Grimes/Claire Boucher thread

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 :(

That Avengers scene where Hawkeye and Black Widow are fighting to throw themselves off a cliff, except it's Elon Musk and Grimes and the cliff is Nazism

— Michael Stewart (@m_r_stewart) April 14, 2023

Why is she a white supremacist now? The fuck?

Trite response but seriously. It is very odd that both kanye and grimes became hitler apologists

I still love this song, without reservation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yji6m9R75jQ

I try to just forget that she continued on after ‘15 or so

(And, no, I hadn’t seen what this thread revive was about)

sigh

She is a very gifted musician but clearly a person of poor character.

realiti (demo) so much better than anything else post visions

Still don’t see what’s so great about that song

“Oblivion” was my jam… I’ve never really gotten the “Realiti” love either.

(to each their own, of course)

Flesh without blood, from art angels, is her best song imo. I love the ethereal gothic early sound but I also like the hyperpop that succeeded it. I dislike how her personality and beliefs seem to have changed since art angels though.

even as a huge fan of miss anthropocene imo she was always like this sorry

I guess I didn’t follow her enough to know she’d be the type to retweet neo-nazis

Never thought her music suffered any drop in quality even as she herself perhaps did. Miss anthropocene wasn't quite as good as art angels or visions but not too far off, it bears repeat listening for me.

The Reddit post seems to have been removed. I glanced at her account, it looks like mainly AI shit. Not that I would necessarily recognize crypto-N4zi stuff if I saw it but… are we sure this is legit accusation?

(I believe it if you say yes, I didn’t delve into who she’s following or anything)

I don't like the idea that she irl hangs mostly with the worst kind of online shitposters but maybe it's true idk. Her trajectory hasn't been inspiring from a distance.