Grimes/Claire Boucher thread

"patriotic pride"

for better or worse I do think there's a lot of "soft power" at work behind these granting institutions. It's less about making Canadians feel good and more about setting up Canadian artists to punch above their weight internationally, thus making Canada seem cultured, successful, etc.

otm

Oh, absolutely. And it seems to be working pretty well-- but in Canada, "export" seems to be a priority. In Europe, certain countries spend lots of money on arts funding, but we (as outsiders) don't really seem to see it, as such efforts in France/Germany/Benelux seem to be focused more on stimulating culture for local benefit. Compare this with Iceland, where "export" is also a priority-- I could name 20 contemporary Icelandic bands compared to 5 contemporary French bands, i.e.

I think the soft power thing is true and otm, but I don't see how it helps artists in the long run.

Oh, absolutely. And it seems to be working pretty well-- but in Canada, "export" seems to be a priority. In Europe, certain countries spend lots of money on arts funding, but we (as outsiders) don't really seem to see it, as such efforts in France/Germany/Benelux seem to be focused more on stimulating culture for local benefit. Compare this with Iceland, where "export" is also a priority-- I could name 20 contemporary Icelandic bands compared to 5 contemporary French bands, i.e.

That's because outside of hip-hop contemporary french band are mostly terrible.

I like Feu ! Chatterton, and that's about it.

There's a lot of shitty French hip-hop too tbf (see: Jul).

The sum up what was confused and confusing posts, here's my take: Can and Prov. governements should fund artists that are in need of financial help in order to advance their careers/pay the bills, and fund corporations and institutions that will allow the canadian cultural ecosystem to further blossom from an economic point of view. I see Grimes has being in neither category, as an artist, maybe in the second if she is indeed a co-owner of Crystal Meth.

or Crystal Math.

which is a dumb name imo.

The government spent HOW MUCH on crystal meth??!

Looks like Crystal Math was founded in 2006 by the manager of the band Metric, “in an effort to assist (...) Metric self-release their next album 'Fantasies' without the backing of a traditional label.”

I really can’t find more on the company’s officers or a link to Grimes, beyond the obvious fact that she’s on the label.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bu6YgBon-Rc

new track for the cyberpunk 2077 soundtrack (lizzy wizzy is the character she voices in game)

it's fine?

revisited miss anthropocene last night, confident it's her best

what a great company to partner with!

CD Projekt? Do they have a bad rep?

yeah anti-trans humor on social media and problematic stuff in the game

gamergate "pc culture is out of control" vibes all over

forced crunch/excessive working hours for workers

tried to fuck their employees out of bonuses because of bad review scores

game is super buggy and they have to offer refunds to ps4 and xbox one owners

Tbf much of it wasn't immediately apparent. And speaking of collaborators, see also:

https://cyberpunk2077.bandcamp.com/album/cyberpunk-2077-radio-vol-1-original-soundtrack

pissed jeans have a song on it too

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

lol she announces she has Covid and she's "weirdly enjoying" it and it barely makes my social media feeds, what a time

It’s not as popular right now
But Bitcoins also a cash cow
And even though she’s fallen some
I still grew my initial sum

I’m told that I’m on the spectrum
I catch crypto like ash ketchum

Crypto king, like Kim dot com
Get me some etherium!

— 𝑪𝒍𝒂𝒊𝒓𝒆 𝒅𝒆 𝑳𝒖𝒏𝒆࿎ (@Grimezsz) January 28, 2021

new grimes jam dropped

every line of that is calculated to make my brain leak out my ears

not as popular as elon right now but

lmaoooo
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/grimes-nft-digital-artwork-1134516/

jesus christ
https://niftygateway.com/collections/warnymphvolume1

omg this shit is terrible, it's like if wyland stopped painting humpback whales and started making 3d renderings of space babies, this is what we would get
https://res.cloudinary.com/nifty-gateway/image/upload/q_auto:good,w_800/v1614181985/Max/Grimes/Newborn_3_f8zgk5.jpg

it's like angela from the office entered into a goth phase and redid the jazz babies poster in maya 3d, lmaoooooo

http://theofficecom106.weebly.com/uploads/6/0/4/4/60449985/3753068.jpg

Musician makes mediocre artwork shocker

alright wiseass, u can dismiss the art itself but are u not impressed by grimes's revolutionary incorporation of blockchain technology into the commercialization of her work? does nothing impress you?

and really tho, u think this is merely mediocre? not, say, catastrophically tasteless?

Since you asked - I don't personally care about this shit, and don't get why ppl come here to clown on her every time she does something mildly cringy (or is accused of something by association).

i understand. i love a lot of grimes' music. she's very often brilliant. i think people have been unduly harsh towards her, too. i wouldn't be in here to diss some shit i thought was just mildly cringy.

everything about this stunt grosses me out: the vaguely specified charitable committment, the lazy deviantart quality of the work, the blockchain gimmick. i don't get worked up about the politics of the art world very often, but this shit strikes me as deeply cynical and it disgusts me and i wonder if it's not almost a little evil.

NFTs are extremely embarrassing and every other musician who expresses interest in them should be clowned on just as much

Half of my twitter timeline is either musicians clowning on NFTs or Mat Dryhurst defending them

new all purpose headline to be used going forward for anything grimes-related:

GRIMES DOES VERY STUPID THING THAT SOME MAY SAY ISN'T STUPID

"How can she possibly need more money", said one fan when asked about the development.

this feels like first dave matthews band album's magic eye cover

if people bought magic eyes for $250,000. maybe they did?

davey otm that this work would be most appropriately installed on the side of an office tower or two on the way out to the airport

my take is that NFTs are dumb in many ways, not the least of which is the giant energy suck that is crypto mining that underpins the transactions

on the other hand, the “art” aspect pretty much cut out the middleman when it comes to artistic works as money laundering instrument and if anyone wants to get that money, have at it

Art’s ugly, but the real joke is people paying for that shit.

A percentage of the proceeds from the WarNymph NFT sales will be donated to Carbon180, an NGO dedicated to reducing carbon emissions.

Pretty horrendous if true.

jesus

The part about energy consumption in this case is a fallacy, since these NFT's are hosted on the Ethereum blockchain which does many many many more things than just host NFT's. That would be the same as complaining about the energy usage of banks or Amazon Web Services.

why wouldn't you complain about those things?

Would complain if Grimes released album only available to new bank of america accounts

The part about energy consumption in this case is a fallacy, since these NFT's are hosted on the Ethereum blockchain which does many many many more things than just host NFT's. That would be the same as complaining about the energy usage of banks or Amazon Web Services.

Boooh, blockchains are bad! (absolute nonsense)

That would be the same as complaining about the energy usage of banks or Amazon Web Services.

while some of the money dried up over the past four years, we institutionally incentivize companies to use “green” (quotes due to the credit-trading nature) energy. of the multiple reasons I live not far from multiple large data centers (not AWS but several of the other big names) is my state’s power grid is 40% wind energy and they can sign deals with the power company to say they’re sourcing 100% of their energy from wind

nearly all companies brag when their facilities are LEED certified. whether or not that helps in marketing, idk

the other day I read about a LEED-certified detention centre for asylum seekers

The part about energy consumption in this case is a fallacy, since these NFT's are hosted on the Ethereum blockchain which does many many many more things than just host NFT's.

I speak with some level of authority, as a person who used to work with/for ppl in the Ethereum foundation, that sarahell is correct and none of the current applications remotely justify this sort of energy consumption.

kinda wish I could beam that Grimes art page back to satoshi so he/they could see how this shit panned out

Boooh, blockchains are bad! (absolute nonsense)