Grimes/Claire Boucher thread

yeah def wanna hang w/ grimes

interesting to discover her favourite album of last year was Katy B.

interesting that her favorite album of last year was so uninteresting

I was thinking of you when I posted that, admittedly.

I bit my tongue so hard before taking the bait... I really, really tried not to

not much crossover between this thread and the billy joel poll

The Katy B record is great!

Most of ILX (the smart half at least) thought it was great, too. Sometimes I think Grimes would make an excellent ILX0r. And then I realise she'd probably be a noize borader. Feh.

I've fallen and I can't feel my face.

i think theres an rnb influence but not one that should be overstated. like daydream era mariah in places but thats about it. i mean its there and its not there.

It's an influence, it's hearable, but it's one of about a million "influences" that have been chopped up and thrown in the blender. It's not exactly a USP or anything, it's just a thing that's there.

http://twitter.com/#!/Grimezsz/status/189590724138909696

i'm grimes you guys

You're so positive

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@Grimezsz listening to michael jackson covers are we?

feel like posting this in the irrationally angry thread, read it and thought "this is why i hate people", not sure if i can explain properly but i can't be alone in this

like the fact that this person thought his knowledge of the fact that alien ant farm's biggest hit was a michael jackson cover was not only worth tweeting@a hipster girl he obv has a boner for, but the fact that he phrases it in a way that makes it look like he seriously expects her to respond to that

it's just

ugh

and it's not even that she's internet-famous or anything, i get weirdly annoyed when i see guys do similar things to girls they know on fbook (it is always straight guys who do this to girls on fbook), i just don't understand what goes on in ppl's heads

anyway i like grimes some of her songs are gud

i just don't understand what goes on in ppl's heads

pussy

I'm not calling you that, im just saying that is what is going thru straight guys who write dumb messages to girls heads.

dude does seem hella thirsty

heh nsfw http://grimestyle.tumblr.com/post/21872453967/preview-grimes-pussy-rings-first-creation-of-the

Grimes fave (and Montreal pals?) Purity Ring are now also releasing their debut lp on 4AD (7/24/2012).

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

I really love Visions. It's so catchy yet I don't get tired of listening to it. I love singing with her and making up lyrics like I did when I listened to Cocteau Twins.

love this >

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxmCvdY4NZQ&feature=youtu.be

hm, doesn't seem to want to embed. lets try..

http://youtu.be/FxmCvdY4NZQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxmCvdY4NZQ

love this

Did Grimes get really big all of a sudden? On Friday I was in two "young people" clothes shops and they were playing tracks off Visions.

it's a "thing" now

in my clothing shops of young people

'phone sex' seems like it's striving v hard to be a big summer jam, but for me it's succeeding very well, so whatyagonnado.

the tent for her set at field day had overspilled in a serious way, she is v much 'in'.

I'm more about this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIqz3Q4qsMw

Joanna Newsom meets electronic music.
maxjimmyjazz 11 hours ago

wow, I wish

I actually quite like that remix.

i haven't been listening to much new music this year but i do like some grimes jams

She played our stage at Field Day and I was amazed at how popular she was - people were going apeshit but I still don't really get it. It seems to be more about her as a personality than the music. It was really interesting watching the crowd change for Tortoise who were on after her.

It seems to be more about her as a personality than the music.

yes, this must be it.

That's the kind of comment that really irritates me. Like, you don't *get* the music (which is fine, that's why there's chocolate and vanilla) but because you don't *get* it, that means other people's appreciation must be based on her... personna or something?

It doubly irks because it's the kind of criticism that often gets thrown at female musicians - it can't possibly be their music, it has to be about something else - saying people are responding to that performer's "personality" is a step up from "you just like her looks" but it's coming from the same highly loaded place IMHO.

she's pretty cute tho

So's Thom Yorke. Your point is?

Gukbe had all the bait this entire time, you guys

WCC did not take my post in the spirit within which it was given

your use of "within" makes that sound quite liturgical.

just striving to hit that point where the post plunges through its own transparency to meet the power that created it

It was really interesting watching the crowd change for Tortoise who were on after her.

well ya, it went from (to generalize) a slightly younger mixed group to (to generalize) a slightly older largely male group. this is perhaps not v startling when it comes to tortoise vs just about anybody. and rly i'm not even sure what her persona is, especially not as something notably distinct from the music.

(mild passive aggressive dickishness aside, your stage had a lot of great stuff, doran, i found myself there more than anywhere else. and also, if you were who i thought you were, that was a v sharp fitzcarraldo-esque suit you were sporting.)

Nah, personality may be part of it, but i think the biggest part is blog fame/peer pressure.

she was v.much 'bad' at primavera - needed a smaller stage I think, struggled to fill the space

also, an artist's personality always comes through their music; it's a bad argument that separates the two.