Grimes/Claire Boucher thread

naw

friend of mine doesn't like this artist because iho it is "lifestyle music"

The lifestyle of being 23 and going thrifting?

I always think that's one of the daftest kind of criticisms people make. all music is lifestyle music, there's no escaping it.

later the same night he put on ariel pink though :-/

i def think some music is more "lifestyle music" than other, but it's definitely a neutral characteristic rather than a solid basis of, like, dismissal

fuck everyone

I dunno, even bland, regular guy music is 'bland, regular guy music'

although I guess there are varying degrees of awareness of this. like bro-punk bands that are "y'know, just playing music"... which of course means music that reflects their lifestyle and sounds like a musical personification of their character/culture

somehow this is a real thing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=ScPaXIyb3SA

huh, all it took was one kreayshawn collab to kill this thread

Or just a lack of any new music or exciting performances?

Still loving the album. Incredibly excited about a recent twitter exchange that suggests that Claire and le1f might be recording something together. Waiting to see what happens next.

her music has that chillwave someone singing along to the radio thing going on, which is pretty i think limting

but she some cool qualities

"Skin" is kind of transcendent, really.

But this whole album creeped up on me unexpectedly, having initially dismissed it as vapidly pretty.

i like to think that i would have gone to grimes skrillex diplo had i been in town, going to be insane

no grimes skrillex diplo is the name of my dog

Driving in for Pitchfork today mostly to see her. Hoping it'll be a good show; she has a headlining-ish slot

She played Toronto last night w/Diplo and Skrillex. Didn't go but I chatted with some random attendees afterward: "oh yah she was cool but we were there to see Skrill". Skrill? OK!

lol :-)

next unlikely touring lineup can be The (Skrill) Ex.

that would be p dope if he officially changed his name to "SKRILL" at some point

Sounds like fish food to me

Skrill (ex-Skrillex)

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-R9SlVtMsWjs/T0y6eio4LSI/AAAAAAAAL2Q/tqwG6FWSaUw/s1600/Krillex.jpg

Performance on Jimmy Fallon's show last night was way boring, but after the song and after he shook Claire's and her dancer's hands and ran up into the audience, they huddled on the stage and started jumping up and down and giggling. It was cute.

drugs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FH-q0I1fJY

can someone tell Mortiis his wife's got out of the cave and is running about in the desert?

bitches must be dreading a hit these days if they're gonna get driven out to wear outfits in the desert every time

― r|t|c, Wednesday, June 20, 2012 11:42 AM (2 months ago) Bookmark

Yeah yeah - song is still great though.

I cannot lie, that gang looks like a bitchin good time.

This year's gathering of the juggalos look crazy

the way she looks into the camera is p mesmerizing

did not have trouble watching that

Girl is a star, straight up.

argh this shit

recommend depends

curious to hear u elab on this

turangalia I really enjoyed the video of your road trip to the burning man festival, hope you will post more

guilty lol will not prevent me from watching that video again

I always liked everything about Lady Gaga except for the catchy, memorable melodies and adequate production values, so this is really up my alley.

hehe

i'm just mad that i can't wear my sparse metal bikini in the suburbs anymore because everyone will think i'm ripping off grimes

flaming broadsword? shamelessly marketing herself to the scott seward audience.

What's the concept of the video?

Claire Boucher: It's loosely based on this painting by my favorite painter, Hieronymus Bosch, called "The Seven Deadly Sins and the Four Last Things" (below). I wanted to play with Medieval/Catholic imagery. I was raised in a Catholic household and went to a Catholic school, and my childhood brain perceived medieval Catholicism as an action movie: There's this crazy omnipresent guy who can destroy you at any moment.

If painters could be compared to filmmakers, Bosch is the Hype Williams of renaissance painters.

This whole interview on the Genesis video is great:

http://www.pitchfork.com/features/directors-cut/8929-grimes/?utm_medium=site&utm_source=ticker&utm_name=ticker

Like when she talks about the broadsword woman being a "contemporary muse" and then she's "like the Ryan Seacrest of indie culture".

Girl enjoys her analogies a whole lot.

she's like the madonna of terrible indie artists