“humans with differing views on economics often hang out”
Hushed narrator: Grimes doesn’t realize that we’ve secretly switched her regular coffee with modern Twitter, where strangers will @ others and call them walking garbage over small differences in p.o.v.
― i’m still stanning (morrisp), Tuesday, 22 May 2018 15:39 (six years ago) link
The dead c. :scrolls:
― mick signals, Tuesday, 22 May 2018 15:41 (six years ago) link
More laughing at the contradictions of this absurd situation than hand-wringing at this point.
― Van Horn Street, Tuesday, 22 May 2018 15:43 (six years ago) link
remember when the dismemberment plan guy started blogging in favor of the iraq war?
― adam, Tuesday, 22 May 2018 15:48 (six years ago) link
that was funny but this is funnier imo
― adam, Tuesday, 22 May 2018 15:50 (six years ago) link
Is that why Pitchfork gave his album a 0?
― MarkoP, Tuesday, 22 May 2018 15:51 (six years ago) link
There was a post in some other thread where it was explained that nowadays it’s not the concept of “selling out” which irks the audience but betraying your self-imposed brand. Grimes without giving it much thought described herself as an anti-imperialist before and now she’s dating what Forbes deems as the most valuable, CEO billionaire in the world. So she’s rightfully being called on for it.
She’s 30 now, the naive, immature cutey brand she had is getting closer to annoying, woman-child. Age is the difference between cool, edgy teen and courtney love.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 22 May 2018 16:00 (six years ago) link
leave courtney out of this
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 22 May 2018 16:01 (six years ago) link
Sorry. You’re right it’s abad comparison she’s closer to crazy fairy lady than junkie trainwreck.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 22 May 2018 16:06 (six years ago) link
it wasn't just the "anti-imperialist" bit in her bio, she tweeted fairly regularly about environmental issues, elections, legislation, protests, etc. if anything i'm shocked that she doesn't realize how bad **the optics** are here.
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 22 May 2018 16:06 (six years ago) link
omg moka leave courtney alone
Hahaha ok sorry. I’ll just roast grimes from now on.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 22 May 2018 16:07 (six years ago) link
I can't tell any more who is genuinely outraged about all this and who is just ironically outraged
― soref, Tuesday, 22 May 2018 16:08 (six years ago) link
It’s like were in the 90’s all over again.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 22 May 2018 16:10 (six years ago) link
We’re
eh it's the end of the world and everyone's boredfuck grimes!!!!!
― The Desus & Mero Chain (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 22 May 2018 16:10 (six years ago) link
grimes=burzum
― The Desus & Mero Chain (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 22 May 2018 16:21 (six years ago) link
this is an indicator that it's time to listen to sonic youth
― obviously DLC (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 22 May 2018 16:22 (six years ago) link
this is worse than madonna dating a-rod
― (ノಠ益ಠ)ノ彡┻━┻ (mh), Tuesday, 22 May 2018 16:23 (six years ago) link
madonna was dating a-rod??
― Van Horn Street, Tuesday, 22 May 2018 16:29 (six years ago) link
this is at least as bad as the time Kate Bush talked about Theresa May and became a "Tory" and even worse than when David Bowie was a Nazi.
― omar little, Tuesday, 22 May 2018 16:36 (six years ago) link
She’s 30 now, the naive, immature cutey brand she had is getting closer to annoying, woman-child.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, May 22, 2018 12:00 PM (thirty-six minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
http://blog.amandapalmer.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/leonard.jpeg
― we æt so many shimripl (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 22 May 2018 16:37 (six years ago) link
― omar little, Tuesday, May 22, 2018 9:36 AM (eighteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
don't know why the scare quotes, she is a tory
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 22 May 2018 16:55 (six years ago) link
who is that whiney
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 22 May 2018 16:58 (six years ago) link
i know nothing about her other than that she didn't pay her musicians on some tour and a lot of people were angry, but it's hosted on blog.amandapalmer.net so i assume that's her
― obviously DLC (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 22 May 2018 17:01 (six years ago) link
oh lol
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 22 May 2018 17:02 (six years ago) link
just gonna go ahead and say it
grimes was a very typical vancouverite (looks, attitude, and everything) who still never fully realized til she moved to a big city (hello los angeles) her anti-establishment/radical socialist ideas have no place in the modern world -- it's vancouver's and mayor gregor robertson's "greenest city"/vision vancouver ploy
now she doesn't really want to handle the consequences of her ideas if she goes through with them from a practical conclusion/view
― F# A# (∞), Tuesday, 22 May 2018 17:25 (six years ago) link
lot to chew on there, much like a bucket of gristle
― i am fast and full of teeth. i willl die in a barn fire (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 22 May 2018 17:33 (six years ago) link
throbbing
― F# A# (∞), Tuesday, 22 May 2018 17:34 (six years ago) link
pound for pound champion of shitposting now that gabbneb has been banned.
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 22 May 2018 17:39 (six years ago) link
^ radical lefty living in vancouver
― F# A# (∞), Tuesday, 22 May 2018 17:40 (six years ago) link
The real controversy will begin when Grimes starts supporting the Kinder Morgan pipeline expansion.
― MarkoP, Tuesday, 22 May 2018 17:42 (six years ago) link
yes, if i moved to LA i would suddenly become enlightened lol xp. way to make sense
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 22 May 2018 17:43 (six years ago) link
jim will you bang red or blue do you think?
― The Desus & Mero Chain (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 22 May 2018 17:44 (six years ago) link
I was hoping you’d say Montreal is responsible for her thoroughly unrealistic and unmodern politics. My disappointment knows no bounds; has Vancouver upended us?
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 22 May 2018 17:44 (six years ago) link
jim
like it's your problem if you misread what i say on purpose bud
― F# A# (∞), Tuesday, 22 May 2018 17:46 (six years ago) link
is it all the time you spend in traffic that gives you necessary time to contemplate political issues and arrive at a conservative position?
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 22 May 2018 17:47 (six years ago) link
it has pom
― F# A# (∞), Tuesday, 22 May 2018 17:47 (six years ago) link
to a radical leftist everyone to his right is a conservative
you post weird racial sciencey and MRAlike shit dude you're not a liberal
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 22 May 2018 17:49 (six years ago) link
lol mra
i know nothing of mra except what you guys talk about on these threads
― F# A# (∞), Tuesday, 22 May 2018 17:51 (six years ago) link
I, too, believe unions are unmodern and unrealistic. No wonder Europeans are so fond of them, stuck as they are in the Old World.
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 22 May 2018 18:03 (six years ago) link
while this whole thing is still so bizarre, it's not that surprising looking back 6 years ago when she was doing interviews for Visions and when journalists would ask her about her influences she'd say Mariah Carey, all these pop stars, instead of idk, Cabaret Voltaire or Warm Leatherette or something. that was shocking to me at the time. makes sense that she'd want to jump from 4AD to Columbia or something. and the idea that artists have to be "good people" or have "good politics" for one to be able to enjoy their work is absurd, art is not about the morality of the artist. will we get love songs written about/for elon musk? yes. will it matter if they bang like Oblivion or REALiTi or Flesh without Blood? No
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 22 May 2018 18:03 (six years ago) link
You need to have lived in LA to understand it though xp.
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 22 May 2018 18:05 (six years ago) link
the idea that artists have to be "good people" or have "good politics" for one to be able to enjoy their work is absurd, art is not about the morality of the artist.
there's like several novels-worth of ilx posts on this subject and personally i'd recommend not zooming out in this way
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Tuesday, 22 May 2018 18:07 (six years ago) link
she signed to Roc-a-Fella 4 years ago. besides occasional tweets about the Standing Rock or how much Stephen Harper sucked, her politics in practice have been obvious for a while. Jay-Z and Beyonce are capitalists - I think it just comes down to Elon Musk being goofy as fuck, really ugly, and his absurd and dangerous hatred of the color yellow. which are all legitimate reasons to hate Elon Musk and be upset that Grimes is dating him I suppose. but it's not her politics, it just seems like a total jump the shark moment aesthetically. the leap from Jay-Z's politics to Musk's is not that big at all.
xp true
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 22 May 2018 18:11 (six years ago) link
if only not to derail this thread further into the twilight zone
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 22 May 2018 18:12 (six years ago) link
Literally the only reasons to be the slightest bit aggrieved, upset or concerned about any of this is if A) You were treating electro-pop musician/online person Grimes as a model for ethics under capitalismB) You were hope she would blap you one day
Both of these things make you a fucking psycho and the FBI needs to have at least half the white men posting about Grimes on the internet on some sort of list
― we æt so many shimripl (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 22 May 2018 18:16 (six years ago) link
Whiney OTM
― husked, tonal wails (irrational), Tuesday, 22 May 2018 18:16 (six years ago) link
is this concurrent with the rap genius investigation?
― The Desus & Mero Chain (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 22 May 2018 18:17 (six years ago) link