Grimes/Claire Boucher thread

Idk what that is.

It's a concept album by Janelle Monae that came out earlier this year and featured a Grimes guest spot.

Oh. My gut tells me no. A new Grimes album is a big event, I don’t think she’s make it a tie in to someone else’a project.

Sci fi concept album seems like a really different lyrical direction. Art Angels would draw on some sci fi/magical realist imagery—especially kill v maim—but the narrative was fragmentary

This ine carries the concept through differently. It really is from the perspective of a girl group trying to propagandize for AI takeover

this is like a really chill Fear Factory ballad.

― Hmmmmm (jamiesummerz), Thursday, 29 November 2018 11:19 (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Haha yes!

I've got to say I was a big fan or ArtAngels but I really don't like this track.

or of

I think I like Play Destroy more

fuck yeah this song

a minute too long though

definitely too long, especially because it's super silly

is this grebo

― adam, Wednesday, November 28, 2018 8:27 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

adam's on to something

This reminds me of industrial nu metal bands like Powerman 5000 or Rob Zombie but with a bridge in her style. I don’t know if I want the whole album to sound like this since I was never a fan of those genres and I suspect it wont but I’m on board.

That bridge though

Powerman 5000… now there's a name I didn't expect to ever see again. While we're at it, I'd add Orgy to the list.

I agree it should shave at least a minute off of it. It doesn’t have enough variation like say kill v maim to justify 6 minutes, the main hook probably repeats in like 70% of the song.

Yeah I was also thinking Rob Zombie, or perhaps Stabbing Westward.
But on the other hand, I've also heard some people mention Metric, and I can hear that as well.

I haven't heard the song yet but this is a legit contender for creepiest ILM thread.

Agreed. It reads like a more sophisticated instantiation of 'why because she look interesting'.

That's all I've been trying to say. But I'm the weird one...

she does kinda look like britney's intersting sister when u think about it tho

It's good but (like others have said) brings back bad memories of post-NIN industrial radio rock (Gravity Kills, Filter, Stabbing Westward).

Yeah the bridge is the only part I like. The rest is just meh to me.

Need to give it a few more listens. So far I like some of the parts but they feel kind of slapped together.

i'm really digging the aesthetic here, but yeah too long and maybe a little plodding? feels like it's building to something that never comes. kept hoping/expecting it to explode but it just kinda repeats itself.

looking forward to her Sesame Street collab with Cookie Monster, "We Appreciate Flour"

fascist art with a hook.

lol i love this

I have never understood the "lyrics don't matter" crowd until this moment, because this rules if I ignore every lyric

definitely in the metric/republica/stand alone complex ost space, so of course I was going to like it, except it has lyrics too

You don’t like the sci-fi/AI concept?

“You’re not even alive / if you’re not backed up on a drive” was, i think, great as an eerie parody of those eerie singularity advocates

my god if this was some goth metal band you all would be clowning the shit out of this

no i wouldn't!

yeah i'd dig this if idk epica or nightwish or therion or within temptation came out with it. it wouldn't be anything like their other stuff tho imo.

don't worry ums, I realize this is a Grimes song through and through and I still want to clown the shit out of this

Nah we just wouldn't be talking about it.

It's good but (like others have said) brings back bad memories of post-NIN industrial radio rock (Gravity Kills, Filter, Stabbing Westward).

― change display name (Jordan), Thursday, November 29, 2018 11:23 AM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

So does this count as Grimes's "getting back to our roots" record?

no i wouldn't!

― princess of hell (BradNelson), Thursday, November 29, 2018 1:45 PM (six minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i do believe brad

do you believe me though

Brad/Murgatroid 2020 - A Team You Can Trust

:)

this is bad. i will never be ready for 1998 to come back.

my god if this was some goth metal band you all would be clowning the shit out of this

― The Poppy Bush AutoZone (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, November 29, 2018 2:35 PM (twenty-four minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I'd actually probably like it more because then I wouldn't have to think about elon musk

inspired by the north korean band, moranbong, and also by my boyfriend, bong moron

lol

Good takedown

my first thought when i heard it was 'oh this is her doing a NIN song, cool i love NIN'

listened to this whole busting unions last night, great soundtrack!

This sounds like the kind of music I would rebel against in high school.

a day later this still unfortunately rules, minus the lyrics, minus the tepid acoustic-radio-pop interludes ("Play Destroy" had this issue as well) plus the moment I started hearing "there's a place in France"

"Unfortunately, this rules" is my pop music sentiment

*favourite pop music sentiment, that is

Still not used to the fact that when you look it up on YT, the subsequent result is fantano's 7 minute review, posted 19h ago.