{"id":975029,"date":"2020-02-12T10:09:31","date_gmt":"2020-02-12T17:09:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=951653"},"modified":"2020-02-12T10:09:31","modified_gmt":"2020-02-12T17:09:31","slug":"grimes-says-new-song-delete-forever-was-inspired-by-lil-peeps-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/music-news\/grimes-says-new-song-delete-forever-was-inspired-by-lil-peeps-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Grimes Says New Song \u2018Delete Forever\u2019 Was Inspired by Lil Peep\u2019s Death"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Grimes2.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/grimes\/\">Grimes<\/a> linked up with Apple Beats 1 on Wednesday to discuss \u201cDelete Forever,\u201d her latest single from her forthcoming album <em>Miss Anthropocene<\/em>, out February 21st.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a pretty bummer song,\u201d she told Zane Lowe. \u201cI\u2019m so bad at talking about this song. I guess it\u2019s kind of about the opioid epidemic\u2026I\u2019ve had quite a few friends pass away, in particular, one friend when I was 18 passed away from complications related to opioid addiction. Artists keep dying and stuff so I wrote this song on the night <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/lil-peep\">Lil Peep<\/a> died.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In contrast to most of Grimes\u2019 other output, \u201cDelete Forever\u201d is a semi-acoustic ballad, built around guitar chords. \u201cIt\u2019s funny because the finished product is basically almost the demo,\u201d she said, explaining how she cut out most everything she added to the track in the final phases.<\/p>\n<p>She continued, \u201cWhen I was making this song I was trying to be more like Patsy Cline or something, like I was trying to be country or something, but I feel like it\u2019s more like\u2026when you go to a punk show and they play some acoustic shit, but it\u2019s super aggro.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lowe agreed, comparing the song to Oasis\u2019s \u201cWonderwall.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Grimes previously released the tracks \u201cWe Appreciate Power,\u201d \u201cViolence,\u201d \u201cSo Heavy I Fell Through the Earth,\u201d \u201c4AEM\u201d and \u201cMy Name Is Dark.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-contextual-player\">\n<h3> Popular on Rolling Stone <\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/grimes-delete-forever-lil-peep-951653\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grimes linked up with Apple Beats 1 on Wednesday to discuss \u201cDelete Forever,\u201d her latest single from her forthcoming album Miss Anthropocene, out February 21st. \u201cIt\u2019s a pretty bummer song,\u201d she told Zane Lowe. \u201cI\u2019m so bad at talking about this song. I guess it\u2019s kind of about the opioid epidemic\u2026I\u2019ve had quite a few [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-975029","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-23 11:30:29","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KFMU Solar Powered Radio","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/975029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=975029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/975029\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=975029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=975029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=975029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}