Grimes/Claire Boucher thread

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)

something very disquieting about spelling boo with an h

a stank of hoob about it

Also if you don't specify the percentage you're giving to charity then everybody knows it's going to be 0.001% of fuck-all.

I think blockchain is good for small-scale things where the number of tokens needed and the number of transactions are both low. For instance, property records in a smaller city.

The issue is with consensus being a big issue with... idk, blockchain is terrible as used now and if you can get some tokens without mining just do it and cash out. Everyone should cash out on weird shit people trade, and as many people as possible, because shit is weird as hell out there

basically any time I think about this for more than two minutes I go from pensive thoughts to "fuck it, cash out if you can get cash and never talk to me about blockchain again"

otm

This is the stupidest fucking shit I've ever seen.

Complete peak mania.

https://www.billboard.com/articles/business/record-labels/9535316/grimes-columbia-records-deal/

Continuing in a streak of lameness.

lmao please what the fuck is grimes talking about pic.twitter.com/mrFuH4Ouvb

— Olivia Little (@OliviaLittle) June 3, 2021

she really never advanced beyond the "first time i got stoned out of my gourd in the freshman dorm" phase huh

deciding when to not take someone seriously on political and social issues is something that’s lacking in our current marketplace of ideas

music, music videos, etc. seem fine but ol’ grimey’s world view is basically tumblr + skimming wikipedia articles

I’ve been feeling like I woke up in the movie Idiocracy for a couple of years now.

Where is grimes content, that seems to be a twelve year old girl. (n.b. I have never knowingly seen or heard her speak before.)

Why is there a Reebok logo on her nose?

Maybe they're sponsoring her on TikTok.

lEt'S bE rEaL eFoRcEd FaRmInG iS rEaLlY nOt A vIbE

fuck this grifter.

over a certain income/wealth level it should cost you 100k per published take on any social media format

Love it when a millionaire married to a billionaire lectures on "true equality".

Huh, she reminds me of anglo Montrealer girls I worked with in a call centre 20 years ago.

Grifter implies that she’s getting something out of this. She’s just dumb.

Elon prob has a few investments or w/e in AI

I was going to say.

https://www.startribune.com/this-boat-don-t-float/49134952/

I know the boat story is old news but I can't ever shake it from my when Grimes comes up (cuz I live about a mile from where they "moored") and I love this detail from the Strib article where they talk about how you can't be Tom Sawyer anymore cuz the "man"

They got a copy of Mark Twain's "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," which neither of them had read

lol

no clue how much money she might have in the bank, but afaict she is not married

Ok they aren't married, but are you suggesting she sees no financial benefit from her boyfriend and the father of her child being one of earth's richest people?

i feel like a lot of social media is this divide between serious self-proclaimed polymath intellectuals and ppl who are just vibing and both take issue w/grimes

xp she undoubtedly does, but I don’t really know or care? making art that kind of played around with fashion/sci-fi/tumblr nerd themes is supposedly what led her to speak with EM to begin with. she was on the silly “vibing about ai” train before they ever met!