Violence
Grimes · 2019
7 min · 2 tracks · contemporary R&B
Grimes’s floating voice rides a hard four-on-the-floor pulse as i_o’s club production turns a volatile relationship into dance music.
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Violence (original mix) — The original sets Grimes’s airy vocal against i_o’s insistent dance beat, making the contrast between the song’s unsettling relationship dynamics and its club-ready surface central to its appeal.
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Violence (club mix) — The longer club mix gives the electronic production more room, offering a dance-floor-oriented counterpart to the more concise original.
Elevation
Our rating, out of 100 — and why.
AI-generated from five scored dimensions. An opinion, not a measurement.
A sharply arranged, danceable song whose airy vocal and forceful pulse create a distinctive tension; the duplicate mix limits the release's sequencing shape.
What we noticed
- The original mix keeps a firm four-on-the-floor kick under clipped, breathy vocal phrases; synth washes swell between vocal sections without replacing the beat.
- The club mix extends the dance passages around the same central hook, so the second track is an alternate presentation rather than a new song.
- Composition 25% of the score
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6/10
- Craft 20% of the score
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8/10
- Durability 25% of the score
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6/10
- Distinctiveness 18% of the score
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7/10
- Sequencing 12% of the score
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5/10
the writing — melody, harmony, structure, lyrics
production, performance, arrangement
whether it rewards returning to it
whether it sounds like itself
running order, pacing, length
Known within its scene. Reported but not counted — how far a record travelled describes its reception rather than the record, and a newer release has had less time to travel than an older one.
Moments worth listening for
Where the writing does something specific.
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Violence (original mix)
The chorus addresses a person who inflicts hurt, then answers that threat with an admission of enjoyment.
That reversal complicates the usual division between aggressor and victim without resolving their dependence on one another.
Tracklist
Best experienced from track one — press play and let it unfold.
- 1 Violence (original mix) 3:40
- 2 Violence (club mix) 4:09
Reference: Wikipedia · MusicBrainz · Wikidata
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