Poohs Packin posted:

This is a thread about Grimes:


Her "about the artist" on Spotify reads:

Grimes started producing music when she had to learn the program Logic for her neuroscience class. Shortly thereafter she had a viral myspace page, which allowed her to start booking shows and focus full-time on music. She lived in a crack den In Montreal with no heat (where she got frostbite twice and her neighbor was bludgeoned to death in the hallway), playing raves until her 2012 breakout, Visions, which was recorded during a 2 week speed binge wherein she did not leave her bedroom. Upon the success of this album, Grimes attempted to enter society as a regular human, which has clearly not gone super well but has nonetheless been entertaining. She’s since become an award winning music video director as well as music composer, producer, engineer and singer-songwriter. She’s toured globally to sold out crowds, headlined festivals, and is now moving into the space of corporate surrealism. She recently had experimental eye surgery only available to the upper class. She put out her final earth album in 2020.


Grimes is an electronic musician and visual artist from Canada who has made some really dope tunes over the years. She's had some massive hits but has also collaborated with really cool more esoteric techno and electronic music artists.


Here are a couple of her hits:

Genesis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FH-q0I1fJY

Oblivion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5H-YlcMSbc

In recent years she's collaborated with heavier and darker electronic artists with great results:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oz_Zxd-iIdI

Oh and her first album was called "Giedi Primes" and was based on Dune. Its okay.

She's also super goony and a genuine weirdo which is pretty awesome. It's always fun when some self taught basement dweller gets thrust into the public light. Here are a few notable instances of her being weird, and possibly trolling.

Grimes has a son named "X Æ A-XII" with Elon Musk. Apparently Ol' Musky thought that she was a "simulation" created by his mind, which is incredibly on brand and hilarious. Obviously they didnt work out.

Grimes likes to keep fit:


She claimed she got experimental eye surgery, which scientists immediately de-bunked:

https://www.stereogum.com/2051274/wait-hold-on-grimes-got-part-of-her-eyes-removed-so-that-she-cant-see-blue-light/news/

"I have also eliminated all blue light from my vision through an experimental surgery that removes the top film of my eyeball and replaces it with an orange ultra-flex polymer that my friend and I made in the lab this past winter as a means to cure seasonal depression."

I'm pretty much convinced she's in part pulling an Andy Kaufman on everyone with claims like this, but its all on brand for her future and alien obsessed image.

Anyways I like Grimes and you can use this thread to post about weird poo poo Grimes has done and said over the years and maybe talk about her music also if you want.