I want to make Grimes a high-fashion sci-fi act.
GRIMESI have an intense desire to constantly make music, and I don’t feel that way about anything else.
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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 always wanted to be really experimental.
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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 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 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’m tired of being congratulated for being thin because I can more easily fit into sample sizes from the runway.
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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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I think Canadians make a lot of music because we’re stuck inside all the time.
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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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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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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 write music better in the winter, I prefer making music when it’s dark.
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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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If I think about what other people are thinking when I’m making music, I just can’t do it. It’s too withheld – I need to go totally over the top, and then kind of clean it up a bit and make it more reasonable after the fact.
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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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