Grimes/Claire Boucher thread

I don't hate this song, but it has a whiff of "off-brand Kate Bush" about it

tyvm for clearing it up, james!

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

I've been to like half of the places in that music video haha it's awes I'm braggin'

holy shit as if expectations for her next album weren't high enough, this is what her cast-offs sound like? bow etc

Oh my, niiiiice

https://38.media.tumblr.com/90ad8ead62e4bd930174810ee07630ed/tumblr_nkyqv8FpyL1r7z66ao9_540.gif

was just gonna say, really feeling her dance moves in that video

ya i'm going to steal as many as i can

https://33.media.tumblr.com/3d985d697efb8efbc4f0a4ae2f743d76/tumblr_nkyqv8FpyL1r7z66ao6_540.gif

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

I'm the grinch, motherfucker!

RIP "lost album" :(

while the realiti dance moves are all ✓, the dancing with the axe in the grinch video is terrifying

RIP "lost album" :(

― lil urbane (Jordan), Monday, March 9, 2015 7:17 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

otm...

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

I think Grimes sounds really good filtered through a "pandering to the radio" box.

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

imo the dubsteppy part on the "go" demo was maybe a bit much but the final version was perfect

I really like the "Phone Sex" song she did with Blood Diamonds a couple years before "Go".

http://i.imgur.com/4zRlBRl.png

She is such an AWFUL musician and songstress!

And I say this as someone who has all of her albums and some ep's. Compelling stuff, but it's soooo bad.

u dum

@Slappy fall back fam

Yes. Guard your manic pixie/gnat.

to the death, rockist scum

'Songstress' jfc

"I'll try to re record Realiti so u can have mp3s & I'll consider for album but i think I have better" https://twitter.com/Grimezsz/status/575141357200670720 can't wait to hear the better

this song sounds nice but I don't find it particularly strong, especially compared to her best previous material.
I'm a bit surprised by the raving reactions here.
I'm glad she, herself, didn't consider this song good enough for the album.
It means there are better things to expect !

no come on this song is incredible

i've listened to it seven times already today

this song is great ... reminds me of "vowels = space + time" (my fav song of hers) in that could be a pop song but it's too impressionistic, but not too impressionistic that it feels like she wasted an opportunity to make a good pop song (if that makes sense). it's a fine balance.

Yeah I love this and I was on the fence about Grimes' stuff before now (although I did like 'Genesis' a lot).

hum. I must be missing something...
to me it's a nice album track or b-side (like these things still exist !). I like the production and arrangements but the songwriting isn't great.
it's nowhere near Vanessa, Oblivion, Genesis... or Vowels which is much better !

oh is this lovely

this is eighties-madonna-good to me

I feel this strange mix of crush and awe watching that vid

love it, this thing needs to be a single like yesterday. video is crazy endearing

It's like watching the sweet girl from your summer camp mess hall table, the one who actually talks nicely to you even though you can barely get a word out and just stare meekly, suddenly get up on stage at the camp talent show and just destroy everyone

hmm

I mean there is something about the way she manages to come off as unpolished yet is obviously an incredible dancer.

A lot of that is in her vocals, I think. She lets them peter out and drift away, and especially on this song she seems to leave whole lines unfinished, like she's omitted whole words for you to fill in. Pretty powerful; the entire song feels like that climactic, inaudible whisper from Lost in Translation

throwing virtual vegetables at you for that post

lol

haha yeah I realized it was a little tacky after I clicked submit. But I do think it's an effective approach; leaving something undefined in a song that's otherwise so poppy and direct

imply a cowbell

but withhold it

I deserve the vegetables, my posts were way tackier

srsly, you had some dreams to remember there for a minute, man alive.