Shinigami Eyes

Shinigami Eyes is a song by Grimes. It is the second single for her upcoming sixth studio album, Book 1.
== Background ==
On June 17, 2021, the song was first teased by a Twitter (now X) post of Grimes, which was written in binary code.https://twitter.com/Grimezsz/status/1405378608651149313
On July 25, 2021, the song was played along with other upcoming ones as part of a virtual DJ set.https://youtu.be/uCg0rp13Vp0?si=IXOPgDtF6gJA7ijQ
On August 12, a snippet of the song was released exclusively on YouTube Musichttps://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_k0Cq7cIXvYr25h83w3iibod4kjcUlm5RIhttps://www.reddit.com/r/Grimes/comments/p2rdr0/so_the_snippet_from_shinigami_eyes_randomly/ and Instagram Stories.https://x.com/GRIMESBRAZIL/status/1425845264099811336
The song was frequently teased as the background music of Grimes' TikTok videos because "if Shinigami eyes gets 20m plays on Tik tok I can release it!"https://www.tiktok.com/@grimes
Shinigami Eyes was supposed to be by the fictional A.I group NPC for their EP Fairies Cum First,https://www.thelineofbestfit.com/news/latest-news/grimes-to-release-fairies-cum-first-ep-before-book-1-album but this idea appears to have been scrapped. Instead, the song was released as a single as a “label executive decision“ due to it being one of the only songs that was not part of the Book 1 lore and thus commercially promising.https://music.apple.com/us/post/1607180791 
When asked why did it take so long for the song to be released, Grimes replied:https://youtu.be/uV1SaZx1enM?si=2eTf5MTMBM7GBtCP&t=351 
== Media ==
===Artwork===
Shinigami Eyes (2021) 001.jpg|Pre-edited photo
Shinigami Eyes cover artwork.jpg|Single Artwork
Shinigami Eyes single artwork.jpg|Alternative Version
<tabber>
|-|Trailer=
|-|Music Video=
|-|Vevo Footnotes=
</tabber>
== Lyrics ==
<tabber>
|-|Single=
|-|Demo=
</tabber>
== Trivia ==
*Shinigami Eyes is a reference to the well-known manga and anime series Death Note. Shinigamis, also known as death gods, are supernatural beings that lead you and others towards death directly or indirectly. In the anime, a Shinigami shows up in the human world when a human makes contact with a Death Note fallen from the sky - it’s a book that kills people once their names are written on it. With every death, the person’s remaining life span is added to the Shinigami’s.If a human with a Death Note makes a deal with a Shinigami to get their eyes, the human will know other people’s names and their remaining lifespans by just seeing their face. The price for these eyes is half of the human’s remaining lifespan, which will be added to the Shinigami’s as well.Within the context of the song, the metaphor is about when the Shinigami come into the human world just to amuse themselves with people’s deaths.
*Shinigami Eyes, even though it is apart of Book 1, has no relation to it. Grimes said that she and Illangelo made the song because they liked watching Death Note.
* The lyric 'And young men's love doth lie, never in their hearts, only in their eyes' is taken from William Shakespeare's tragedy Romeo and Juliet, where the narrator comments on Romeo's many instances of falling in love as “young men's love then lies / Not truly in their hearts, but in their eyes.”https://www.enotes.com/topics/romeo-and-juliet/questions/what-meaning-quot-young-mens-love-then-lies-not-23111
* The original (demo) version of Shinigami Eyes used to be much slower in tempo than the release version.https://youtu.be/uV1SaZx1enM?si=VXLhZNtz7VyWc9a-&t=441
*The song was made in less than three days.
==Versions==
▶ Single - 2:39
▶ Music video - 3:19
▶ Trailer - 0:23
Demos 
▶ 4:18
 
== References ==
Category:Songs
Category:Singles
Category:Music videos
Category:2022