Grimes/Claire Boucher thread

REALiTi is on Spotify now btw.

Realiti is very good has a nice swing to it and considering she doesn't apparently have any help at all in production she uses her brilliant voice so smartly. One difference from her previous songs on realiti is that it seems a lot more clearly influenced by other music.

tbh her other music is influenced by some of her faves who haven't made it as big!

I'm all for Grimes making a pop crossover, but that Entropy song is so paint by numbers.

yeah, it's ok but it's not thrilling the way realiti is. i'm not sure i am all for anyone crossing over for the sake of crossing over. what's the point?

i also don't think she is doing that, or thinking about her career in those terms. a song like realiti just sounds marketable because it is so polished, but it's still very much a grimes song.

someone just told me "isn't she like, if you've heard one of her songs, you've heard them all"?

I could certainly do with fewer interjections of "Oh Baby" in her songs.

y? i like the lyrics to realiti

do you think the song is referencing bowie's "once there were mountains on mountains" refrain on realiti? i think the song is kind of a rejoinder to that. bowie sings that he used to not be able to "come down" but now he doesn't think he can get back up. grimes is saying that you will always come down eventually -- so bowie's past feelings of invincibility were an illusion -- and life consists in climbing back up "every morning." seems like a winning attitude if you can maintain it.

I like the new song, even if it's not as distinctive or immediate as Realiti. I also like that her vocals seem to be clearer and more intelligible than usual (either that or a week of listening to Realiti has made me Grimes-fluent)

the new song is pleasant though not as immediately gratifying as realiti. i'd been struggling to come to terms with the idea of grimes being influenced by artists like dolly parton, taylor swift and paramore so this helps somewhat to clarify those inspirations.

also like "Go" entropy is a collab that I wouldn't read too much into re: new album

it's a one-off for a tv show that seems to be billed 'bleachers feat. grimes.' i think it's just a thing she did for fun and an easy check.

soyrev OTM. This song played over the credits of tonight's episode of 'Girls'

where it fit perfectly

http://i.imgur.com/xcTg53c.png

I posted that to Facebook I think and got about as much engagement there as you got with it here.

it's a good tweet

No mention of the tour with Lana Del Rey yet? Would have been great if it was Lana del Rey, Grimes, and Courtney Love all together on one bill.

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Ok the new Rihanna song is the best song I've ever heard yessss!!! Literally the sickest possible beat and vocal

http://i.imgur.com/FiQ6Mvy.jpg

Social media presence like it's designed to put you off her

ILM thread like it's designed to put you off her.

Yeah I like her despite these things

what in this thread would turn me off of her music or her sense of humor, idgi

grimes is rare almost holy trifecta of good on twitter/good on instagram/good on tumblr

for a celeb her twitter is good, and personal, not just a PR arm. it's a mixture of

- i love call of duty/taylor swift/pokemon/dolly parton/x men/im a really normal geek not weird
- cutesy weird platitudes, observations, inner thoughts
- psychedelic elves and shit

but occasionally this

http://i.imgur.com/MTvA46p.png

That last one's a bit hmmmmm, coming from her

Grimes being into ICP is like peak Grimes

otm

can't wait for the day she pulls a hidden zipper on her Grimes costume and she was DJP all along

Feeling the Enya influence more than ever on Realiti.

great call

So still no release date for the new album ?
3 years is a very long time to follow up a successful first album (ok, still far from Stone Roses timing but still !)

it was her third album

really ? solo ?

ok so not stone roses comparison but guns n'roses, then !

a 3 year album cycle is fairly normal these days, even after debut/breakthrough albums like this

https://twitter.com/Grimezsz/status/587066373475450880 she's hoping to finish the album in the next month or so, so it's not too far away

yeah maybe... I must be old (school) !

ah ! that's good news !

and she might rush/surprise release it like Beyonce, MBV, Drake, etc !

realiti still destroys just about everything i've heard this year

listening to it now!

i've been listening to

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dt0IiGxNntw

very different from realiti, but still good. i might even like it more? idk. deserves more attention than i feel like it got, but then again people seemed to have forgotten about realiti not too long after it was released

which is probably true about most songs people like on the internet in 2015

That link isn't working for me, what's the song called?

good song, weird comment section. I don't understand why so many fans feel betrayed whenever she releases something that isn't particularly weird/dark/experimental, as if a mnstrm pop song by Grimes is the equivalent of one of those Dune sequels written by Frank Herbert's son — "this isn't canon!" I didn't like 'Go' when I first heard it last year, but I didn't have a tantrum about how it was an ~unwise career move~ or whatever, and I don't want/expect everything on her next album to sound just like 'Realiti'.

(the song is Bleachers x Grimes 'Entropy', albvivertine)

perhaps i'm not discerning, or being immersed in ilm for so many years has made me less conscious of the genre of whatever song i'm listening to, but i don't really give a shit what kind of music she makes as long as it's good, and all of these one offs are good imo. her voice on "entropy" is fantastic.

I basically agree with all that, though I still haven't come around to 'Go'. of all the artists I currently follow, Grimes is the one I'm least eager to read reviews/comments/thinkpieces/ilx clusterfucks about (which are pretty easy to ignore, tbh). she really does sound great in this song.