“Genesis” by Grimes

"Genesis" was the lead single from Visions, the third album by Canadian singer-songwriter Grimes, released on 4AD in 2012, and it became one of her biggest songs largely because its videos went viral, mostly by way of Tumblr.

Grimes directed the main video herself. Shot in Los Angeles and premiered on August 22, 2012, it co-stars rapper Brooke Candy, whom Grimes called "a very contemporary muse", and strings together a desert drive in an Escalade with friends, an albino python coiled in the back of a limo and a spell of posing in the woods. She said it was loosely drawn from The Seven Deadly Sins and the Four Last Things by Hieronymus Bosch, her favorite painter, a chance to play with medieval Catholic imagery. The NME ranked the song 16th among its 50 best tracks of 2012.

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