Released 28 August 2015 Genre Funktronica
trap Label PRMD | Format CD
digital download Length 2:51 | |
Writer(s) Tim Bergling
Albin Nedler
Earl Johnson
Kristoffer Fogelmark | ||
"Pure Grinding" is a 2015 song by Avicii released on Universal Music. The track appeared in his album Stories and on his two-track EP Pure Grinding / For a Better Day. It was written by Tim Bergling (Avicii), Kristoffer Fogelmark, Albin Nedler and Earl Johnson. It was previously leaked on the internet with the title "Nothing to Lose". It is also part of the official soundtrack for the 2015 reboot of Need for Speed.
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Reception
Will Hermes of Rolling Stone described the song as "duty-free trap music cut with polyester funk".
Music Video
The music video was released September 3, 2015. The video displays two lives of men: one man works in the sweaty heat of the desert working in a quarry pick-axing and pilling stone briks on his truck. When the man returns home he finds overdue bills, and an argumented wife or mother. The other man is a rich and crimmal man. He and his gang head out and rob a gas station and even shoot and kill the owner. They next attempt to rob a bank. The men use there guns to scare the employees and hold a few against there will so they rob the safe. When the man and his partners reach the safe they start stacking there money until the alarm sounds and the men flee. As the gang escapes, one man locks the boss in the safe with the money and the video ends with the man enranged and begins to wait for his arrest.