadian singer and songwriter Grimes, released on January 9, 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]
Chart (2012) | Peak position |
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UK Indie ( OCC) [7] | 37 |
Mexico ( Mexico Ingles Airplay, Billboard) [8] | 44 |
Region | Certification | Certified units/sales |
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United Kingdom ( BPI) [9] | Silver | 200,000‡ |
United States ( RIAA) [10] | Gold | 500,000‡ |
‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone. |
"Genesis" | ||||
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Single by Grimes | ||||
from the album Visions | ||||
B-side | "Ambrosia" | |||
Released | January 9, 2012 | |||
Recorded | August 2011 | |||
Genre | ||||
Length | 4:15 | |||
Label | 4AD | |||
Songwriter(s) | Grimes | |||
Producer(s) | Grimes | |||
Grimes singles chronology | ||||
| ||||
Music video | ||||
"Genesis" on YouTube |
"Genesis" is a song by Canadian singer and songwriter Grimes, released on January 9, 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]
Chart (2012) | Peak position |
---|---|
UK Indie ( OCC) [7] | 37 |
Mexico ( Mexico Ingles Airplay, Billboard) [8] | 44 |
Region | Certification | Certified units/sales |
---|---|---|
United Kingdom ( BPI) [9] | Silver | 200,000‡ |
United States ( RIAA) [10] | Gold | 500,000‡ |
‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone. |