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“Shinigami Eyes”, the first track released from Grimes' EP "Fairies Cum First", was officially released on January 26th, 2022. The song was first teased by a Twitter post of Grimes, which was written in binary code. The next day, Grimes shared a 1-minute long snippet of the song through a livestream on her Metaverse Discord Server. After this Grimes has made several TikToks using this song as the audio. Grimes has replied to a comment on her TikTok account explaining that her label will release the song if the videos she posts on TikTok reach 20 million views combined.
“"Shinigami Eyes” comes out when people are sufficiently hyped haha, label says I gotta hype people but I’m shy and I hate social media, so we’ll see… It’s a metaphor for when the AI invading the simulation to amuse themselves the way Shinigami invade the human world."
—Grimes via Discord
“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.
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