Grimes/Claire Boucher thread

i struggle to remember to eat but i suck at shit compared to grimes :'D

and yeah just listened to "realiti" today, and last week (it's p much the ultimate rainy humid asian summer song), i think i said upthread something along the lines of it being the most replayable thing i've heard this year and i'm also standing by that vibe

I want to watch Star Wars w Grimes.

Grimes' mom, @Garossino is a good person to follow on Twitter, especially if you live in Vancouver (she's the editor of a progressive political news website) (in which Grimes makes the occasional cameo).

She is a genius

can't wait for the “diss track about male producers”

REALiTi making it to Starbucks playlist but still no release?

I typed something for a dumb survey at the end of 2013 about Grimes that I was really proud of that I'd like to post if you'd indulge me!

Q: Did you take part in the ice bucket challenge? If not, why not? Grimes declined due to animal testing issues, was the grief she got for that deserved?

Do you think people deserve grief? Do you give people grief when they deserve it? I hope to relieve people of their grief. For a long time I had this theory: the impossibility of a female Kurt Cobain. What he represents, leaning against the system and yet supported by consumers, there was no woman in the world that could command the masses so utterly. The music industry, the male-biased music consuming populace wouldn't let her. This thing I've been stewing about since I saw Grimes play to 20 people in 2011, and started reading her Tumblr, and then really starting feeling when "Oblivion" came out, is that Claire is the closest thing we have to a female Kurt Cobain, smart enough to understand the system but righteous enough to wall-jump away from it. But also, interestingly, what an inversion her approach is to Kurt's. His pose was anti-establishment, her pose is post-structural. He was rigorous, she is always looking outward, game for genre-experimentation and hilarity. I feel like even if I don't like her music, and I do so far, I will always feel like she's several steps ahead of me, several books ahead of me, and that makes me feel really fucking good. Anyone who gives her grief about anything can kick rocks.

nice

a friend of mine subletted her room when she moved out of montreal, she told me some girl named claire had lived there before and made music in the room, but i only found out later it was *that* claire, and only found out while reading that fader interview just now that she recorded visions in it. it was a super small, no window bedroom in a p nast mile-ex apartment on parc

not a crucial thread detour but: i thought mile ex was way east of parc

& fgti otm
the scale on which she practices the genre-experimentation-&-hilarity thing is really inspirational

way east of parc? mile ex is the interzone between mile end and parc ex. north of bernard south of jean talon, from like parc to clark

ohh right, right. i think i was thinking of parc ex. thank you.

yr welcome but uh parc ex is west of parc (& north of beaumont) ;-) lol

how about a thread for every time you listen to realiti and it's awesome? currently listening, it's awesome!

otm

How bout a thread for when there's a pre-order available. The suspense is killing me.

I know it's not as simple as this makes it sound, but it amazes me that this is among the scrapped material. The part where it plunged into and back out of an underground tunnel is just a+++

technicality but mile ex is north of the van horne viaduc, not bernard. that part is still officialy plateau (and thus the mile end).

also Realiti is still great.

Technicaliti

i'm still listening to realiti most days (twice today) and it's still great. (and yeah, pretty wild that it's something she seemingly just threw out into the world as a no-expectation stopgap)

Technicaliti

― Tim F, Monday, August 10, 2015 6:21 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Every morning there are viaducs to climb

realiti

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Interview in Entertainment Weekly?

http://www.ew.com/article/2015/08/26/grimes-new-album?hootPostID=be69b17bf649648291acf17c872a52dc

Realiti has become my go-to workout booster when my energy starts to sag. Every morning there are mountains to climb.

By popular demand, I did try to remake “Realiti” and it is really good now. I’m considering putting it on the record. I had to re-produce it for the live show anyway. I don’t like “Realiti,” but everybody else does. I may put it on by popular demand, I don’t know.

Wonder if that song could possibly be improved upon

srsly

I don’t like “Realiti,”

she seems to like it in the video!

she shouldn't put it on the record if she doesn't like it though

just make your perfect grimesz record, fuck the fans!

i'm assuming she reads my posts

she shouldn't put it on the record if she doesn't like it though

agreed

yeah i think it was perfect, curious to hear the remake if she prefers it but maybe as a b-side? i'd prefer her not to compromise for us, too

One of the strangest things to me is her earlier comments that it didn't *sound* that good, as though it were some patchy demo and not the sonic marvel that it is.

I fear we're setting ourselves up to be disappointed by the album. Perhaps what we liked about Grimes is precisely what she's trying to overcome.

I think she's trolling hard.

#trustgrimes

http://pitchfork.com/news/61184-grimes-announces-rhinestone-cowgirls-tour/

very excited to finally see The Grimes

https://instagram.com/p/7zmS38jfre/?taken-by=actuallygrimes

heads up, Europe

http://pitchfork.com/news/61489-grimes-announces-acd-reign-european-tour/

is she good live? will realiti be even better?

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/09/28/pop-for-misfits

album any day now, right? can't wait to see her next month

“I like building expectations, and then stressing people out by explicitly not doing the thing,”

imo album comes out next year

Last time she mentioned anything, it was supposed to be a surprise drop in October, right?

xp lol

i think it'll come out this month, or right before her tour next month. she posted a photo on her instagram a couple weeks ago of the ASCAP or BMI registry credits, so it's in the can

she's going to leak a fake album

Like Ben Folds did that one time?

Grimes pre-covers Grimes.

she said on twitter she's almost finished editing the video for the first single & that the album's going to be out shortly after that so it seems pretty certain

any day now...