Grimes/Claire Boucher thread

sheesh, I miss the days when people would just throw half-finished ideas and sketches on their myspace page or w/e and they'd either resurface years later as finished tracks or be one-off things some fan would remember down the line

yeah me too. I love demos/sketches/work material - in addition to, you know, AN ACTUAL NEW ALBUM

She’s always been really bad at lip synching in her videos.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BvNqgDcAMPK/

new album is titled 'Miss_Anthrop0cene' and is going to be mostly 'ethereal nu-metal' in line with WAP unfortunately but she says she might release some more synth-based songs that didn't fit on the album before it's out

excellent news

1. mis·an·thrope
noun:
a person who dislikes humankind and avoids human society.
2. Anthropocene: The Anthropocene is a proposed epoch dating from the commencement of significant human impact on the Earth’s Geology and ecosystems including, but not limited to, anthropogenic climate change. ————————————

oh nice, i didn't get the pun until she explained it! :P

kick out the technofascist jams !

does anyone think global warming is a good thing? i love lady gaga. i think she's a really interesting artist

this songs not great. WAP was not very good, but ethereal numetal could work in theory.. im kind of scared that i gaslighted myself into liking art angels and im reluctant to revisit it...

ethereal numetal makes me think of evanescence

lmao that's what i thought of too monotony

Each song will be a different embodiment of human extinction as depicted through a Pop star Demonology.

...but enough about Man of the Woods.

i gaslighted myself into liking art angels

Don't blame yourself, blame ILX.

Anyway, I look forward to this, Evanescence comparisons and all.

Hum. I got off after REALiTi (demo) although I loved her previous stuff... and it doesn't look like her evolution will pull me back in...

im kind of scared that i gaslighted myself into liking art angels and im reluctant to revisit it...

art angels still rules and while it's a little less consistent and cohesive than visions, the highs are way higher

Yeah, Art Angels is pretty amazing.

I like We Appreciate Power a lot, so this is good news

Art Angels is still good

I genuinely like Art Angels but idk I want to say it's a New Jersey- WITH QUALIFIERS...

god that new interview with her is cringey as fuck, what an insufferable person

Claire is a perfectly fine fucking name. Just be Claire, dumbass.

do rich people deserve rights lets be honest https://t.co/pDePslhRve

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call-out culture is the dumbest fucking thing on earth

it was a glib and possibly dumb joke, that's it.

ok but i also feel like there are ways to describe your album that don't suck

and it's just day one of this, the worst possible album cycle

should say "make confronting climate change fun". she's definitely not saying that climate change is fun.

no but if you literally read it as it's written that's what it says. grimes is cancelled

I thought she was already cancelled.

cancelled

FOREVER

https://m.imgur.com/a/gZm7Z33

People don’t care about it, because we’re being guilted.

at this point I'm just happy she isn't saying it's fake

it could still be lore, though

““I see the polar bear and want to kill myself. No one wants to look at it, you know? I want to make a reason to look at it. I want to make it beautiful.” She wants the album’s iconography to include “pro-apocalypse PSAs” and a shoot in which she sits naked at a table a la The Last Supper eating bloodied corpses of endangered animals: “Like, I’m eating an elephant head.””

Crying my ass off

Musk chimes in over email, “I love c’s wild fae artistic creativity and hyper intense work ethic.”

wild fae artistic creativity

I haven't read the full interview, but just going from that quote above, I think I see what she's getting at... seems maybe similar to how, in the Cold War era, the terror of nuclear annihilation [which has hardly diminished, btw] was "processed" and represented in many different ways through movies, art, narrative, etc.?

Like, without knowing (or even judging) whether her album is good, bad, or whatever, it seems like a very understandable thing for "an artist" to try to do.

Yeah, it also doesn't seem that far away from what Oneohtrix Point Never did on his last album.

I mean, it’s not that her intentions are cryptic, the execution just seems irredeemably bad

Iirc she described one of the themes of art angels (or one of its songs?) as a story about a transexual al pacino who was also a vampire, so I wouldn’t worry much about this one.

Did you know that at one time Al Pacino was rumored to be up for the role of Lestat in the 1994 feature film adaptation of Interview with a Vampire? Even though Tom Cruise ended up in the role, the studio apparently wanted to see what Al Pacino would look like as the character. They hired concept artist Miles Teves from Stan Winston Studios to give them idea of that vision. Teves said,

"For a short time, at the beginning of the production, Al Pacino was rumored to have wanted the role of LeStat [sic]. I provided this image to help the studio make a decision. His presence as an actor, though an unusual choice, might have infused the character with more gravitas. Few command the screen like the indomitable Pacino."

https://static1.squarespace.com/static/51b3dc8ee4b051b96ceb10de/t/5289229ce4b02806f9e52cd6/1384719005418/52p0fQp.jpg?format=1500w

lol this is so batty, does anyone genuinely think Claire Boucher thinks climate change is fake, or good, or not an actual problem? it feels super disingenuous and faux-naif to pretend that you actually believe she thinks this

I don't think anyone here thinks she thinks that

(I can only speak for myself and that Pacino Vamp sketch that will haunt my dreams, tho)

She has this idea, though she thinks it’s likely too expensive to pull off: She’s sitting naked at a table like it’s The Last Supper, only she’s surrounded by endangered-animal corpses, and she—Grimes/Miss Anthropocine—is eating the bloodied bits of raw flesh. “Like, I’m eating an elephant head.” She’s got bigger plans even than that. “What I really want to do are these pro-apocalypse PSAs, where I light a tree on fire and I’m like—” she snaps her fingers, does jazz hands, “Climate change! Yeah. Or, I’m there eating zebras and elephants...all this terrible stuff.” Ideally, she’d like to see these PSAs on MSNBC.

so edgy