Grimes/Claire Boucher thread

Fourth World concept album??!?

is "adore u (beautiful game)" coming out? that was the song I did for the pre-cover album a year and a half ago

this is gonna be good, I'm excited now

i'd guess "adore u" is probably "IDORU"

well that’s also the Romaji for the Japanese rendering of “IDOL”

the leaked "adore"'s running time also matches "IDORU"

very excited to learn that the Moodles rendition of "That's What The Drugs Are For" is now THE official version.

xxp and a William Gibson book title

it took me ages to figure out which specific new age/downtempo song "so heavy" reminded me of but I've finally got it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhSHF_GHGYk

(the runner-up was Schiller's "I've Seen It All"; unsurprisingly I really like the grimes single, despite the past few years of grimes)

I mean there’s been a noticeable trend of Enya-house music in the past decade and Grimes was doing variations on it even before this single. I don’t think this is Grimes following trends but rather continuing on a style she had explored previously.

oh, I'm not saying she's following trends, unless the leaked album (which I haven't heard) is full of idk billie eilish ripoffs

IDORU could also be referencing the William Gibson novel, which would be on brand with the concept of the album

oh goddamnit I missed mh's comment.

this is....fine? I like it better than most of her stuff but I'm still mystified as to what makes her so distinct from or so much more deserving of hype than loads of other acts working in a similar mode

like who?

Grimes thinks "live music is going to be obsolete soon" https://t.co/S9EnoA3fZM pic.twitter.com/No4Ei9c2CR

— BrooklynVegan (@brooklynvegan) November 20, 2019

says the voice of silicon fascist privilege https://t.co/rsn04V7AyV

— ZJ (@ZOLAJESUS) November 21, 2019

her reputation seems to have taken a bit of a hit

https://images.app.goo.gl/fjaU1BWo6eBVp2i16

ppl take her at face value a lot, anyway i enjoy her troll moves tbh

Sure. It's "troll moves" when SHE does it :/

get her ass ZJ

xpost -- and that's the difference between her and Amanda Palmer uh hold on

i believe about 5% of what grimes says about anything even her own intent, it's all pretty entertaining. anyway i like ZJ but grimes >>>>> ZJ

I've listened to and read enough conversations that have made a similar point but not in a value-neutral way
although, tbh, with such a dystopian album concept or w/e I guess the commentary is semi-implicit
then again, maybe the dystopia is good?

hmm!

I guess she's to be taken seriously not literally like Thiel said about Trump?

the kind of insight only young blood gets you

Troll moves are bullshit and annoying even when done by people omar little finds attractive

I apologise, that was uncalled for. I'll shut up now.

the bad cop/good cop lego head spins at 208 rotations per second

sorry 1/208

I’m slowly realizing I hate all this futuristic shit. I was a huge fan of her melancholy bedroom pop—huge huge fan—and also loved her foray into exuberant art pop, which seemed life affirming and artistically brave. But this all seems weird. If it’s sincere, she’s creepy now, and if it’s a troll, what’s the point?

Speaking my truth today. I‘m just an indie fan, i don’t want to be a cyborg.

i think she's having fun deliberately saying provocative nonsense that it's not immediately obvious how serious she is about (so trolling basically) after all the frustrations she's had with the media reporting her every word in the past

Maybe idk. She seems really fascinating with the singularity and these types of techno-utopian ideas. Maybe it’s all an artistic conceit but who knows.

yeah that's the thing, she's sincerely very into that stuff but it's not clear just how much. like she obviously didn't get experimental cornea replacement surgery but how much of the rest of this stuff is a bit?

I just know it’s alienating to me as a listener

but then again she doesn’t like pandering to audience expectations/desires, and that’s been consistent

Ok i just listened to the newest one—i thought “violence” was the newest one.

It’s actually awesome. Still don’t like the singularity stuff but this is a great track.

Troll moves are bullshit and annoying even when done by people omar little finds attractive

― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Thursday, November 21, 2019 4:08 PM (fifty-four minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

I apologise, that was uncalled for. I'll shut up now.

― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Thursday, November 21, 2019 4:10 PM (fifty-two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

It’s pretty clear that she’s someone who just says shit without thinking, I mean give her a mic or some space to rant and she’ll say a bunch of wild shit because I think that’s simply how her mind operates. I do doubt she’s actually trolling as much as just rambling and having fun with her thought process, without regard for what anyone else feels about it. So she says dumb stuff like about Tesla or public transit and she dates a psychopath. I won’t comment on her attractiveness pro or con, I’ll just note your first post and tell you that you shouldn’t have apologized if you really meant it, and if you didn’t you should probably just chill because it’s just grimes.

I mean I ain’t even mad I had a brief “what the—!” and then remembered it was the internet

Nah, I was being a shit, but thank you for your understanding.

Forget it, my man, just don’t get the wrong idea about me and Larry Mullen Jr next time I bump a U2 thread to defend Songs of Experience.

:)

Larry Mullen Jr is cute tho

I think a big part of the problem is Grimes' techno-utopian shit just feels a bit naff and laughable. It's much more Sigue Sigue Sputnik/Network 7 than Blade Runner.

https://i.pinimg.com/236x/43/5d/a4/435da4f0fe3fb2b6662f3ff6ca0febc6--paint-by-number-unicorn.jpg

the finished version of this has apparently leaked now. when was the last time an album leaked this far out?

it's... fine?

ive come to think she's being critical of tech-utopianism but her strategy is over-identification which might be an unredeemably fraught method of critique imo