I want to make Grimes a high-fashion sci-fi act.
GRIMESI get offers to do huge-budget music videos with big production companies all the time, but I have no interest.
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I get offers to do huge-budget music videos with big production companies all the time, but I have no interest.
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Obviously, I like things that are cute and aggressive at the same time, but I didn’t want it to just be mini-bangs and lip-syncing in a dress. I need to get away from that stuff.
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My manager lives on my block; four of the apartments in my apartment complex of seven are people I know. It’s a really close-knit community, and almost everyone on these few blocks are artists or graphic designers, because we live right on the cusp of a warehouse district.
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I just watched another person I care deeply about basically turn into Gollum and my heart is broken.
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I definitely see the voice as an instrument: It makes great drums, great synth pads, great everything.
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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 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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Ugly girls generally don’t become successful in music. And it sucks because it’s a standard that just exists.
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Fashion can be a really powerful tool, but it’s also a place where you can be totally humiliated and have your power taken from you.
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I only work at night, generally. Usually when I work [during the day] I’ll black out the windows or something.
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I’m tired of being congratulated for being thin because I can more easily fit into sample sizes from the runway.
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I approach music – and this sounds crazy – as though I’m Phil Spector, and I’m cranking out these pop stars and forcing them to do all this stuff – except they’re all me. But I’m not, like, transgendered.
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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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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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I love a lot of very sentimental music, but I shouldn’t necessarily be the person who makes it.
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