My Name Is Dark

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"My Name Is Dark"
Single by Grimes
from the album Miss Anthropocene
Released	November 29, 2019 (2019-11-29)
Genre	Industrial gothic rock nu metal[1] electronic rock
Length	5:56
Label	4AD
Songwriter(s)	Claire Boucher
Producer(s)	Grimes
Grimes singles chronology
"So Heavy I Fell Through the Earth" (2019) "My Name Is Dark" (2019) "4ÆM" (2019)

"My Name Is Dark" is a song by Canadian musician Grimes. It was released on November 29, 2019 and is the third single from her fifth studio album Miss Anthropocene. The original title was "That's What the Drugs are For". A lyric video was published on December 3, 2019 featuring the Algorithm Mix of the song. Another lyric video was published on May 22, 2020, featuring a Russian translation and the Art Mix version. The video was released with the "Darkseid" lyrics. The composition consists of the industrial sound found on the Miss Anthropocene album combined with guitar and the soft-loud structure found in grunge music, including the song “Bullet with Butterfly Wings” by The Smashing Pumpkins which is also referenced in the lyrics, along with themes of nihilism, intoxication and spirituality.

The title of the song references a direct quote of the antagonist, Mr. Dark, in Ray Bradbury's 1962 novel Something Wicked This Way Comes.

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