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.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 6 February 2013 17:16 (eleven years ago) link
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
― d'eejban (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, 6 February 2013 17:18 (eleven years ago) link
lol tumblr
― ❏❐❑❒ (gr8080), Wednesday, 6 February 2013 17:18 (eleven years ago) link
Weird, I was reading that Tumblr post 30 minutes or so. Seemed relatively uncontroversial stuff, but then young ppl I guess.
― eskimo table (seandalai), Wednesday, 6 February 2013 17:19 (eleven years ago) link
gotta lock up yr diaryland, grimes
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 6 February 2013 17:21 (eleven years ago) link
xp j0rdan u don't agree that listening to pop music is ok?
― flopson, Wednesday, 6 February 2013 17:21 (eleven years ago) link
lol, not that part
― d'eejban (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, 6 February 2013 17:21 (eleven years ago) link
<3 grimes
― 乒乓, Wednesday, 6 February 2013 17:27 (eleven years ago) link
man that's really sad. i just read the pitchfork thing, she is smart & says good stuff.
― schlump, Wednesday, 6 February 2013 17:28 (eleven years ago) link
yeah
― flopson, Wednesday, 6 February 2013 17:36 (eleven years ago) link
Biggups Grimes! I don't care much for your music but you sure know yr onions.
― dog latin, Wednesday, 6 February 2013 17:46 (eleven years ago) link
^^^ sticker quote
― zero dark (s1ocki), Wednesday, 6 February 2013 17:49 (eleven years ago) link
Attacking her for these opinions is bullshit
― Raymond Cummings, Wednesday, 6 February 2013 18:10 (eleven years ago) link
leave britney alone
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Wednesday, 6 February 2013 18:13 (eleven years ago) link
I don't care much for your music but you sure know yr onions.
yes
― ron paulstretch (crüt), Wednesday, 6 February 2013 19:26 (eleven years ago) link
& 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
― Moodles, Wednesday, 6 February 2013 19:46 (eleven years ago) link
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
― ☕ (diamonddave85), Wednesday, 6 February 2013 20:25 (eleven years ago) link
what is grimes hiding?
― ❏❐❑❒ (gr8080), Wednesday, 6 February 2013 20:36 (eleven years ago) link
you can't hide from internet caches, "grimes"
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Wednesday, 6 February 2013 20:40 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― Deafening silence (DL), Wednesday, 6 February 2013 20:45 (eleven years ago) link
I think she did because people were being dicks
― Gukbe, Wednesday, 6 February 2013 20:50 (eleven years ago) link
Oh, I thought she wrote it in response to people being dicks about her EOY list.
― Deafening silence (DL), Wednesday, 6 February 2013 20:54 (eleven years ago) link
afaik people never stop being dicks.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 6 February 2013 20:55 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― ron paulstretch (crüt), Wednesday, 6 February 2013 20:57 (eleven years ago) link
the only rule is don't be a dick
― ❏❐❑❒ (gr8080), Wednesday, 6 February 2013 20:57 (eleven years ago) link
too many dicks
― Moodles, Wednesday, 6 February 2013 20:58 (eleven years ago) link
xposts. four "dicks" posts in a row. sorry for the gendered language.
xposts again.
― ron paulstretch (crüt), Wednesday, 6 February 2013 20:58 (eleven years ago) link
dicks will never stop being dicks on the internet
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Wednesday, 6 February 2013 20:59 (eleven years ago) link
mydickband
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 6 February 2013 21:00 (eleven years ago) link
Her EOY list contained Bieber, massive dick attractor.
― Van Horn Street, Wednesday, 6 February 2013 21:01 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Wednesday, 6 February 2013 21:02 (eleven years ago) link
my 2yo daughter likes it too but the one song that starts with a loud robot voice scares her
― dmr, Wednesday, 6 February 2013 21:08 (eleven years ago) link
It freaked me out a bit too at first, if I wasn't expecting it.
What was the actual list?
― Tim F, Wednesday, 6 February 2013 21:14 (eleven years ago) link
Feel a bit sketchy posting this when she's taken it down, but what the hell it's only a list:
best songs of 2012Psy - Gangnam StyleMajor Lazer - get freeLana Del Rey - ride, National Anthem, Summertime SadnessUsher - ClimaxBieber - beauty and a beatCarly rae - call me maybeHaim - foreverTaylor Swift - TroubleKitty Pryde - okay cupiddid anything else really good come out in 2012?————————————————-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. <3also i just want to say i love the swans record, but there obviously aren’t ‘singles’ haha.
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?
————————————————-
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.
― eskimo table (seandalai), Wednesday, 6 February 2013 21:20 (eleven years ago) link
Good list. People are dicks.
― Deafening silence (DL), Wednesday, 6 February 2013 21:21 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― Tim F, Wednesday, 6 February 2013 22:12 (eleven years ago) link
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
― lex pretend, Thursday, 7 February 2013 08:08 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 7 February 2013 13:47 (eleven years ago) link
LOL at Tumblr drama. Is Grimes still in high school?
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 7 February 2013 14:49 (eleven years ago) link
actually she appears to be one of the few who isn't
― r|t|c, Thursday, 7 February 2013 14:52 (eleven years ago) link
ageists
― dog latin, Thursday, 7 February 2013 14:54 (eleven years ago) link
i reassert what i said on the poll thread, that grimes seems a prime WKIW candidate or dinner party invitee, despite her own music being so irritating
― lex pretend, Thursday, 7 February 2013 15:11 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah, she seems great. Why is she wasting time on tumblr or whatever? Step away from the computer, Grimes.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 7 February 2013 15:13 (eleven years ago) link
she wasn't wasting her time, she posted a pretty good EOY list and a great defence of it. better than the music she makes when she's not fucking around online.
― lex pretend, Thursday, 7 February 2013 15:17 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah, but she seems really sensitive to run of the mill online buffoonery (unlike, say, you, or many of us here). Ergo, step away from the computer, Grimes. Your year-end list was neither interesting nor controversial enough to warrant the drama.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 7 February 2013 15:19 (eleven years ago) link
erm when someone is the victim of people being dicks the people to criticise are the dicks not the victim
if grimes wishes to enjoy herself online why shouldn't she? people shouldn't fucking harass her.
― lex pretend, Thursday, 7 February 2013 15:22 (eleven years ago) link
It's pretty implicit that the dicks are dicks. That's why they're called dicks. Doesn't mean the dicks will go away, ever. 98% of internet traffic is due or dedicated to dicks.
Of course Grimes can do whatever she wants. Also, people will fucking harass her.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 7 February 2013 15:25 (eleven years ago) link
maybe if people were less accepting of dicks being dicks and awful harassment occurring, it would be harder for those people to continue doing it
― lex pretend, Thursday, 7 February 2013 15:27 (eleven years ago) link