Grimes photo courtesy 4AD, Ashnikko photography Lewis VornMusicNewsGrimes joins Ashnikko for new song ‘Cry’‘I have wanted to work with Grimes for 100 million years and now it's happening… a dream!’ShareLink copied ✔️June 18, 2020MusicNewsTextSelim Bulut Grimes has teamed up with emerging new talent Ashnikko for a new single, “Cry”. “Cry” is about a breakdown of a friendship after a betrayal. “I have wanted to work with Grimes for 100 million years and now it's happening… a dream!” Ashnikko explains in a press release. “She is singing with me on an angry ass song about my ex-best friend sleeping with my boyfriend… sublime!!!” Grimes added, quite simply: “Ashnikko rules and the song is great!” Its video, directed by Mike Anderson, shows Ashnikko and Grimes rendered in 3D in a psychedelic sci-fi environment, which Ashnikko appearing as a demon hunting down prey. Watch the video for “Cry” below. Expand your creative community and connect with 15,000 creatives from around the world.READ MORE10 of Yung Lean’s best collabs‘We’re like brother and sister’: Yung Lean and Charli xcx in conversationTrail shoe to fashion trailblazer: the rise of Salomon’s ACS PROIs art finally getting challenging again?The only tracks you need to hear from November 2025Inside the world of Amore, Spain’s latest rising starLella Fadda is blazing a trail in the Egyptian music sceneThe rise of Sweden’s post-pop undergroundNeda is the singer-songwriter blending Farsi classics with Lily Allen 6 Flog Gnaw artists on what’s inspiring them right nowDazed Mix: Ziúr Parris Goebel is creating the music she wants to dance to