Grimes/Claire Boucher thread

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oh boy

morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 19 February 2018 01:51 (six years ago) link

lol

crüt, Monday, 19 February 2018 01:57 (six years ago) link

https://i.imgur.com/lJjUg0B.png

crüt, Monday, 19 February 2018 02:15 (six years ago) link

So was the post above actual insider details about Grimes' contract or an educated guess? It sounds like labels have become much more generous and fair vs the old days.

Moodles, Monday, 19 February 2018 03:03 (six years ago) link

Perhaps with physical media sales dwindling, the stakes are lower for the labels.

startled macropod (MatthewK), Monday, 19 February 2018 03:09 (six years ago) link

thread just went supernova

flappy bird, Monday, 19 February 2018 04:00 (six years ago) link

This is why it was suggested at new employee orientation not to discuss your salary with your colleagues!

- very frazzled 4AD Human Resources associate

how's life, Monday, 19 February 2018 11:56 (six years ago) link

lol I'm inclined to post a screenshot from my 2016 royalties statement from the Label In Question just for laffs but unfortunately the internet isn't as cozy as it used to be. I will again assert that I would be very surprised if Grimes got a 50/50 split from them, as I know a number of artists under that umbrella who would also be quite pleased to find themselves the beneficiaries of such a split. however, it is a new era, it's true, and the people I knew there, even at the top, are largely gone, so who knows. still, I would be surprised.

she carries a torch. two torches, actually (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Monday, 19 February 2018 12:07 (six years ago) link

i don't think i've ever encountered anyone signed to a bigger indie that didn't have a 50/50 royalty rate in the deal.

out of curiosity I talked to some artist managers I know this morning - their experience does not reflect yours. the only indies I know who do a 50/50 split with anybody are the ones that don't pay mechanicals, standard royalty rates are MUCH lower than that.

she carries a torch. two torches, actually (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Monday, 19 February 2018 15:38 (six years ago) link

indie royalties are a lot closer to an even split than major royalties, no? even if they're not as generous as 50-50

T'Chadwick (voodoo chili), Monday, 19 February 2018 15:43 (six years ago) link

isn't 4AD a major indie

imago, Monday, 19 February 2018 15:45 (six years ago) link

depends on the size of the indie in my experience. a big article on Future of Music Coalition's site states

Here it is important to remember that artists’ contract royalty rate is not statutory, transparent nor is it public. Traditional contract royalties begin at a much smaller “11 –13 percent” and allow for that royalty amount to be further diminished through a process of unfair deductions that are standardized within the industry.

indies do better than that but in my experience only the super-pure-at-heart indies do anything near 50/50. (And, as has been observed for generations, it often turns out that the indie that offers you nice high split like this will ghost at some point and you'll have to hire people to go get what you're owed & then it turns out they didn't even keep track of the master tapes and you wish you'd had a 17% royalty that paid reliably instead of having to waste whole days wondering if scientists have determined how to get blood out of a turnip yet, not that I'd know anything about any of this lol)

she carries a torch. two torches, actually (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Monday, 19 February 2018 15:57 (six years ago) link

I wonder what’s the rate at Dischord.

Van Horn Street, Monday, 19 February 2018 16:09 (six years ago) link

just been waiting for my moment to drop "its the roc, baby!" in here

mh, Monday, 19 February 2018 16:11 (six years ago) link

huh weird i got 100% royalties when i signed to 4AD

flopson, Monday, 19 February 2018 21:18 (six years ago) link

I gotta give props to 4AD for giving all of ILM sweet record contracts. The Lulu pre-covers really paid off!

Moodles, Monday, 19 February 2018 21:22 (six years ago) link

lol, i just went and checked the soundcloud for that. pleasant plains's pumping blood has been streamed 4000 times. n/a's pumping blood has been streamed 1600 times.

Someone out there really likes blood.

hi, we're the accountin' goats (how's life), Monday, 19 February 2018 21:40 (six years ago) link

everyone i know who signed to a bigger indie did so in the bloggy internet boom times when merge and XL were getting number one albums and everyone in that industry thought the dinosaur majors had been vanquished and could never return to power

i'm sure what passed for "normal" during that time did not reflect the experience of everyone from before that time and anyone who will ever come after

james brooks, Monday, 19 February 2018 22:15 (six years ago) link

ha that was during that window when people were getting rich off TV commercial placements

good times, good times

she carries a torch. two torches, actually (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Tuesday, 20 February 2018 02:20 (six years ago) link

Venus Fly behind the scenes. So freaking cool.

https://tidal.com/browse/video/70001854

how's life, Saturday, 24 February 2018 13:44 (six years ago) link

https://i.imgur.com/t7CxXtTl.jpg

Hazy Maze Cave (Adam Bruneau), Saturday, 24 February 2018 18:38 (six years ago) link

Fantastic.

Le Bateau Ivre, Saturday, 24 February 2018 18:41 (six years ago) link

important follow-up to that:

https://www.instagram.com/p/BfmN-YDg6Rl/?hl=en&taken-by=grimes

how's life, Sunday, 25 February 2018 16:50 (six years ago) link

hides looks good. they should collaborate on a pachinko machine for Konami.

Allen (etaeoe), Sunday, 25 February 2018 17:48 (six years ago) link

this is cool:

Now she’s returned to social media to offer another update, clarifying that she’s “back in the studio making a million beats” and working on “one final album for my shit label and then my first album on a label of my choosing which im crazy stoked about eeeee. or i might go fully independent, researching options. the second one will be extreme darkness and chaos, the first will be highly collaborative and most glorious light.

https://www.stereogum.com/1984585/grimes-plans-highly-collaborative-final-album-for-her-shit-label/news/?amp=1&__twitter_impression=true

flappy bird, Monday, 26 February 2018 00:19 (six years ago) link

has 4AD done in this in the past / do they have a reputation a la Sub Pop?

flappy bird, Monday, 26 February 2018 00:19 (six years ago) link

So will the last album for 4AD be willfuly bad? She should do some 10 remixes and tape manipulations of “Scream” and call it a day.

✖✖✖ (Moka), Monday, 26 February 2018 00:46 (six years ago) link

Don't think Grimes would do that to her fans. The descriptions of both records sound great. Interesting way to work out a very particular type of angst maybe. We don't exactly what the problem is so might come out in the music. Whatever. I hope she comes thru & at least she's not walled off like Sky Ferreira - I can't believe it'll be 5 years since Night Time, My Time this fall. and I really hope Masochism finally comes out this year.

flappy bird, Monday, 26 February 2018 01:08 (six years ago) link

wasn't the last album technically released under two labels?

mh, Monday, 26 February 2018 14:57 (six years ago) link

cool, hanging out with hideo kojima, he'll be good mentor as far as completing projects and having them come out in a timely manner

It's not delivery, it's Adorno! (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 26 February 2018 15:28 (six years ago) link

oh hush, you

mh, Monday, 26 February 2018 15:29 (six years ago) link

hahaha

scoff walker (diamonddave85), Monday, 26 February 2018 16:25 (six years ago) link

Hahahaha

✖✖✖ (Moka), Monday, 26 February 2018 18:04 (six years ago) link

alright, backstory for non-gamers?

how's life, Monday, 26 February 2018 18:05 (six years ago) link

hideo kojima made the Metal Gear series

flappy bird, Monday, 26 February 2018 18:10 (six years ago) link

i quit playing video games before i was a teenager but Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty has stuck with me for 17 years and is remarkably prescient

kojima is a living legend

flappy bird, Monday, 26 February 2018 18:11 (six years ago) link

he also has had "problems with the label" recently, so they might have bonded over that

i remember the corned beef of my childhood (Karl Malone), Monday, 26 February 2018 18:14 (six years ago) link

he notably has to be prodded to actually finish a game

mh, Monday, 26 February 2018 18:29 (six years ago) link

Kojima is one of the most famous and ambitious game directors, known for huge budgets and way too many projects stuck in development hell.

✖✖✖ (Moka), Monday, 26 February 2018 18:55 (six years ago) link

Silent hill, man

kolakube (Ross), Monday, 26 February 2018 20:54 (six years ago) link

The PT preview game for Silent Hills was so good and the most terrified I’ve ever been playing a game. I broke my controller against the wall after one of those hallway scares.. not joking. One of his projects I was looking forward the most.

✖✖✖ (Moka), Monday, 26 February 2018 21:52 (six years ago) link

^ amazing game. Buddy projected it on the wall, it was a hellish vortex. Crying babies drove mad

kolakube (Ross), Tuesday, 27 February 2018 02:53 (six years ago) link

*drove me mad

kolakube (Ross), Tuesday, 27 February 2018 02:54 (six years ago) link

is that the one in the corridor that you keep going back to?

Van Horn Street, Tuesday, 27 February 2018 03:12 (six years ago) link

Yeah that's the one. There is an actual order and steps to be done before going through the corridor each time (while avoiding to be killed by your ex-wife's ghost). By the way some steps were ridiculous like whispering names into the controller's mic at certain points. When completed an actual trailer for the game was revealed (when first launched there was no info on who was behind the mini game just the words PT whic stands for Playable Trailer)

The concept trailer made by kojima and del toro also looked amazing. Really sad this is not happening:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNMseVbyc3g

✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 27 February 2018 17:59 (six years ago) link

Also for extra sadness: Junji Ito was going to be involved twitter.com/RealGDT/status/648117433593655296?s=09

✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 27 February 2018 18:02 (six years ago) link

Back to Grimes it would be so awesome to have her collaborating on Death Stranding with Kojima either as a cameo 'actor' or doing some sound loops for the game (or both).

✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 27 February 2018 18:40 (six years ago) link

Btw for you of those who have no idea who Kojima or what a Death Stranding is, it's the game he has been developing since he was fired from Konami and it looks fucking bonkers... here's the three concept trailers released so far:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rx4Fq-pKAzM

Starring Norman Reedus, Mads Mikkelsen and Guillermo del Toro as actors for the game so far. The budgets on his projects are crazier than the concepts.

✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 27 February 2018 18:45 (six years ago) link

It'll be released with the Playstation 6, no doubt :)

mh, Tuesday, 27 February 2018 18:55 (six years ago) link

Starring Norman Reedus, Mads Mikkelsen and Guillermo del Toro as actors for the game so far.

also all three have said they have no idea what the game is even about!

i love that kojima's out doing his thing in an industry where triple A is increasingly bland but he disappeared up his own but a while back

It's not delivery, it's Adorno! (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 27 February 2018 19:01 (six years ago) link


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