Hipster runoff warned us about her more than a decade ago.
Been reading the posts about her and yeah in retrospective she has always been unpalatable. I guess I tolerated it better when her music didn’t suck.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Thursday, 24 March 2022 18:35 (two years ago) link
It's amazing she's been able to last this long despite being The Fucking Worst since day one. I mean, you would think "high school art girl version of Matthew Barney" would have a naturally short shelf life, but it's been a decade and a half or something at this point.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Thursday, 24 March 2022 18:43 (two years ago) link
My timeline with Grimes is basically: "oh, ppl say she makes gothy pixie music, that's 100% my bag" *listens to Visions* "holy hell this is unmitigated bullshit, wtf"*hears Purity Ring*"oh this is what I thought Grimes was going to sound like; here Grimes, you can have all of my middle fingers"
― castanuts (DJP), Thursday, 24 March 2022 19:29 (two years ago) link
the one with the video at the monster truck rally is fine enough but I don't think I've ever sought out another Grimes banger
― papal hotwife (milo z), Thursday, 24 March 2022 19:34 (two years ago) link
No some of her songs are incredible including Vanessa, Flesh Without Blood, and Oblivion
― treeship., Thursday, 24 March 2022 19:37 (two years ago) link
Oblivion is not incredible, it is interminable
― castanuts (DJP), Thursday, 24 March 2022 19:39 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADHFwabVJec
haha holy shit you'd have to pay me to watch a video with that thumbnail
― papal hotwife (milo z), Thursday, 24 March 2022 19:40 (two years ago) link
I dont like the new stuff as much
― treeship., Thursday, 24 March 2022 19:42 (two years ago) link
not to go all hro here, but grimes has always been a bunch of tumblr posts come to life for all that entails
― mh, Thursday, 24 March 2022 19:43 (two years ago) link
She had a cool sound though and I liked her music in my early twenties. Some of the tracks hold up in my opinion.
― treeship., Thursday, 24 March 2022 19:53 (two years ago) link
“visions (demo)” and “violence” are both songs I enjoy a lot
― brimstead, Thursday, 24 March 2022 20:01 (two years ago) link
sorry, not “visions” meant “REALIty (demo)”
― brimstead, Thursday, 24 March 2022 20:02 (two years ago) link
Vowels=space and time is another really good one
― treeship., Thursday, 24 March 2022 20:02 (two years ago) link
kind of wish someone was doing a less-toxic but still sarcastically critical type of blog now when I see headlines likeWHY ORANGETHEORY HIRED STEVE AOKI AS ITS CMO—CHIEF MUSIC OFFICER
― mh, Thursday, 24 March 2022 22:49 (two years ago) link
Never forget!
https://i.imgur.com/6KB31sT.jpg
― The Quantum Superposition Platform - For Life (MoominTrollin), Thursday, 24 March 2022 22:56 (two years ago) link
the whole of chillwave grimes et al i was like i respect the audacity of making music that sounds like singing along to the radio playing in the other room but i dont respect it that much
― lag∞n, Friday, 25 March 2022 01:56 (two years ago) link
'player of games' is sick
― flopson, Friday, 25 March 2022 02:03 (two years ago) link
WHY ORANGETHEORY HIRED STEVE AOKI AS ITS CMO—CHIEF MUSIC OFFICER
Yeah, I feel like when he took breaks from doing some of the grosser hounding of musicians his voice could work really well for a specific sort of at-large cultural criticism.
e.g. Urban Outfitters stock is in 'the shitter', CEO resigns. Are alt retailers dying?
Urban Outfitters stock is in 'the shitter', CEO resigns. Are alt retailers dying?
― dell (del), Friday, 25 March 2022 03:03 (two years ago) link
There was a really good one or maybe series of ones referencing edison lightbulb, mason jars, exposed brick sort of aesthetic trend in coffeehouses, "gastropubs" that was really satisfying. He was good at that stuff I think.
― dell (del), Friday, 25 March 2022 03:12 (two years ago) link
Oh wait I just read all 3000 posts on this thread and I guess that was prev mentioned.
― dell (del), Friday, 25 March 2022 03:16 (two years ago) link
whither carles
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Sunday, 25 June 2023 22:00 (ten months ago) link
i’ve been enjoying the stuff brad troemel’s been putting on ig/patreon lately. like a historicization of post-internet art and online culture of the last 15-ish years. his style is ymmv but imo it’s informative and interesting. this one was about carles/hr:
https://www.instagram.com/reel/Cq3IWYeg4Rj/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
― flopson, Monday, 26 June 2023 08:54 (ten months ago) link