My Name is Dark

My Name is Dark is a single by Grimes. It is the third single and seventh track on her fifth studio album, Miss Anthropocene.
My Name is Dark is the Demon of Political Apathy.https://web.archive.org/web/20200228203815/https://www.grimesmusic.com/
==Background ==
On June 14, 2018, the song first appeared in Apple's "Behind the Mac" commercial.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JOHA5Ku3pY The track has since undergone many changes since the commercial snippet, being turned into a heavier nu-metal song.
===Meaning===
Grimes told Apple Music:https://music.apple.com/us/album/miss-anthropocene/1496782284
Grimes has stated that certain lyrics in the song have their own themes, such as lyrics about insomnia, her experiences with record labels, and the city she recorded the song in.
According to a Grimes interview for Cultured magazine, My Name Is Dark is about all the people she knows who didn’t vote in the U.S. (2016) presidential election.https://www.culturedmag.com/article/2019/04/04/grimes-claire-boucher-c
Grimes first described the song as "(..) a very not pg13 ethereal shadow of colossus demon nu metal song abt insomnia (..)"https://twitter.com/Grimezsz/status/995412306635837440
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===Artwork===
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==Lyrics==
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==Trivia==
*The song was originally titled "thats what the drugs r 4",https://grimes.fandom.com/wiki/File:43ece5a5-276d-4df7-b80b-9cc6d3cfac46-610x1220.jpg and registered as "that's what the drugs r for".Note: GEMA capitalises all songs, so it's not known what the capitalising was meant to be. GEMA Code: 21106525-001 Grimes wanted this to be the final title but was unable to keep it.https://twitter.com/Grimezsz/status/1200328807950893057
*My Name is Dark and 4ÆM were, according to Grimes, the hardest songs to make for Miss Anthropocene.https://www.reddit.com/r/popheads/comments/fb38tj/comment/fj29359/?context=3
*The drums were inspired by SGL and used with permission from the original song Now, Now.https://youtu.be/KEJRFGyqsmY?si=-3VE-NAgWcATkcm7
* The lyric "Put on "Bullet with Butterfly Wings" " refers to a song by The Smashing Pumpkins of the same name.https://youtu.be/xCmA1uC0r9A?si=ZsyV5dLuLTOmVvnz
*The title of the song is a direct quote of the antagonist Mr. Dark in Ray Bradbury's 1962 novel Something Wicked This Way Comes.
*The bridge of the song features Grimes overhearing a conversation between God and the Angel of Death, each protecting Hell and Heaven respectively; the Angel of Death pleads with God to fix the world, while God does nothing. This may be a metaphor for the album's theme of climate change going unnoticed. The line describing the encounter, "Paradise on my right, and h-h-hell on my left, the a-a-angel of death, right behind me" is also a reference to a line in Frank Herbert's novel Dune.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Name_Is_Dark
*On April 30, 2023, Grimes released the acapella and instrumental to the Art Mix version of My Name is Dark, called "That's What The Drugs Are For".https://grimes.wetransfer.com/downloads/1b4883ec82ff19258a4ade94ce9cc80520230430024331/39493d There were no stems accompanying it, which is unlike every other song in the transfer package.
==References==
Category:SinglesCategory:Miss Anthropocene
Category:Songs
Category:2019