Who's the bjork of this generation?

who's the bjork of this generation?

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the crackwhore on the end of my street

someone's gonna say the G word

don't attract attention let's just let this thread die without that happening.

Gnalres Barkley

you're not wrong

Agreed

Someone’s gonna say Grimes and then everyone will argue.

But there isn’t an answer. Bjork is this generations Bjork. We don’t need another.

Claire Boucher

kate bush

And Bjork was the who of her generation?

If someone says Grimes I'm going to fucking explode a building

Grimss

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She's nothing like Pete Townsend

The best and only answer. Bjork lives.

I was trying to ask that if right now there is somebody that is the Bjork of this generation, who was bjork representing in her generation?

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FKA Twigs
Arca

arca is bjork

lol

It's Sóley and you're wrong if you disagree.

she's one in a billion, so no one probably.

Bjork

>We don’t need another.
are you sure about this? because frankly bjork released mostly dull crap after vespertine in 2001. there's a huge need for someone to make great experimental art POP, not experimental art pretentiousness.

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>who's the bjork of this generation?
Bjork, that's who

Anitta.

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08/01 never forget. I'm doing it

>are you sure about this?
Yes. Nobody likes a copycat. Sure she's had duds since Vespertine (looking at you, Medulla) but she's still had great stuff since. Biophilia being a personal favorite.

We don't need more copies of an artist, we just need originals. The world is fine with ONE Bjork.

>looking at you, Medulla
pleb

This is how the third world looks like?

>HAHA PLEB YOU DON'T LIKE AN ARTISTS WORST ALBUM
I hate this meme.

>pretentiousness
so when did she talk her music up to be better than it is? probably never, she's not full of herself. but that's what pretension is you moron. it's assigning greater importance to something which is not actually that important. just making music you can't understand doesn't make an artist pretentious. you should stop talking about art and music until you're at least 18.

>Medulla
>bad

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listen to medulla, volta, biophilia, vulnicura, utopia and say it to my face they're not pretentious as fuck.

explain how they are pretentious

>All those albums are pretentious because I say so!
"No."

Arca

kelela? fka twigs? kaitlyn aurelia smith? serpentwithfeet? mhysa? grimes? fever ray?

like wtf does bjork of this generation even mean? avant-pop solo musicians who are classically trained-ish? who are funded? because all the folks i just wrote out above make music that's gorgeous as fuck but if you wanna be cute and be an uncompromising ~*~pop star~*~, being a trust fund baby really really helps

source: went to college with the g-word ;)

are you saying björk is a trust fund baby?

>source: went to college with the g-word ;)
what?

grimes

nah, but i think finding success as a musician is much different now than it was when she started performing. she's also drifted and intersected with so many different kinds of music, with bands or solo, that it just seems like such a weird question to ask. unless of course the answer is .

and i don't even mean to conflate money with disingenuity, because these people are all talented as hell, it's just weird to think that there's some definitive "next bjork." there's fucking thousands of weirdo musicians out there who very well could be, we just only get to hear the ones who have the means to get their shit out there :(

Torii Wolf.
Her album last year is amazing.
I think she's some mad lesbian feminist but her music is amazing.
She sounds similar to Bjork but trip hop.

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I understand what you're saying
can you tell us about your experience with grimes?

do you imply that grimes was a trust fund baby? do you even know her story?

I was responding to telling him what meant
The most I know about Grimes is she tried to sail down the Mississippi River and got arrested

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FKA twigs

They aren't pretentious.

i meant this comment of yours:
>because all the folks i just wrote out above make music that's gorgeous as fuck but if you wanna be cute and be an uncompromising ~*~pop star~*~, being a trust fund baby really really helps
grimes is from a middle class family but that didn't assure her a music career. her parents paid for a good education at mcgill, but she left that university to pursue music on her own. she lived in bad places and had some terrible jobs. meanwhile, grimes learned music making. for instance, she paid a friend with cans of chickpeas to help her learning how to play a sampler. she did experimental music in garageband and played a crappy yamaha synth.
she also became a member of an experimental art group named lab synthese and signed a contract with the indie label arbutus records. the success came later after she already toured a lot and released 2 studio albums and a split album. in 2011 she signed a contract with 4ad and in january 2012 they released and promoted her third album, visions. mind you, she created visions while she was still signed to arbutus. more details about the making of visions: theguardian.com/music/2012/apr/28/grimes-visions-montreal
surely, she had a safety net - her parents weren't poor - but at that time she was in bad relations with them. she was determined to succeed on her own. and she did it.

>but she left that university
correction: she was kicked out after she missed many classes

that's not my fucking comment you fuck. I told you I was telling what meant. fucking hell.

neat to think about in retrospect but honestly nothing super interesting, although i do love her music and always thought what she was doing super interesting.

never knew her that well, she was pretty quiet and shy, we just had some classes together. she had a myspace account where she posted some neat jams every once in a while. went to some shows at lab synthese where she performed alongside a whole bunch of other people who making some great stuff too.

i think the last time i saw her was halloween... 2010? it was at some other loft space and there were maybe a dozen of us watching her perform in some corner. i remember her doing youtube.com/watch?v=4Ec6dzraS4o which i've always thought was so damn rad and i can't believe it hasn't ended up on an album.

then sometime next year "vanessa" came out which was a banger and then one morning it showed up on pitchfork as best new music? i think that's when everyone was like whoa whoa wait what? and then she just blew up from there.

i think the real frustrating thing was how salty so many other montreal musicians got, watching her career take off. like a real "why her and why not us?" feeling. some others eventually found success which is neat, but like i was saying before, there are soooooo many talented musicians coming out of there (or anywhere for that matter) who just never get handed the opportunities that others get, regardless of their talents or efforts. wanna stick around in a place where you can be surrounded by music and creativity? gotta have money. don't have money handed to you? gotta work. don't have space to record or perform? gotta have more money. don't have more money because you're deep in student debt and couldn't afford to just drop out and make music because you wanna?

so no, don't know shit about her finances and now i feel gross even taking it there, but the point it she had the means and the gumption to do it, so like, respect. i think she's incredible.

me again, just lol that this thread turned into an argument about grimes, just as predicted :(

they make these threads specifically for that

it's not yours? but that was a direct reply to this question addessed to you, dumbass. it's obvious to assume that it was you.

perhaps because grimes is the actual the bjork of this generation? it seems plausible.

it's not and is me

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