Grimes/Claire Boucher thread

tim it is pretty baffling to me that you did postgraduate studies in crit theory since you are like, the clearest writer ever

Law was a pretty good counterweight - my problem in that dept is that I'm still too elliptical and roundabout at times.

http://www.startribune.com/local/west/49134952.html?page=all&refer=y

I love this portrait of Claire Boucher. Sriracha on iPad:

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mej3ou7NuT1qzcdbeo1_500.jpg

I guess it's a good thing for music fans that they couldn't get that engine working. xp

http://deadgirlfriends.tumblr.com/post/39420019737/how-do-you-feel-about-trolls

I saw this album on a lot of year-end lists and I took a flyer on Amazon. I'm glad that I did. It reminds me of Austra, who I also adore, in that is seems perfectly accessible to me. I cannot wait to play this for the wife.

TMI

Okay somebody explain the Tumblr post/Pitchfork repost kerfluffle today; I don't quite know what happened there.

Although I see this now

http://actuallygrimes.tumblr.com/

From what I understand, people were giving her shit for her year end list at some publication, which featured some fairly universally loved pop songs/artists. She wrote a tumblr post this morning going into a detailed defense of it. Other blogs and eventually Pitchfork picked up on it. She said her tumblr isn't any kind of offical statement or news source, and then promptly deleted everything she'd ever posted on there.

whether or not an artist's blog post is legitimate news from a news org's perspective is one question... i don't really agree with grimes tho

lol tumblr

Weird, I was reading that Tumblr post 30 minutes or so. Seemed relatively uncontroversial stuff, but then young ppl I guess.

gotta lock up yr diaryland, grimes

xp j0rdan u don't agree that listening to pop music is ok?

lol, not that part

<3 grimes

man that's really sad. i just read the pitchfork thing, she is smart & says good stuff.

yeah

Biggups Grimes! I don't care much for your music but you sure know yr onions.

^^^ sticker quote

Attacking her for these opinions is bullshit

leave britney alone

I don't care much for your music but you sure know yr onions.

yes

& I don't care much for the music she's defending but I "get it" and am glad it exists

I like that she sees her creative process as swinging between making Dune albums and LOTR albums

didn't grimes recently say she'll be posting to her tumblr a lot more often for the fans? seems a little strange to go from that to deleting every post you've made

what is grimes hiding?

you can't hide from internet caches, "grimes"

It seems weird to delete your whole Tumblr just because someone publishes your intelligent points at length and in context but then she's smart, intense and volatile so I guess it fits.

I think she did because people were being dicks

Oh, I thought she wrote it in response to people being dicks about her EOY list.

afaik people never stop being dicks.

yeah, it's fair game for her to take it down. it sucks for the rest of us, but clearly many people on the Internet are massive dicks who think we don't deserve intelligent discourse.

the only rule is don't be a dick

too many dicks

xposts. four "dicks" posts in a row. sorry for the gendered language.

xposts again.

dicks will never stop being dicks on the internet

mydickband

Her EOY list contained Bieber, massive dick attractor.

i was listening to 'visions' this morning on the turntable, my kid was going back and forth from speaker to speaker laying his hands on the sound vibrations. he loves it.

my 2yo daughter likes it too but the one song that starts with a loud robot voice scares her

It freaked me out a bit too at first, if I wasn't expecting it.

What was the actual list?

Feel a bit sketchy posting this when she's taken it down, but what the hell it's only a list:

best songs of 2012

Psy - Gangnam Style

Major Lazer - get free

Lana Del Rey - ride, National Anthem, Summertime Sadness

Usher - Climax

Bieber - beauty and a beat

Carly rae - call me maybe

Haim - forever

Taylor Swift - Trouble

Kitty Pryde - okay cupid

did anything else really good come out in 2012?

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OKAY i totally forgot about julia holter — i think four gardens is just an incredible song and the first version of goddess eyes.

Also doldrums… altho maybe that record isn’t out

also what that was by majical cloudz. <3

also i just want to say i love the swans record, but there obviously aren’t ‘singles’ haha.

Good list. People are dicks.

I suppose you could read "did anything else really good come out in 2012?" as an invitation to troll, although she may well have meant it as a genuine q to her fans.

She is right about "Four Gardens", although now I've seen it performed live with drum & bass interludes I wish Julia would release an expanded/updated version.

she chose the wrong bieber single!

still don't fully get why the only excellent thing she's done caused such delete-my-tumblr drama

obv the people who were being dicks to her need to be shot

Ignore the trolls is something all post-internet musicians need to learn.