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
incredibly school
I was incredibly unpopular in high school but also extremely notorious.
I think I have serious latent Catholic guilt issues.
I like to aestheticize every possible thing that can be aestheticized.
music
When I first started out, I was making really slow, psychedelic ambient music because it was all I could do.
becomes delete file songs throw
I start a lot of songs and throw them out because the energy is not right. It's almost like the file becomes cursed. I have to delete it.
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.
music religion
Music is a religion to me and my friends.
ended friendship meeting met music turned twitter
There are a lot of musicians I've met on Twitter where it was like, 'Hey, I like your music' - and then I ended up meeting them and it turned into a friendship.
bad smile
If I'm a bad mood, I can't go on stage and smile.
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.
crazy school childhood
I was raised in a Catholic household and went to a Catholic school, and my childhood brain perceived medieval Catholicism as an action movie: There's this crazy omnipresent guy who can destroy you at any moment.
crazy moving people
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.