Grimes
Grimes
Electronic dark wave and synthpop artist whose 2012 album Visions won the 2013 JUNO Award for Electronic Album of the Year.
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionPop Singer
Date of Birth17 March 1988
CityVancouver, Canada
CountryCanada
people looks good-times
The most valuable live thing for me is when people look like they're having a good time.
song shiver
Success, for me, is a song that can deliver shivers.
video
I prefer making videos to making music.
jeans wells
I just can't perform well unless I'm wearing jeans.
thinking people needs
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.
hate shoes people
I don't even wear shoes with heels because I hate making a noise when I walk and people looking at me.
issues rights environmental
I'm sad that it's uncool or offensive to talk about environmental or human rights issues.
thinking way audience
The way that you present yourself visually totally dictates your audience and everything that anyone thinks about you.
art giving world
Art gives me an outlet where I can be aggressive in a world where I usually can't be.
waiting important shiver
Whenever I'm making music I'm always waiting for the shivers to happen - that's an important thing for me.
girl fun crazy
Miami is just really fun whenever I go there. It's like this post-apocalyptic Barbie world: everything is pink, and there're palm trees everywhere. But then there are also all these people in crazy sunglasses, warehouses with sick parties where all the girls are covered in spikes and black leather. It's a very weird place.
mean space cost
I would never go to a studio. I need my space, you know what I mean? I need to be able to chain smoke and pace about, cry and like... spit. Just make noise, make a huge mess. I also feel like if I was concerned for the cost of the studio - like, 'this is costing 40 dollars an hour' - I wouldn't be able to work.
matter pressure projects
Usually when I make music, in my head I'm like 'this isn't Grimes, this is just some other project that you can release later, so there's no pressure and it doesn't matter and no-one's ever gonna hear it'.
idols ifs american-idol
If I went on 'American Idol,' I would definitely be kicked out immediately.