Oblivion

Oblivion

Grimes

The third track off Grimes' third studio album, Visions. It was named by Pitchfork as the best track of the decade so far.

In an April interview, Boucher explained the song’s true meaning:

The song is about being violently assaulted and it made me crazy for a few years. I got really paranoid walking around at night and started feeling really unsafe. The song is more about empowering myself physically amongst a masculine power, and the hate of feeling powerless, making light of masculine physical power, making it jovial and non-threatening. I took a typically violent cultural situation and made it pop and happy.

Throughout, imagery depicting a ‘dark night’ evokes both the actual event of the assault and her process of coping with the trauma.