Grimes - Player Of Games (Official Video)
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- Official Video for "Player of Games" Chapter 1 of Book 1 by Grimes
Listen to "Player of Games" here: metaverse.lnk.to/PlayerofGames
Director: Anton Tammi
Creative Director/ Story: Grimes
Production Company: Somesuch
Executive Producer: Alli Maxwell & Tim Nash
Line Producer: Veronica Leon
Local Service Company: The LIFT
DP: Oliver Millar
2nd Unit: Tuomas Nurmi
1st AD: Oscar Almengor
Gaffer: Oscar Gonzalez
Production Designer: Pol Agusti
Grimes' Stylist: Turner
Hair for Grimes: Preston Wada
Makeup for Grimes: Natasha Severino
Director’s Assistant: Ludwig Ljung
2nd Director’s Assistant: Otis Huss
Post Producer:
Elisa Johanna Känd
Editor: Andreas Arvidsson, WGT A&M
Additional Editor: Martin Zaar
Additional Editing: Tim Montana & Grimes
Colourist: Nicke Cantarelli
VFX & Online: Stefan Ekman
3D/VFX: Oscar Böckerman
EP Post: Sofia Misgena, WGT A&M
Sound Design: Akseli Soini
Title Design: Aleksi Tammi
Title Animation: Inari Sirola
Custom swords from Saber forge
Dark King: Andrei Pishchalnikov
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He never removed his armor, always guarded, while she was bare before him. In the end he played to win and knocked her right out of his way like she was nothing. Great video, super sad but damn good.
great interpretation
"even though we're gonna loooooose"
At the end the pieces were the same, they've always played on the same side.
is it supposedly about her relationship with Elon?
@@oldmansam95 Obviously.
The sounds of the swords swishing around and clanging together on beat with the music really adds to it for me.
is a lightsaber for star wars ... and the red is for the siths
@@slayercfv at 4:00 ?? No those are swords
I was just going to say that it just sounds so good to getter I love that part
Exactly!! We need this version on spotify or soundcloud!!!
Grimes is love Grimes is life
when she said “i’m in love with the greatest gamer but he’ll always love the game more than he loves me” i felt that……..
They call me Ryan Tom cruise AKA Spiegel Trump musk
At least he loves her that is sufficient for her
@@TKUA11 She just sued him for sole custody of their youngest child.
She was just one of the concubines for the mandate, a procreation agenda. Cross her palm with silver and she will dance naked for you, procreate, anything.
@@TKUA11He doesn't. That's the point. He loves the game more than her, he does not care about loving her more.
The double meaning in "if I loved him any less, I'd make him stay" legit gives me chills. This song is a masterpiece
Can you pls explain the other meaning behind this?
I interpreted this line as a play on “if you love something let it go” and the idea that letting the one you love go signifies the purest form of love-i.e. sacrifice. So in one sense the line is a statement about the purity and depth of her love.
The second meaning I inferred is more a statement about “his” love of the chase and conquest… because she loves him so much, he doesn’t give a shit. But if she loved him less, he might stick around to win her over.
Maybe I’m inferring more than she meant, but I respect her so much as a songwriter and artist that I believe my assumption is right. She’s too clever for this to be an accident
I think she loves him unconditionally. She loves everything about him. The good & ugly. She loves his autonomy & doesn't want to condition his autonomy. That would be conditional love.
If she loved him any less, she wouldn't give damn about his autonomy & his sense of Mission & would have made him stay. But that would be conditional love. It'll be like loving a replica of him which isn't real. Because she would have stolen his Autonomy.
Wow, thank you for pointing that out, @baileyjean42. I just heard this for the first time, and I really enjoyed it. I love clever lyrics like that...
My narc ex-husband always blamed me for not "letting" him cheat and gaslighted me multiple times with (verbatim), "You shouldn't love me so much. If you loved me less, it would hurt less."
Needless to say, that's exactly how I interpreted this.
I like the fact that she is playing with him with no armor, she's only in her dress, it feels like as if she was so open to him, like an open book and he is in his armor, fully covered and closed off, not opening up to her.
I like that interpretation, very clever!
Hmm 🤔 I think your prob correct . But Yao now so typical of a very powerful man to pretend to be open in the start then put on the Armor of protection order of asshole of selfishness or whatever after the vulnerability has already been exposed but Grimes is strong and she comes from a good family she’s surrounded by men so I’m pretty sure she can handle her own
great interpretation!the fact that he cut her in the stomach specifically and they showed that twice I found quite interesting. like she just gave birth to his child. I wish I could just sit down and talk to her and ask her if she is okay.
Obviously
Hello Elon 💜
Literally obsessed with the timing of the sword slashes
I keep rewatching that part. It's so epic!
Same!!! It’s a new beat actually to the video.
I thought I was the only one!! LOL
Ficaram perfeitos
Nah ruins it! Long time fan here tho.
She’s so ethereal. I’m in awe whenever I watch this music video (which is often btw)
I'm addicted to this video game
What it feels like to date Elon Musk.
I thought the exact same things 😂
“If I loved him any less, I’d make him stay”, such a powerful line. I was hooked after that
I don't get it, explain please.
She loves him so much that she knows he needs go on his own, and she’s gonna let him because she cares about what he wants. If she loved him any less. She’d make him stay
@@peacel0vemakeup woah...
@@fabienzaca she isn't being selfish by making him stay, she loves him so much that she understands that letting him go is better for him
@@peacel0vemakeup oh ok, I was like shouldn't it be the opposite that if she loved him more she wants him stay, but thanks for explaining.
She’s seated as a player at the game table, but as the game progresses, sees that she is nothing more than a pawn on his board, or a card in his deck. While she’s emotionally open and unguarded, he’s cold and covered in armor. It almost seems like he’s taunting her… he knows her weapon is useless against his armor yet he continues to draw
her in.
He enjoys watching her fight, until he doesn’t. He always had the power to end the game wherever and whenever he wanted to.
She lies dead on the floor, her body and her blood just outside of the spotlight… seems to echo the position she held in his life while she lived.
Wow, Grimes. Wow.
she is just his NFT
A tale as old as time.
Love this interpretation!
blame Asperger's and other spectrum disorders
No.
Grimes with a big budget is unstoppable
😄😄
She is out of this world, for certain.
Thanks for another older sponsor who married younger gold digger
With Elon's child support her budget is infinite!
@@Baldoxxx4000you sound like you’re in your 30s
5:08 I want this part to be played on repeat so bad, it's sooo good 😭😭
Amazing 5:08…
The part at 5:16 and later seems unusual, in my opinion. The vocal lyrics in that section are subdued (compared to the ambient instrumentals) and are thus difficult to understand without listening closely. However, at least to my ears, the lyrics seem somehow "Biblically inspired", with possible relation to Revelation 12:9, and perhaps something from Revelation 13.
Check Cyberpunk 2077, the campaign is full of those synths and bass.
Indeed!
My fav part !!!
The "after song" is like heaven to my ears. If it were a complete song on its own I would 100000% listen to that. But the whole song is incredible, the visuals are also amazing.
Now now it’s not what it seems but this is an album so I’m just saying …
@@avrgegmer1396 are you implying what I think you're implying? If so, hell yeah
@@avrgegmer1396 I NEED IT
I actually still haven't watched the video; was just getting in2 the shower when it dropped, but yer right! Grimes' Aftersong Game is Strong! -Her Preludesong Game, too! -thinking, Belly of The Beat ending, Venus Fly and Genesis music videos.
But now, I must Watch this
@@Bimfirestarter Yess do ittttt it's such a cool video.
It doesn't matter how sexy you are, how smart you are, how seductive you are... when you are playing the game with someone who is covered in armor and emotional unavailable you will never win. You are just another hot chick, another pawn in the game... this "king" doesn't need a queen... he is in love with the "game".
Это так красиво написано ,что даже переведу для русских.
"Неважно, насколько вы сексуальны, насколько вы умны, насколько вы соблазнительны... когда вы играете в игру с кем-то, кто покрыт доспехами и эмоционально недоступен, вы никогда не выиграете. Ты просто еще одна красотка, еще одна пешка в игре... этому "королю" не нужна ферзь... он влюблен в "игру"."
What??
Поднимем в топ этот комментарий!
Δεν έχει σημασία πόσο σέξι είσαι, πόσο έξυπνος είσαι, πόσο σαγηνευτικός είσαι… Όταν παίζεις το παιχνίδι με κάποιον που είναι θωρακισμένος και συναισθηματικά μη διαθέσιμος, δεν θα κερδίσεις ποτέ. Είσαι απλώς άλλη μια καυτή γκόμενα, άλλο ένα πιόνι στο παιχνίδι... Αυτός ο "βασιλιάς" δεν χρειάζεται βασίλισσα ...είναι ερωτευμένος με το "παιχνίδι"
အင်းဘာ
Baby
Would you still love me
Out on Europa?
Or will you forget?
La, la, la, la
Baby
How can I compare
To the adventure out there?
Sail away
To the cold expanse of space
Even love
Couldn't keep you in your place
But can't you love me like that?
Can't you need me like that?
If I loved him any less
I'd make him stay
But he has to be the best
Player of games
If I loved you any less
I'd make you stay
Player of games
Player of games
Player of games
Player of games
Player of games
Player of games
I'm in love with the greatest gamer
But he'll always love the game
More than he loves me (oh, oh)
Sail away
To the cold expanse of space
Even love
Couldn't keep you in your place
But can't you love me like that?
Can't you need me like that?
If I loved him any less
I'd make him stay
But he has to be the best
Player of games
If I loved him any less
I'd make him stay
Player of games
Player of games
Player of games
Player of games
Player of games
Player of games
Thank you, I was looking for a comment like your
un loreeeee
All this for that troll Elon 😭
Thank u!
I think there's more on the last part
This is literally one of the best music videos in existence. The cinematography is impeccable.
Yes! I think so too.
agreed
It looks almost like a role/FPS game commercial:P
You should watch Shinigami eyes
indeed... but it does border on pornographic...
I missed Grimes music videos so much,,, her art really doesn't get talked about enough. This was stunning both visually and conceptually
too bad it was lacking sonically
I think SHE WILL GET THERE WITH A SONG AND VIDEO LIKE THAT A TRUE ETHEREAL SPIRIT HERE
@@fifthharm so you can't dance to this? I love jogging to this, and doing cardio overall with this track playing. I feel great afterwards ^_^
@@fallensurvivor21 i could but i would MUUUUCH rather dance to flesh without blood or my name is dark
@@fifthharm and that's fine too, Art Angels and Miss Anthropocene are great albums 😌
Cant help but notice all these references to Grime's previous work. The throne, also present in Delete forever, the act of chasing Grimes down, and the whole notion of playing games in IDORU, and the scene with the consoles which reminded me of Flesh without blood. Grimes never fails to surprise.
The sailor scout collar is from oblivion
Sorry genesis not oblivion
its akira/armitageIII telos and hive
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@@AckzaTV wrong, it's The Culture
Maybe one of her most moving songs. The meanings behind it, the symbolic elements. 10/10
In the video he really was a player of games. he could have easily knocked her out or overpowered her but instead he made her fight to the death when the outcome was clear the whole time.
"Coming near him like a ballet dancer she took a leap towards him, and he, frightened by her vehemence, and fearing that she would crash against him, instinctively became absolutely rigid, and she felt herself embracing a statue." - Anaïs Nin
🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
where is this from?
What does it mean.....?
She was going to hurt him then decided not too and hugged him instead ?
@@calmcalm6203 the 'he' is the avoidant partner. He is frightened by her love (vehemence) and becomes avoidant (rigid), even though her love is pure (ballet dancer)
She actually improved on this track so much, her mind. The intro and outro are a great addition. Not to mention, that final sword fight sequence is movie quality.
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Totally. It's incredible, such a masterful pulling of it all together into a perfect final version. I didn't even think I liked the song from the previews, and I am o b s e s s e d with this final official version. Grimes you are a genius, if you loved him any less - you'd have made him stay!!!!!! (you win)
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I watched this after reading Elon’s book, it makes sense for how they were together and how in the end she had to let him go because she knew she was just another player in the game he needed to win. It’s good she could see it for what it was though, not many have this gift of foresight.
he doesnt need her to win though lol
You talking about what??
@@shin9380the story of grimes and Elon, it’s in his new biography book
@@danidee3742 I don't think she was saying that he needs her to win. She was just saying that he needed to win the game.
She said:
"...she was just another player in the game he needed to win."
Not:
"...she was just another player that he needed in order to win the game."
bad interpretation @@danidee3742
i think this is one of the most beautiful music videos ever shot and it is somehow still so underrated. truly i love her mind
I normally dislike sound effects in music videos, but I think these honestly just make it better! I love the chiming of the swords and the rhythmic rumbles as the two duel
I agree, they are really well synchronized with the music, it´s beautiful :)
cause is well done right
I LOVE YOU GRIMES
same i normally despise it but this is better than the og
YESSSSSSSSSSS
"If I loved him any less, I'd make him stay,
But he has to be the best player of games"
I think that says it all.
No idea who she is talking about.
Honestly.
She probably beat him, at chess.
@@bryancooper9581 baaaahahahhahaahhahahaa You are the best!
@@loveforthor6586 Not the best.
I never will be.
Thank you for your support.
You made me smile.
Thank you!
Yeah, its very sad our reality.
Yessss💜
The fact that she was not pierced with the sword from the front but was stabbed in the back. THE DETAILLLSS!!
Cinematography and that drop at 5:08 are insane. I can’t get over it!
That beat drop reminds me of Closer by NIN. I’m not complaining.
He is too guarded and closed
She's too exposed and vulnerable
He ends up alone
She ends up dead
Interpret as you will, the song is great, and the sword clashes matching with the rythm are godly and the choreography in the clip is fun
This song is not about musk
@@tovcr7598
Cool
No one said it is, who're you talking with, buddy 'cause it sure isn't me from the looks of it
🎯
@@MortSalazar I think he is saying that this song isn't about Elon musk cause alot think it is about him as the song happens to air after they break up
@@tovcr7598 Honestly I don't even care if it's about Musk, no one I know does, the comment wasn't stating that either. The song is a masterpiece and perfectly portraits how love is also a power game, and if you're trying that game with the biggest power hungry (and holder) person in the world, well, things can get nasty.
This is a masterpiece, I couldn't help but think "I need a film of this". Grimes is such a brilliant woman, one of my top favourite artists.I love her work❤
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“I’m in love with the greatest gamer… but he’ll always love the game more than he loves me” I can only imagine her true meaning of these lyrics
IMHO a lot of guys are like this, obsessed with video games, the girl in their life just has to wait, or watch. They're way more into the game than you... so weird
Lol u wish
@@VegaChastain It's more than that. Although Musk is indeed into video games it's that he does all he does ruthlessly like some gamer playing not carefully be relentlessly. And so in the end he will totally win or it will be an absolute failure. Like when Musk tells everybody to go "hardcore".
BTW, the whole video is about battling on different grounds - with swords (in which Grimes are really into), chess and actual video games.
@@martinschnelle8664 wow thanks for that i'm so enlightened lol
was just sharing my viewpoint, nothing to do with Elon. thanks for taking time out to share yours
Batting on different grounds, so deep thanks
It's also a reference to the book 'Player of Games' where the main character has become the best player of all games and is bored with life - in this case Elon has 'won' games in his various different companies from Tesla, to Space X, to X/Twitter
The pain of every woman who is with a powerful man who can have them all and cannot make a choice. If he really loved her he would stay with her and be a father to his children. Grimes is the purest soul in the most beautiful body. If you cannot even commit to her there is really no hope for you to ever form a meaningful relationship. Children need a father and a stable home.
See... Elon is an ego ridden man-child.
It kinda broke me that the knight cut her belly, right in the c-section area. She gave her all playing by the rules of a game maybe she knew wasnt gonna win.
"If i loved him any less id make him stay" just stuck with me from the get go.
I love that this is kinda of a heartbreak song but it isnt mean spirited, it hits me in all the right places, damm such a good song and amazing video to complement it
In Indoru she said “I wanna play a beautiful game even tho we’re gonna lose, but I adore u” 🥺
But what does that mean? The spot that he cut? I don't get it
@@realdududududu when Grimes gave birth to Elon musk's baby boy, she needed c-section. A Dr will cut a few inches below the belly button.....as did the knight in this video. @ 4:34
how do you know it was a c section birth?
@@murdaux8765 grimes herself spoke of it
I love her work and I'm 60! She transcends generations
Bitch I’m 80 and I live for it mama
60?? Здоровья те. Житуй долгих летов.
Yes, I totally agree!
sam3e I'm 14 and I'm obsessed with her works :))
@@janhvi143 I'm biting my tongue, I'm sure I have some stupid thing to say. But I get it.
You’re a genius grimes, please never stop making art. You speak to my subconscious 🥺❤️
the queen and the king in chess are like them, the queen's actions are almost exaggerated, she puts herself out there like no other pieces can; but the king stays reserved, unmoved
In love and giving him attention and love while he stands there in a full armor, not touching her, no reactions - not even tilting his head forward to show any love towards her. His hands stay on his sword and by his side. The one sided love she must have felt. Sacrificing yourself to let your loved ones do their most important mission in this life. Couples can learn a lot from this.
Been there, never think your love can change them
It’s so sad
BS.
Yeah they are really symbolic messages about Elon
I can really relate to this as I used to be drawn to indifferent lovers myself. It's just magical how she put that longing into images. But as she shows, you'll always be the one who is behind in these kind of relationships and you're the one getting hurt.
I love how Grimes follows no other. Her music sounds like nobody else
Agreed
same
I’m loving her new song too that she released today and the video
@@duchessravenwaves2834 yes! There are also visual references to "shinigami eyes" lyrics. The Queen on the chess board, blood as in "the red on a rose". I love it.
Thats because she is self produced, most of the other big name popstars have teams of music producers actually making the music
So much truth in this video. ...he kills her and then she keeps remembering him killing her while they're still playing chess, she has no armor or protection he has all of it, then she's dead on the floor and he says "I won" the chess game. As if she could win it dead on the floor.
This is Biblical. Revelation 17:4 she's wearing purple. She's riding the Beast aka AI.
This song became a lot to me, not sure if Claire is gonna see this but my father was a software engineer. He died last February suddenly due to a heart attack. My whole life I came second to computers, he treated life like a video game always trying to level up, solve the puzzles, prove himself. And I felt that “if I loved him any less I’d make him stay.” If I didn’t love and want him I’d have never been hurt, never been missing him even when he was alive. I knew he needed to win and I just stopped competing. “Why can’t you love me like that? Why can’t you need me like that?” Anyone who loves someone in that industry I’ve seen over and over again feel that. Seeing them always in a screen always on a journey to win and you’re just a shadow of their ambition, something in the way. It taught me how to live my life, I saw the price of trying to win, how much you actually missed living yourself. I loved this song before he died and even sent it to him hoping that maybe he would listen to what I couldn’t say, I don’t know if he got the message but I still come back to this and the “I’d make you stay,” is especially different that he died.
This whole video too, I see that stone as my father. So closed off so cold and calculated. I fought so hard while I was still young, then he stabbed me when I realized he would never love me or be the father I needed. The part of the video when he’s on a throne and she’s sitting on the ground near the throne- I saw my father as a god, this thing I could never attain or be close enough to. And I’m happy he’s dead in a sick way- it freed me like when it switches to the angel part- I was free.
@@evlynrox You deserved better 💖💖 you're not unlovable 🙏
Bruh
This takes me back to the days of early 2000's trance!! Grimes never fail to captivate me
its like DELERIUM remember THEM?
Omg or like prophecy collective.. was racking my brain almost the entire video..
@@AckzaTV Haha yes i do, Kinda getting some of those vibes here n there from this song
@@tipsybass7060 Now you're going way bacc 😎
We need to bring trance back! :')
When you listening Grimes songs, the feeling is that you don't want it to end, feels like you're watching best movie for the first time. I adore u Grimes, song is super great!!!!!
When I listening Grimes, I get in some sort of transe.
Actually with almost most of the music I listen. Music wraps my brain, but Grimes' music gives me a special specific state of mind.
you missed a chance of saying "idoru grimes" lol
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I like how all the video game references in the synth are there but not overdone.
Even Grimes’ most basic song is still light years better than the average dance pop artists.
Can’t listen to this song without tearing up, beautifully melancholic ..
4:46 LYRICS
Beauty
Beauty loved the beast
He just stares into the sun
There ain't no Heaven
The angels here are the only ones
They fall like Lucifer
I can't beat God
I fall like Lucifer
They can't beat God
And now I'm here on Earth
Because I'm not an angel baby
Somewhere in your eyes
The last angel
Fell out from the sky
Thank you...I was searching for all the words to the end..
Beautiful
She doesn’t wanna go to mars maybe..
@@rebeccamcelwee3514 :) you're welcome
Amazing.
I love when she says even love couldn’t keep you in your place because both of them are clearly out their spaces
One of her best productions.
I'm speechless. This is one of the most intense videos that Grimes brings us. Simply put she is beyond passionate about all art. She is a brilliant mind. I adore you Grimes. Thank you for player of games.
The face that she produces her own music is so rare and amazing. Im in my mid thirties and just discovering her and i think she is phenomenal.
She’s very artistic and what music should be about she sells the art not her toys and ass . She’s also very smart I’m glad she does not sell her self out to the typical sex slavery matrix a lot of the bigger celebs have boiled down too .
@@lorigonzalez4518 👏
Me too! I'm 35 and found her because she's Elon's ex wife. So glad I did find her though, this is the first song of hers I ever heard and I'm just in love with it in it's entirety!!!! 😍 Grimes is amazing
@@albedesigns dude . her early stuff is so weird i love it. I have been listening to Halifaxa for the last two weeks in my headphones as i walk downt own. i love it!
I produce my own music to I’m about to debut this year, you might love me as well 😄
Only someone that went through the same heartbreak as her can understand this song. To me, it’s about someone who will never value you as much as they value their future. They’re so goal-oriented they can’t even look to the side and see that the person they’re supposed to care is suffering. They have to be the best.
And if you start succeeding more than that partner, it becomes a competition for them and they begin to resent you for it.
I almost lost my life to Alcohol and co dependency to a man that was an addict as well and we had a toxic relationship.He almost killed me just by him being in my life and me losing myself to him.I made him my God and he aided in me drinking and making bad decisions that put my life into jeopardy.He didn't care about me but He was my world.So today I'm quitting both Alcohol and him cold turkey.I lost my identity to him and became him down to my hair and face.I forgot who Im (was).I lost it to him and Alcohol.But today I'm finding myself again.I feel like a wound warrior.He tried to destroy me but I survived and can start a new life.Goodbye Tye ❤️🔥❤️🔥our knot is now broken and deleted Forever.💔
i can't get over the sound of the swords clanging going along with the beats
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i discovered grimes several years ago during a difficult time in my life.
grimes taught me that it's okay to change your music taste anytime and that art is limitless.
c taught me to own my awkwardness, image, and who i am. expanding my opinions or ideas as i get older is perfectly okay! i'd rather be happy being myself versus miserable trying to please every single person.
watching this music video i still see the same goofy, creative, and intelligent person who was dancing around in vanessa or oblivion. she is just a little more grown up. thank you for everything grimes, xoxo
Grimes also “saved” me during a dark time. Totally relate 🥰
omg same this is so accurate✨
Same story ❤️
Yup same here… Grimes’ art reminded me that there could be beauty in the world during a dark time… she’s still my biggest influence 💕
💖💖
Wow from 2:50- 3:20 those are some BEAUTIFUL visuals!! Love this song and the video was her best yet. Recently got into grimes music and wasn’t sure at first but as I’ve been listening more, I realized this girl knows what she’s doing❤
This is one of the most beautiful and chilling songs I've ever heard. She truly is an earth angel. ✨
She always outdoes herself. What a freaking genius.
Are we gonna skip over the sword fight sound effects being synced to the rhythm?
This was a masterpiece
Honestly SO MUCH serotonin from it
@@Kazztastrophe can I borrow some
@@liamg1706 I have so little but yes, yes you can
@@Kazztastrophe 😂 thanks
We need a grimes beat saber pack
I'm living for her lightsaber use and the obi-wan stance at 3:57 shes amazing
Ugh I love grimes not only is she the closest to a doppelgänger to me that I’ve seen her music moves me so much and she dropped this beauty on my birthday yay
Anyone else notice it’s like a sequel from the song “idoru”.. in that song she mentions “we can play a beautiful game…. Even though we’re gonna loose”
Then there’s this masterpiece. It’s like she knew all along 😢 it’s brilliant
Oh wow Yas!!!
*LOSE
@Losalte there is an IDORU music videos?!??!?!?!? omfg ive been living a lie-
And the long flowing dress is similar from the idoru video, but it’s more flat in the stairwell scene. And all the color in that video was soft pink and in this video her pink sword is electric and a violent shade. The tone changed from soft and Rosie blush colored to electric, violent, harsh colors.
OMG
I like the visual storytelling here. The lover of the player of games has many appearances, many tempting and beautiful. But the player of games shows nothing but cold steel. The player and lover both know, that the player will win this game and leave her for greater games. Nevertheless, they still play. The player of games plays the game because, well, that's what the player does. And he plays to win. The lover, however, does not play to win. She knows she cannot win. All that she hopes for is that she will be remembered, if not by her love and grace, then by her game. Perhaps she even dreams the player will one day return, though that is unlikely. The player of games cannot stop, the only way to reach a player of games is to play the game.
Omg yes 🙌
I actually got alot of toxicity from this, it's not romantic.
Yes I’m in agreement with the way you put it into words
i met a gamer guy kinda like this knight portrayed, his class is knight too. dude is always marketing, grinding and battling almost 24 7. A bit cold but I love him and he never reciprocates.
Very much sounding like her relationship with Elon..
I don't know how to describe what I felt while watching. It's excellent.. I'm incredibly inspired.
Grimes with a budget is unstoppable
I just realized that she recorded in Mexico, the visuals are amazing and the song is completely my style, she deserves much more recognition, she is so underrated! I love her
i was like i love that place, and the i knew it was in Mex
is the lions desert right? in Mexico city
@@auroraadrianocastaneda6879 yaaaasss
Mexico is in the top five most beautiful countries in the world (according to many sources).
A country soo diverse it has: Arabian-like deserts (Sonora and Baja)
Snowy mountains/regions (Chihuahua/Durango)
Enchanting forests (Michoacán and the capital)
Beautiful colonial areas (Guadalajara and San Miguel de Allende)
Majestic Pueblo magicos (Taxco Guerrero)
Best Caribbean beaches (the Caribbean region of Mexico e.g Xcaret Cancún)
Amazing jungles and cenotes (Chiapas/Yucatan)
Historical wonders e.g pyramids (chichenitza, pyramids of teotioahuacan)
Hi-Tech metropolitan cities (Mexico City and Monterrey)
I digress...
Be blessed
Grimes you are a beautiful mastermind. I love your art!!!!
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Elon better be shaking and throwing up after watching this 😔
@@user-pm9pw6cj4c why is this man still being mentioned under her videos
@@hi-kh5eq because I loathe him and we must never forget the man who broke her heart. The thing that hurt her isn't some invisible, semi-existential entity but a living, breathing, farting moid
@@user-pm9pw6cj4c first of all we don’t know if that actually happened. she never said he “broke her heart”, she could’ve been the one that broke up with him for all we know. & yet she’s still calling him an icon on twitter which is truly disappointing. this man and her should not be mentioned in the same sentence and that’s just my opinion idk
The intro and outro.... I need to have a streaming version with it.... It's soooo good
The visuals is truly freaking amazing!! Her voice though!! 🔥🔥🔥
Woah that's just simply not a music video anymore this is a work of art.
always have been
In Thailand, Laos, Vietnam and China, they've been doing these short mini movie music video. Very addicting because it has a storyline
every video of hers is like this
Mint
That's the truth.
Sounds and looks like a self-therapeutic approach to her broken relationship with Musk. Masterpiece.
no , art is just art
I see why you think this but it's not to do with musk x
@@emanhelmy4225 art comes from the deep of emotions. art is just not art
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How on earth could that NOT be a reference to Musk?
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She definitely dated so many men before or after knowing Elon , but the sure thing is that we should respect celebrities' private life and private emotions , y'all acting like 12 years old teenagers who can't enjoy a masterpiece without ruining it with dumb gossip
How come nobody has timed sword fight shings to the beat before? Amazing
The end is absolutely fabulous. The rain of synth arpeggiator harmonics is gold to the ears.
Regardless of situation, when your love makes you feel this was its devastating. I hope grimes knows she's not alone and we love her.
Grimes is very cerebral and symbolic. There is more at play at this than a 'broken' relationship with Musk. They went on to have another child together, though via segregate. I don't think this is so much about her break up with Musk as I think it is about her pregnancy. She's spoken before about how she gave all to him, not just with having unprotected sex, but also having his child which she said was so much harder than she thought it would be. When you get pregnant it makes you vulnerable. Your body is no longer your own, and for someone like Grimes that values her freedom and independence this can be very hard. The take down, literally a strike NOT to the neck or heart, but stomach? IF you wanted to show a man who toyed with her heart, you would choose a killing blow better than a gut wound. A gut blow followed by a full moon (menstruation cycles and the moon?). No, I believe this is more about their relationship struggles (him being more focused on his career) and the pregnancy. Imagine, having children by a man who is determined to go live on Mars and leave you caring for his kids?
This is smart, and I think she was struck twice in the abdomen?
@@jdl2180 once a baby is weened anyone can take care of the kids and that's saying mom breast feeds. Anything else is social standards and norms, not necessarily nature. Just look at lions, penguins... As for Grimes, she talks about how hard pregnancy was on her body, not child raising.
Yes she said that they live in different places and would not expect most people to understand. In another interview, Elon Musk said that he doesn't even have his own house LOL he just couch surfs and stays at different friends houses for different periods of time and I think that's really strange. He has all this money, yet he basically just wants to freeload off of people? I don't know, it's just really weird enough probably so much that she learned about the true Elon Musk that nobody knows. Then again, maybe there wasn't much she learned and maybe that's the problem
Live on Mars and leave you caring for his kid? He literally said he doesn't want to live on Mars. Elon Musk and Grimes are still together. She just did a podcast with Lex Friedman last month. These Lyrics were not even written by Grimes, but Carlo Montagnese and Claire Boucher
Or she's just an RPG, Star Wars nerd and you are just reaching hard.
This song is criminally underrated.
Feeling of the sharp object tearing through your body is strange, you don't feel pain at first, you just feel something somewhere you never felt before, then comes the pain, extreme.
The lyrics to this gorgeous outro: (4:44)
Sunlight in your eyes
The last angel
Fell out from the sky
Beauty
Beauty loved the beast
He just stares into the sun
There ain't no Heaven
The angels here are the only ones
They fall like Lucifer
I can't beat/be God
I fall like Lucifer
They can't beat/be God
And now I'm here on Earth
Because I'm not an angel baby
Sunlight in your eyes
The last angel
Fell out from the sky
So she's basically saying Elon was a Satanist?
This is a message from Lilith to her, soon to be, bride. She's basically saying, the chosen one must be a player of games. This player of games is a fallen angel, like Lucifer. He's the False Messiah
JUST KIDDING
Grimes is weird it could be some weird sci fi reference a history reference a personal reference who knows. Thats why i love her she just keeps you guessing.
I need this song!
@ Bro they all are
This in NEXT LEVEL. Grimes is really going hard in this new era
We are all the player of our kind of games
I just discovered this song its amazing and the video clip🤩🤩🤩🙏🏼
idc how hard he cries. she gave him her heart and her body. i hope she is doin good now.
Same, she's a talented person. Hope she's okay and healing.
I don't think he cried about anything. I think his emotions are buried and non-existent.
Who??
@TheMaidofMiddleEarth i know.. i cant say i dont know how that goes but i imagine its 1000000000 x harder when its Elon musk messing with you. ):
@@jeremiously he is a traumotised little boy pscyhopath that to this day acts completely in carlessness and lack of consideration of others out of personal ego and fear of abandonment for himself this is also why is has structured his companies with hand outs and manipulating ppl and bootlickers
Trivia: Most people are not aware that the book "Player of Games" is among the sci-fi novels that originally inspired Elon's space fascination, so much so that two of the landing pads used by Space X rockets (Of-Course-I-Still-Love-You & Just-Read-The-Instructions) are named after ships from the book
Thx David, I didn't know this - I knew Grimes has loved the Culture series for a long time, her video Idoru features a language from the books, just another reason they were drawn together I guess. I figured the rocket names were her influence.
Sincerely, David, thanks for the info.
I'm one of those people who did not know.
Thanks to you, now I do.
Now I'll be reading that book myself!
This is my first taste of Grimes & her music and art. I'm blown away!
This was also my first grimes song! Will forever be one of my favs! ❤❤❤
I love with her she fights him straight up she don’t have any armor this video speaks volumes
I would definitely watch this as a series. Amazing visuals. Must have had a nice budget. Incredible job Grimes and everyone else that worked on this piece of stunning art.
Exactly. That's what she does right? She makes you want more..like at the end of the video ...hey no. Wait what's happens next? Is she dead? No yes... will this story continue?
@@keniamoralesvelazquez5235 she’s incredible, I can’t wait for the rest of the book
No joke, this has to be one of grimes’ best music videos to date
100%
It’s bc a really high quality expensive music video is like buying a chocolate bar to her partner
Fr. This is incredible
@@rlh4092 they’re not together anymore
Agreed
She could battle him in her most vulnerable state and love him still , that is exactly what the armored one will never understand and never behold such power
Player of games debería tener muchísimas más reproducciones, es un trabajo audiovisual precioso ❤
This is her best video she's ever done yet. The vibes, the layers of meaning hidden deep beneath the surface and the lyrics make this her biggest masterpiece to date. I can't wait to see this whole era as it goes on. Also, the blonde wig is amazing
I want a wig that realistic omg
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I think this and Kill V Maim are by far the most gorgeous, loopy, and creative.
@Danika Padin they’re fun to revisit and have a lot going on so I agree 👏🏻
Thanks Elon for giving us budget, we appreciate it
"If I loved you any less, I'd make you stay." Definitely felt that coming out of my last relationship.. Player of Games indeed... 🤦🏽♀️ also felt that final slice through the core 😞
What does it mean exactly? I don't really understand that line
@@mirianalajtman7728 I think it means that when you love someone, you don't want to manipulate or coerce them into staying with you. You'd rather see them be happy, even if it means having to let them go.
Grime's eccentric style and personality keep fans watching her MV’s
this one brings me so many good memories, listened a lot to it during a very good moment in my life
This song, this story, the performance… is immaculate. I can’t wait for the rest of the book, I need more🤯
No one was playing games on the production of this video...
Why isn’t this liked more?? Like-
Took me some years before I could understand her. Much respect! 🌌
that ending was deep
omg i love u rapunzel asmr
Would you mind explaining?
omg rapunzel! Going to fall asleep to your asmr after this video ahaha
was it? she died. lol
The final sword struck was really meaningful imo, she gave everything, a son, her love, herself. But it wasnt enough.
"Beauty, beauty loved the beast, but he just, stares into the sun, there aint no heaven" I mean come on now
Truly epic in 100% Grimes fashion. As we learned with Art Angels, death is only a means to artistic rebirth for Grimes. With this, she has ascended to an even higher level of greatness!
yessss
The music video and song still hit just as hard as the first day it was released
Those visuals are magical! I honestly thought i just watched a movie or something