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.
GRIMESFashion 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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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 want to make Grimes a high-fashion sci-fi act.
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I’m just very obsessed with Japanese stuff in general.
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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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I like going crazy. And not just for art – I like extremes in general.
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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 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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From an early age I knew I would be unhappy if I wasn’t doing something creative.
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Just because something might not have a deep philosophical meaning doesn’t mean it’s not important or relevant.
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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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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 always wanted to be really experimental.
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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 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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