Grimes/Claire Boucher thread

fare is $1, as shown in the video, even from dtla to lax

but i mean, this is all conceptual stuff. he's footing the bill for the 2.7-mile loop under the 405

the details for that tunnel start at 28:00

this is now the dumbest thread on ilx

there must be a musk thread where you can criticize him and his stupid company

This is a truly insane thread

Anyway, I agree w/flopson that that tweet above is peak bad-Twitter, as it’s basically saying that the political trumps the personal.

― i’m still stanning (morrisp), Tuesday, May 22, 2018 11:17 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

It’s also bad bc it is incoherent. “As a victim of abuse I disagree with grimes politics of public transit”

https://imgur.com/gallery/vndnv

But why pay union dues & make next grimes album tidal exclusive for nothing?

It’s also bad bc it is incoherent. “As a victim of abuse I disagree with grimes politics of public transit”

― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Wednesday, May 23, 2018 1:19 AM (four hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

oh good i was wondering why i reread that tweet like 30 fucking times

ok glad that we can agree that criticizing grimes' politics is in poor taste but functional illiteracy in the service of ripping to shreds a rando on twitter is appropriate.

that's definitely what i was saying

thread keeps going from strength to strength, great work team

so how about that upcoming grimes album

i'm looking forward to it

ditto!

I hear she's doing a sequel to 2112

this will be Grimes' Caress of Steel

Pardon a "chime in" but the internet's response to Grimes x Musk has boiled over in my kitchen and turned into calcified anger

Any "it is important for our faves to be non-problematic" narrative is completely idiotic and just masking bald-faced toxic-fan entitlement to Grimes' body-autonomy

She should be and is allowed to date whomever she pleases without it having any effect on her capacity to make and sell records and tickets

I hope she is having bomb sex and romantic dinners with her gross rich boyfriend and I can't wait for her new album

agreed; also i hope elon musk dies in a burning building

That doesn't make any poetic sense tho

He should either die in space or be hit by a bus

murdered by the Martian bus drivers’ union

the grimes body-autonomy defense strike force has logged on

cap'n save-a-capacity-to-sell-tickets reporting for duty

This thread is bonkers.

Lads.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTvanzhR6ok

this thread was the best of grimes, it was the worst of grimes

infinite love without fulfillment

come on guys if Bill Maher can date Ann Coulter, surely any hatchet can be buried at least long enough to have bomb sex

haha, she never said she was skeeved out by poor people, that was y’all putting words in her mouth!

I will give you ten guesses as to what "sketchy" is usually code for and the first nine don't count.

Pardon a "chime in" but the internet's response to Grimes x Musk has boiled over in my kitchen and turned into calcified anger

Any "it is important for our faves to be non-problematic" narrative is completely idiotic and just masking bald-faced toxic-fan entitlement to Grimes' body-autonomy

She should be and is allowed to date whomever she pleases without it having any effect on her capacity to make and sell records and tickets

I hope she is having bomb sex and romantic dinners with her gross rich boyfriend and I can't wait for her new album

― nevertheless, he stopped (flamboyant goon tie included), Wednesday, May 23, 2018 11:11 AM (forty-one minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Well it's one thing she is dating Elon Musk, which I'm cool with whatever floats her boats down the Mississippi river, but when she is actively defending union-busting and ripping into public transport she is fair game as any other artist.

It's not hard to imagine similar situations with similar reactions. For example, if the dude from the War on Drugs started defending the IDF's recent actions in Gaza, it would be very fair to criticize him on that. If a famous hip-hop artist started wearing a MAGA baseball cap, it would be very fair to criticize him on that... Now it's up to anyone to decide if that affects their views of Grimes and it's up to anyone to decide how they respond to the upcoming record and tour. So it follows that it's up to anyone to decide how they respond to an artist's problematic views or actions and the idea that their sales shouldn't be affected is kinda gross in general.

thread keeps going from strength to strength, great work team

― i am fast and full of teeth. i willl die in a barn fire (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, May 23, 2018 7:48 AM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

just wanna reiterate this folks

we rounded up a skilled team, brought our A game to drill down on core deliverables and put together actionable strategic staircase where the rubber meets the road

let's hear it for team infinity

David

I will give you ten guesses as to what "sketchy" is usually code for and the first nine don't count.

She said “it’s hella overcrowded, late, sketchy in most cities I’ve lived in” – you read “sketchy” as “full of poor people”?

true, she could have meant "brown people"

based on my experience of Americans talking about buses, yes

in los angeles, i've noticed people definitely using that line of argument

"sketchy" is absolutely a code word

ime

yeah her use of sketchy is sketchy to say the least

this is a very bad thread

xposts
if y'all say so... Her next line was "[I've] been violently assualted on public transit twice", so I assumed that was what she meant. Reasonable ppl can disagree on whether the solution to public transport's ills are weird space-age tunnel cars, but I'm sure we've all learned to be aware of our surroundings on the train.

can we go back to arguing about whether the realiti demo is better

(the demo of realiti is better at least than actual reality)

what exactly is Elon Musk’s solution to that age-old problem and how is it solved by undercutting public transport and forcing workers to operate in unsafe conditions?

Musk's public transit proposals are idiotic and specifically designed to undermine other, better thought-out and better-funded efforts already underway

realiti still song of the decade, demo or not

well, I prefer the album version.

I wonder which version Elon prefers

I mean how is she not doing what Sean describes in her tweet

― Simon H., Tuesday, May 22, 2018 11:45 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

‘Speaking as someone who has been sexually assaulted and likes a Grimes song, public transit in Los Angeles is good’

this is a very bad thread

― gbx, Wednesday, May 23, 2018 12:41 PM (twenty-two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink