Guillotine (Death Grips song)
| "Guillotine" | ||||
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| Single by Death Grips | ||||
| from the album Exmilitary | ||||
| Released | August 3, 2011 | |||
| Recorded | 2011 | |||
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| Length | 3:43 | |||
| Label | Self-released | |||
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| Music video for "Guillotine" on YouTube | ||||
"Guillotine (It Goes Yah)" is a song by American experimental hip-hop group Death Grips, released as the lead single from their debut mixtape, Exmilitary. It was released on August 3, 2011.
Release[edit]
The music video for "Guillotine" was self-released by Death Grips on YouTube on April 26, 2011, as the lead single of their debut mixtape Exmilitary.[1] It was eventually released as a single on iTunes on August 3, 2011.[2]
Music video[edit]
The music video for "Guillotine" was shot by Matt Brown and features Death Grips' frontman MC Ride angrily rapping while riding in a car, with the visuals becoming increasingly corrupted by white noise.[3] Zach Hill, the drummer for Death Grips, said in 2012 that it "made total sense to start filming in a car" as "Guillotine" is an "anxiety-fuelled" and "claustrophobic" song.[4]
Reception[edit]
"Guillotine" was met with positive reviews by critics. John Calvert of The Quietus named the single as the stand-out song from Exmilitary.[5] In July 2014, Complex ranked it as the third best Death Grips song, noting MC Ride's loud and aggressive vocal delivery as "confrontational".[6] Hayley Elizabeth Kaufman of Flaunt called "Guillotine" a "sinister slice-and-dice track".[7]
In popular culture[edit]
In 2013, choirmaster Gareth Malone performed a choir cover of "Guillotine" for his album Voices.[8] In April 2019, Icelandic singer Björk played the song during a performance at a school dance in Iceland.[9]
On November 11, 2021, a group of vigilante hackers defaced the Constitutional Court of Thailand's website homepage with the music video, also changing the website name to "kangaroo court". This action was done to protest the Constitutional Court's rulings against pro-democracy activists who were seeking to reform or overthrow the monarchy.[10]
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ "Death Grips - Guillotine". YouTube. Death Grips. April 26, 2011. Archived from the original on June 9, 2020. Retrieved October 29, 2020.
- ^ "Guillotine - Single by Death Grips". Apple Music. August 3, 2011. Retrieved October 26, 2020.
- ^ Calvert, John (July 14, 2011). "Relentless Raw Movement: Death Grips Interviewed". The Quietus. Archived from the original on May 3, 2021. Retrieved October 29, 2020.
- ^ Lee, Christina (March 28, 2012). "HIVE FIVE: DEATH GRIPS' TIPS ON HOW TO SHOOT A $20 MUSIC VIDEO". MTV. Archived from the original on November 8, 2020. Retrieved October 29, 2020.
- ^ Calvert, John (May 27, 2011). "Death Grips - Exmilitary". The Quietus. Archived from the original on May 3, 2021. Retrieved October 29, 2020.
- ^ Price, Joe (July 10, 2014). "The 13 Best Death Grips Songs". Complex. Archived from the original on May 3, 2021. Retrieved October 29, 2020.
- ^ Kaufman, Hayley Elizabeth (February 16, 2017). "Death Grips". Flaunt. Archived from the original on November 11, 2020. Retrieved October 29, 2020.
- ^ Cooper, Leonie (August 27, 2013). "TV choirmaster Gareth Malone covers Death Grips' 'Guillotine'". NME. Archived from the original on November 12, 2020. Retrieved October 29, 2020.
- ^ Ingvaldsen, Torsten (April 14, 2019). "Björk DJ'd at Her Old School's Dance & Fervently Dropped Death Grips' "Guillotine"". Hypebeast. Archived from the original on November 7, 2020. Retrieved October 29, 2020.
- ^ coconutsbangkok (2021-11-11). "Hackers replace Thai court's homepage with 'Guillotine' song". Coconuts. Retrieved 2021-11-11.