/grimes general/

here we discuss the greatest musician of this decade

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when will she be depressed enough again for us to have halfaxa II?

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youtube.com/watch?v=GbZzD5o9K_A
youtube.com/watch?v=k30KnPHMZHY
austinchronicle.com/daily/music/2012-10-04/surrealist-yuppie-grimes/
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i hope she will not become depressed again. and i don't think she will ever return to the style of halfaxa

degenerate waifu fags

rude and unnecessary comment

these

is she secretly training hana to replace her on stage??

She is good a channeling emotion, so whatever the state of mind it'll be interesting to hear.

READ THE FUCKING RULES YOU AND OTHER FUCKERS

i would like to see another happier album that is as inaccessible as Halfaxa

I don't think it's going to happen. It will be more like Visions or Art Angels or something totally different. Halfaxa and Geidi Primes are things in the past, she evolved since then.

No. Grimes just needs an additional musician. She should let Hana plays all synths and samplers while she's singing and dancing.

delet this

Why? I meant only during her live shows, not in studio.

holly herndon > grimes

When Holly will be a decent songwriter, producer and vocalist, then she will be fit to be compared to Grimes. Until then, she keeps churning wankery & soulless techno for hipsters.

its like you just pulled the first three musical related words out of a hat. she is a good vocalist, an amazing producer and her songwriting isn't conventional and lacks development, but is still more inventive than grimes' pop formula.

> she keeps churning wankery & soulless techno for hipsters.

ah, this smacks of "i've never actually experienced techno". an audience and their choices or anything doesn't really affect the music in itself, its just a way for you to feel better about having a different opinion. but its cool, this is all just my opinion too.

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>but is still more inventive than grimes' pop formula.
Unfortunately she's not. Grimes is endlessly exciting, Holly is so boring in comparision. Holly may be too avantgarde for the masses, but Grimes has the right balance between pop and experimental.

Grimes makes the worst music in today's world. I want all of you faggots to go back to plebbit and stay there.

>ah, this smacks of "i've never actually experienced techno". an audience and their choices or anything doesn't really affect the music in itself, its just a way for you to feel better about having a different opinion. but its cool, this is all just my opinion too.
There's good techno and bad techno. Holly is on the latter category. Listen to some good techno like Orbital, Daniel Avery and Underworld, not that soulless and dull "music".

...said the biggest pleb on this planet. Your opinions are not facts.

I'm pretty sure 80% of "grimesfags" are just being ironic and only defend her as a way of fucking with people.

>being this delusional
You may have a surprise. There's no room for irony when it comes to Grimes. Her music is legit likeable.

Actually kill yourself.

Actually you first.

She literally made an entire career out of this song.

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Found the ledditor

Oh wait, this whole thread

Nope. Not only that tune is too obscure (it doesn't appear on an official Cocteau Twins studio album), but it doesn't even sound like Grimes. Their voices are slightly similar, but that's all.

Whispery vocals over a beat it's not something exclusive to CT.

>It doesn't even sound like Grimes

C'mon mate it even uses the same Kraftwerk-y synths. If I downloaded Visions and it came with that song in it I wouldn't be able to distinguish.

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Fucking abysmal skank

I want her to get fucking electrocuted

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wow... that is such a horrible thing to say about someone. you need help.

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>C'mon mate it even uses the same Kraftwerk-y synths. If I downloaded Visions and it came with that song in it I wouldn't be able to distinguish.
I would be able to distinguish it. As I said, whispery vocals over a beat it's not something exclusive to CT. You could say that every rock band made an entire career out The Beatles for example; that wouldn't be true.

Inspiration? Maybe (she's a CT fan). Ripping off? No way.

spotted tumblr

>tfw she's almost 30

Wouldn't that include you?

stop fucking spamming her
you're going to get her threads deleted again

Joke's on you she already did and she survived

Why people think it's spam? is just a thread talking about the only musician that worth talking about. Like, look around, she's so many levels ahead

how big are you guys' grimes folders?

mine:
>539 mb
>1371 files

I think she changed her mind about her being called cute:

>G: It is, but I’ve kind of given up on it. When people say, 'Ohhh, Grimes is so cute and girly,’ I’m just like, 'Whatever. That’s what you want. I’ll just be that if that’s what you want me to be in your mind. I’m not going to fight that.’ It’s like the most first-world problem ever.

grimes-claireboucher.tumblr.com/post/140857883740/grimes-the-happy-reader-winter-2015

>1,42 GB

1.5 GB, 3000 files

Got most of it from Reddit tho. It includes GIFs and WEBMs which are pretty large.

but she is CUTE

28.5 mb
I posted it some threads ago
though I'm not less obsessed because of it being that small, it's just that I don't save many pics

G: And the fashion is amazing. I mean, in Star Wars, Natalie Portman’s character Amidala is a complete rip-off of full Mongolian. I’m really interested in reading about military leaders in general. If you can convince people to die for you, how do you do that? That’s really interesting to me. When you end up being in a position like I am, where suddenly you have the ability to manipulate large groups of people at once, it’s very stressful, so I’ve spent a lot of time researching other people in this position.

A: And what have you figured out?

G: You can’t use complex arguments. The face-value level has to be there, even in terms of how you hold yourself. I always watch videos of politicians giving speeches. They make eye contact. If you do that kind of thing, that’s the best way to grab an audience. It’s drastically changed my show. It’s made it a lot better. Feigning confidence is the number one important thing. Never express weakness. It goes badly every time. And every time I do, it’s a headline: 'Grimes Says She’s Not Good at This Thing.’ If I do a self-deprecating joke, that just translates to huge drama on the internet. There’s no way to translate that. You have to do it in the most dumbed-down possible way.


How could you not love her?

Do you guys think she shaves down there?

She's way cleverer than you think...

G: Instead of being like, 'Pandas are endangered!’ you have to be like, 'It’s World Panda Day! Let’s celebrate. There are only four hundred left.’ You have to spin everything into something that feels positive. Semiotics are really important. Visuals are really important. Instagram is so much more effective. Words can be taken out of context, but a picture is a picture. Think about a lot of the great leaders– or not necessarily great, but powerful. They always had really extreme aesthetics. Genghis Khan. Mussolini. I’m not pro-fascist, but people really respond to aesthetics. I’ve done these sociological tests where I try different hair colours. Blue and purple hair gets the most likes on Instagram. It’s almost double the likes that it is for blonde, brown or pink. I find it very interesting that you can directly measure what kind of visuals people respond to.

A: I wonder what that means. Is it that people just like blue hair better?

G: I’ve noticed that people often gravitate toward things that are less flattering. Candid pictures often get more likes than if I did a photo shoot in a magazine. That’s not always the case, but often less sexy, less pretty things do better. I think people respond better to things that walk that middle ground. Every time I dress like a guy or anything androgynous, people love that. I don’t know, the bro-ier I present myself, the better the response.

A: As you notice what people respond to, are you also thinking about how to communicate most effectively through all these channels?

G: That’s something I keep trying to work on. Instead of just trying to shove my possibly extreme or caustic ideas down people’s throats, maybe there’s a way to manipulate them through these things that people seem to like or respond to the most.

that's really inappropriate. her personal body hygiene and shaving habits are none of your business

She has a point:

G: Production is the most bro-y field that I’ve ever tried to work in. It’s terribly, terribly inhospitable to women. It feels like the 1920s. I studied science in school. I have four brothers. My whole life I’ve been in bro-y situations. But female music production is something we hear so little of– female producers that are not collaborating with male producers. There’s Kate Bush. And Sinéad O'Connor produced her own first album. I cannot think of a lot of other examples. Take co-producers out of the equation. To actually just have a solo female voice, no male engineers in the room, no male co-producers, I can count the examples on one hand. Why is that the case? Why is this specific medium so inhospitable to women? There’s very little music that doesn’t involve men at some point in the chain. Meanwhile, my album is being mixed and probably mastered by a guy. Even playing shows, all sound guys are men. There are so many barriers for women to do anything besides singing in this medium, and music is such a big part of the culture.

G: When my music first started coming out, I never ever wore make-up. I felt so bad about all the negative comments. Every time there would be a picture of me, everyone would be like, 'She’s so gross.’ And I started wearing make-up in my shows, which I wouldn’t have done before. You have to be typically beautiful in some way to be in the media, I think, even for your own sanity. I read this interview with Lauryn Hill a while back, and she was like, 'One of the reasons I dropped out is because I was so tired of wearing make-up when I went to the store, because otherwise I’d see a picture of me in People magazine and I’d feel really bad.’ Why should she have to think about that?

so she's just trying to manipulate her audience? for what purpose?

she's spot on.

HNNNNNNG

such a babe

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she looks so soft desu i want to rest my head on her chest

is jay worthy the best rapper of our generation?

what is he looking at

i've never actually heard him rap except in christmas song II.

got any links?

her forehead

it's a really nice forehead!

friendly reminder that androgynous grimes is best grimes

that's clearly a a picture of ethan and hila klein

reminder that grimes isn't even that good, and you're all pathetic, obsessive waifufags in denial

You're in denial. You just didn't experience her wonderful music yet. I'm serious about this.

>You just didn't experience her wonderful music yet
i've experienced her music plenty of times and it is not that good. mediocre at best.

youtube.com/watch?v=GbZzD5o9K_A

an user linked this interview on another thread, I find her extremely honest and comfortable here, and she talked about one of my doubts (pain and its relationship with good art), though I don't know if I agree with her, now I know what she thinks about it

I'm that user. Here's another one (can't remember where I came across the unlisted links.)
youtube.com/watch?v=k30KnPHMZHY

these are great. thanks for posting.

any other interview recommendations?

This "be nice to grimes" meme shit is so played out. Fucking idiots.

>being a good human being is played out

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>there are people unironically not losing their mental health over Grimeth

>CB: [Laughs] Everyone calls us hipsters, and we decided we’re not really hipsters. We were trying to decide where we fit in the spectrum of sub-genres, and we kind of concluded that we’re surrealist yuppies, because we’re really into mainstream pop music and hi-fi things and catchy things and making things awesome. We’re into working really hard and eating healthy food and exercising, and we’re also really into psychedelic experimentation and being weird. Obviously doing weird things with our music.
>A surrealist yuppie is a type of person who's between the hipsters and the mainstream, who's still doing creative things, but isn’t disdainful of mainstream success. Just because something is engineered by a bunch of guys in suits doesn’t make in necessarily bad. We think PSY is the king of the surrealist yuppies because he's really rich and successful. He writes songs for pop stars, but he's also a total weirdo and clearly very intelligent and talented. He’s doing interesting and subversive things in the context of pop music. He’s the most successful surrealist yuppie that we know.
austinchronicle.com/daily/music/2012-10-04/surrealist-yuppie-grimes/

rec me a non-grimes album, /grimes/, thank you

why would you want to listen to non-grimes music?

youtube.com/watch?v=r-UfiIOXP8A

New Mexico by Oppenheimer Analysis (1982) One of the most beautiful collections of vintage new wave synth songs about Cold War paranoia disguised as love songs you'll ever hear.

I've listened to her music too much and don't find it as pleasurable, mostly to Visions.
Halfaxa and Geidi Primes are more for specific states of mind which I'm not in right now, and I don't like Art Angels that much though I listened to it a lot

k I'll listen

the money store

the cure - pornography

listened to it already, my thing with death grips is that I mostly like (like really like) their most known songs, and the others not so much

k

>ywn make sweet love to Grimes
why live?

she looks like her skin would be smooth and soft like silicon, and yet still retain a fleshiness to it.

>21.2 GB
maybe i have a problem..

wow...just wow
screenshot?

im spooked

it's mostly videos which take up tons of space

Dude.... I'll send you a pendriver

where can I get a degree in finding rare grimes stuff
it's the only thing I feel like doing

everything i have is on youtube or blogs etc

just go to random websites and put in chairmandore or something

not working

How old do you guys think she were when she lost her virginity?

Her first was during her gangbang phase. Everyone thinks having sex is this sacred thing but really it's not, it's just underrated positivity we should embrace.

18

isn't she pure?

I'd say 50