Grimes/Claire Boucher thread

pls list 5 of the 50 million songs that do the handclaps-instead-of-hi-hats thing

normally I am the first to jump on the "it's worse for female musicians" argument but this, I think, is universal. the black keys got it pretty bad this album cycle. arcade fire. the weeknd.

pls list 5 of the 50 million songs that do the handclaps-instead-of-hi-hats thing

beyonce - single ladies
kanye west - power
baauer - harlem shake
rihanna - birthday cake
big sean - dance (a$$)
nicki minaj - stupid hoe
juicy j - bandz a make her dance
tyga - rack city
travis porter - bring it back
soulja boy - donk
azealia banks - jumanji
jamie foxx - number one
the weeknd - the fall

not to mention like 90% of new orleans bounce & a ton of other club tracks from the past 20 years

https://twitter.com/Grimezsz/status/496084377781428225

:/

lol

i like her guest spot on the Bleachers album

album cycle shit this fall i hope

https://twitter.com/Grimezsz/status/496074592201744384

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIi57zhDl78

Lmao @ adidas sandals

watched that a couple times last night. i like grimes.

she's the best

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 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

treesh is on to something

also, late pass, ilx, this shit was out many hours ago

you had one job markers

cool swords in this video

It's like someone crossbred the video for Freak on a Leash and Genesis

Not really feeling this.

Has she peaked, already?! Everything about that video/song is regressive.

too much, too soon, too fast

is this the track she pitched to Rihanna?

Kind of a weird thing to say about an artist already 3 albums into their game?

I guess it makes more sense as "Grimes writing a pop song to pitch to an established pop artist" but it just makes me miss her wilder, more bricolage approach to music.

i was in the crowd for her set at pfork and this was probably the song that got the biggest audience reaction fwiw

I could totally see that, and that kinda proves my point about her peaking.

you had one job markers

― socki (s1ocki), Thursday, August 28, 2014 10:21 AM

and i did it . . . on facebook!

http://i.imgur.com/nhivLyy.gif

feel like she made the "Genesis" video and thought, "I really need to write a song to match this video aesthetic" and so she did it. Good for her.

is it just my playback experience or is she out of sync with the lyrics the entire time?

it's OK I guess... but very far from her best work. and I don't really hear the input from Blood Diamonds. disappointing.

scrapped album after reaction to "Go" - starting over

http://pitchfork.com/news/56680-grimes-scraps-new-album-sessions-after-negative-reaction-to-go-starts-again/

Hmmmmm. The video she did for Go was pretty embarrassing. Go as a song was not up to her usual standards, production wise. She's messing up having such a big gap between albums and touring so much.

she scraps an album's worth of stuff every couple of months more or less and the NYT article the quote comes from doesn't even mention anything about scrapping material after or because of the reaction to "go"

and less of the p****fork linking, heres the actual article http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/14/magazine/why-everyone-should-be-waiting-for-grimess-next-album.html?_r=0

I heard she is a pretty despicable person actually, which shatters the illusions I had of her.

you heard, huh?

A real Snidely Whiplash type, eh?

I heard she does car commercials in Japan.

I heard that she has sold her turntables and bought guitars.

I heard rumours... she was *into* field hockey players...?

yeah i heard she scrapped the album long before anyone knew what "go" even was

makes the PF news thing pretty funny. "one of our writers did a big feature elsewhere, so we're going to point you toward it while also decontextualizing and sensationalizing its narrative."

I wasn't a fan of "Go" on any level, but it seems a bit... unseemly to be all "the fans aren't onboard with where I was going, so fuck that."

well, it seems like she didn't say anything like that and that's just the narrative other people are constructing

yeah it seems like she is just trying to figure out what she wants to do & is staying p chill in the meantime

She's messing up having such a big gap between albums and touring so much.

nah, clearly no one's forgetting about her, better to take the time to make a great record. unless she's overthinking everything and ends up making a terrible record because of it, of course.

I hope it doesn't turn into another nmh/mbv situation. I do think Visions was that good; it seems like it would be very hard to follow up

"nah, clearly no one's forgetting about her, better to take the time to make a great record. unless she's overthinking everything and ends up making a terrible record because of it, of course."

When you look at her career though before and up to visions, and I was a fan back then, her output was frequent, 4 releases in 2 years. It suited her development and kind of highly momentary transient style. Visions and the lack of anything after it has shocked her a bit into anxiety that wasn't there before. I think she's absolutely a person who requires total personal freedom and it's clear thats been affected by the success. She's obviously a confident person but highly sensitive. She's in a bit of a block right now and then Go came out and it was just absolutely not the record anyone really wanted to hear (though the vocals were brilliant) after such a void. But it would've worked fine in the middle of other stuff or if people hadn't been so starved.

jordan is right. visions has set her up for big things and if she puts out a great record it could really catapult her. if it's wack her buzz will die down a bit (like on some current day MIA shit where she's fallen off the mainstream radar but can still be an indie superstar). it doesn't matter if that record came out last year or comes out next year tho.

https://twitter.com/Grimezsz/status/510531702125371392

smdh ... haha

mb some aliases/sideprojects to offload material w/out fretting about the brand all the time