this is cool:
Now she’s returned to social media to offer another update, clarifying that she’s “back in the studio making a million beats” and working on “one final album for my shit label and then my first album on a label of my choosing which im crazy stoked about eeeee. or i might go fully independent, researching options. the second one will be extreme darkness and chaos, the first will be highly collaborative and most glorious light.
https://www.stereogum.com/1984585/grimes-plans-highly-collaborative-final-album-for-her-shit-label/news/?amp=1&__twitter_impression=true
― flappy bird, Monday, 26 February 2018 00:19 (six years ago) link
has 4AD done in this in the past / do they have a reputation a la Sub Pop?
So will the last album for 4AD be willfuly bad? She should do some 10 remixes and tape manipulations of “Scream” and call it a day.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Monday, 26 February 2018 00:46 (six years ago) link
Don't think Grimes would do that to her fans. The descriptions of both records sound great. Interesting way to work out a very particular type of angst maybe. We don't exactly what the problem is so might come out in the music. Whatever. I hope she comes thru & at least she's not walled off like Sky Ferreira - I can't believe it'll be 5 years since Night Time, My Time this fall. and I really hope Masochism finally comes out this year.
― flappy bird, Monday, 26 February 2018 01:08 (six years ago) link
wasn't the last album technically released under two labels?
― mh, Monday, 26 February 2018 14:57 (six years ago) link
cool, hanging out with hideo kojima, he'll be good mentor as far as completing projects and having them come out in a timely manner
― It's not delivery, it's Adorno! (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 26 February 2018 15:28 (six years ago) link
oh hush, you
― mh, Monday, 26 February 2018 15:29 (six years ago) link
hahaha
― scoff walker (diamonddave85), Monday, 26 February 2018 16:25 (six years ago) link
Hahahaha
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Monday, 26 February 2018 18:04 (six years ago) link
alright, backstory for non-gamers?
― how's life, Monday, 26 February 2018 18:05 (six years ago) link
hideo kojima made the Metal Gear series
― flappy bird, Monday, 26 February 2018 18:10 (six years ago) link
i quit playing video games before i was a teenager but Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty has stuck with me for 17 years and is remarkably prescient
kojima is a living legend
― flappy bird, Monday, 26 February 2018 18:11 (six years ago) link
he also has had "problems with the label" recently, so they might have bonded over that
― i remember the corned beef of my childhood (Karl Malone), Monday, 26 February 2018 18:14 (six years ago) link
he notably has to be prodded to actually finish a game
― mh, Monday, 26 February 2018 18:29 (six years ago) link
Kojima is one of the most famous and ambitious game directors, known for huge budgets and way too many projects stuck in development hell.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Monday, 26 February 2018 18:55 (six years ago) link
Silent hill, man
― kolakube (Ross), Monday, 26 February 2018 20:54 (six years ago) link
The PT preview game for Silent Hills was so good and the most terrified I’ve ever been playing a game. I broke my controller against the wall after one of those hallway scares.. not joking. One of his projects I was looking forward the most.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Monday, 26 February 2018 21:52 (six years ago) link
^ amazing game. Buddy projected it on the wall, it was a hellish vortex. Crying babies drove mad
― kolakube (Ross), Tuesday, 27 February 2018 02:53 (six years ago) link
*drove me mad
― kolakube (Ross), Tuesday, 27 February 2018 02:54 (six years ago) link
is that the one in the corridor that you keep going back to?
― Van Horn Street, Tuesday, 27 February 2018 03:12 (six years ago) link
Yeah that's the one. There is an actual order and steps to be done before going through the corridor each time (while avoiding to be killed by your ex-wife's ghost). By the way some steps were ridiculous like whispering names into the controller's mic at certain points. When completed an actual trailer for the game was revealed (when first launched there was no info on who was behind the mini game just the words PT whic stands for Playable Trailer)
The concept trailer made by kojima and del toro also looked amazing. Really sad this is not happening:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNMseVbyc3g
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 27 February 2018 17:59 (six years ago) link
Also for extra sadness: Junji Ito was going to be involved twitter.com/RealGDT/status/648117433593655296?s=09
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 27 February 2018 18:02 (six years ago) link
Back to Grimes it would be so awesome to have her collaborating on Death Stranding with Kojima either as a cameo 'actor' or doing some sound loops for the game (or both).
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 27 February 2018 18:40 (six years ago) link
Btw for you of those who have no idea who Kojima or what a Death Stranding is, it's the game he has been developing since he was fired from Konami and it looks fucking bonkers... here's the three concept trailers released so far:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rx4Fq-pKAzM
Starring Norman Reedus, Mads Mikkelsen and Guillermo del Toro as actors for the game so far. The budgets on his projects are crazier than the concepts.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 27 February 2018 18:45 (six years ago) link
It'll be released with the Playstation 6, no doubt :)
― mh, Tuesday, 27 February 2018 18:55 (six years ago) link
Starring Norman Reedus, Mads Mikkelsen and Guillermo del Toro as actors for the game so far.
also all three have said they have no idea what the game is even about!
i love that kojima's out doing his thing in an industry where triple A is increasingly bland but he disappeared up his own but a while back
― It's not delivery, it's Adorno! (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 27 February 2018 19:01 (six years ago) link
we should make a speculative thread for it, even if grimes would probably love us talking about video games in a thread about her music :)
― mh, Tuesday, 27 February 2018 19:02 (six years ago) link
this is probably the only part of the thread she wouldn't find horrifying tbh
― It's not delivery, it's Adorno! (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 27 February 2018 19:04 (six years ago) link
you say it like she hasn't read it already. hi grimes!
― imago, Tuesday, 27 February 2018 19:06 (six years ago) link
Grimes remains our kid's favorite musician. He recently claimed she was more famous than Katy Perry.
― omar little, Tuesday, 27 February 2018 19:08 (six years ago) link
:)
― nxd, Tuesday, 27 February 2018 19:11 (six years ago) link
that...might....be.......true?
― imago, Tuesday, 27 February 2018 19:11 (six years ago) link
nah
― had (crüt), Tuesday, 27 February 2018 19:14 (six years ago) link
Hides also has the opinion that there are three goods bands: Joy Division, Talk Talk, and Asia.
― Allen (etaeoe), Tuesday, 27 February 2018 19:16 (six years ago) link
HIDEO stupid autocorrect
ah c'mon he loves more than that
― mh, Tuesday, 27 February 2018 19:29 (six years ago) link
― Allen (etaeoe), Tuesday, February 27, 2018 1:16 PM (eighteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
when he's right, he's right
(tho i've seen him big up echo & the bunnyman, bauhaus, others --- he's basically an ex goth)
― It's not delivery, it's Adorno! (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 27 February 2018 19:36 (six years ago) link
massive cure fan too
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 27 February 2018 19:37 (six years ago) link
he named his dang pretend mercenary group diamond dogs
― flippy bard (Will M.), Tuesday, 27 February 2018 21:14 (six years ago) link
now I'm just going to have prolonged MGS5 flashbacks all afternoon
― mh, Tuesday, 27 February 2018 21:26 (six years ago) link
Grimes remains our kid's favorite musician
My 5yo daughter is the same, but also loves David Bowie equally.
― Mince Pramthwart (James Morrison), Wednesday, 28 February 2018 02:19 (six years ago) link
Give it a year or two and you'll know more Meghan Trainor songs than you even thought existed.
― everything, Wednesday, 28 February 2018 02:39 (six years ago) link
They showed the class a video with music by Taylor Swift the other day, whom has been blessedly absent from my life up until now.
― Mince Pramthwart (James Morrison), Wednesday, 28 February 2018 05:00 (six years ago) link
Juno Award for the Venus Fly video!
― how's life, Sunday, 25 March 2018 11:38 (six years ago) link
very nice.
went on her subreddit the other day and they have a banner above it that reads #FREEGRIMES
― flappy bird, Sunday, 25 March 2018 19:38 (six years ago) link
Yeah, there are some intense people over there for sure.
One thing that I'd never been aware of is that I guess there's a type of fan that pays close attention to who an artist follows on instagram and twitter? Right now there's a thread at the top of the sub about Elon Musk following Grimes, but I've also noticed "Grimes and 4AD stopped following each other!" and "why doesn't grimes follow _______ anymore? aren't they still friends?" type comments. idk.
― how's life, Monday, 26 March 2018 09:37 (six years ago) link
the myspace top friends drama lives on in followbacks
― mh, Monday, 26 March 2018 12:26 (six years ago) link
rl lol
a grimes myspace page would be wild
― Allen (etaeoe), Monday, 26 March 2018 14:49 (six years ago) link
first time i heard grimes was myspace!https://myspace.com/boucherville
― sean gramophone, Monday, 26 March 2018 15:35 (six years ago) link
Empty profile now - but back in 2010... https://web.archive.org/web/20100414025031/https://myspace.com/boucherville
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 26 March 2018 15:41 (six years ago) link