Grimes teased what seems to be a brand new song title “Player of Games,”These will be delivered on Friday, December 3.
The avant-pop singer dropped her first hint in a Tweet a few lines of binary code — which translated to “Player of Games” — and a Dec. 3 release date. Grimes simply stated, “It’s real this time. Phew.”A few moments later, she shared the title of what might be a brand new track. Pre-Save link
, and provided some accompanying artwork. (A Grimes rep did not immediately return. Rolling Stone’s request for more info.)https://twitter.com/Grimezsz/status/1465427746348224527?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw” rel=”nofollow noopener” target=”_blank
Befitting the message-via-binary code, and in light of Grimes’ ongoing fascination with AI and technology, it’s notable that “Player of Games”It is very similar to the title in a 1988 sci-fi novel by Iain Banks. The Player of the Games. The book is part of Banks’ series centered around “The Culture,” a galactic utopian society free of want, populated by a mix of humanoid species and super intelligent AI machines — all of which sounds incredibly Grimesian.
Grimes’ Twitter announcement came on the heels of her wider return to social media over the weekend. The singer has kept a low profile since September — when she separated from her partner Elon Musk — but in a new TikTok video, Grimes addressed the chaos that’s surrounded her recently and how she came to be a kind of “Marie Antoinette-esque symbol for inequality in the pop stan community”She added that she finds it quite entertaining (which she admittedly does).
Grimes stated that she is excited to get back on the internet to share her excitement. “a lot of my crazy ideas,” although she didn’t mention anything about new music at the time. One could, however, link. “Player of Games,”One of them “crazy ideas”Grimes are featured in her Next TikTokLearn more about how video games can be used as a source of radical wealth “radical wealth redistribution”This is in contrast to simpler forms of radical wealth distribution, such as taxing the very wealthy and using that money for all kinds of infrastructure and social programs.
“Player of Games” will mark Grimes’ first proper release since the arrival of her 2020 album, Miss Anthropocene. However, just before her social media hiatus ended at the end September, she uploaded a song to Instagram and TikTok titled, “Love.”
