Grimes/Claire Boucher thread

the thing is, there are so few good things in american mainstream culture now, but i really love grimes and i don't want that taken away from me

i know she is canadian and more precisely from a separate black magick cybernetic dimension, but the point stands

like this stuff is all time

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fb_0LzBv894

my opinions are principled and impartial

grimes losing her cool and saying dumb things via private text to a bigoted lunatic troll is nbd to me.

yeah, same. she should have never been involved with musk or banks in the first place but c'est la vie

also looks like Banks “body-shames” her first, fwiw. (2 wrongs don’t make a right, etc.)

umm, duh

banks is a complete loose cannon

the whole conversation was banks taunting grimes bc musk dumped her

(yeah I’m agreeing w/you)

gotcha.

yeah it's super odd that banks would publish these texts as if they reflected well on her. unusual person.

It’s specially funny considering this tweet months before:

grateful y'all r complimenting me 🖤🖤^_^ but i wanna suggest we decide here and now that grimes-verse has no room 4 the glorification of thinness and the suggestion that being fat (or any body type) isn't as cool/beautiful etc. thoughtsz?i distrust skinny as a metaphor for good

— ༺GRIMES༻ (@Grimezsz) February 1, 2018

i think that's her real attitude. she apologizes to banks in the midst of the text exchange, while banks is still attacking her for being too skinny.

idc abt beef but i cannot believe how lame these messages are

oh
my
GOD

WHO GIVES A SHIT

xxp i think that loving and accepting jews is mel gibson's real attitude. i think that deference to african americans is michael richards's real attitude. they both said so after the fact! that's how you know it's real http://i64.tinypic.com/sb21s8.png

what's important is that treesh has rationalized this to the point where he can still like grimes

that's why we're all here

Truth is she took the Azealia Banks bait when she should’ve known better.

Claire doesn’t give me a mean-spirited vibe in the way Banks or Musk do... hope she’s surrounded by less toxic people nowadays.

Tbh I find her reaction pretty tame compared to the things Banks was writing to her.

I don't care what artists say in private correspondence. or at all. just gimme the tunes, play the show. I don't need artists vetted on a morality test.
is this a controversial opinion???? I truly don't give a shit

She is a war criminal

When in doubt, blame the black one. Sounds about white.

bro, do you post on other threads?

said with love

lol this has everything, the mental gymnastics, saying she was baited, the I don't care about anything but the tunes maaaan

musk, banks, grimes all seem like thoroughly awful ppl

she'll keep getting worse and worse too I bet she'll do an alt right move soon

if that happens then i am actually in hell and someone is fucking with me

the next album is going to be awesome

Honestly it'll be amusing if she turns into Death in June for anime kids

lol

maybe she'll go into canadian politics and "we appreciate power" will be her MAGA

She should do an ad for Hometown Buffet

musk, banks, grimes all seem like thoroughly awful ppl

why do you care w/r/t the music?

In this case, the awfulness specifically means that the music is not being completed and/or released. I mean, I would still mind Grimes acting like a fuckwit even if there was something to show for it, but so far all we have is a year of flakey paparazzi bullshit and one song that's pretty dumb.

musk, banks, grimes all seem like thoroughly awful ppl

why do you care w/r/t the music?
― flappy bird, Tuesday, January 22, 2019 12:07 AM

I've encountered some form of this comment a lot on ILX, so I'm sure this has been covered ad nauseum on here (there are probably a dozen threads about this topic), but I still don't get how people can keep the person and the music separate in their brains. For me, if I've already bonded with the music, I can still enjoy it for the most part (I still like hearing Runaway even after Kanye went all MAGA, and I still love Siamese Dream after Billy went on inforwars), but I really can't get into anything new I hear from those artists, and I'm a lot less inclined to make the effort. Sometimes this is done consciously ("fuck that guy"), but just as often, the brain is creating associations and biases without any higher-order direction.

I dearly love Visions, and really enjoyed Art Angels too, so I'm biased to give her new material a concerted effort. But reading stuff like that text exchange does make it more of an uphill battle. In this case, material that seemed to be beamed down from some ethereal higher plane now seems like it was just dreamed up by a catty high-school kid.

She'll never be your beam girl.

The notion that a shitty human being can create compelling art gives me hope for the future.

idk elon musk is (or in relevance here, was) infinitely clownable but I'm not out here making sure my was assembled in a union plant, making sure my lithium batteries are responsibly sourced, etc. although I'd put demands on him that in actual business he tries to aim for those things

and I have no idea from those leaked texts if there's actual animosity or that is how azealia banks texts her *friends*

what is the actual impeachably shitty thing that claire boucher has done that we're cancelling her for

(fully expecting someone to post a horrible thing I've forgotten so I can recede into darkness)

This morality police stuff has gotten out of control.

There is no such thing as bad people, just bad actions.

imo if you do enough bad actions or have unquestionable bad motivations then you're bad

sorry, just how it works

you're neither sorry nor coherent

There is no such thing as bad people, just bad actions.

― Trϵϵship, Tuesday, January 22, 2019 9:03 AM (ten minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

would grimes abort baby hitler?

Yeah, Treesh you’re sort of overplaying yr hand, lol

...and waitaminute, aren’t you the guy who was arguing that Jonathan Richman is like literally an incel stalker, b/c of the “Hospital” lyrics(??)

People tend to make or not make these kind of judgments based on what music they could ultimately live without

I never made claims about richmann the guy, just hospital the song.

tbf, Richman did make that “Songs for Laura” mixtape that always struck me as off