Grimes/Claire Boucher thread

Skrill (ex-Skrillex)

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Performance on Jimmy Fallon's show last night was way boring, but after the song and after he shook Claire's and her dancer's hands and ran up into the audience, they huddled on the stage and started jumping up and down and giggling. It was cute.

drugs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FH-q0I1fJY

can someone tell Mortiis his wife's got out of the cave and is running about in the desert?

bitches must be dreading a hit these days if they're gonna get driven out to wear outfits in the desert every time

― r|t|c, Wednesday, June 20, 2012 11:42 AM (2 months ago) Bookmark

Yeah yeah - song is still great though.

I cannot lie, that gang looks like a bitchin good time.

This year's gathering of the juggalos look crazy

the way she looks into the camera is p mesmerizing

did not have trouble watching that

Girl is a star, straight up.

argh this shit

recommend depends

curious to hear u elab on this

turangalia I really enjoyed the video of your road trip to the burning man festival, hope you will post more

guilty lol will not prevent me from watching that video again

I always liked everything about Lady Gaga except for the catchy, memorable melodies and adequate production values, so this is really up my alley.

hehe

i'm just mad that i can't wear my sparse metal bikini in the suburbs anymore because everyone will think i'm ripping off grimes

flaming broadsword? shamelessly marketing herself to the scott seward audience.

What's the concept of the video?

Claire Boucher: It's loosely based on this painting by my favorite painter, Hieronymus Bosch, called "The Seven Deadly Sins and the Four Last Things" (below). I wanted to play with Medieval/Catholic imagery. I was raised in a Catholic household and went to a Catholic school, and my childhood brain perceived medieval Catholicism as an action movie: There's this crazy omnipresent guy who can destroy you at any moment.

If painters could be compared to filmmakers, Bosch is the Hype Williams of renaissance painters.

This whole interview on the Genesis video is great:

http://www.pitchfork.com/features/directors-cut/8929-grimes/?utm_medium=site&utm_source=ticker&utm_name=ticker

Like when she talks about the broadsword woman being a "contemporary muse" and then she's "like the Ryan Seacrest of indie culture".

Girl enjoys her analogies a whole lot.

she's like the madonna of terrible indie artists

This really does sound like those halfheard/remembered songs with wordshaped/evocative sounds instead of audible lyrics I'd have to half make up when there was a party nearby when I was a kid, as a few people upthread have kinda suggested/said. It's pretty amazing atm.

It's very openeded, as a guy who drums said. I was loving a percussion part on Vanessa till I stopped tapping my desk and realised it wasn't actually on the track.

finally checked this album out a few days ago. totally obsessed. picked up the vinyl version of 'Visions' last night - sounds fantastic. great pop album.

Yes it is.

Yeah idg the "lack of hooks" crit. "Circumambient" could be Kylie.

writer J. Shepherd not crazy about "Genesis" video:

http://jawnita.tumblr.com/post/32480860758/i-wrote-this-thing-about-grimes-genesis-and-it-never

As narrative goes, the visuals are purely aesthetic, a laundry list of representational “art” looks popularized by Tumblr, offering nothing more than skewed prettiness; which is why the presence of Candy’s Aeon Flux dancer is so much more problematic. The video is Grimes playing primitivism, using a lens of a vague “future” as a way to execute notions of… well, future primitive. Some of the same critiques of James Cameron’s Avatar—that it continues the tradition of exoticising and idealizing the “advanced” and “pure” primitive other—apply here. Worst of all, the video begins with Grimes singing a refrain that is not on her album: wailing in her airy voice, she seems to mimic the vocal runs of Middle Eastern music, but without offering any context whatsoever. Presumably, it’s her depoliticized sonic interpretation of what is “weird,” “edgy,” or “other,” without any visible evidence that she has any knowledge of global music—unlike, say, MIA, who herself is complicated but travels the world to mine its variant sounds , or even white art-pop band Gang Gang Dance, whose polyglot vocalist Lizzi Bougatsos flips bhangra and traditional Chinese and Arabic singing with the precision of someone who’s studied it.

yeah, nor am i?

i still love the actual album way way more than shepherd does, but the video is iffy, the fashion stuff is iffy, and the random reference to japanese aesthetic philosophy in the parenthetical title for be a body is just... a bit random? and not necessarily motivated maybe? and kind of just a signifier/stand in?

find it sort of bewildering that people could have interpreted the album in such way that that video might be seen as being aesthetically divergent or misrepresentational

(ftr it is all just whatever to me moreso than offensive)

"with the precision of someone who’s studied it" is a big boring canard anyway, isn't it just rather the every poet steals, bad poets deface, good poets renew thing

can't say i'm any fan of gang gang dance either admittedly

oh black keys only paws

As narrative goes, the visuals are purely aesthetic,

the horror!

Presumably, it’s her depoliticized sonic interpretation of what is “weird,” “edgy,” or “other,” without any visible evidence that she has any knowledge of global music

i will not vibe 2 this refrain w/o further evidence (will accept certificate of global music minor, substantial ratio of music tagged "global music" on i-pod)

It's so weird that writers are choosing NOW to get tripped up over the fact postmodernism and globalisation are real as have been for over a generation.

When has rock'n'roll ever given a shit about propriety of cultural borders?

I mean, Buddy Holly never went to Africa.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oh2wWjXgi8k

When has rock'n'roll ever given a shit about propriety of cultural borders?

― Ask The Answer Man (sexyDancer), Saturday, 29 September 2012 15:40 (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

eh i think there are some ok points to be made, this guy just has his head so far up all kinds of ass, that "Presumably," is just...

The rest of that Julianne Shep blogpost offers a bit more balance.

the problem with that video is not cultural appropriation, its that nothing at all interesting happens, just a bunch of teenagers staging a manga / 90s fashion show in the dessert.

i like the music though...

ah but you see ... we are entering "post interesting" era

genesis is a lot more interesting than most music videos i have sene this year in which things actually happen tho

the demand for "high concept" videos takes away from the music I think ... who needs another nerdfest at this point?

Right, there is nothing intrinsically wrong with just dancing around in the desert with your friends/models for your video, but the whole vibe of the song/ way the video was filmed and edited makes it seems like there will be some sort of content that never arrives, or at least some interesting imagery more unique than ohh an albino snake.

i kind of imagined it as the first in a never to be continued series about this crew, or like their intro theme