Grimes/Claire Boucher thread

just gonna go ahead and say it

grimes was a very typical vancouverite (looks, attitude, and everything) who still never fully realized til she moved to a big city (hello los angeles) her anti-establishment/radical socialist ideas have no place in the modern world -- it's vancouver's and mayor gregor robertson's "greenest city"/vision vancouver ploy

now she doesn't really want to handle the consequences of her ideas if she goes through with them from a practical conclusion/view

― F# A# (∞), Tuesday, May 22, 2018 1:25 PM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

“”you mean claire?” - vancouver”” - @flowersflowers https://t.co/flo1DwHNZN

— Owen Ellis (@owen______ellis) May 7, 2018

Personally I just want to see the receipts.

srsly tho vancouver norms trying to claim grimes is even lamer than mtl hipsters who can’t keep her name out their mouth being overfamiliar and creepy-mean. ‘This person went to elementary school in my city so i have special knowledge of her’ lol stfu leave my Nazi princess alone

have we reached godwin's law

I think the idea of artists being shaped by their cities is kinda exaggerated, especially in the era of internet/globalisation.

I find Whiney's position mystifying here -- Grimes is actively caping for a union-buster, fuck that, she gets to absorb some heat for that -- but find his Primus clip just delightful so it's a wash

Nothing worse than hipsters going 'arcade fire is so Montreal' when 6/7th of the band is from outside Ontario/the US and the other one is from a rich suburb outside the island.

lol floppy

u get it

van horn street

you just described torontonians publishing stories of people somehow related to their city

VHS otm pace your moniker.

it's for the Outremont part of the street so don't worry.

i mean outside Toronto earlier, i'm sorry

https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/music/2018/03/15/we-picked-torontos-top-100-songs-now-tell-us-why-were-wrong.html

bill barilko disappeared that summer
he was on a fishing trip

I find the thought of Canadians being overtly excited and proud of artists mildly related to their cities charming tbhh

this thread rules!

"hen Fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in health goth and carrying a some dumb ass JRPG" - Bob Marley

we want hen fascism

but find his Primus clip just delightful so it's a wash

always surprised by who you will go to bat for, I gotta say

just gonna go ahead and say it

grimes was a very typical vancouverite (looks, attitude, and everything) who still never fully realized til she moved to a big city (hello los angeles) her anti-establishment/radical socialist ideas have no place in the modern world -- it's vancouver's and mayor gregor robertson's "greenest city"/vision vancouver ploy

now she doesn't really want to handle the consequences of her ideas if she goes through with them from a practical conclusion/view

― F# A# (∞), Tuesday, May 22, 2018 1:25 PM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

visions vancouver

You guys are actually reducing an artist's entire aesthetic and belief system down to who she's fucking and acting like it makes you the progressive ones.

― Matt DC

She explicitly defended Musk & Tesla's very dubious business and labor practices on Twitter. Like Joan said, it's an explicit endorsement of politics many of her fans find repulsive.

If someone @‘d me on Twitter to attack my signif. other, I’d probably defend/deflect as well

We should do a 'would you date Elon Musk?' poll. The truth will shock you!

I mean maybe she invites it by engaging a lot w/her fans online(?); and saying “i’ll address it in my next ama!” is kinda rofl-y – but I dunno how anyone would expect a person to respond to such tweets other than “Nunya beezwax” or a defense of some kind. (“You’re right, Twitter rando, he suxx, mea culpa!”?)

If someone @‘d me on Twitter to attack my signif. other, I’d probably defend/deflect as well

― i’m still stanning (morrisp), Tuesday, May 22, 2018 6:02 PM (fourteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah so would I, but that's not the point. it doesn't ameliorate her understandably confused & upset fans.

I thought her defense was the point (as you stated it) – if the point is simply they’re upset that’s she’s dating him, that’s a different kettle of fish (but if they @ her and she responds, it’s on them)

ya

nvm grimes is good now

New: Musk’s tweet about losing stock options by unionizing could be grounds for Labor Board charges, former NLRB chair tells me: https://t.co/FAJcXXnjha “The employee is going to hear it as, ‘If I vote to unionize, stock options will no longer be an option.”’ https://t.co/zaBaHvejc7

— Josh Eidelson (@josheidelson) May 23, 2018

what he means is capitalism works better than socialism

https://www.sfgate.com/technology/article/grimes-elon-musk-dating-tesla-union-factory-defend-12932650.php

good headline

https://i.imgur.com/bYO4v03.png

Newspaper articles now cover precisely same ground as ILM threads! o_O

can't tell if serious

I am serious... I know celeb tweets are routinely covered as news, but wouldn’t have expected this batch to be (I may misunderestimate the public’s interest in figures like Grimes & Musk)

Guys you won't believe this but I heard from a very reliable source that the singer from Future Islands is dating Elizabeth Holmes!

Nah

Elizabeth Holmes should date Diplo

xxp given that Musk is widely regarded as IRL Tony Stark, the newsworthiness is a given.

Tombot would the press refer to them as DipShit?

the thing is that Tony Stark is supposed to be cool and charming xpost

I know, right?

The Grimes thing gets treated like a joke, but speaking as a sexual abuse victim myself it's just so grim to see a person who's written about her experiences with assault as movingly as she did on "Oblivion" use it as justification for transit privatization & gentrification pic.twitter.com/IcvaGb4x2J

— Sean T. Collins (@theseantcollins) May 22, 2018

in real life lols at 'carcinogenic to sit in stopped cars on highway' + defending the union busting of an auto-maker.

i mean at least one can say that she made this whole thing very entertaining for the public.

i'm telling you

she is influenced by the cities she has lived in and not only that but, this is what i was getting at earlier:

This is also an entirely typical attitude amongst people from Vancouver’s wealthy west side (where she grew up). Our transit system is fantastic compared to most cities; it also happens to be well used by “scary” folks from poorer neighbourhoods

— Regan (@creepeffect) May 22, 2018

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

Xp tweet simon posted exemplifies so much i hate about twitter

I mean how is she not doing what Sean describes in her tweet

As a private citizen it's one thing, as a defender of a private-transit profiteer...

uh she’s still a private citizen(?)

as for her “overcrowded” line; metro rail ridership is actually down in L.A., apparently for a number of reasons; and the sparser crowds have led to greater safety concerns, which further depresses ridership...

(cit.: http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-metro-ridership-20180124-story.html)

The 99B bus out to where her mom lives in Van are nightmarishly crowded it is true. You have to wait for like 4 buses before you can even get on. Underground electric mini-trains won't help much. Incidentally their family business is taxis.