Flesh without Blood

Flesh without Blood is a song by Grimes. It is the fourth track on her fourth studio album, Art Angels, and was released as the lead (second) single.
==Background==
===Meaning===
Grimes described the song as being about "a platonic friendship with a [former] female [best] friend."https://www.stereogum.com/1892582/grimes-shares-letter-about-misinterpretations-of-her-suicide-squad-song/news/https://pitchfork.com/features/lists-and-guides/9765-the-100-best-tracks-of-2015/?page=10
Grimes noted how, prior to stating her authorial intent, the press had assumed that the song was about a heterosexual relationship. She saw this as an example of how "the press genders my lyrics" and said that she no longer writes songs about love. She also described it as a song about "being really disappointed with someone who you really once truly admired".https://www.stereogum.com/1892582/grimes-shares-letter-about-misinterpretations-of-her-suicide-squad-song/news/
==Media==
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==Critical reception==
Billboard ranked Flesh without Blood at number 15 on its year-end list of the best songs of 2015, and commented: "There were several otherworldly pop bangers on Grimes' Art Angels, but we're glad she decided to let this stratospheric kiss-off kick off the album cycle. The artist named Claire Boucher kept us guessing in the album's long gestation period, sharing "Go," an EDM banger she'd written for Rihanna, and then admitting she'd scrapped an entire album's worth of material. In the end, she delivered the pop some of her fans were craving, without sacrificing the weirdness that made her a cult star. "Flesh without Blood" is that in a nutshell — a sky-scraping hook pulled out of unintelligible vocals, served over an underbelly of humming guitar".http://www.billboard.com/articles/events/year-in-music-2015/6806155/billboard-25-best-songs-critics-picks
Rolling Stone ranked Flesh without Blood at number 15 on their year-end list of the 50 best songs of 2015.http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/50-best-songs-of-2015-20151203/titus-andronicus-dimed-out-20151203 The prestigious Village Voice ranked the song at number 12 on their annual year-end critic's poll.http://furia.com/pjs/table_song_2015_total.html Time named Flesh without Blood the best song of 2015.http://time.com/4132832/top-10-best-songs-2/ Pitchfork Media named Flesh without Blood the seventh best song and eighteenth best music video of 2015.http://pitchfork.com/features/staff-lists/9763-the-best-music-videos-of-2015/3/ The song also came in at number 71 on the annual Triple J Hottest 100 for 2015.http://www.abc.net.au/triplej/hottest100/15/countdown/
===Commercial performance===
Flesh without Blood peaked at number 84 in Belgium (Ultratop Flanders).http://www.ultratop.be/nl/showitem.asp?interpret=Grimes&titel=Flesh+Without+Blood&cat=s Furthermore, it reached peak 18 and 23 in US Hot/Dance Electronic Songs and Hot Rock Songs (Billboard) respectively.http://www.billboard.com/artist/303162/Grimes/chart?f=1234http://www.billboard.com/artist/303162/Grimes/chart?f=902
==Lyrics==
==Trivia==
*Alternatively spelled as "Flesh, without Blood".https://youtu.be/Tv9YoYCKNoE?t=9
*It is the first act of Art Angels.https://youtu.be/Tv9YoYCKNoE?si=0qfxDANUF_5UHWAn&t=9
*The nightcore remix of Flesh without Blood by Amber LaChance is Grimes' favorite version of the song.https://x.com/Grimezsz/status/1069085690871173120https://youtu.be/JGQZcYcx230?si=_cFw3jUBl8NPrhq7
==References==
Category:2015
Category:Singles
Category:Songs
Category:Art Angels
Category:Music videos