| "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.
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]
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]
"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 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]
- ^ "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.