Be A Body (侘寂)

Be A Body (侘寂) is a song by Grimes. Appearing on her third studio album, Visions, it is the eighth track on the album.
== Background ==
In a retrospective track-by-track commentary, Grimes said about the song:https://www.reddit.com/r/Grimes/comments/sr5yay/listening_note_booklet/
=== Meaning ===
The song was written partly in response to "Post Physical", Denver producer Pictureplane's ode to the internet age, and partly due to a newfound love of R&B following a tour with Brooklyn's lo-fi R&B crooner How to Dress Well. "It's probably the song on the record that takes most from the contemporary dialogue, I would say," she told Dazed.https://www.dazeddigital.com/music/article/19961/1/grimes-ready-to-fly
Grimes said the following about the song:http://web.archive.org/web/20120509042813/http://www.vancouversun.com/entertainment/Grimes+spotlight+with+brilliant+Visions/6175085/story.html#ixzz3PmpHo8WX
==Media==
Main Article: List of Unreleased, Scrapped & Abandonded Projects
==Lyrics==
== Trivia ==
*The song's name was based off of a quote said by Italian Dominican friar and Scriptural theologian Thomas Aquinas regarding the Medieval Christian mentality.https://www.electronicbeats.net/the-visions-the-voice-an-interview-with-grimes/
*The title features the Japanese concept of Wabi-Sabi, (侘寂), which represents a Japanese worldview that beauty is impermanent.https://japanobjects.com/features/wabi-sabihttps://www.refinery29.com/en-us/60-seconds-with-grimes
*In 2012, she called it her favourite song.
*At one point Grimes wanted to use the footage of the scrapped music video for an old song of a friend of hers (likely Elite Gymnastics), but didn't because "it wouldn’t have made sense in the press cycle".https://gothbarbie.medium.com/interview-with-grimes-2012-3b20f26206ca
*It was the second-to-last song to be written for Visions and one of the only songs to not be written in a single day.https://www.electronicbeats.net/the-visions-the-voice-an-interview-with-grimes/
*Grimes played an unreleased version of the song at 2016's Glastonbury Festival, featuring same core sounds and beat but with certain instrumental additions and a different structure.https://youtu.be/NCa1jkWaKIg?si=lu_2Obo2V0qQPnm4
==References==
Category:2012
Category:Songs
Category:Visions