"realiti" is my favorite song of the year so far (probably will be my #1 by the end of the year) and i listen to it at least once every day
― j. winters (josh), Monday, 4 May 2015 02:15 (eight years ago) link
i think people are going to kill us for going off topic, so i'll just tie this up by saying that if i don't force myself to sit down and listen to music sometime soon it's really possible that the majority of my listening is going to be whatever i hear on the radio when i'm in the car. i barely listen to music at home. sometimes in the morning when i'm cleaning. that's it. it's insane compared to what it was when i was in college, but that's where it's at, and i don't know how that changes without some sort of concerted effort
― markers, Monday, 4 May 2015 02:15 (eight years ago) link
xpost
alright, so not everyone just forgot about it i guess!
http://i.imgur.com/PzvCgd2.jpg?1
~3/12/15 never forget~
― the geographibebebe (unregistered), Monday, 4 May 2015 02:20 (eight years ago) link
That is cool you should not feel pressured to listen to music, I think nowadays there is so much music, if you go anywhere public you are inundated with music, it is nice to take a break now and then. Plus, when you hear something that you are really into, it will be all that much more special!
― ©Oz Quiz© (Adam Bruneau), Monday, 4 May 2015 02:31 (eight years ago) link
Yah, love REALiTi, definitely one of the tracks of the year imo. It's difficult to know how register whether people are talking about it or not. It regularly appears on the ILM 2015 faves thread for whatever that's worth.
― MikoMcha, Monday, 4 May 2015 08:00 (eight years ago) link
i'd say it easily garnered the most enthusiasm and positive consensus of any song she's released from people i follow on twitter. i'm sure people will continue talking about it once the infrastructure surrounding the upcoming album comes out.
― j. winters (josh), Monday, 4 May 2015 08:09 (eight years ago) link
yeahhh i feel like "reaiti" left a lasting impression for sure. comfortably on track to make my 2k15 songs list
― soyrev, Monday, 4 May 2015 08:12 (eight years ago) link
Great video as well.
― MikoMcha, Monday, 4 May 2015 08:34 (eight years ago) link
Realiti ws instantly memorable and lovely but it's also a real grower, which is p cool
― sonic thedgehod (albvivertine), Monday, 4 May 2015 10:23 (eight years ago) link
Yeah, I'm just letting on this thread waiting for the next spot of info following realiti. I didn't like the bleachers song much, but whatever. This is one of the only threads I have bookmarked these days, specifically in case one of y'all gets new grimes info before I do. Looks like all those new answers were a false alarm this time though.
― how's life, Monday, 4 May 2015 10:32 (eight years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/281468m.png
3/12/15, n'oublie jamais
― The Painter of Blight™ (Sanpaku), Monday, 4 May 2015 16:27 (eight years ago) link
eheh. vive le quebec libre ! (she 's not from quebec, though, is she ?)
― AlXTC from Paris, Monday, 4 May 2015 16:31 (eight years ago) link
had to check p4k to see if that was the cover of her new album
― flappy bird, Monday, 4 May 2015 16:38 (eight years ago) link
Vancouver, BC, of Québécois, Ukrainian and Russian descent.
― The Painter of Blight™ (Sanpaku), Monday, 4 May 2015 16:39 (eight years ago) link
i listen to REALiTi p much every day
― johnny crunch, Saturday, 16 May 2015 03:54 (eight years ago) link
yes
― tender is the late-night daypart (schlump), Saturday, 16 May 2015 03:56 (eight years ago) link
yeah, it's really a great song
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Saturday, 16 May 2015 03:59 (eight years ago) link
i do too.
― soyrev, Saturday, 16 May 2015 04:24 (eight years ago) link
uh huh
― MatthewK, Saturday, 16 May 2015 11:45 (eight years ago) link
So...new album in October...
― Rod Steel (musicfanatic), Monday, 25 May 2015 01:37 (eight years ago) link
Awesome, looking forward.
― austinato (Austin), Monday, 25 May 2015 01:59 (eight years ago) link
YAAAAAAAAAS
― j. winters (josh), Monday, 25 May 2015 06:01 (eight years ago) link
curious to hear her doing a "real instruments"-focused record in 2015, high hopes
― soyrev, Monday, 25 May 2015 07:26 (eight years ago) link
"Real instruments" ? That's the concept of the new album ? As for the release date, surely it will leak or be rush released before, won't it ? Do big/heavily anticipated albums still make it to the official release date ?
― AlXTC from Paris, Monday, 25 May 2015 09:00 (eight years ago) link
so says she: https://twitter.com/Grimezsz/status/602328389601644544
and nah she's planning a surprise release, prob will drop online soon as it's finished
― soyrev, Monday, 25 May 2015 09:29 (eight years ago) link
Breaking: grimes surprises everyone with announcement of surprise album release that she will release unexpected a few months from now
― Karl Malone, Monday, 25 May 2015 14:29 (eight years ago) link
the good old October Surprise, named because it's announced in May
― some dude, Monday, 25 May 2015 14:56 (eight years ago) link
lol yeah that did seem a bit silly to me. maybe even moreso than kanye saying his album is mostly finished and will get a surprise drop soon, all the while playing multiple singles live, announcing album title changes, etc
― soyrev, Monday, 25 May 2015 15:19 (eight years ago) link
"Real instruments" ? That's the concept of the new album ?
It's her Random Access Memories!
― List of people who are ready for woe and how we know this (seandalai), Monday, 25 May 2015 16:25 (eight years ago) link
Knowing grimes she probably did this with tongue in cheek
― 龜, Monday, 25 May 2015 16:29 (eight years ago) link
"surprise release" means "exact release date not announced ahead of time"
calm down
― james brooks, Tuesday, 26 May 2015 00:06 (eight years ago) link
im excited
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 26 May 2015 00:07 (eight years ago) link
james pls give us the inside scoop
― bae sremmurd (monotony), Tuesday, 26 May 2015 00:27 (eight years ago) link
In any case, new Grimes before the year is out. I'm happy.
― austinato (Austin), Tuesday, 26 May 2015 01:13 (eight years ago) link
ㅋ
― soyrev, Tuesday, 26 May 2015 01:29 (eight years ago) link
I can't relax when there's an unexpected release sometime in October
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 26 May 2015 03:27 (eight years ago) link
Just try to relax, and the release will happen. Happens to everyone sometime.
― MatthewK, Tuesday, 26 May 2015 12:33 (eight years ago) link
http://www.thefader.com/2015/07/28/grimes-cover-story-interview
― carly bae jepsen (monotony), Wednesday, 29 July 2015 01:14 (eight years ago) link
its always interesting to me abt creative ppl having to like remember to eat
― johnny crunch, Wednesday, 29 July 2015 14:13 (eight years ago) link
― johnny crunch, Friday, May 15, 2015 11:54 PM (2 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I still do btw
― johnny crunch, Wednesday, 29 July 2015 14:14 (eight years ago) link
i struggle to remember to eat but i suck at shit compared to grimes :'D
and yeah just listened to "realiti" today, and last week (it's p much the ultimate rainy humid asian summer song), i think i said upthread something along the lines of it being the most replayable thing i've heard this year and i'm also standing by that vibe
― soyrev, Wednesday, 29 July 2015 16:23 (eight years ago) link
I want to watch Star Wars w Grimes.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 29 July 2015 16:39 (eight years ago) link
Grimes' mom, @Garossino is a good person to follow on Twitter, especially if you live in Vancouver (she's the editor of a progressive political news website) (in which Grimes makes the occasional cameo).
― everything, Wednesday, 29 July 2015 17:21 (eight years ago) link
She is a genius
― Treeship, Wednesday, 29 July 2015 17:48 (eight years ago) link
can't wait for the “diss track about male producers”
― Van Horn Street, Wednesday, 29 July 2015 18:51 (eight years ago) link
REALiTi making it to Starbucks playlist but still no release?
― Insane Prince of False Binaries (Gukbe), Wednesday, 29 July 2015 20:24 (eight years ago) link
I typed something for a dumb survey at the end of 2013 about Grimes that I was really proud of that I'd like to post if you'd indulge me!
Q: Did you take part in the ice bucket challenge? If not, why not? Grimes declined due to animal testing issues, was the grief she got for that deserved?
Do you think people deserve grief? Do you give people grief when they deserve it? I hope to relieve people of their grief. For a long time I had this theory: the impossibility of a female Kurt Cobain. What he represents, leaning against the system and yet supported by consumers, there was no woman in the world that could command the masses so utterly. The music industry, the male-biased music consuming populace wouldn't let her. This thing I've been stewing about since I saw Grimes play to 20 people in 2011, and started reading her Tumblr, and then really starting feeling when "Oblivion" came out, is that Claire is the closest thing we have to a female Kurt Cobain, smart enough to understand the system but righteous enough to wall-jump away from it. But also, interestingly, what an inversion her approach is to Kurt's. His pose was anti-establishment, her pose is post-structural. He was rigorous, she is always looking outward, game for genre-experimentation and hilarity. I feel like even if I don't like her music, and I do so far, I will always feel like she's several steps ahead of me, several books ahead of me, and that makes me feel really fucking good. Anyone who gives her grief about anything can kick rocks.
― got a long list of ilxors (fgti), Wednesday, 29 July 2015 22:19 (eight years ago) link
nice
a friend of mine subletted her room when she moved out of montreal, she told me some girl named claire had lived there before and made music in the room, but i only found out later it was *that* claire, and only found out while reading that fader interview just now that she recorded visions in it. it was a super small, no window bedroom in a p nast mile-ex apartment on parc
― flopson, Wednesday, 29 July 2015 22:30 (eight years ago) link