What the fuck is a Grimes?

[Thomas Watson]

What the fuck is a Grimes?

[Luis Carter]

some kinda gook food

[Julian Collins]

A tumor.

[Charles Stewart]

little individual pieces of grime

[Xavier Bailey]

Listen Claire
Cool story babe
Get back in the kitchen
Get back in the kitchen
Cool story babe
Now make me a sandwich

[Camden Parker]

The question was actually serious. I've never heard any Grimes music.

[Mason Flores]

Braids is better

[Gabriel Lopez]

#italiano

[Thomas Ross]

No one really knows desu. They're very difficult to spot in the wild.

[Owen Sanchez]

SHOTAcON
CLOSE QUARTERS
COMBAT
GUNFIGHTING

[Kevin Long]

What is Grimes? A rapidly oscillating form of artistic creation spiraling between heartbeat drum kicks to gleaming beams of melodies and synths. Grimes has liberated herself from the inertia and intellectual dishonesty of previous modernist thought and has delved into the antonymous. That which is moving back and forth between pulsating polarities of music, art and performance.

[Nicholas Stewart]

i hope our grimey is sleeping well

[Xavier Sanders]

nah

[Adam Johnson]

Here is some music for you. So that you could see how diverse she is.

youtube.com/watch?v=FTvanzhR6ok
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youtube.com/watch?v=c2EJMd7ZN7w

[Nathan Miller]

autismspeaks.org/blog/2015/02/19/autism-denial-acceptance

[Luke Murphy]

Have you already listened to those songs? What's your favourite one?

[Jaxon Roberts]

7/10 it was ok. would sleep alone again

t. food eater

[Asher James]

swiggity swooty im coming for that grims booty

[Gabriel Morales]

the center of the universe, right where your head is

[Austin Rogers]

i had that same lasagna around the same time it made me wish i was fucking dead already

[Anthony Barnes]

ok thanks for everything friend

[Caleb Kelly]

bye

[Noah Morris]

a poor man's poppy

[Owen Wood]

if dubs she dies in her sleep

[Lucas Price]

RIP

[Juan Peterson]

...

[Austin Thomas]

I like this post. It should be promoted to pasta status.

[Lincoln Smith]

>Actually liking Poppy
Her music can't be more generic.

[Noah Wood]

it's intentionally generic, but listen to her most recent track it's actually interesting

[Ryan Anderson]

A flesh licking lady who ear fucks on every track.

[Adrian Gutierrez]

Grimes is god tier, gtfo faggot

[Carson Adams]

making it intentionally generic doesnt excuse it from being shit. katy perry also make her music intentionally generic.

[Kevin James]

moat liek poopy xd

[Jeremiah Walker]

I don't think you understand what "poppy" is

[Jaxon Morales]

some shitty art act on youtube that delivers absolutely nothing new?

[Dominic Phillips]

>I've never heard any Grimes music.
count yourself lucky

[Luis Mitchell]

Lame joke. Grimes is an incredible artist. Let that dude discover her amazing music.

[Christian Harris]

stop shilling

[Oliver Hughes]

>implying i'm shilling

[Luke Kelly]

bump

[Nolan Thompson]

>it's intentionally generic

Oh boy

[Benjamin Allen]

im going to start a punk band called GRIME just to fuck with you guys

[Carson Gomez]

>being this delusional
Good luck with that.

[Andrew Edwards]

a waifufag meme

[Cooper Williams]

Grimes is shit, pretentious and cringy af, she's a tumblrina basking in her own "I'm so random lol" shit act

[Jayden Baker]

Not an argument, hipster.

[Liam Rogers]

If dub her career over

[Cameron Brooks]

Your shitposting career is over, buddy.

[Carson Cox]

oooooooo

[Chase Moore]

While admittingly having some good songs, i find her overall sound and image completely manufactured, lacking authenticity, having good production on her albums does not make for good music, i also don't find anything she does innovative or even interesting, there, argument made? It's music after all, except for technical analysis, everything expressed here is opinions, not arguments

[Joshua Richardson]

...

[Aiden Morgan]

>i find her overall sound and image completely manufactured, lacking authenticity,
You're completely wrong. Grimes is maybe the only one authentic artist with that level of fame. Tell me how an artist with such a resume is completely manufactured:

>Full name: Claire Elise Boucher
>Born: 17 March 1988 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
>Origin: Québécois, Ukrainian, Russian and Italian descent
>Music style: synthpop mixed with dreampop, IDM, R&B, J-Pop, medieval, classical

>Instruments:
- vocals
- synthesizer
- sampler
- guitar
- bass
- drums
- violin
- ukulele

>Skills:
- singer
- songwriter
- producer
- sound engineer
- live performer
- visual artist
- music video director, editor & colorist
- dancer
- model

>Main interests:
Music, visual arts, dancing, books, films, modeling, video games, internet, and others

>Music taste:
last.fm/user/chairmandore/library
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grimes_(musician)#Musical_style
pandora.com/station/2895208146671614201

>Others:
- Grimes does everything in her music, from singing and songwriting to artwork and production
- nice personality, beautiful look, cares about environment issues and saving animals
- took her name from grime music after discovering the existence of the genre on Myspace
- studied ballet for 11 years
- was a goth outcast in high school
- studed neuroscience, philosophy, and Russian literature at McGill University before being dropped out for missing classes
- started making music when she was around the age of 22 or 23
- big Lord of the Rings, Dune, Game of Thrones, Star Wars, Abbess Hildegard von Bingen and Russian literature fan
- her best friends are James Brooks, Hana, Bloodpop, Duffy, Born Gold

[Noah Cruz]

In which case, what are some examples of music being made right now that you DO find innovative or interesting? "Innovative" and "interesting" are subjectively comparative concepts - they mean NOTHING to anyone else but you unless you can give contrasting examples of what you do/don't find to be innovative/interesting.

[Gavin Sanchez]

its about time

[Gavin Nguyen]

>sam hyde
most pretentious comedian to ever grace the earth

[Nicholas Wood]

>"Innovative" and "interesting" are subjectively comparative concepts
Yes indeed, "innovative" and "interesting" don't exist in vacuum.

[Jason Lee]

At this moment i find jazz to be making a comeback, Kamasi Washington made a great album, but are we talking female artists? SZA put out a great album, pop music? Carly Rae's album was great, Danny Brown's atrocity exhibition set a new bar IMO for experimentation, if i had to find other genres to say what i don't find innovative, i would say Migos is simply boring, as is Drake, that's hip-hop, rock? I haven't heard anything that made me think "Huh, this is new" in years except maybe Car Seat Headrest, and that's saying something.

[Asher Smith]

>i also don't find anything she does innovative or even interesting, there, argument made?
That's just your opinion. Don't expect most people to agree with you, though.

[Aiden Gray]

>Typing her biography as if that speaks to her artistic integrity

When i saw her live, all i could think for the whole show was "Wow, this just feels so forced" Sorry if you don't share my opinion, i just simply don't see anything real about her

[James Ramirez]

Yeah, i said it right there, unless you're speaking techincal, it's all opinion here on /mu

[Gavin Bell]

>implying your subjective opinions are the truth
>"Wow, this just feels so forced"
The keyword here is "feels".

[Benjamin Clark]

Have i said anything that wasn't that this is just my opinion? jeez...

[Dylan Reed]

All of these artists are less talented than Grimes. It's not even a contest. As for the innovative part, they're all pretty much standard. e.g. Carly Rae sounds like your ordinary popstar, say Taylor Swift.

[James Butler]

You must really like grimes to say she's better than Danny Brown, again, all subjective i guess.

[Nicholas Ross]

Her cover of Breezeblocks is really good.

[Ian Barnes]

so much so that I feel they aren't even comparable

[Michael Lopez]

Putting aside any subjective arguments about music for a second...

Grimes is 100% a highly contrived, completely manufactured pop act to the order of a Lady Gaga. There is nothing inherently "wrong" with that. Many people like high concept art because it serves as an escape from reality. Many other people don't because they find it unrealistic. Where you fall on that is truly a matter of taste.

As to questions of innovation and originality, Claire Boucher might just be the first/only example of a performance act like this is that is A) being undertaken totally sans pretense ("I manufactured a pop star." youtu.be/P-PHIpYm8k0 ) and B) completely the sum product of just a single human being's creative energies.

If that isn't innovative and interesting, then what is?

[Owen Wright]

Danny Brown is nothing special IMO.

[Ian Bennett]

Braids is like a boring version of Grimes. That's why people care about the latter than the former.

[Adam Parker]

>Grimes is 100% a highly contrived, completely manufactured pop act to the order of a Lady Gaga. There is nothing inherently "wrong" with that. Many people like high concept art because it serves as an escape from reality. Many other people don't because they find it unrealistic. Where you fall on that is truly a matter of taste.
Absolutely false. I bet you can't even prove these false claims. If she's contrived then I'm Trump.

[Daniel Smith]

shitty british "rappers" talking over house basslines britbongs will claim its somehow different and unrelated to hip-hop

[Aiden Morris]

She's a good girl!

[Asher Russell]

grims!

[William Walker]

>false claims
>what did he mean by this
user, I'm not CLAIMING anything here. I'm directly quoting things (and even providing source links) Claire Boucher herself has said about the nature of Grimes as a work of performance art. In case it wasn't clear from the start, I'm the type of person who unironically enjoys highly contrived (aka escapist) art. Especially when it comes from a place of authenticity on the artist's part - like what is very obviously the case with Grimes (and conversely imo what is very obviously NOT the case with someone like Lady Gaga.)