I don’t have any money to hire actors. I just need to get people who are going to do a good job being themselves.
GRIMESI feel like gender lines are changing. A couple of years ago, it wasn’t nearly as OK for guys to like girly-sounding music. But all of a sudden a lot of my guys friends who would like have been really disdainful of female singers are way more accepting.
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Lately I’ve been really into screaming a lot through delay [effects], having seven people on stage topless going crazy, stuff like that. Really in your face, but maybe more organic than choreographed dance moves.
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I love a lot of very sentimental music, but I shouldn’t necessarily be the person who makes it.
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Basically, I’m really impressionable and have no sense of consistency in anything I do.
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I want to make Grimes a high-fashion sci-fi act.
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I prefer making videos to making music.
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I feel like gender lines are changing. A couple of years ago, it wasn’t nearly as OK for guys to like girly-sounding music. But all of a sudden a lot of my guys friends who would like have been really disdainful of female singers are way more accepting.
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I don’t even wear shoes with heels because I hate making a noise when I walk and people looking at me.
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It’s important for people not to feel like doing things that are immature, stuff you have to try out when you’re a teenager, is bad, per se. Demonizing it is one of the reasons it becomes such an issue.
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I find it really hard to throw myself into something artistically where I’m making up a whole character and finding something for that character to do.
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In America there’s lot of cool cities, but in Canada there’s, like, well, Vancouver, Toronto and Halifax may be cool, but they’re so expensive. Montreal is the only city that’s affordable but also has buses and culture.
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I believe the human mind is a very fallible thing, but it’s the only thing that I can really know, I guess.
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Especially with music, people want confidence.
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I think Canadians make a lot of music because we’re stuck inside all the time.
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I like performing, but I usually get really sick when I’m on tour, and it’s just hard.
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I think a lot of music that’s really innovative is not even considered because it was made by people who had a sexual image. And people assume that it’s a commodified thing, so it can’t be “indie.”
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