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http://www.npr.org/2016/04/27/455769676/feeling-this-a-conversation-with-grimes
grimes is a big deal
>>64398301
I love her
You guys think she still talks to her witch house pals or is she too cool for them
>>64398301
thanks, some new grimes times to hold me over until... idk her new album?
>>64398403
She's ascended them
>>64398301
She's so adorable. A true artist with a butterfly heart.
>>64398301
Love her
guys, the audio interviewis up n ow, it's perfect
>>64398403
Of course! She's seems like a genuine person.
As narrative goes, the visuals are purely aesthetic, a laundry list of representational “art” looks popularized by Tumblr, offering nothing more than skewed prettiness; which is why the presence of Candy’s Aeon Flux dancer is so much more problematic. The video is Grimes playing primitivism, using a lens of a vague “future” as a way to execute notions of… well, future primitive. Some of the same critiques of James Cameron’s Avatar—that it continues the tradition of exoticising and idealizing the “advanced” and “pure” primitive other—apply here. Worst of all, the video begins with Grimes singing a refrain that is not on her album: wailing in her airy voice, she seems to mimic the vocal runs of Middle Eastern music, but without offering any context whatsoever. Presumably, it’s her depoliticized sonic interpretation of what is “weird,” “edgy,” or “other,” without any visible evidence that she has any knowledge of global music—unlike, say, MIA, who herself is complicated but travels the world to mine its variant sounds , or even white art-pop band Gang Gang Dance, whose polyglot vocalist Lizzi Bougatsos flips bhangra and traditional Chinese and Arabic singing with the precision of someone who’s studied it.
Grimes is not the first person attaching vague ethnic allusions to coolness without context—nor is she the first person to do so in four-inch “Club Kid” platform shoes. Pop music has long been a palette for white musicians interloping, borrowing, and assuming “other” racial identities, to varying critique or effect.
art angels had some cool tunes, i like it 8/10
>>64400231
GRIMES CONFIRMED RACIST AND APPROPRIATOR
>>64400307
HIGHLY PROBLEMATIC
>>64398763
She's looking tired there. Hope she's not overworking.
grimes is a sexist she hates male producers
>>64400452
It's an old pic
>>64400165
Really? Seems lazy, narcissistic, and not terribly bright to me.
>>64398301
why does she say people hate her lisp mu loves her lisp
>>64398301
No, she really isn't.
>>64400669
/thread
>>64398301
grimes is such a wannabe and will never be beyonce she sold out over her stupid delusions im done with this shallow bitch desu
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>>64400852
take your pleb opinions to >>>/mu/
>>64400610
Glad she's staying healthy!
>>64401072
She's more healthy these days. She quit some of her bad habits, like not sleeping on time or not eating for hours because of working on her music.
