Grimes/Claire Boucher thread

i'm glad she's managing to have fun with paparazzi harassing her i guess

Arghh why is she so fucking lame. She used to be one of the coolest artists of her generation. Now she just makes me sad.

Yeah this looks like a photoshoot and she might be trolling but that doesn’t make it cool, tbh it makes it more lame.

idk about her ever being 'cool', she was only ever endearingly uncool (like look at those music videos lol they're so goofy) & then it became very unendearing very quickly when she made her heel turn

she likes dark souls which is good

Xpost: Not naturally cool no, but she wasn’t such a fucking tryhard. Posing for tabloids is as low as you can get.

i would argue she was very cool for a while around 2012

https://www.instagram.com/p/CUjhhm9rB0M/

"personally I’m more interested in a radical decentralized ubi that I think could potentially be achieved thru crypto and gaming but I haven’t ironed that idea out enough yet to explain it" lmao

her outfit is so insane lol.. serving tatooine

"personally I’m more interested in a radical decentralized ubi that I think could potentially be achieved thru crypto and gaming but I haven’t ironed that idea out enough yet to explain it" lmao

― ufo, Sunday, October 3, 2021 2:54 AM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

one of my communist friends is super into imagining the future of central planning and he says in the communist economies of the future the market will be replaced with some decentralized institution that is a mix between a social network and will also have these ai chatbots who interview you about which goods you'd like to have

Tyranny of the Clippy

Even the picture looks exactly like the kind of photoshopped picture the onion world make

paparazzi followed me 2 a shoot so I tried 2 think what I could do that would yield the most onion-ish possible headline and it worked haha pic.twitter.com/9w8pPwIFAq

— Grimes 🪐 (@Grimezsz) October 3, 2021

that's what she was going for!

Still doing NFT scams

Bella Poarch x Grimes are dynamic musicians with cultural relevance: one is a TikTok icon, the other is a NFT pioneer. In this drop, IRL friends help each other break into the next big space.

Brittany_Broski x Grimes
Brittany Broski broke norms with one of the internet’s most iconic videos, propelling her overnight to as "Kombucha girl." Grimes broke expectations with a $6 million NFT series. Driven by authenticity, this pairing’s proceeds will go to charity.

https://newsroom.tiktok.com/en-us/tiktok-launches-first-creator-led-nft-collection-powered-by-immutable-x

Love the authenticity inherent in being known as “kombucha girl”.

Lol that paparazzi story is such bullshit

is it important? it's just trolling, is the point.

she's a bit of a nudnik

Is it actually trolling if absolutely noone got baited?

lol

Dawg she was dressed like she handing out side quests

— Davy (@ItsAllGravyDavy) October 3, 2021

✖✖✖ (Moka) at 5:49 3 Oct 21
Is it actually trolling if absolutely noone got baited?

this man was Seen pic.twitter.com/uf0HvuV5Yw

— wint (@dril) October 4, 2021

lmao at "no one got baited" like did you actually see how people responded to this, including here?

I don’t see anyone in here thinking for a moment that this wasn’t staged.

"trolling" means trying to provoke a reaction. Crowing very loudly about how transparently staged this is was is taking the bait.

DJP otm

I think the photos were A1 but explaining the photos like she’s letting us in on it feels a bit lame

So she transparently staged a goofy photo to troll people into saying it was goofy and transparently staged? Not sure I follow.

I don't know, I guess it just struck how onion-like it was, everybody from Grimes to whoever photographed this to the NY Post was going for the onion esthetic.

If trolling simply means to provoke a reaction, under that definition every figure under every branch of human history and culture is a troll I guess.

If you ask me there’s an implicit side of “trolling” and “baiting” which needs someone to actually believe you’re being serious about something oh so controversial. If everybody is on the know, it’s not trolling.

Like a successful troll is someone like Kanye where you can’t actually tell if he is great at trolling or actually mentally unstable.

Yeah this thing she did got a reaction, but was it really a reaction at her “trolling” or a reaction at how lame it was?

I read some of the interpretations of trolling here as simply meaning that she's trying to trick you into engaging one way or another, so if you acknowledge, engage, discuss this at all, you are falling for it. The implication is that Grimes simply should not be getting any attention whatsoever, but clearly that is not a unanimous opinion.

Again, under that definition every celebrity is actually trolling.

just to be clear, I'm not saying I agree with this interpretation

Would you say you trolled Moka into replying?

Moodles you’re such a troll

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCNrK-n68CM

I have a copy of Art Angels in my record collection. Even though I'm sure I would still enjoy it musically, I haven't listened to it in a few years just because everything else about her has left a sour taste in my mouth. Anyway, a few weeks ago I was scanning through my records, saw her name scrawled on the spine and thought to myself "Whaaaaa? I don't own a Gorillaz album!" Ever since then, I've been on a big Gorillaz kick, so thanks Grimes!

what, you stole Grimes's copy of "Gorillaz"?

*Grimezsz

She was trying to goad people into the exact reaction she’s been getting. That is the textbook definition of what trolling is. A lot of you spend way too much time on the internet for this to be hard to understand.

gorillaz is music for babies!

hi chaki!

what, you stole Grimes's copy of "Gorillaz"?

― maf you one two (maffew12), Monday, October 4, 2021 3:25 PM (seventeen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

No, they just both have scrawly handwriting for their logos and I was briefly confused.

gorillaz is music for babies!

― kurt schwitterz, Monday, October 4, 2021 3:36 PM (seven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Well then good sir, I entreat you to a game of peek-a-boo because I am a baby.

where'd you go!?!?!

i was just kidding, Grimes doesn't believe in private property

This whole event is pretty representative of her thing. Pure gesture followed by unneeded rationalization for the ppl probably talking shit

all we have learned is that she treats marxism as lulz, maybe she's aiming to get a spot on red scare.

What percentage of people online virtue signal with Marx daily. I’d say it’s a pretty high number

Like as a percentage of the people talking about Marx overall, I mean