is this the track she pitched to Rihanna?
― Merdeyeux, Thursday, 28 August 2014 17:01 (nine years ago) link
Kind of a weird thing to say about an artist already 3 albums into their game?
I guess it makes more sense as "Grimes writing a pop song to pitch to an established pop artist" but it just makes me miss her wilder, more bricolage approach to music.
― Shugazi (Branwell with an N), Thursday, 28 August 2014 17:10 (nine years ago) link
i was in the crowd for her set at pfork and this was probably the song that got the biggest audience reaction fwiw
― ╲╱\/╲/\╱╲╱\/\ (gr8080), Thursday, 28 August 2014 17:12 (nine years ago) link
I could totally see that, and that kinda proves my point about her peaking.
― Cousin Slappy, Thursday, 28 August 2014 17:18 (nine years ago) link
you had one job markers― socki (s1ocki), Thursday, August 28, 2014 10:21 AM
― socki (s1ocki), Thursday, August 28, 2014 10:21 AM
and i did it . . . on facebook!
― markers, Thursday, 28 August 2014 17:18 (nine years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/nhivLyy.gif
― ╲╱\/╲/\╱╲╱\/\ (gr8080), Thursday, 28 August 2014 17:35 (nine years ago) link
feel like she made the "Genesis" video and thought, "I really need to write a song to match this video aesthetic" and so she did it. Good for her.
― Insane Prince of False Binaries (Gukbe), Thursday, 28 August 2014 17:42 (nine years ago) link
is it just my playback experience or is she out of sync with the lyrics the entire time?
― Captain Maximus, Thursday, 28 August 2014 18:49 (nine years ago) link
it's OK I guess... but very far from her best work. and I don't really hear the input from Blood Diamonds. disappointing.
― AlXTC from Paris, Friday, 29 August 2014 12:30 (nine years ago) link
scrapped album after reaction to "Go" - starting over
http://pitchfork.com/news/56680-grimes-scraps-new-album-sessions-after-negative-reaction-to-go-starts-again/
― Insane Prince of False Binaries (Gukbe), Friday, 12 September 2014 17:11 (nine years ago) link
Hmmmmm. The video she did for Go was pretty embarrassing. Go as a song was not up to her usual standards, production wise. She's messing up having such a big gap between albums and touring so much.
― Raccoon Tanuki, Friday, 12 September 2014 17:23 (nine years ago) link
she scraps an album's worth of stuff every couple of months more or less and the NYT article the quote comes from doesn't even mention anything about scrapping material after or because of the reaction to "go"
― james brooks, Friday, 12 September 2014 17:25 (nine years ago) link
and less of the p****fork linking, heres the actual article http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/14/magazine/why-everyone-should-be-waiting-for-grimess-next-album.html?_r=0
― Raccoon Tanuki, Friday, 12 September 2014 17:26 (nine years ago) link
I heard she is a pretty despicable person actually, which shatters the illusions I had of her.
― Van Horn Street, Friday, 12 September 2014 17:32 (nine years ago) link
you heard, huh?
― Raccoon Tanuki, Friday, 12 September 2014 17:40 (nine years ago) link
A real Snidely Whiplash type, eh?
― how's life, Friday, 12 September 2014 17:40 (nine years ago) link
I heard she does car commercials in Japan.
― Greer, Friday, 12 September 2014 17:48 (nine years ago) link
I heard that she has sold her turntables and bought guitars.
― AlXTC from Paris, Friday, 12 September 2014 17:55 (nine years ago) link
I heard rumours... she was *into* field hockey players...?
― Shugazi (Branwell with an N), Friday, 12 September 2014 17:58 (nine years ago) link
yeah i heard she scrapped the album long before anyone knew what "go" even was
― le goon (J0rdan S.), Friday, 12 September 2014 18:57 (nine years ago) link
makes the PF news thing pretty funny. "one of our writers did a big feature elsewhere, so we're going to point you toward it while also decontextualizing and sensationalizing its narrative."
― some dude, Friday, 12 September 2014 19:00 (nine years ago) link
I wasn't a fan of "Go" on any level, but it seems a bit... unseemly to be all "the fans aren't onboard with where I was going, so fuck that."
― RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Friday, 12 September 2014 19:34 (nine years ago) link
well, it seems like she didn't say anything like that and that's just the narrative other people are constructing
― some dude, Friday, 12 September 2014 19:38 (nine years ago) link
yeah it seems like she is just trying to figure out what she wants to do & is staying p chill in the meantime
― example (crüt), Friday, 12 September 2014 19:43 (nine years ago) link
She's messing up having such a big gap between albums and touring so much.
nah, clearly no one's forgetting about her, better to take the time to make a great record. unless she's overthinking everything and ends up making a terrible record because of it, of course.
― festival culture (Jordan), Friday, 12 September 2014 19:52 (nine years ago) link
I hope it doesn't turn into another nmh/mbv situation. I do think Visions was that good; it seems like it would be very hard to follow up
― Hot Drexel Students (Treeship), Friday, 12 September 2014 20:03 (nine years ago) link
"nah, clearly no one's forgetting about her, better to take the time to make a great record. unless she's overthinking everything and ends up making a terrible record because of it, of course."
When you look at her career though before and up to visions, and I was a fan back then, her output was frequent, 4 releases in 2 years. It suited her development and kind of highly momentary transient style. Visions and the lack of anything after it has shocked her a bit into anxiety that wasn't there before. I think she's absolutely a person who requires total personal freedom and it's clear thats been affected by the success. She's obviously a confident person but highly sensitive. She's in a bit of a block right now and then Go came out and it was just absolutely not the record anyone really wanted to hear (though the vocals were brilliant) after such a void. But it would've worked fine in the middle of other stuff or if people hadn't been so starved.
― Raccoon Tanuki, Friday, 12 September 2014 20:19 (nine years ago) link
jordan is right. visions has set her up for big things and if she puts out a great record it could really catapult her. if it's wack her buzz will die down a bit (like on some current day MIA shit where she's fallen off the mainstream radar but can still be an indie superstar). it doesn't matter if that record came out last year or comes out next year tho.
― le goon (J0rdan S.), Friday, 12 September 2014 20:45 (nine years ago) link
https://twitter.com/Grimezsz/status/510531702125371392
― some dude, Friday, 12 September 2014 21:06 (nine years ago) link
smdh ... haha
― diamonddave85 (diamonddave85), Friday, 12 September 2014 21:13 (nine years ago) link
mb some aliases/sideprojects to offload material w/out fretting about the brand all the time
― ogmor, Friday, 12 September 2014 22:46 (nine years ago) link
Lime-scales
― Liquid Plejades, Friday, 12 September 2014 22:51 (nine years ago) link
smdh....so many dead horses??? Dude that's fucked up why is Grimes killing horses?
― kornrulez6969, Friday, 12 September 2014 22:56 (nine years ago) link
with all those dead horses in the sun, how's grimes 'posed to get any writing done?
― Bitterer than Bitter (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 12 September 2014 23:07 (nine years ago) link
Like many young people who frequently change hair color, Boucher maintains an active Tumblr
― dmr, Saturday, 13 September 2014 01:46 (nine years ago) link
otm
― fedora, wherever it may find her (darraghmac), Saturday, 13 September 2014 13:33 (nine years ago) link
People who shave animal shapes into their hair usually haven't updated their tumblr in about 2 years iirc
― some dude, Saturday, 13 September 2014 13:55 (nine years ago) link
shaving my damn hair
― niels, Sunday, 14 September 2014 15:42 (nine years ago) link
stop making droopy hats......grimes is so judgmental! #grimesleavemyhatalone
― kornrulez6969, Sunday, 14 September 2014 21:27 (nine years ago) link
http://m.pitchfork.com/news/57072-grimes-did-not-like-ariel-pinks-comments-about-madonna/
― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Tuesday, 14 October 2014 07:42 (nine years ago) link
i'm pretty sure claire publicly stated she didn't want her tumblr/twitter posts to become news stories
― j. winters (josh), Tuesday, 14 October 2014 07:53 (nine years ago) link
what does she want them to become
― da croupier, Tuesday, 14 October 2014 08:00 (nine years ago) link
everyone needs to stop being mean to ariel pink
― ET sippin the wig (spazzmatazz), Tuesday, 14 October 2014 08:11 (nine years ago) link
hopefully a lengthy article about beta male misogyny will now get posted on every music forum
― PaulTMA, Tuesday, 14 October 2014 09:47 (nine years ago) link
Whats so misogonist about not likink Madonna's records?
― nostormo, Tuesday, 14 October 2014 12:42 (nine years ago) link
nothing per se but when you couch that dislike in vitriolic sexist/ageist/rockist language ppl are going to call you out on being a piece of shit
― prolego, Tuesday, 14 October 2014 12:56 (nine years ago) link
i can easily take sides here, grimes is cool ariel pink seems like a dick, but somehow knowing about this story makes me feel like im wasting my life
― deej loaf (D-40), Tuesday, 14 October 2014 13:07 (nine years ago) link
"She can’t just have her Avicii, her producers or whatever, come up with a new techno jam for her to gyrate to and pretend that she’s 20 years old. They actually need songs. I’m partly responsible for that return-to-values thing."
this sounds very sexist. but i am disturbed at the fact that it doesn't seem like ariel pink was actually ever contracted by madonna to write songs. he has always been a troubled guy... maybe now he is delusional?
― Treeship, Tuesday, 14 October 2014 13:12 (nine years ago) link
The sexist think is the 20 years old thing, but I think he would have said it also if it was a male singer that he used to like and now not, too.
― nostormo, Tuesday, 14 October 2014 13:32 (nine years ago) link
Yeah, there's nothing overtly misogynist/sexist in Pink's comments.
― Position Position, Tuesday, 14 October 2014 14:06 (nine years ago) link