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
considered enjoy inherently lack lesser liking music pop somehow substance tired
I'm tired of being considered vapid for liking pop music or caring about fashion as if these things inherently lack substance or as if the things I enjoy somehow make me a lesser person.
girl kind pops
It's kind of like I'm Phil Spector, and I'm forcing a young girl to make pop music and perform exhaustively. Except, instead of it being someone else, that girl is also me.
vancouver population grew
I have a lot of Japanese friends: I grew up in Vancouver, and there's this huge Japanese population over there.
thinking important poppies
I think you can hear, when you listen to someone's music, whether or not they're enjoying making it - it's so great to hear music where you can tell the person making it was just having a blast. That's really important to me as far as my process goes. That's probably why my music ends up being so poppy!
music
My image seems to be so infantilized, and I don't really know why. It belittles the music.
cranking hits job
My dream job would be sitting in a room, cranking out hits for Rihanna.
music songs
My favorite music is never the music that anyone else likes, and other people's favorite songs are always my least favorite.
insular
When I'm making a song that's very Grimes, it just feels very insular and it feels weird to have someone else do something on it.
art good
I think if you're good at art, you'll be good at most types of art.
experience music musical people
I went through my adolescence having this revelatory experience - I can have any music I want, and I can get it immediately. For me and for a lot of people I know, there's this musical eclecticism that happened.
My set can get really screamo and aggressive, or it can be ambient and Enya-esque.
music
Most of my music videos were made for under $200.
incredibly school
I was incredibly unpopular in high school but also extremely notorious.
I think I have serious latent Catholic guilt issues.