She lost the noise kids
― flappy bird, Thursday, 4 April 2019 20:59 (five years ago) link
ie people in the milieu she came up in. Not that many people, but artists historically have been hurt / fixated on losing their original or “authentic” fan base.
― flappy bird, Thursday, 4 April 2019 21:01 (five years ago) link
anecdotally lots of ppl hated art angels yea
― flopson, Thursday, 4 April 2019 21:04 (five years ago) link
It took me a while to be honest and I think plenty of people aren't gonna sit there and listen to it twice. It's a challenging record.
― ☮ (peace, man), Thursday, 4 April 2019 21:12 (five years ago) link
If by 'challenging' you mean 'insufferably poppy', yeah. I hated it when it came out and haven't revisited it since. Maybe I should – my ears are more lenient these days.
― pomenitul, Thursday, 4 April 2019 21:14 (five years ago) link
i didn't like it at first either bc i missed the moodiness. but then i realized grimes wanted to take me (the listener) out of the gloom that was her trademark and i thought it was a brave choice
― Trϵϵship, Thursday, 4 April 2019 21:28 (five years ago) link
flesh without blood is one of my favorite tracks ever tbh.
i feel personally insulted that she is calling that album a "piece of crap" to be honest
― Trϵϵship, Thursday, 4 April 2019 21:41 (five years ago) link
Art Angels still mostly rules and she spent the whole promo cycle talking about how she loved pop music and wanted to make something influenced by the pop music she loves so idk what she's on about when she now says she didn't try to make a pop album
there definitely was some backlash to it from fans of Visions who didn't like the new direction but that seemed relatively small overall
when she says she wishes she could make music in a vacuum i'm increasingly wishing that too because every new interview makes her seem more and more ridiculous and obnoxious unfortunately
― ufo, Thursday, 4 April 2019 21:49 (five years ago) link
drugs are a hell of a drugs
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 4 April 2019 21:50 (five years ago) link
mod please change thread title to Grimes/c Boucher thread
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 4 April 2019 21:51 (five years ago) link
By that logic, are facials considered microaggressions? Is felching the best way to remedey such an attack?
― Cousin Slappy, Thursday, April 4, 2019 12:29 PM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
cousin fp
every new interview makes her seem more and more ridiculous and obnoxious unfortunately
how does this one make her seem obnoxious?
― flopson, Thursday, 4 April 2019 22:04 (five years ago) link
If by 'challenging' you mean 'insufferably poppy', yeah. I hated it when it came out and haven't revisited it since. Maybe I should – my ears are more lenient these days.― pomenitul, Thursday, April 4, 2019 9:14 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― pomenitul, Thursday, April 4, 2019 9:14 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Insufferably poppy to people used to her earlier work, but abrasive and weird to your average top 40 listener, I guess? And I came to it from her earlier stuff, but thought that Scream and Venus Fly were too fucking out there until I went back and revisited it a year or so ago.
― ☮ (peace, man), Thursday, 4 April 2019 22:37 (five years ago) link
A lot of the album seemed to be a direct reaction to people who got upset about the poppiness of her Go single (guilty, as well).
A week or so ago, I had a realization about my personal impressions of c during the lead-up to this album cycle (scorn, impatience, embarassment), I realize that I kinda went through the same shit during the interim between Visions and Art Angels. So, we'll see. My current take is that I'm probably not cool enough to understand Grimes and will probably come around a year or so from now when everybody's dad has heard it.
― ☮ (peace, man), Thursday, 4 April 2019 22:45 (five years ago) link
the problem with 'go' is that it was bad, not that it was too poppy or mainstream
― ufo, Thursday, 4 April 2019 23:26 (five years ago) link
“I just wish I could make music in a vacuum,” she claims
maybe someone could put her in touch with imago?
― kolarov spring (NickB), Thursday, 4 April 2019 23:42 (five years ago) link
hahahaha
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 4 April 2019 23:46 (five years ago) link
I loved Go
― Dan S, Thursday, 4 April 2019 23:47 (five years ago) link
Grimes is starting to feel like a stain in my life.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 5 April 2019 03:01 (five years ago) link
some of y'all have fascinating ideas of what constitutes "poppy"
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 5 April 2019 03:13 (five years ago) link
When set against most types of music that exist on earth, it does slant rather heavily towards pop. Not much of a margin of error there, really.
― pomenitul, Friday, 5 April 2019 09:30 (five years ago) link
this is the least surprising thing in that interview -- it's the musician's stock answer for "album right after a newer-poppier-direction album that underperformed by someone's metrics"
― like, I’m eating an elephant head (katherine), Friday, 5 April 2019 12:48 (five years ago) link
Still feels odd she doesn’t seem to have affection for an album with so many great tracks.
― Trϵϵship, Friday, 5 April 2019 13:02 (five years ago) link
Maybe she’s just on to the next thing and that’s a good attitude—who knows
― Trϵϵship, Friday, 5 April 2019 13:06 (five years ago) link
how do you feel about your greatest hits of posts to ilx? sure you post em again for the fans, but your heart's moved on.
― say it with sausages (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 5 April 2019 16:10 (five years ago) link
I never went pop though
― Trϵϵship, Friday, 5 April 2019 16:14 (five years ago) link
james franco was your pop moment, complete with fans and your own disavowal upon return to earnest treeship
― say it with sausages (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 5 April 2019 16:21 (five years ago) link
That sock wasn’t even that bad. He just said “cool it”
― Trϵϵship, Friday, 5 April 2019 16:24 (five years ago) link
Also so long ago—who knows who it was?
― Trϵϵship, Friday, 5 April 2019 16:25 (five years ago) link
― kolarov spring (NickB), Thursday, April 4, 2019 6:42 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
omfg dying
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 5 April 2019 16:28 (five years ago) link
A+ NickB
― blokes you can't rust (sic), Friday, 5 April 2019 17:31 (five years ago) link
idgi
― pomenitul, Friday, 5 April 2019 17:34 (five years ago) link
there is a video of ilx user imago doing a performance of bohemian rhapsody with a vacuum cleaner
― findom haddie (jim in vancouver), Friday, 5 April 2019 17:39 (five years ago) link
reference to an ill-advised video imago made some years back
xp!
― Emperor Tonetta Ketchup (sleeve), Friday, 5 April 2019 17:39 (five years ago) link
but how can something be ill-advised if it well remembered, didn't harm anyone (except for some performance-related wear and tear on the vacuum) and sparks joy years later?
― Karl Malone, Friday, 5 April 2019 17:40 (five years ago) link
i agree
― findom haddie (jim in vancouver), Friday, 5 April 2019 17:40 (five years ago) link
That sounds amazing. Link?
― pomenitul, Friday, 5 April 2019 17:41 (five years ago) link
i'll webmail it to you, don't want to post it
― findom haddie (jim in vancouver), Friday, 5 April 2019 17:41 (five years ago) link
ok maybe I'm confusing it with some other post of his that got reposted elsewhere or something?
― Emperor Tonetta Ketchup (sleeve), Friday, 5 April 2019 17:41 (five years ago) link
'Tis a thing of beauty, thanks jim.
― pomenitul, Friday, 5 April 2019 17:45 (five years ago) link
making music with a vacuum versus making beautiful music in a vacuum iirc
― mh, Friday, 5 April 2019 17:50 (five years ago) link
Either way, nature abhors it.
― pomenitul, Friday, 5 April 2019 17:53 (five years ago) link
https://www.stereogum.com/2038745/grimes-secret-song-on-soundcloud/music/
― rob, Friday, 5 April 2019 20:23 (five years ago) link
Here's the track itself - that's more like it:https://soundcloud.com/user-709404175-360600573/printsessa
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Friday, 5 April 2019 22:11 (five years ago) link
https://crackmagazine.net/article/long-reads/grimes-is-ready-to-play-the-villain/
Banaka-lite heel turn:
“I thought people understood that I ultimately probably believe in an AI dictatorship. I mean, I don’t think humanity is going to survive anyway. We’re fucked. I think AI is the natural evolution. It’s just like we killed the fucking Neanderthals, and now they’re going to kill us. I don’t think democracy really works.“
― Conceptualize Wyverns (latebloomer), Wednesday, 17 April 2019 04:12 (five years ago) link
that's a kind of amazing quote
― Dan S, Wednesday, 17 April 2019 04:16 (five years ago) link
don't know about "I thought people understood..."
― Dan S, Wednesday, 17 April 2019 04:20 (five years ago) link
so the techno-fascist thing was sincere after all, lmao
― ufo, Wednesday, 17 April 2019 04:39 (five years ago) link
Yang/Grimes 2020
― soref, Wednesday, 17 April 2019 04:43 (five years ago) link
I read the whole thing and gotta say — “AI dictatorship” quote aside (and even that may be “ironic”) — she makes her case well and comes off pretty good to me.
”Seriously, fuck the New Yorker,” she says, growing agitated. She makes unwavering eye contact. “Fuck the New York Times. Fuck Vice.
― get your hand outta my pocket universe (morrisp), Wednesday, 17 April 2019 05:03 (five years ago) link