
Grimes has shared new 'Psy Opera' album details
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'Butterfly' closes Art Angels with a defiant refusal. Grimes adopts the voice of someone resisting the fantasy of being remade into someone else's ideal, repeating the mantra "I'll never be your dream girl" over a production that samples Masayoshi Takanaka's 'Penguin Dancer'. The song moves between moments of fractured introspection and sudden lift, its structure mirroring the uncertainty at its centre: am I right for you, or is the enemy something else entirely? The lyrics circle around transformation and escape. Grimes sings of butterflies in flight, of harmony existing in everything, of the possibility of becoming "anything out there". But the song's emotional core sits elsewhere, in the tension between what others want and what she will or will not become. It's a closing statement that feels less like resolution than like the moment before departure.
"Butterfly" is a track by Grimes, from the album Art Angels, released 6th November 2015. The track is 4:13 long. It's filed under Electronic. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 6 articles about Grimes.
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