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― The Painter of Blight™ (Sanpaku), Wednesday, 18 July 2012 00:11 (eleven years ago) link
Performance on Jimmy Fallon's show last night was way boring, but after the song and after he shook Claire's and her dancer's hands and ran up into the audience, they huddled on the stage and started jumping up and down and giggling. It was cute.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 15 August 2012 19:20 (eleven years ago) link
drugs
― sean gramophone, Wednesday, 15 August 2012 19:25 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FH-q0I1fJY
― some white dude (Turangalila), Wednesday, 22 August 2012 14:36 (eleven years ago) link
can someone tell Mortiis his wife's got out of the cave and is running about in the desert?
― Jamie_ATP, Wednesday, 22 August 2012 14:41 (eleven years ago) link
bitches must be dreading a hit these days if they're gonna get driven out to wear outfits in the desert every time
― r|t|c, Wednesday, June 20, 2012 11:42 AM (2 months ago) Bookmark
― young money color me badd (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, 22 August 2012 14:54 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah yeah - song is still great though.
― some white dude (Turangalila), Wednesday, 22 August 2012 16:00 (eleven years ago) link
I cannot lie, that gang looks like a bitchin good time.
― Cousin Slappy, Wednesday, 22 August 2012 18:37 (eleven years ago) link
This year's gathering of the juggalos look crazy
― pun lovin criminal (polyphonic), Wednesday, 22 August 2012 18:50 (eleven years ago) link
the way she looks into the camera is p mesmerizing
― flopson, Wednesday, 22 August 2012 19:52 (eleven years ago) link
did not have trouble watching that
― contenderizer, Wednesday, 22 August 2012 20:01 (eleven years ago) link
Girl is a star, straight up.
― calstars, Wednesday, 22 August 2012 21:04 (eleven years ago) link
argh this shit
― sean gramophone, Wednesday, 22 August 2012 21:34 (eleven years ago) link
recommend depends
― contenderizer, Wednesday, 22 August 2012 21:35 (eleven years ago) link
curious to hear u elab on this
― flopson, Wednesday, 22 August 2012 21:55 (eleven years ago) link
turangalia I really enjoyed the video of your road trip to the burning man festival, hope you will post more
― bert yansh (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 22 August 2012 22:46 (eleven years ago) link
guilty lol will not prevent me from watching that video again
― contenderizer, Wednesday, 22 August 2012 22:54 (eleven years ago) link
I always liked everything about Lady Gaga except for the catchy, memorable melodies and adequate production values, so this is really up my alley.
― bert yansh (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 22 August 2012 23:02 (eleven years ago) link
hehe
― young money color me badd (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, 22 August 2012 23:02 (eleven years ago) link
i'm just mad that i can't wear my sparse metal bikini in the suburbs anymore because everyone will think i'm ripping off grimes
― Thanks WEBSITE!! (Z S), Thursday, 23 August 2012 00:13 (eleven years ago) link
flaming broadsword? shamelessly marketing herself to the scott seward audience.
― emo mcgee vs ricky hitler (Merdeyeux), Thursday, 23 August 2012 14:51 (eleven years ago) link
What's the concept of the video?
Claire Boucher: It's loosely based on this painting by my favorite painter, Hieronymus Bosch, called "The Seven Deadly Sins and the Four Last Things" (below). I wanted to play with Medieval/Catholic imagery. I was raised in a Catholic household and went to a Catholic school, and my childhood brain perceived medieval Catholicism as an action movie: There's this crazy omnipresent guy who can destroy you at any moment.
If painters could be compared to filmmakers, Bosch is the Hype Williams of renaissance painters.
― Tim F, Friday, 31 August 2012 23:46 (eleven years ago) link
This whole interview on the Genesis video is great:
http://www.pitchfork.com/features/directors-cut/8929-grimes/?utm_medium=site&utm_source=ticker&utm_name=ticker
Like when she talks about the broadsword woman being a "contemporary muse" and then she's "like the Ryan Seacrest of indie culture".
Girl enjoys her analogies a whole lot.
― Tim F, Friday, 31 August 2012 23:50 (eleven years ago) link
she's like the madonna of terrible indie artists
― vincent black shadow giallo (Edward III), Saturday, 1 September 2012 00:18 (eleven years ago) link
This really does sound like those halfheard/remembered songs with wordshaped/evocative sounds instead of audible lyrics I'd have to half make up when there was a party nearby when I was a kid, as a few people upthread have kinda suggested/said. It's pretty amazing atm.
― albvivertine, Saturday, 1 September 2012 14:12 (eleven years ago) link
It's very openeded, as a guy who drums said. I was loving a percussion part on Vanessa till I stopped tapping my desk and realised it wasn't actually on the track.
― albvivertine, Saturday, 1 September 2012 14:14 (eleven years ago) link
finally checked this album out a few days ago. totally obsessed. picked up the vinyl version of 'Visions' last night - sounds fantastic. great pop album.
― harpal, Wednesday, 26 September 2012 15:35 (eleven years ago) link
Yes it is.
― LeRooLeRoo, Wednesday, 26 September 2012 20:06 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah idg the "lack of hooks" crit. "Circumambient" could be Kylie.
― some white dude (Turangalila), Wednesday, 26 September 2012 21:50 (eleven years ago) link
writer J. Shepherd not crazy about "Genesis" video:
http://jawnita.tumblr.com/post/32480860758/i-wrote-this-thing-about-grimes-genesis-and-it-never
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.
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 29 September 2012 18:18 (eleven years ago) link
yeah, nor am i?
i still love the actual album way way more than shepherd does, but the video is iffy, the fashion stuff is iffy, and the random reference to japanese aesthetic philosophy in the parenthetical title for be a body is just... a bit random? and not necessarily motivated maybe? and kind of just a signifier/stand in?
― twinkin' and drinkin' and ready to fly (Alex in Montreal), Saturday, 29 September 2012 18:30 (eleven years ago) link
find it sort of bewildering that people could have interpreted the album in such way that that video might be seen as being aesthetically divergent or misrepresentational
(ftr it is all just whatever to me moreso than offensive)
― r|t|c, Saturday, 29 September 2012 18:53 (eleven years ago) link
"with the precision of someone who’s studied it" is a big boring canard anyway, isn't it just rather the every poet steals, bad poets deface, good poets renew thing
can't say i'm any fan of gang gang dance either admittedly
― r|t|c, Saturday, 29 September 2012 18:56 (eleven years ago) link
oh black keys only paws
― Ask The Answer Man (sexyDancer), Saturday, 29 September 2012 19:26 (eleven years ago) link
As narrative goes, the visuals are purely aesthetic,
the horror!
― flopson, Saturday, 29 September 2012 19:31 (eleven years ago) link
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
i will not vibe 2 this refrain w/o further evidence (will accept certificate of global music minor, substantial ratio of music tagged "global music" on i-pod)
― flopson, Saturday, 29 September 2012 19:36 (eleven years ago) link
It's so weird that writers are choosing NOW to get tripped up over the fact postmodernism and globalisation are real as have been for over a generation.
― Ask The Answer Man (sexyDancer), Saturday, 29 September 2012 19:36 (eleven years ago) link
When has rock'n'roll ever given a shit about propriety of cultural borders?
― Ask The Answer Man (sexyDancer), Saturday, 29 September 2012 19:40 (eleven years ago) link
I mean, Buddy Holly never went to Africa.
― Ask The Answer Man (sexyDancer), Saturday, 29 September 2012 19:43 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oh2wWjXgi8k
― Ask The Answer Man (sexyDancer), Saturday, 29 September 2012 15:40 (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
eh i think there are some ok points to be made, this guy just has his head so far up all kinds of ass, that "Presumably," is just...
― flopson, Saturday, 29 September 2012 19:49 (eleven years ago) link
The rest of that Julianne Shep blogpost offers a bit more balance.
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 29 September 2012 19:53 (eleven years ago) link
the problem with that video is not cultural appropriation, its that nothing at all interesting happens, just a bunch of teenagers staging a manga / 90s fashion show in the dessert.
― dsb, Saturday, 29 September 2012 19:55 (eleven years ago) link
i like the music though...
ah but you see ... we are entering "post interesting" era
― Ask The Answer Man (sexyDancer), Saturday, 29 September 2012 19:56 (eleven years ago) link
genesis is a lot more interesting than most music videos i have sene this year in which things actually happen tho
― flopson, Saturday, 29 September 2012 19:57 (eleven years ago) link
the demand for "high concept" videos takes away from the music I think ... who needs another nerdfest at this point?
― Ask The Answer Man (sexyDancer), Saturday, 29 September 2012 20:03 (eleven years ago) link
Right, there is nothing intrinsically wrong with just dancing around in the desert with your friends/models for your video, but the whole vibe of the song/ way the video was filmed and edited makes it seems like there will be some sort of content that never arrives, or at least some interesting imagery more unique than ohh an albino snake.
― dsb, Saturday, 29 September 2012 20:11 (eleven years ago) link
i kind of imagined it as the first in a never to be continued series about this crew, or like their intro theme
― flopson, Saturday, 29 September 2012 20:14 (eleven years ago) link
I makes sense if you watch a bunch of grimes videos in a row ... they all feature dancing around in front of groups of people, whether modern dance troupe in white studio or nude guys in stadium locker room ... they're all kind of about various deserts. the "genesis" one just happens to be about California "superficial" scene
― Ask The Answer Man (sexyDancer), Saturday, 29 September 2012 20:22 (eleven years ago) link