In the new video for the song, “Kill V. Maim,” from her album Art Angels, Grimes leads a group of subway-inhabiting vampire misfits in a futuristic dystopian city. What exactly inspired Grimes to write the tune? According to Rolling Stone, she described it as being from the perspective of Al Pacino in The Godfather: Part II. ‘‘Except he’s a vampire who can switch gender and travel through space.”
She makes reference to the inspo in the chorus, which she sings in a cheerleader-like chant: “B-E-H-A-V-E aggressive/Tell me I’m a mobster looking so fresh.”
Even in a Versace sweatshirt, Grimes really knows how to embrace the graver within. Chances are, either you or someone you know was once a graver, a.k.a. gothic raver. Maybe, just maybe, someone in the vicinity of this article was a graver years ago. Perhaps this person even wore a black PVC halter with her JNCOs.