I always wanted to be really experimental.
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 don’t have any money to hire actors. I just need to get people who are going to do a good job being themselves.
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If painters could be compared to filmmakers, Bosch is the Hype Williams of renaissance painters. With Bosch, there’s always a narrative that is very nonlinear – and that’s the essence of a good music video.
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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 want to make Grimes a high-fashion sci-fi act.
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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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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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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 only work at night, generally. Usually when I work [during the day] I’ll black out the windows or something.
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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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When an artist, or whomever, moves from their scene to the bigger pond, it starts getting crazy, because all of a sudden people don’t respect you, and you have to start being a lot more aggressive than you would normally be.
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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’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 like going crazy. And not just for art – I like extremes in general.
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Most of my music videos were made for under $200.
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