Grimes/Claire Boucher thread

Wait, are you saying we should invite Grimes to 77

we're... not on 77 right now

* mind blown *

oh man, I don't know why I said that. I hope Grimes googlers don't start coming around and asking questions.

they seem to have calmed down, the Ned googlers haven't tried setting up any shrines for him on ILE for a few years

beyonce posted here as dom passantino for years before she was banned

Been thinking earlier today that Grimes would fit in pretty well here between being amazing.

wkiw claire

yep

Not sure who is arguing for her playing the victim but either there are plenty of strawmen here or some words have been misunderstood. I was just trying to tell her what i would tell any stranger, friend, or family member to do about internet trolls: ignore them. There is no magic internet troll b gone button....yet.

It's kind of a mute issue now that she's taken it down. Personal webspace turning into office public space is a tough thing to deal with I imagine. If you're recording and playing shows and all it's much easier to just tune it out and focus on what's important at the moment.

And then we can look forward to seeing more posts turned into pitchfork headlines

Xpost

she could post as "underrated beyonce singles i have blogged"

She won't show up if you keep saying nice things about her

"flamboyant pussy ring included"

lol

whooooa Tim!

they seem to have calmed down, the Ned googlers haven't tried setting up any shrines for him on ILE for a few years

...there's a vision.

Local band/AmRep types Supernova once threatened to write a song about me called "My Name is Ned," while my friend Grady in Chicago wants to do the same. I say bring it on. FEED MY EGO!

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, April 19, 2001 2:00 PM (11 years ago)

And? DID YOU?

full disclosure: today is the first time I've actually felt compelled to give Visions a listen

better late than never

hey it’s claire

I've had a really hard time with all of this but if it means that Drugs A Money has finally listened to my album Visions then i guess it's all been worth it.

x
c

http://actuallygrimes.tumblr.com/post/44487022558

lol

Amazon is bad for people prone to options paralysis

woops -- that's part of someone else's post that i was responding to by modifying on 77.

here's what i mean to post here: http://actuallygrimes.tumblr.com/post/44867177213/tried-to-read-the-news-depressed-meticulously

awww

http://actuallygrimes.tumblr.com/post/45754437785

Seems like Grimes enjoys herself a good cat gif. She's not so unlike the rest of us after all!

http://25.media.tumblr.com/f52224558bd00ce9b163b57ecaa988dd/tumblr_mjo6uhe6Ys1s3k2bro1_250.gif

i have a blood feud with senorgif, who has never acknowledged my existence. (senor gif likes to steal gifs from people, without attribution, put his own watermark on them, and then post them to wider fame and glory on the icanhazcheezburger network.)

so they're the ebaumsworld of 2013, those assholes

btw, on a grimes related note, i listened to Visions very loudly again two nights ago, and it's still so great. blows my mind that some people can't pick out the melodies. "Vowels = Space and Time", for example, is practically like earlyish madonna

xpost yeah. what irked me is that i wrote him a very polite message, asking if he could please include a link to my website because i was a fledgling tumblrer with about 20 followers at the time. no response.

https://twitter.com/Grimezsz/status/319630110389059584

lol @ eating paint. but mostly I just wanted to revive this thread to meaninglessly praise the album, which is my favorite album of the past few years... so pleasurable on an immediate level, yet still "layered" enough to reward repeat listenings. also, for me, there is a very addictive sense of "spaciousness" to the sound of the thing: the ethereal vocals seem to "hover" far above the dancey bass and percussion of the instrumentals. the only album in my collection i think i've played more often is exile on main street.

For me it's the gaggle of Grimeses chattering out each line, and the run from Crystal Ball (track 5) through Symphonia IX (8). Really captures that late-night euphoric feeling.

Oh yeah, I think Vowels = Space and Time is within that stretch of tracks, and that is my number one most played song on itunes. That song especially, but many of the others too, has an R&B "warmth" to it that I think is really captivating, and somewhat unexpected among the other sounds in her toolkit. But yeah, I do agree with you that there is something very nocturnal about the sound of this album, and even "depersonalized" in the way darkness/sleep/danceclubs can be, but the album is still...somehow... i guess the word is "intimate", and very personal. I guess I can tell this is a personal album, or at least one that is personally meaningful to me, because Grimes is one of the few artists where I get bummed out when I hear her criticized.

https://twitter.com/katyperry/status/323603970801139713

sweet.

adorbies

i mean, katy perry is otm. grimes is super endearing.

'adorbies'? fucking hell i hate this world. embarrassing.

it's an apt word for grimes tbh

just let my love adorbz u

perhaps, but isn't it a little undignified to see an adult use that kind of work?

I don't think lex disagrees with you

yes that's what i was getting at

it's a horrible word that makes my skin crawl and is entirely appropriate in this case

Quiet lol at the slow transition from indifferent to "makes my skin crawl".

the dignity of katy perry