Grimes/Claire Boucher thread

Lol yes
Yea I don’t have a problem with it im kinda into it tbh, fuck whoever is fucking with her career, bombs away grimes

Hey, that Claire Boucher has made some good albums, tell you whut.

she has received serious death threats herself back in 2016... that’s how crazy some of her fans are.

Would these people really be fans though, if they’de saying this?

wait is she on roc nation or 4ad?

Repped by roc nation, signed to 4AD

Well, Chapman was a hardcore Lennon fan

My dream is a label run by Charli XCX, Carly, Grimes, Lorde for them just to release mixtapes of whatever ideas they have year in year out and tour together. Who's in?

oh and Sky of course.

why did you name five artists of wildly varying quality?

This isn’t specifically about her, but really fuck passive agressive comments on social networks, if she has a problem with someone tell it to his/her face or involve the lawyers. Everything else is a low shot.

― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Saturday, February 17, 2018 2:33 AM (twelve hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

hello, doctor, I'd like to report being crushed under an asteroid-sized boulder of irony

why did you name five artists of wildly varying quality?

― imago, Sunday, February 18, 2018 8:48 AM (seventeen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

because grimes, "girl with slightly grating voice who bounces back and forth from rap/r&b hookwoman to doing pc music stuff", "queen of going from call me maybe to indie pop all the gays like" and "girl from posonby who had a record deal since 12 who got big by implying black people were shallow and materialistic social commentary about alienation and luxury and followed that album up with a bunch of moody piano pop that got 91 on metacritic because she was white" all fall along the same artistic axis by virtue of making """""art pop """"", apparently

and by being women

hello, doctor, I'd like to report being crushed under an asteroid-sized boulder of irony

― algorithm is a dancer (katherine), Saturday, February 17, 2018 3:05 PM (twenty minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Idk if moka’s comment was passive aggressive really

Also van horn street’s dream sounds awful. I just grimes to have artistic autonomy. I don’t really like those other artists much.

Also I am not a public figure.

And wasn’t I supposed to be feisty? First time of being accused of being passive agressive in my life.

because grimes, "girl with slightly grating voice who bounces back and forth from rap/r&b hookwoman to doing pc music stuff", "queen of going from call me maybe to indie pop all the gays like" and "girl from posonby who had a record deal since 12 who got big by implying black people were shallow and materialistic social commentary about alienation and luxury and followed that album up with a bunch of moody piano pop that got 91 on metacritic because she was white" all fall along the same artistic axis by virtue of making """""art pop """"", apparently

and by being women

― heliogabberlus, samedi 17 février 2018 15:19 (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

very trenchant.

Moka's great, leave her be

melodrama - it's competent, but doing a "serious" album after your three million selling debut doesn't make an auteur out of a ponsonby-bred trust funder

― heliogabberlus, Wednesday, January 31, 2018 12:36 PM

"girl from posonby who had a record deal since 12 who got big by implying black people were shallow and materialistic social commentary about alienation and luxury and followed that album up with a bunch of moody piano pop that got 91 on metacritic because she was white"

― heliogabberlus, Saturday, February 17, 2018 8:19 PM

Not to get all "they take the Gluepot now they coming for me" but c'mon, Lorde's dyed-in-the-wool Devonport.

now this is sniping i can get with

Not to get all "they take the Gluepot now they coming for me" but c'mon, Lorde's dyed-in-the-wool Devonport.

― etc, Sunday, February 18, 2018 11:25 AM (twenty-eight minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

huh, had some vague memory of hearing ponsonby had been where she grew up but mea culpa for not double-checking and realizing it was devonport

i mean i've never been up to auckland so the one suburb i did know for having its bourgeois reputation precede it seemed like a sensible enough fit with said factoid i'd read/imagined reading

very important to determine to which social class a 21 year old female artist belongs to.

damn put another shrimp on the barbie & let the beef cook

This is all great stuff

she barely tweets and the majority of what she does post on social media is direct responses to fan questions on twitter and instagram, it's not her fault that websites will then take those statements and construct headlines and news stories around them regardless of whether or not they tell a complete or satisfying story about anything

i have been posting on the internet since i was a small child and i was still caught completely off-guard when i realized i had to be prepared for everything i posted to be read not just by the specific people i was talking to but to countless more people beyond that who might see it if some person or media entity decided to take it and show it to others without context or my involvement

i thought i was an expert, and i got pantsed by it. every day now i see people who thought they were experts getting pantsed by it. people who get paid to write about the news in the media every day who have a complete meltdown when one day their name turns up in the news.

it is extremely easy to sit around sniping from a distance at people who find themselves exposed thus about how they should be handling it but one day it might happen to you and i promise you will have no idea what you're doing

Classic website. Glad I spent my twenties here.

Sry james that wasnt directed to u

it's cool i'm sorry i interrupted your joke

It wasn’t really a joke. Not anyone’s fault here, I just need a better hobby than ilx. I’m sorry earlier I jumped in the nascent feud between katherine and moka — i like both of those posters.

you should check out "slay the spire" on steam, it's available for both mac and pc and i find it to be very meditative and soothing

It wasn’t really a joke. Not anyone’s fault here, I just need a better hobby than ilx. I’m sorry earlier I jumped in the nascent feud between katherine and moka — i like both of those posters.

― treeship 2, Saturday, February 17, 2018 6:57 PM (four minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I wasn't feuding with anyone just pointing out the inherent questionability of criticizing someone for complaining on the internet and not to their face, via complaining on the internet

also do you play ironclad or silent

i can win at least half the time with silent but i'm really frustrated by my inability to get a good ironclad deck going

do you have any build tips?

You were feuding a lil bit but I don’t mind.

I wasn’t really criticizing Grimes I love her, I’d vote for her for president of the world. I was pointing out that public figures ideally need to filter this sort of things or give a fuller picture. Otherwise some rabid fans go and wage twitter wars from them and it doesn’t help their case.

Either point the finger at who you want hanged by the internet or its better to not say anything, unless you don’t mind all those fans going around writing nasty tweets to people that have nothing to do with this beef like say, Jay Z.

or you could shut up and not care so much about a public figure

most consistent I've ever done is with barricade and body slam, preferably with entrench if you can find it. from there it's just a matter of actually getting barricade up

xp: what alfred said

Well go and tell that to the fans on twitter I don’t use it.

lmao "nasty tweets" give me a fucking break. the fans will be fine

it's just such a weird thing to be so annoyed or upset by

Well that and that her words have been taken out of context turned into clickbait headlines. There’s a reason she deleted them.

Also Alfred and Katherine I can care however much I want to care about it, maybe you two should shut up and not care so much what a non public figure says.

Or be crushed by some asteroid sized boulder of irony

Is that agressive passive enough for you?

kind of a bummer when all my favorite posters come together to yell at each other. Not sure why Grimes is such a flashpoint for this board. Lingering PTSD from the Realiti wars?

on a pretty regular basis i get very detailed emails from strangers about how they want to dismember me and every member of my family

sometimes my friends and family get the emails instead

sometimes the threats go to people i barely even know or haven't talked to in years, people who might not even know why strange people on the internet want to dismember me, who get really upset about the threats and forward them to me with heartfelt concern about whether or not i am safe and ok

i then copy and paste the threats into a very long years-old email thread so they can be sent to law enforcement contacts and added to a file

anyone who would seriously get super upset over a fan tweeting "leave grimes alone" or whatever is not prepared for what the world is turning into and i worry for them

anyway

i'm definitely going to try to go body slam/barricade on my next run, i have been struggling with not having enough block and i totally had not thought about how body slam could turn a block-focused deck into an offensive powerhouse. thanks!

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It’s not those fans I worry about it’s the death threats ones I worry about turning their obsessive love for her into a real threat for anyone managing her label.

I’m sorry to hear that you’re dealing with that James.

I hope the death threats thing is just some kind of sick trend, or a symptom of society not having had time to establish the norms that will make life in the internet age bearable.

This can’t just be the way it is now.

her friends and family have received threats. people she casually tweeted back and forth with a couple of times have received threats. fans who she has never interacted with who maintain fan pages on social media have received threats. everyone who can be seen to have any sort of connection to her online, real or imagined, has received threats.

i do not know offhand if the label has received threats before. i would be surprised if they have not. either way, it's not something she has control over.

sorry for all that

I was magma90210 forever ago on MRMB hope you are well

I was pointing precisely that problem from the very start, but I got accused of overthinking it... really sucks to have people who clearly need help channeling violence in those ways. I remember reading about Claire getting those threats and its really worrisome, sucks it’s happening to you to James.