Grimes’ New Single “Artificial Angels” Is Genuinely Creepy

“Grimes is in her cringe fascist era.” The cover art for Grimes’ new single “Artificial Angels” is a collage of photos, headlines, and internet ephemera — some about Grimes herself, some about the artificial intelligence industrial complex that she was early to embrace. That particular line, about the cringe fascist era, is taken from a years-old post on Grimes’ own subreddit. The post itself was in regard to Grimes’ 2021 song “LOVE,” but one could just as easily argue that Grimes entered her cringe fascist era at the 2018 Met Gala, the moment that she first agreed to be photographed in public with Elon Musk.

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