Grimes/Claire Boucher thread

It was kind of a meta joke — like “look at this, this is what the algorithm rewards”. But in effect it dehumanized women musicians so this context isn’t exculpatory at all and I understand why they hated him

I never read HRO because I wasn't interested in it so I have absolutely no stakes in defending its tone or its coverage of Grimes, which I am 100% certain was shitty

That doesn't make it any wiser to confess to committing cybercrimes in your Vanity Fair interviews, though

maybe the statue of limitations has run out

All of the coverage about this has been very explicit in saying there's no statute of limitations on cybercrime offenses in Canada

oh ok, I'm sure Elon will break her out of jail then

not saying ddosing is good or grimes hangs out with good people but I do find it pretty hard to feel bad about the hro dude losing a couple years' worth of ways to call someone disgusting and fat (seriously wtf is his fixation on weight, the worst stuff on there wasn't even about the artists but his weirdass "i am just a disgusting ugly fat girl who no one loves and my boyfriend and family keep abusing me but i think i deserve it" persona)

It seems unlikely that this case will be prosecuted.

xp

Yeah i remember his alter ego “the mainstrramer.” That was the darkest period of the blog.

you think thats bad you should def not read the noize board from around the same time 😶

katherine! good to see you

Wasn’t HRO posting sexist garbage as a parody on the real gossip blogs and zines posting sexist garbage seriously?

Yes, but since it was about specific members of a much smaller scene, it was effectively the same.

when satire is indistinguishable from the real thing it's not really that funny

Wait are we saying Grimes is cool for doing this because fuck Carles? She’s not the hero in this story. Fuck both for all I care.

don't think anyone is defending her here just agreeing that carles was terrible

I don’t think anyone is defending carles either

Anyways, in other news Grimes did a small appearance and preview of her upcoming shit song Utopia at a crypto event:

"The mostly male crowd drew from a wide variety of roles, including blockchain coders, venture capitalists, crypto traders, hedge fund executives, lawyers, marketers, designers, musicians, gamers and even some government officials."

https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2022/03/24/avalanche-crypto-event-woos-35k-to-barcelona-with-late-parties-late-starts-long-lines/

Sounds about right.

The fucking irony and audacity of announcing this at a tent dubbed “eco-chamber” at a crypto event smh

Sorry “eco-dome”

Did Grimes just say she’s socially socialist, economically fascist lmao pic.twitter.com/dZMU11dnhL

— We’re In Hell (@WereInHellYT) April 15, 2022

that quote is from like 3 or 4 years ago & is moreso crazy incoherent views from having spent too much time on lesswrong (see: the belief in inevitability of ai dictatorship) than fascist

def some resonance between lesswrong and fashy stuff tho

I know I’m a broken record here but expecting Grimes opinions on anything other than her own music or anime or w/e to be coherent has been an exercise in futility

When that entire “I think AI could make music” thing happened a half dozen musicians who work in that space tried to explain what she was saying didn’t quite make sense, offered to talk about it, etc. and then she drifted on to the next thing instead

Argh at this interview

https://www.papermag.com/mia-grimes-mata-2658467299.html

I hate that I thought these two were cool persons a decade ago.

Also lol at this picture

https://imgur.com/a/t9iGadl

M.I.A.: I'm at a dentist in Mexico.

Grimes: Why?

M.I.A.: I'm trying out this new thing that people do in America.

Grimes: Is it the vampire teeth?

M.I.A.: No, is that a thing here?

Grimes: Yeah, my friends who live in Brazil got vampire teeth.

M.I.A.: I really fancied coming here and then thought, “While I'm here I'm going to be a good old American and get all my medical stuff sorted out.” I felt a bit bored and fancied the challenge. So now I can talk about these issues: I went to the dentist and it cost me like $50, and then if I go to one in Beverly Hills, it's a lot more expensive.

Grimes: Yeah, it's crazy.

M.I.A.: It was interesting to see the quality, and it helps me keep on top of what is going on economically and with the standard of living, so I can speak from experience.

Amazing

BARF

i'm glad MIA talked about some of the concerns with crypto, particularly how if too many people get wallets there could be storage difficulties

I like when she mixed up the global reserve currency with the gold standard

I'm doing an experiment right now where I'm being a pagan polytheist because I have this theory that before the rise of monotheism, society was a lot better.

Feel bad clowning them because both have crested music I have truly loved, music that has benefited my life. But this interview is like sheesh

MIA just wrote a lyric for Common People

Grimes was literally just doing tons of research.

I have to say that my brain is still in recovery mode from taking in so many high level, important ideas

Back-alley plaque scrapings to better understand the basic folk

both of these people had the kind of success that brings out airhead corporate adorers

m.i.a. married a bronfman, grimes had kids with musk

people get their brains mushified by the echo-chamber

this might be way too complex for ilxor’s ilm forum, because they’re trying to solve the world.

I'll be honest, if they dropped a joint album, I'd give it a listen

an accurate assessment

"dirty work" is the radiohead creep of the steely dan catalogue

— ｂｏｏｓ (@bosscrood) October 19, 2022

oops, good luck figuring out what this has to do with the thread topic

m.i.a. did not, in fact, marry that bronfman! they were engaged, though

oh! my mistake! a kid together

mia looking incredible at 47

Well duh, she’s not been vaxxed

what a cool person

pic.twitter.com/Fmnn80xS5f

— music struggles (@musicstruggles1) January 30, 2023

you've lost your goddamn mind if you find yourself typing "lebensraum" into the twitter text field sheesh

I read Caroline Polachek has a guest spot for Dido on her new album and got all excited and it turns out fucking grimes is not only on the album but on the same track.

I hate that I thought these two were cool persons a decade ago.

It's always disappointing when a favorite artist that represented where the music should/will go begins to slip, but I feel like more and more of them lately are just falling off a cliff in all the worst ways.

https://reddit.com/r/indieheads/comments/12lzl9v/warning_graphic_grimes_likes_total_nier_death/

Uhhhhh not clicking further, but from the url I thought it would be something about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nier:_Automata :(