Grimes delivers sneak peek of new song using binary code

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Meera Navlakha
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Grimes at the Met Gala 2021.
Grimes's new single is coming, announced in zeroes and ones. Credit: Angela WEISS / AFP

Grimes has teased a new release on Twitter using binary code.

The artist tweeted a string of the computer code yesterday, adding, "It's real this time. Phew," confirming the upcoming single launch.

In case you missed the math class, binary code uses a two-symbol system of zeroes and ones that represents text, computer processor instructions, or any other data. In any other words, it was a very Grimes tactic, as no stranger to using special symbols for important things.


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Fans got to work, and replied to the tweet with screenshots translating the code, revealing the song's name as "Player of Games" and its release date — it was highly speedy codebreaking that'd make Taylor Swift fans proud.

As the code revealed, "Player of Games" will be released this Friday, Dec. 3. On Grimes' website, there's a link to presave the release on Spotify or add the song on Apple Music.

It's the lead single for Grimes' upcoming album, which she described as her "greatest work" by far in an interview with Vogue earlier this year. She has teased other parts of the album on Instagram.

"Like I literally don't care if anyone listens to this shit, I just want it to be great," she said. "Like I want it to be unequivocally just like great art."

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Meera Navlakha

Meera is a journalist based between London and New York. Her work has been published in The New York Times, Vice, The Independent, Vogue India, W Magazine, and others. She was previously a Culture Reporter at Mashable. 

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