Grimes/Claire Boucher thread

I’ve officially warmed up to “delete forever” again after listening to it on cheaper headphones. It still sounds a bit flat to my ears but it’s a good Grimes song regardless of how it sounds.

Just want to point out how clever it is that "You'll Miss Me When I'm Not Around" (poppiest song ever about suicide?) features gurgling, watery "You'll miss me when I'm down" vocals at the end -- musically expressing the "I'll tie my feet to rocks and drown" sentiment via the chopped 'n screwed chorus treatment so prevalent in recent pop hits.

guYS i mIgHt kILl mYSeLf!!1

Oh, go soak yr head ;-)

“You’ll miss me when I’m not around“ has some good hooks though I think it probably is the least essential of the 10 tracks. which isn’t to say it’s not good just that I think the rest of the album is quite a bit better.

oh man, I think it's such a great jam!

("before the fever" is the least essential to me... kinda feels mainly like a "bridge" into "IDORU"?)

I think it’s a jam but maybe just a step below for me?

Idk though I usually have shifting opinions with strong albums like this which are dense w/quality cuts. Some rise above others in my estimation over time after previously having been slightly lesser.

I really loved “violence” and “so heavy I fell through the earth”, looking forward to hearing this

After two listens I'd say there's a greater confidence here. Doesn't wash over you like some of the earlier stuff. Wish it really rocked more or had straight up perverse disco like "violence".

guYS i mIgHt kILl mYSeLf!!1

― strangely hookworm but they manage ream shoegaze poetry (imago), Monday, March 2, 2020 7:01 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

^^ unheimisch feeling of "uh oh, this post will not age well"

Love suicide humor, but I guess she has it coming

Accordingly, the earthiest musical moment on her new album, the strummed acoustic guitars on the track “Delete Forever” (which shares its bizarro-country vibes with 2015’s “California”) is not what it sounds like. “Actually, hilariously,” she says, “that guitar is from a sample pack that I chopped up.” She fakes it so real she’s beyond fake.

no wonder it sounds so off to me then

Good album.

otm

no wonder it sounds so off to me then

― ufo, Thursday, March 5, 2020 4:50 PM (twenty-six minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

all rap music does this fwiw

OMG you guys, I drove by a huge billboard for this album on my way home 😂:

https://i.imgur.com/VqjKJkS_d.jpg?maxwidth=640&shape=thumb&fidelity=medium

I wish I’d been able to get a better shot of it, but you get the main idea. The album art is off to the side

I wonder if Grimes' & Katy Perry's babies are gonna grow up as BFF's.

I really like Miss Anthropocene, far more that I expected to anyway.

It did give me a small smile to read this line from the Pitchfork review...

and in a relationship with a man whose real-time net worth literally jumped from $41 billion to $44.2 billion between drafts of this review.

...then click the link and see it's dropped to $30.5 billion since.

I find it weird you correlate artistic merits with economics.

I don't. Those were two separate thoughts. I enjoy Grimes a lot. I think her boyfriend is a pretentious asshole and I feel no sympathy for his fortune dwindling.

I find it weird you thought I explicitly said I connected the two.

Sorry. I misunderstood your point.

Congratulations to Grimes and Elon Musk! Their newborn son, who Musk says is named X Æ A-12, arrived last night https://t.co/7eRjVMvul2

— Pitchfork (@pitchfork) May 5, 2020

X Æ A-12 is a strong name. irish i think.

believe it's actually Gaelic, meaning "one who'll be punched"

the thing is, people rebel against their parents and also learn from their shortcomings. X Æ A-12 will likely grow up to be a very well-adjusted, friendly guy. maybe an i love hoops poster.

Showbiz brats are noted for their grounded and likeable nature

Had no idea until this morning that he has 6 kids from his first marriage.

Sorry, five.

believe it's actually Gaelic, meaning "one who'll be punched"

― Morton Koopa Jr. Sings Elvis (Sufjan Grafton), mardi 5 mai 2020 15:37 (forty-eight minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

ehehe

A baby is always good news. Sincere congrats to the new parents.

Nice thing about having a version number in your name is you don't need to go "jr." You can just increment the version number.

excited to hear xæa-12 when they play casa del popolo in 20 years

•X, the unknown variable ⚔️
•Æ, my elven spelling of Ai (love &/or Artificial intelligence)
•A-12 = precursor to SR-17 (our favorite aircraft). No weapons, no defenses, just speed. Great in battle, but non-violent 🤍
+
(A=Archangel, my favorite song)
(⚔️🐁 metal rat)

— ꧁ ༒ Gℜiꪔ⃕es ༒꧂ 🍓🐉🎀 小仙女 (@Grimezsz) May 6, 2020

man, "x, the unknown variable" is just the worst. That shit is just meaningless convention like "dave".

"Dave" is potentially meaningul, I guess

"our favorite aircraft"

lovecraft to aircraft and it only took 1 billion dollars

her album basically vanished without trace, it seems

"non violent" navy aircraft that merely provided the intel for how the violence was to be carried out

yeah...naming your child after a Lockheed-built spy plane used in Vietnam is genuinely mind-boggling and not in a whimsical celebrities-are-weird way

Grimes trolling us all with her choice of partner and baby name.

This interaction........ pic.twitter.com/HDyVNaeQdT

— ⭐ amy o'connor ⭐ (@amyohconnor) May 6, 2020

take these broken wings and learn to fly

that's hilarious.

her album basically vanished without trace, it seems

It what sense? It’ll hopefully appear on year-end best-of lists

i just listened to it again yesterday i think it's great

Please tell me she’s trolling with that name.

it is elven, not zandali

" her album basically vanished without trace, it seems"

well it's hard to release an album in the middle of a pandemic plus she couldn't do much promotion for it considering she was pregnant. It's a good album.