Grimes/Claire Boucher thread

That intro line does sound a bit weirder than simply saying "hey I appreciate your work

I also read the word "molested" here as meaning specifically inappropriate physical contact.

My cheerleading for Visions was def mitigated by a love of her live show and personal outlook

wait they made you mitigate your cheerleading?

Sorry, no antonyms for mitigate can be found

magnified? enhanced? driven?

no DJP. sometimes there is no other option than saying the oppoiste of what you mean and praying your message will get across

xpost justified

no DJP. sometimes there is no other option than saying the oppoiste of what you mean and praying your message will get across

I often feel like adopting this as a personal mantra

Op-Poiste

I misused the word "mitigate", but I think I subconsciously chose that word because I was hoping to imply that my opinion of "Visions" today was considerably less vociferous than it was a year ago

or perhaps you never mitigate you didn't enter

pretty big difference between "hey, I saw your show last week, it was great!" and "OMG GRIMES YOU ARE SO CUTE CAN I GET A PICTURE WITH YOU?" *drapes arm around her shoulder*

I'm curious why would anyone be offended by a bindi? Some are pretty nice.

cries of cultural appropriation, I'd think

Everything we wear and do is appropriated from somewhere. The idea of exclusive ownership of cultural symbols is kinda offensive too.

lol

god some of yall are dumb

what do you think of that dude at coachella wearing a faux-native american headdress?

well sanpaku is a super-rational-bordering-on-savantism dude so i wouldn't really have expected better

* shrugs *

The idea of exclusive ownership of cultural symbols is kinda offensive too

white privilege in a nutshell innit

Look, we've had 10s of 1000s of generations of tribal warfare based in part on cultural identifiers like this. I just think the sooner we drop the idea that these things are exclusively owned and building fences between tribes the better off we'll all be.

The white guy with dreads isn't mocking or stealing from the rasta, he's just paying homage and looking a bit silly.

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Grimes is, except for maybe Pynchon, probably the single public figure of some note that I most wished posted on here

Um, 'wished' shouldn't be past tense

i'm not sure what's so amazing about her latest tumblr post? i mean i understand and sympathize with what she's saying, it just doesn't sound particularly remarkable to mr

to me, i meant

mr. the late great

Yeah I think it's slightly sad that they're seen as revolutionary and SO amazing etc - it should be obvious and taken for granted! - but she's right and unfortunately in our present cultural moment it needs to be said

I also read the word "molested" here as meaning specifically inappropriate physical contact.

― Moodles, Wednesday, 24 April 2013 14:14

https://twitter.com/Grimezsz/status/326888946023923712

so it's because she's famous? feel like my female friends (musicians and non-musicians) have all expressed similar sentiments, usually w better grammar and punctuation.

maybe i should drop this line of inquiry, i'm going to sound like i'm hating on grimes when really i don't mind her at all

i guess as lex says these things need to be said by more famous people so no reason to look too deeply into why this particular blog post resonated

there you go

Yep. Her message stands out because her message reaches eat more people than your musician and non-musician friends, and because most well-known musicians have nothing useful to say

true dat

okay someone needs to stop her before her messages eat more poor unsuspecting people

yeah her being famous plays a part, this is obvious, we really don't need to "look deeply" into why people are linking to this instead of tlg's mates

I think we all need to "look deeply" at each other on this thread.

*looks*

grammar and punctuation just don't have the cache they used to xp

yeah I dont know what ahppened

clicked on thread thinking 'this is ilx, not all 50 new posts will be high fiving over how badass that tumblr post was' but is it e'en so ilx is it e'en so

It was a badass tumblr post hoos.

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2cpq1vecn1rttrtuo1_400.gif

<3 tina, <3 grimes, <3 magic high 5

it's a good day to be alive

Can we go back to the bindi thing for a second?

Does no one else think it's semi-problematic that she is not allowed to wear something that has morphed into something of a fashion statement even though she grew up in a household with family members from the originating culture? Like, shouldn't the connections in her own family to the culture surrounding bindis trump anonymous people getting huffy on the Internet?

I mean, I am not criticizing her desire not to offend anyone but this seems like something where the people getting mad should maybe find out something about her first?

yeah that's kinda how I feel too but it's a very gray area to be sure

Our mutaween has extensive training in taking offence, and knowing which cultural appropriations, and which directions of cultural appropriation, are appropriate.

oh fuck off