Grimes/Claire Boucher thread

admittedly my memory of the last album is shaky but am i wrong in thinking this is better than the majority of that?

cool song!

"realiti" makes me so mad at the dweebs who discouraged her from making her big pop album. this is even better than "go."

"go" was real whatever, this is wonderful

"realiti" makes me so mad at the dweebs who discouraged her from making her big pop album.

^ exactly this!

Agree xp

this is meant to be anything like a big pop move? k

In context, sure. Was she going to make Teenage Dream? Probably not.

this was the album she signed to rocnation to make, repeatedly warned fans would be mainstream, and debuted with a dubstep single she bragged about having been originally penned for rihanna. i don't personally think she would've met with great success, commercially, but it's clear that's what she was intending, and it's clear it i would have liked it very a lot.

is that really the narrative? never thought "go" was advertising some lost big pop album

"go" was never intended to be on any album

there isn't and hasn't ever been any other grimes music that sounds like "go"

she signed to roc nation management (not the label arm, the management arm) because they're a great management company. roc nation also manages matthew dear.

the "lost album" was scrapped around the time she changed management. "go" didn't even exist yet, in any form. it was not a factor.

that's all cool to know! thanks james. (and whoopsies on the rocnation bit...)

I missed this jam from xmas time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bc27oFFJo4

this was the album she signed to rocnation to make, repeatedly warned fans would be mainstream, and debuted with a dubstep single she bragged about having been originally penned for rihanna. i don't personally think she would've met with great success, commercially, but it's clear that's what she was intending, and it's clear it i would have liked it very a lot.

― soyrev, Monday, March 9, 2015 12:45 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

off by a year, she signed to rocnation in early 2014, this one is from early 2013...probably pre-Go

i've listened to "REALiTi" probably 30 times in the past 6 hours

Great friggin song kudos to her

"Every morning there are mountains to climb" <3

this is the best Grimes song I've ever heard

I don't hate this song, but it has a whiff of "off-brand Kate Bush" about it

tyvm for clearing it up, james!

I watched live television for the first time in a long time over the weekend and hearing Grimes on an Expedia commercial was a refreshing thing

I've been to like half of the places in that music video haha it's awes I'm braggin'

holy shit as if expectations for her next album weren't high enough, this is what her cast-offs sound like? bow etc

Oh my, niiiiice

https://38.media.tumblr.com/90ad8ead62e4bd930174810ee07630ed/tumblr_nkyqv8FpyL1r7z66ao9_540.gif

was just gonna say, really feeling her dance moves in that video

ya i'm going to steal as many as i can

https://33.media.tumblr.com/3d985d697efb8efbc4f0a4ae2f743d76/tumblr_nkyqv8FpyL1r7z66ao6_540.gif

on twitter she seems quite surprised by all the positive reception this is getting so i hope that means that the album is even better because it's definitely one of the best things she's done

I'm the grinch, motherfucker!

RIP "lost album" :(

while the realiti dance moves are all ✓, the dancing with the axe in the grinch video is terrifying

RIP "lost album" :(

― lil urbane (Jordan), Monday, March 9, 2015 7:17 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

otm...

not so much "lost album" as "lost"/scrapped direction for her next album. also, the "go" thing, if actually a misconception, comes courtesy the press:

"Grimes said that the Visions follow-up she had been working on "sucked, so I threw it out and started again." The reaction to "Go"—which was originally written for Rihanna—helped dictate the change of pace. "It upsets a lot of my fans, and I get why it upsets them," she said. “Everybody was like, ‘Oh, Grimes is pandering to the radio.""
http://pitchfork.com/news/56680-grimes-scraps-new-album-sessions-after-negative-reaction-to-go-starts-again/

and from the NYT interview p4k is quoting:

"“It upsets a lot of my fans, and I get why it upsets them,” says Boucher of the big, booming track. “Everybody was like, ‘Oh, Grimes is pandering to the radio.’ ” But the failure, ultimately, was a productive one. By that point, she had already begun to hate the album she was working on..."
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/14/magazine/why-everyone-should-be-waiting-for-grimess-next-album.html?_r=1

I think Grimes sounds really good filtered through a "pandering to the radio" box.

I mean I really like her just slightly offbeat take on a radio-friendly single.

I could do without the dubsteppy part, but it's not that bad as far as those kinds of parts go

imo the dubsteppy part on the "go" demo was maybe a bit much but the final version was perfect

I really like the "Phone Sex" song she did with Blood Diamonds a couple years before "Go".

http://i.imgur.com/4zRlBRl.png

She is such an AWFUL musician and songstress!

And I say this as someone who has all of her albums and some ep's. Compelling stuff, but it's soooo bad.

u dum

@Slappy fall back fam

Yes. Guard your manic pixie/gnat.

to the death, rockist scum

'Songstress' jfc

"I'll try to re record Realiti so u can have mp3s & I'll consider for album but i think I have better" https://twitter.com/Grimezsz/status/575141357200670720 can't wait to hear the better

this song sounds nice but I don't find it particularly strong, especially compared to her best previous material.
I'm a bit surprised by the raving reactions here.
I'm glad she, herself, didn't consider this song good enough for the album.
It means there are better things to expect !

no come on this song is incredible

i've listened to it seven times already today