i feel like i remember her once saying it would come out sometime in the fall, so we still got quite a ways if that's still true
― j. winters (josh), Monday, 16 February 2015 07:27 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-P6Bhzv074
― I dunno. (amateurist), Wednesday, 4 March 2015 06:06 (nine years ago) link
fucking awesome new song, album outtake
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9XKLqGqwLA&sns=tw
― flappy bird (spazzmatazz), Monday, 9 March 2015 07:17 (nine years ago) link
SHITTTTTTT
― markers, Monday, 9 March 2015 07:20 (nine years ago) link
since this is no longer gonna be on the album, I’m releasing it as a special thank you to everyone in Singapore, KL, Manila, Jakarta, HK, Shanghai, Beijing, Taipei, Seoul, Osaka, Nagoya and Tokyo who came out to the shows! It was an honor to play with a bunch of amazing bands and travel to places I would never otherwise be able to go
This song was never finished. its a demo from ~ the lost album ~, recorded early 2013. i lost the ableton file, so its not mixed or mastered. i tried to doctor the mp3 into a listenable state, but it was poorly recorded in the first place and never meant to be heard by anyone, so its a bit of a mess haha.
― flappy bird (spazzmatazz), Monday, 9 March 2015 07:27 (nine years ago) link
oh man, finally some new music
― how's life, Monday, 9 March 2015 09:40 (nine years ago) link
<3 this
― 龜, Monday, 9 March 2015 12:34 (nine years ago) link
this song is amazing, I can't believe it's an offcut! Or that supposedly it's only in rough demo form.
Either some serious humblebraggery or she's about to drop the album of the millennium
― bae sremmurd (monotony), Monday, 9 March 2015 12:40 (nine years ago) link
Oh, she's seriously fucking with us.
― how's life, Monday, 9 March 2015 12:42 (nine years ago) link
This is awesome.
― Allen (etaeoe), Monday, 9 March 2015 12:54 (nine years ago) link
Wow this is great
― example (crüt), Monday, 9 March 2015 13:22 (nine years ago) link
admittedly my memory of the last album is shaky but am i wrong in thinking this is better than the majority of that?
― dyl, Monday, 9 March 2015 15:07 (nine years ago) link
cool song!
― call all destroyer, Monday, 9 March 2015 15:21 (nine years ago) link
"realiti" makes me so mad at the dweebs who discouraged her from making her big pop album. this is even better than "go."
― soyrev, Monday, 9 March 2015 15:39 (nine years ago) link
"go" was real whatever, this is wonderful
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Monday, 9 March 2015 15:52 (nine years ago) link
"realiti" makes me so mad at the dweebs who discouraged her from making her big pop album.
^ exactly this!
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 9 March 2015 15:56 (nine years ago) link
Agree xp
― 龜, Monday, 9 March 2015 15:58 (nine years ago) link
this is meant to be anything like a big pop move? k
― lex pretend, Monday, 9 March 2015 16:18 (nine years ago) link
In context, sure. Was she going to make Teenage Dream? Probably not.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 9 March 2015 16:24 (nine years ago) link
this was the album she signed to rocnation to make, repeatedly warned fans would be mainstream, and debuted with a dubstep single she bragged about having been originally penned for rihanna. i don't personally think she would've met with great success, commercially, but it's clear that's what she was intending, and it's clear it i would have liked it very a lot.
― soyrev, Monday, 9 March 2015 16:45 (nine years ago) link
is that really the narrative? never thought "go" was advertising some lost big pop album
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Monday, 9 March 2015 16:48 (nine years ago) link
"go" was never intended to be on any album
there isn't and hasn't ever been any other grimes music that sounds like "go"
she signed to roc nation management (not the label arm, the management arm) because they're a great management company. roc nation also manages matthew dear.
the "lost album" was scrapped around the time she changed management. "go" didn't even exist yet, in any form. it was not a factor.
― james brooks, Monday, 9 March 2015 17:02 (nine years ago) link
that's all cool to know! thanks james. (and whoopsies on the rocnation bit...)
― soyrev, Monday, 9 March 2015 17:05 (nine years ago) link
I missed this jam from xmas time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bc27oFFJo4
― how's life, Monday, 9 March 2015 17:06 (nine years ago) link
― soyrev, Monday, March 9, 2015 12:45 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
off by a year, she signed to rocnation in early 2014, this one is from early 2013...probably pre-Go
― flappy bird (spazzmatazz), Monday, 9 March 2015 19:44 (nine years ago) link
i've listened to "REALiTi" probably 30 times in the past 6 hours
― j. winters (josh), Monday, 9 March 2015 20:11 (nine years ago) link
Great friggin song kudos to her
― got a long list of ilxors (fgti), Monday, 9 March 2015 20:12 (nine years ago) link
"Every morning there are mountains to climb" <3
this is the best Grimes song I've ever heard
― bunny slopes, Monday, 9 March 2015 20:18 (nine years ago) link
I don't hate this song, but it has a whiff of "off-brand Kate Bush" about it
― bernard snowy, Monday, 9 March 2015 20:22 (nine years ago) link
tyvm for clearing it up, james!
― mh, Monday, 9 March 2015 20:23 (nine years ago) link
I watched live television for the first time in a long time over the weekend and hearing Grimes on an Expedia commercial was a refreshing thing
― mh, Monday, 9 March 2015 20:24 (nine years ago) link
I've been to like half of the places in that music video haha it's awes I'm braggin'
― 龜, Monday, 9 March 2015 20:26 (nine years ago) link
holy shit as if expectations for her next album weren't high enough, this is what her cast-offs sound like? bow etc
― Leonard Pine, Monday, 9 March 2015 20:33 (nine years ago) link
Oh my, niiiiice
― ineloquentwow (Craigo Boingo), Monday, 9 March 2015 20:34 (nine years ago) link
https://38.media.tumblr.com/90ad8ead62e4bd930174810ee07630ed/tumblr_nkyqv8FpyL1r7z66ao9_540.gif
― painfully alive in a drugged and dying culture (DavidM), Monday, 9 March 2015 21:38 (nine years ago) link
was just gonna say, really feeling her dance moves in that video
― five six and (man alive), Monday, 9 March 2015 21:48 (nine years ago) link
ya i'm going to steal as many as i can
― cis-het shitlord (Merdeyeux), Monday, 9 March 2015 22:06 (nine years ago) link
https://33.media.tumblr.com/3d985d697efb8efbc4f0a4ae2f743d76/tumblr_nkyqv8FpyL1r7z66ao6_540.gif
― painfully alive in a drugged and dying culture (DavidM), Monday, 9 March 2015 22:12 (nine years ago) link
on twitter she seems quite surprised by all the positive reception this is getting so i hope that means that the album is even better because it's definitely one of the best things she's done
― ufo, Monday, 9 March 2015 23:15 (nine years ago) link
I'm the grinch, motherfucker!
― got a long list of ilxors (fgti), Monday, 9 March 2015 23:17 (nine years ago) link
RIP "lost album" :(
― lil urbane (Jordan), Monday, 9 March 2015 23:17 (nine years ago) link
while the realiti dance moves are all ✓, the dancing with the axe in the grinch video is terrifying
― cis-het shitlord (Merdeyeux), Monday, 9 March 2015 23:27 (nine years ago) link
― lil urbane (Jordan), Monday, March 9, 2015 7:17 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
otm...
― flappy bird (spazzmatazz), Tuesday, 10 March 2015 01:42 (nine years ago) link
not so much "lost album" as "lost"/scrapped direction for her next album. also, the "go" thing, if actually a misconception, comes courtesy the press:
"Grimes said that the Visions follow-up she had been working on "sucked, so I threw it out and started again." The reaction to "Go"—which was originally written for Rihanna—helped dictate the change of pace. "It upsets a lot of my fans, and I get why it upsets them," she said. “Everybody was like, ‘Oh, Grimes is pandering to the radio.""http://pitchfork.com/news/56680-grimes-scraps-new-album-sessions-after-negative-reaction-to-go-starts-again/
and from the NYT interview p4k is quoting:
"“It upsets a lot of my fans, and I get why it upsets them,” says Boucher of the big, booming track. “Everybody was like, ‘Oh, Grimes is pandering to the radio.’ ” But the failure, ultimately, was a productive one. By that point, she had already begun to hate the album she was working on..."http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/14/magazine/why-everyone-should-be-waiting-for-grimess-next-album.html?_r=1
― soyrev, Tuesday, 10 March 2015 02:29 (nine years ago) link
I think Grimes sounds really good filtered through a "pandering to the radio" box.
― five six and (man alive), Tuesday, 10 March 2015 02:36 (nine years ago) link
I mean I really like her just slightly offbeat take on a radio-friendly single.
I could do without the dubsteppy part, but it's not that bad as far as those kinds of parts go
― five six and (man alive), Tuesday, 10 March 2015 02:37 (nine years ago) link
imo the dubsteppy part on the "go" demo was maybe a bit much but the final version was perfect
― soyrev, Tuesday, 10 March 2015 02:39 (nine years ago) link
I really like the "Phone Sex" song she did with Blood Diamonds a couple years before "Go".
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 10 March 2015 02:44 (nine years ago) link