Grimes/Claire Boucher thread

it's not like she needs to be in a studio with a producer, band, engineers, etc.

maybe she doesn't spend any time at all on music, maybe she just fucks around on tumblr for hours on end until she passes out

ahah. maybe !

otm

Signed with Roc Nation.

how many cute animals were in that contract

http://i.imgur.com/BMFQWBl.jpg

Wut

she's on instagram now as "actuallygrimes"

http://i.imgur.com/mT39CNP.png

http://pitchfork.com/news/53538-grimes-at-work-on-new-album-no-release-date-set/

"a toast, to all the Lorde money you'll be making us soon" xp

i wonder if jay-z is like me, in that he still listens to visions at least once a month

has blue ivy heard visions

has she stepped foot in an old navy

http://actuallygrimes.tumblr.com/post/84400601704/tbt

http://actuallygrimes.tumblr.com/post/86126857724/a-recording-of-my-voice-heehehoo

Thk u grimes for introducing me to "I luh you papi"

http://pitchfork.com/news/55446-grimes-says-she-wrote-a-song-for-rihanna-that-got-turned-down/

cool story bouch

I wrote a song for Rihanna too, got turned down tho, wanna hear it

re-recorder the visions songs ??
what the !?

tbh I'm intrigued. Some of the songs on Visions were cool but missing something.

hum. I can't see how this could be any good... reminds me of the thread about re-recorded albums (that are always shitty).
anyway, looking forward to the new album !

seems like she only re-recorded the tracks for her live show, not for release? makes sense, i'm sure she feels like she can make them sound a lot better now.

That's what I was thinking. Bedroom recordings sounding different at pitchfork fest or whatever. Haven't seen her live though, so I don't know.

https://soundcloud.com/actuallygrimes/go-1/

"The look is an anime elf assassin who is a big fan of dolly parton and patsy cline"

<3<3<3<3

I love the percussion in this (and the bass is cool too), like how she's using handclaps where hi hats would be, and the cool metallic kling klang stuff at the end! Grimes is so awesome!

oh wow.

how she's using handclaps where hi hats would be

has been done in that exact way on 50 million popular songs in the past 3 years fyi

lol at the avalanche of fan comments on there hating the EDM breakdown

uh it's decent i guess (not really, kinda boring actually) but if i didn't know it was grimes i don't think i would have given it even one full listen

i am glad she is angering her fans tho, they need to be angered more

Right.

I like this song a lot after two listens (wasn't sold after one).

I'd say at this point, I listen to a lot of music made my women. Probably more than music made by men. However, it creeps me out beyond belief when I see the fans of a lot of these women claim ownership of the particular artist's will and choices they make, and seeing how people were commenting on the new Grimes track just reminded me of that.

Quit being gross bossy fans, you dopes. These are grown ass women and they can do what they want...even if that means including a drop.

drop is dumb, song is pretty dumb

But are you suggesting that these fans claim ownership of a particular artist's will and choices because they are female? Because I'm pretty sure there would be the same amount of complaining if a track like this was put out by a male artist, like Panda Bear for instance.

I'm just saying I see it happen more with female artists, but I'm sure Austin Mahone and Twin Shadow and whoever else get a bit of it too.

lol at handclaps exchange

on first listen this does a better job of extending the Grimes brand into EDM than the taylor swift single from last summer did hers so w/e

It doesn't happen more often with women musicians. You're imagining things.

apparently this was the song written for rihanna

yeah that's the narrative

yeah it could be any fucker this.

However, it creeps me out beyond belief when I see the fans of a lot of these women claim ownership of the particular artist's will and choices they make, and seeing how people were commenting on the new Grimes track just reminded me of that.

Quit being gross bossy fans, you dopes. These are grown ass women and they can do what they want...even if that means including a drop.

people love the DIY aspects of "Visions," which Grimes made on her computer using Garageband. i personally really liked the album in part because the eclecticism of its influences felt really personal, right down to the akhmatova quotes on the album sleeve she designed herself. it's an indie album that appealed to indie fans with indie sensibilities. how do you expect them to react to this song? i get that some of the reactions are probably extreme and over-dramatic but i think most of the backlash is from fans who feel that grimes' music is important to them personally. many are probably teenagers. i don't think it has to do with not respecting her autonomy because she is a woman.

n.b. i like the new track fine.

I haven't really dug around to read any supposed "backlash" but are people really surprised that she has gone hi-fi / come out of the bedroom after previously participating in huge tours with Skrillex and Diplo, signing to Roc Nation, and for many years now professing a love for a lot of major label pop music? Not only that but she played this song a few weeks ago at the Governor's Ball, cameraphone youtubes of which were posted by pitchfork et al, where the presence of a "drop" was fairly evident?

fwiw i don't think her album will all sound like this. I recall 'Go' being labelled on her Twitter as "different from regular Grimes" before she played it live, and the fact that the song is being given away as a free download at least 6-7 months before an actual album release seems to suggest it will eventually be relegated to bonus track status / a fun little anomaly à la 'Phone Sex'.

It doesn't happen more often with women musicians. You're imagining things.

o ok wow i'm convinced thanx

yeah grimes has written at length about how she is constantly patronised by dudes thinking she doesn't know what she's doing as a producer or that she doesn't know anything about musical equipment

oh yeah, that's totally an issue. i just think that the backlash against this song is a separate issue and i don't think there is anything inherently sexist about hoping her new album is more similar to her last album than to a skrillex album. it seems outrageously condescending to like, not criticize something you don't like because you think the artist's autonomy is so fragile it must be nurtured and supported at all costs.

on another note, i agree with monotony that i think her new album will sound totally different from both this single and anything she's released in the past. i hope to be surprised by her new album and i expect to be.

It's gonna be children of men jams crazy

i just think that the backlash against this song is a separate issue

Right. I get that people might be taken aback by a style shift as dramatic as this one, but the way some of the pushback has been phrased is the same as I've seen with other female artists—especially the ones who are active on social media. All these fans flock to them very quickly and then get really possessive and creepy about every move they make. Can I cite examples? Not really. It's just a tone I've picked up by following Marina & The Diamonds and Charli XCX and Betty Who and Sky Ferreira and MØ and whoever else and seeing the fawning messages of support turn when something they don't like happens.