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‘Oblivion’ Video: Grimes Knows a Lot of Shirtless Frat Boys

When Vulture caught up with Canadian indie-dance wonder Grimes last month, she told us that she’s working on a new “industrial meets Jigglypuff†(a Pokemon character) album. This doesn’t really have anything to do with the “Oblivion†video except that Grimes said it, and it’s amusing, and it also paints a nice picture of the creative weirdness going on inside her head. So does this video, which follows Grimes as she throws happy, if kind of zoned-out solo dance parties at a variety of unusual locations (a motocross rally, football bleachers, a boys’ locker room, a boy’s living room). She manages to recruit some friends along the way — most notable, the body-painted G guy around the 1:45 mark, who really earns his dancing pay — and then the whole scene devolves into a shirtless frat party. Not that Grimes seems into it; at that point, she’s mostly just into her gum. Fair warning: One of the locker-room dudes gets naked at one point, so if ass shots are NS for your W, then this is NSFW. Careful!

‘Oblivion’ Video: Grimes Knows a Lot of Shirtless Frat Boys