Grimes Takes Time To Talk About A Serious Problem On 'Delete Forever'

The opioid crisis In America takes an average of 130 lives a day, plus it charges the nation an estimated $78 million each year. It's an epidemic, and Grimes has released an emotional new song called "Delete Forever" that draws attention to the dire situation, set to appear on her forthcoming studio album Miss Anthropocene.


Grimes opened up about the song to Zane Lowe of Apple Music's Beats 1. "It's a pretty bummer song," she mentioned, adding that she's had "quite several companions pass away" in relation to the opioid epidemic. Grimes actually wrote "Delete Forever," she noted, on the night that Lil Peep died in 2017. (The rapper's official cause of death was later ruled to be an accidental overdose of fentanyl, which is a synthetic opioid, and Xanax.) "Artists keep dying and stuff, so I wrote this song on the night Lil Peep died, or whichever, because I just got super triggered," she said.


On the song, Grimes explores the dark feelings that might surround a person struggling with the substances. Routinely down, I'm not up / Guess it's just my rotten luck / To fill my time with permanent gloom," she sings, coasting into the chorus: "I visualize everything, I visualize everything / Don't you tell me right now that I don't want it." It's heavy, nevertheless delicate, listen, characterized by a warm, blurry instrumental. Take a listen up above.


Miss Anthropocene is set to arrive on February 21. The LP, which is about a space-dwelling demon that loves the apocalypse, will feature the previously released tunes, "Violence," "So Heavy I Fell via Earth," and "My Name Is Dark."