So ecstatically good.I think it might be because I recently watched KOTOKO, but I'm getting a bit of a Cocco vibe from her these days.
― MatthewK, Wednesday, 11 March 2015 11:45 (nine years ago) link
Reminds me of this feeling when discovering Visions and being not quite sure what to make it but enjoying it and playing it over and over and over. I can't think of a Grimes that had lasting effect for me (maybe Vanessa?) but the first few tens listen are intensely satisfying.
― Van Horn Street, Wednesday, 11 March 2015 17:11 (nine years ago) link
song is great (great), haven't yet bothered to watch the video
― 2-chords, a farfisa organ and peons to the lord (contenderizer), Wednesday, 11 March 2015 23:05 (nine years ago) link
I, have not played a single track, this many times, in a day, since forever.
― MatthewK, Thursday, 12 March 2015 12:28 (nine years ago) link
love the whispered parts of this. and her dancing. and everything about her vocals. it's been a long time since i've felt this enthusiastic about an upcoming album.
― Treeship, Thursday, 12 March 2015 13:46 (nine years ago) link
i think she's the coolest person i know of
― Treeship, Thursday, 12 March 2015 13:47 (nine years ago) link
i'm doing a four hour set on college radio this sunday and think i might play it every half hour
― Treeship, Thursday, 12 March 2015 13:51 (nine years ago) link
http://www.stereogum.com/1787656/grimes-says-that-she-isnt-scrapping-music-because-of-negative-reactions/news/
New jack antonoff collab on tomorrow night's Girls.
― how's life, Saturday, 14 March 2015 14:31 (nine years ago) link
whoa. almost sounds like a country song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dt0IiGxNntw
― how's life, Sunday, 15 March 2015 12:46 (nine years ago) link
sheryl rae jepsen
― soyrev, Sunday, 15 March 2015 13:09 (nine years ago) link
REALiTi is on Spotify now btw.
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 15 March 2015 15:23 (nine years ago) link
Realiti is very good has a nice swing to it and considering she doesn't apparently have any help at all in production she uses her brilliant voice so smartly. One difference from her previous songs on realiti is that it seems a lot more clearly influenced by other music.
― Arctic Noon Auk, Sunday, 15 March 2015 18:48 (nine years ago) link
tbh her other music is influenced by some of her faves who haven't made it as big!
― mh, Sunday, 15 March 2015 19:03 (nine years ago) link
I'm all for Grimes making a pop crossover, but that Entropy song is so paint by numbers.
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 15 March 2015 20:00 (nine years ago) link
yeah, it's ok but it's not thrilling the way realiti is. i'm not sure i am all for anyone crossing over for the sake of crossing over. what's the point?
― primal, intuitive, and relatively unmediated (Treeship), Sunday, 15 March 2015 20:26 (nine years ago) link
i also don't think she is doing that, or thinking about her career in those terms. a song like realiti just sounds marketable because it is so polished, but it's still very much a grimes song.
someone just told me "isn't she like, if you've heard one of her songs, you've heard them all"?
― Arctic Noon Auk, Sunday, 15 March 2015 20:36 (nine years ago) link
I could certainly do with fewer interjections of "Oh Baby" in her songs.
― Sanpaku, Sunday, 15 March 2015 20:45 (nine years ago) link
y? i like the lyrics to realiti
― primal, intuitive, and relatively unmediated (Treeship), Sunday, 15 March 2015 20:45 (nine years ago) link
do you think the song is referencing bowie's "once there were mountains on mountains" refrain on realiti? i think the song is kind of a rejoinder to that. bowie sings that he used to not be able to "come down" but now he doesn't think he can get back up. grimes is saying that you will always come down eventually -- so bowie's past feelings of invincibility were an illusion -- and life consists in climbing back up "every morning." seems like a winning attitude if you can maintain it.
― primal, intuitive, and relatively unmediated (Treeship), Sunday, 15 March 2015 20:53 (nine years ago) link
I like the new song, even if it's not as distinctive or immediate as Realiti. I also like that her vocals seem to be clearer and more intelligible than usual (either that or a week of listening to Realiti has made me Grimes-fluent)
― Leonard Pine, Sunday, 15 March 2015 21:32 (nine years ago) link
the new song is pleasant though not as immediately gratifying as realiti. i'd been struggling to come to terms with the idea of grimes being influenced by artists like dolly parton, taylor swift and paramore so this helps somewhat to clarify those inspirations.
― bae sremmurd (monotony), Sunday, 15 March 2015 22:32 (nine years ago) link
also like "Go" entropy is a collab that I wouldn't read too much into re: new album
― bae sremmurd (monotony), Sunday, 15 March 2015 22:33 (nine years ago) link
it's a one-off for a tv show that seems to be billed 'bleachers feat. grimes.' i think it's just a thing she did for fun and an easy check.
― soyrev, Monday, 16 March 2015 01:12 (nine years ago) link
soyrev OTM. This song played over the credits of tonight's episode of 'Girls'
― hurricane weather (forapper), Monday, 16 March 2015 01:37 (nine years ago) link
where it fit perfectly
― hurricane weather (forapper), Monday, 16 March 2015 01:38 (nine years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/xcTg53c.png
― gr8080, Monday, 16 March 2015 13:14 (nine years ago) link
I posted that to Facebook I think and got about as much engagement there as you got with it here.
― markers, Sunday, 22 March 2015 18:03 (nine years ago) link
it's a good tweet
― mh, Sunday, 22 March 2015 18:58 (nine years ago) link
No mention of the tour with Lana Del Rey yet? Would have been great if it was Lana del Rey, Grimes, and Courtney Love all together on one bill.
― how's life, Thursday, 2 April 2015 23:17 (nine years ago) link
ГРАЙМС / dali partonVerified account@GrimezszOk the new Rihanna song is the best song I've ever heard yessss!!! Literally the sickest possible beat and vocal
Ok the new Rihanna song is the best song I've ever heard yessss!!! Literally the sickest possible beat and vocal
http://i.imgur.com/FiQ6Mvy.jpg
― Arctic Noon Auk, Thursday, 2 April 2015 23:33 (nine years ago) link
Social media presence like it's designed to put you off her
― sonic thedgehod (albvivertine), Thursday, 2 April 2015 23:47 (nine years ago) link
ILM thread like it's designed to put you off her.
― everything, Thursday, 2 April 2015 23:51 (nine years ago) link
Yeah I like her despite these things
― sonic thedgehod (albvivertine), Friday, 3 April 2015 00:50 (nine years ago) link
what in this thread would turn me off of her music or her sense of humor, idgi
― mh, Friday, 3 April 2015 00:55 (nine years ago) link
grimes is rare almost holy trifecta of good on twitter/good on instagram/good on tumblr
― tender is the late-night daypart (schlump), Friday, 3 April 2015 01:01 (nine years ago) link
for a celeb her twitter is good, and personal, not just a PR arm. it's a mixture of
- i love call of duty/taylor swift/pokemon/dolly parton/x men/im a really normal geek not weird- cutesy weird platitudes, observations, inner thoughts- psychedelic elves and shit
but occasionally this
http://i.imgur.com/MTvA46p.png
― Auk stay woke (Arctic Noon Auk), Friday, 3 April 2015 10:16 (nine years ago) link
That last one's a bit hmmmmm, coming from her
― sonic thedgehod (albvivertine), Friday, 3 April 2015 10:58 (nine years ago) link
Grimes being into ICP is like peak Grimes
― 龜, Monday, 13 April 2015 11:44 (nine years ago) link
otm
can't wait for the day she pulls a hidden zipper on her Grimes costume and she was DJP all along
― mh, Monday, 13 April 2015 13:49 (nine years ago) link
Feeling the Enya influence more than ever on Realiti.
― dutch_justice, Wednesday, 15 April 2015 04:41 (nine years ago) link
great call
― soyrev, Wednesday, 15 April 2015 04:45 (nine years ago) link
So still no release date for the new album ?3 years is a very long time to follow up a successful first album (ok, still far from Stone Roses timing but still !)
― AlXTC from Paris, Wednesday, 15 April 2015 09:30 (nine years ago) link
it was her third album
― Number None, Wednesday, 15 April 2015 10:00 (nine years ago) link
really ? solo ?
― AlXTC from Paris, Wednesday, 15 April 2015 10:15 (nine years ago) link
ok so not stone roses comparison but guns n'roses, then !
― AlXTC from Paris, Wednesday, 15 April 2015 10:17 (nine years ago) link
a 3 year album cycle is fairly normal these days, even after debut/breakthrough albums like this
― ufo, Wednesday, 15 April 2015 11:11 (nine years ago) link
https://twitter.com/Grimezsz/status/587066373475450880 she's hoping to finish the album in the next month or so, so it's not too far away
― ufo, Wednesday, 15 April 2015 11:14 (nine years ago) link
yeah maybe... I must be old (school) !
― AlXTC from Paris, Wednesday, 15 April 2015 11:16 (nine years ago) link
ah ! that's good news !
― AlXTC from Paris, Wednesday, 15 April 2015 11:17 (nine years ago) link