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
I wonder if my friend who works for Tesla could score me some Grimes merch
― (ノಠ益ಠ)ノ彡┻━┻ (mh), Tuesday, 22 May 2018 18:19 (six years ago) link
kids upset at grimes are just immature
and music attracts the most immature older people out of all the arts
part of the whole peter pan thing but it applies to music listeners as well
― F# A# (∞), Tuesday, 22 May 2018 18:23 (six years ago) link
the kids I knew when I was a teen who looked up to musicians and artists as role models are doing some pretty great things in the world today and are pretty well-adjusted adults
― (ノಠ益ಠ)ノ彡┻━┻ (mh), Tuesday, 22 May 2018 18:28 (six years ago) link
xp it's almost as if you're saying we should re-think making false idols of pop stars or something
― Paul Ponzi, Tuesday, 22 May 2018 18:28 (six years ago) link
xp
right but they're also not ragging on grimes
― F# A# (∞), Tuesday, 22 May 2018 18:29 (six years ago) link
that's not an mra thing per se, but goes back to the bible, i mean if you want to turn every conservative opinion into an mra opinion go ahead but it is misguided
― F# A# (∞), Tuesday, 22 May 2018 18:30 (six years ago) link
― we æt so many shimripl (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, May 22, 2018 2:16 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
This is true. All political relationships to artists are driven by unrequited lust.I always knew in my heart of hearts that Kanye would throw over Kim for me, which is why the whole maga thing was especially devastating.
Now... well, I'd still forgive him, but he'd have to write me a song or something to apologize.
― carles danger maus (s.clover), Tuesday, 22 May 2018 18:34 (six years ago) link
xxxp they dumped their interest in all kinds of artists for pettier reasons!
I mean, it was the mid-90s and I remember overhearing some kids debating whether No Doubt were really part of the ska revival, or if getting pop radio play was an instant disqualifier, or if they'd drifted away from some weird genre purity test
kids that age are all about finding boundaries, edge cases to figure out where ideas and people fit in relation to each other and when someone they look to in their culture does something unexpected they have to go back to the drawing board and come up with a new picture
― (ノಠ益ಠ)ノ彡┻━┻ (mh), Tuesday, 22 May 2018 18:35 (six years ago) link
whiney who were your heroes when you were 14
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 22 May 2018 18:38 (six years ago) link
which is interesting because what sounds we like may differ from the artist's original intent
and in the politically driven and racially driven climate the u.s. is in, it creates this tension on who you should listen to and what it says about you as a person
― F# A# (∞), Tuesday, 22 May 2018 18:40 (six years ago) link
I feel with the mention of Jay-Z we need to do a 'worst company: Tesla vs Tidal' poll.
― Frederik B, Tuesday, 22 May 2018 18:40 (six years ago) link
xpost to flappy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEcuMt2crBk
― we æt so many shimripl (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 22 May 2018 18:41 (six years ago) link
― F# A# (∞), Tuesday, May 22, 2018 2:40 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
yes nowhere else in the world or human history have people ever treated art as something social and related to their identity and place of being in the world, this is uniquely because america uniquely has this thing called "politics" you moron, you utter fucking fool.
― carles danger maus (s.clover), Tuesday, 22 May 2018 18:42 (six years ago) link
lol
look if it makes you happy you can substitute u.s. with whatever your little heart desires
― F# A# (∞), Tuesday, 22 May 2018 18:48 (six years ago) link
I like Tidal
― The Desus & Mero Chain (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 22 May 2018 18:55 (six years ago) link
in the politically driven and racially driven climate of <insert literally any contiguous political mass and chronological period>
hey you really can substitute anything
― (ノಠ益ಠ)ノ彡┻━┻ (mh), Tuesday, 22 May 2018 18:55 (six years ago) link
Duh bruh
― F# A# (∞), Tuesday, 22 May 2018 18:59 (six years ago) link
in the politically driven and racially driven climate of <your mom>
― carles danger maus (s.clover), Tuesday, 22 May 2018 19:00 (six years ago) link
Losing pts for creativity but gotta set the bar low on ilx
― F# A# (∞), Tuesday, 22 May 2018 19:01 (six years ago) link
What about
C) real anti-imperialists who hate musk and are upset at grimes for making a joke of their movement.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 22 May 2018 19:06 (six years ago) link
She’s 30 now, the naive, immature cutey brand she had is getting closer to annoying, woman-child.
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.
Somehow I don't think it's Grimes' ideals that need to be called into question here.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 22 May 2018 19:10 (six years ago) link
You guys are actually reducing an artist's entire aesthetic and belief system down to who she's fucking and acting like it makes you the progressive ones.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 22 May 2018 19:12 (six years ago) link
don't worry she's taking imperialism down from the inside
― Paul Ponzi, Tuesday, 22 May 2018 19:14 (six years ago) link
We need to save the backlash for when the actual album comes out.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 22 May 2018 19:18 (six years ago) link
Can't speak for anyone else but I dgaf about shtupping tesla guy. All ire emerges from siding with or making excuses for the Bosses rather than labor.
― Dan I., Tuesday, 22 May 2018 19:22 (six years ago) link
https://goo.gl/images/XnvzWP
― Paul Ponzi, Tuesday, 22 May 2018 19:25 (six years ago) link