Grimes/Claire Boucher thread

Like Grimes getting all fangirly w/ all the rappers and asking Lil' Kim "is the mole real or do you draw it on?" and teling Busta Rhymes that "pinky rings are, like, really cool"

This Rachel Antonoff person is p awful though

those are reaally hard to watch

hey, markers:
http://instagram.com/p/ddo6naOzKi/

Is there audio of the boiler room set?

Is there video of the boiler room set?

afaik there was live audio/video but nothing archived :(

they usually put everything up at some point

Feel this Jana Hunter/Nitsuh King Krule convo is v relevant to Grimes:
http://lowerdens.tumblr.com/post/59565099322/last-week-i-wrote-a-review-of-the-new-king-krule

thanks for that, I gotta say that I think Jana's followup to Nitsuh is extremely OTM regarding fame and its effects upon the standards an artist might or might not bring to bear upon their own work

Not sure if I should click on this or not:

http://pitchfork.com/news/52075-watch-franz-ferdinand-cover-grimes-oblivion/

I don't feel a high level of confidence that it would be a good idea.

You should do an exhaustive cost/benefit analysis first.

Sorry that was a stupid, needlessly snotty comment. I agree that that video looks bad.

Kinda reinstates how passé Franz Ferdinand are.

Alex Kapranos' complete lack of carnality and playfulness really reinforces how good Grimes is as a performer.

huh i don't think most ppl would associate grimes quickly with carnality, would they? - & the song's about wondering when she's gonna stop being afraid of men as a result of an assault. maybe you're coming from the video "going into this masculine world that is associated with sexual assault, but presented as something really welcoming and nice" in her words. she's selling broadband with this track in ireland non-stop for the last two years -- it's like the theme song for a major service provider -- go figure.

carnal's the wrong word. i think boxedjoy meant to say "coolness".

carnality is kind of your own thing, not stuck connected to others, though? I get a little bit of body freedom off of Grimes' music.

It get a carnal feeling. Which is cool.

I had never realised it was about assault! Just about everything on Visions has mostly indecipherable lyrics to my ears, aside from fragments here and there. I've always found her vocal style very sensuous.

odd, cuz i've always heard it as disembodied, almost anti-physical

https://twitter.com/Grimezsz/status/376803226713980928

brad should especially click that

went through a town called grimes last week, thought of markers

http://0.static.wix.com/media/3b8c90_56193201ebafa932a94907c64cf38a62.jpg_512

she's selling broadband with this track in ireland non-stop for the last two years -- it's like the theme song for a major service provider -- go figure.

― zvookster, Thursday, 29 August 2013 02:10 (1 week ago) Permalink

lol

Grimes reveals details of her rider

i like the formal 'lol' at the end.

she's just the dickens

dying

<3

https://twitter.com/Grimezsz/status/390274761336438784

just felt i should get in with that before markers did.

he doesn't read this thread

^^ fake markers

29 second response time, slightly disappointing.

evolving into a charmander

impossible

grimes>charmander>charmeleon>charizard

treeship>markers>dayo

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_meipg8l1ae1rsnq4mo1_250.gif

lmao @ treeship>markers>dayo

https://twitter.com/Grimezsz/status/394283365370564608

Kids these days, learnin' about all the great bands of the bygone aughts

I can never tell if she is trolling or like completely serious

i think both of those things are true

I was thinking it's been a very long time since her album was released. and no new music since then ?

I don't know why but I thought she would be the kind of artist who releases new tracks every now and then, spontaneously, online or else.

she's been tweeting regularly about how she's been working on the album. said she's aiming for Q2 2014 iirc. i'd say it's taking so long because she's been touring pretty relentlessly.

Yeah, every picture she posts is like "this is what bathtubs look like in Singapore" or "picture of me meeting this artist at yet another festival" or "check out my goofy tour rider".

yeah, I thought the touring/enjoying notoriety aspect might be key.
but still, nowadays, even on tour, I suppose it must be easy to make/record music, especiallly the way she seems to be working.