Grimes/Claire Boucher thread

lol

whooooa Tim!

they seem to have calmed down, the Ned googlers haven't tried setting up any shrines for him on ILE for a few years

...there's a vision.

Local band/AmRep types Supernova once threatened to write a song about me called "My Name is Ned," while my friend Grady in Chicago wants to do the same. I say bring it on. FEED MY EGO!

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, April 19, 2001 2:00 PM (11 years ago)

And? DID YOU?

full disclosure: today is the first time I've actually felt compelled to give Visions a listen

better late than never

hey it’s claire

I've had a really hard time with all of this but if it means that Drugs A Money has finally listened to my album Visions then i guess it's all been worth it.

x
c

http://actuallygrimes.tumblr.com/post/44487022558

lol

Amazon is bad for people prone to options paralysis

woops -- that's part of someone else's post that i was responding to by modifying on 77.

here's what i mean to post here: http://actuallygrimes.tumblr.com/post/44867177213/tried-to-read-the-news-depressed-meticulously

awww

http://actuallygrimes.tumblr.com/post/45754437785

Seems like Grimes enjoys herself a good cat gif. She's not so unlike the rest of us after all!

http://25.media.tumblr.com/f52224558bd00ce9b163b57ecaa988dd/tumblr_mjo6uhe6Ys1s3k2bro1_250.gif

i have a blood feud with senorgif, who has never acknowledged my existence. (senor gif likes to steal gifs from people, without attribution, put his own watermark on them, and then post them to wider fame and glory on the icanhazcheezburger network.)

so they're the ebaumsworld of 2013, those assholes

btw, on a grimes related note, i listened to Visions very loudly again two nights ago, and it's still so great. blows my mind that some people can't pick out the melodies. "Vowels = Space and Time", for example, is practically like earlyish madonna

xpost yeah. what irked me is that i wrote him a very polite message, asking if he could please include a link to my website because i was a fledgling tumblrer with about 20 followers at the time. no response.

https://twitter.com/Grimezsz/status/319630110389059584

lol @ eating paint. but mostly I just wanted to revive this thread to meaninglessly praise the album, which is my favorite album of the past few years... so pleasurable on an immediate level, yet still "layered" enough to reward repeat listenings. also, for me, there is a very addictive sense of "spaciousness" to the sound of the thing: the ethereal vocals seem to "hover" far above the dancey bass and percussion of the instrumentals. the only album in my collection i think i've played more often is exile on main street.

For me it's the gaggle of Grimeses chattering out each line, and the run from Crystal Ball (track 5) through Symphonia IX (8). Really captures that late-night euphoric feeling.

Oh yeah, I think Vowels = Space and Time is within that stretch of tracks, and that is my number one most played song on itunes. That song especially, but many of the others too, has an R&B "warmth" to it that I think is really captivating, and somewhat unexpected among the other sounds in her toolkit. But yeah, I do agree with you that there is something very nocturnal about the sound of this album, and even "depersonalized" in the way darkness/sleep/danceclubs can be, but the album is still...somehow... i guess the word is "intimate", and very personal. I guess I can tell this is a personal album, or at least one that is personally meaningful to me, because Grimes is one of the few artists where I get bummed out when I hear her criticized.

https://twitter.com/katyperry/status/323603970801139713

sweet.

adorbies

i mean, katy perry is otm. grimes is super endearing.

'adorbies'? fucking hell i hate this world. embarrassing.

it's an apt word for grimes tbh

just let my love adorbz u

perhaps, but isn't it a little undignified to see an adult use that kind of work?

I don't think lex disagrees with you

yes that's what i was getting at

it's a horrible word that makes my skin crawl and is entirely appropriate in this case

Quiet lol at the slow transition from indifferent to "makes my skin crawl".

the dignity of katy perry

By E.L. James.

just let my love adorbz u

― r|t|c, Monday, April 15, 2013 5:39 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark

race to see who comes up wtih the first adorn / dr. morbius dn

dammit, was coming here to post "adorbius" in response to lex's grousing

anyway, you can hardly fault katy's use of the word. language very much in character.

yeah, adorbies is a gross word. also it's sort of condescending to call grimes "adorable", i feel like, maybe, even though she is.

definitely something that needs a lot more analysis, i think we can all agree on that

I need further evidence, maybe a video clip of ms. perry dancing to grimes' set

lactating forth the lyrics to oblivion in letters of flame

you saw that katy perry video where fireworks shoot out of her breasts too, huh?

damn, you're on a roll today, huh?

going for the brass zing and shit. adorbies.

Adorbies: sometimes you don't even have to say a (real) word to enrage thousands

now you've done it

anyone else notice "right meow" replacing "right now" w/ young women on the internet or is that just my friends

real people don't say that