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
jeans wells
I just can't perform well unless I'm wearing jeans.
video
I prefer making videos to making music.
style world doe
Even though I really admire what Beyonce does, and she's probably got one of the best live shows in the world - honestly! - that's so not my style.
girl successful ugly
Ugly girls generally don't become successful in music. And it sucks because it's a standard that just exists.
cities people trying
I usually like to get people in because I don't have a band or anything. In cities where I have friends, I try to get them to come out and dance for me.
challenges trying quality
As a producer, I'm trying to challenge myself to just make something that is of a professional quality - not necessarily pop music, but maybe in the sense that Nine Inch Nails is professional quality.
teenager issues people
It's important for people not to feel like doing things that are immature, stuff you have to try out when you're a teenager, is bad, per se. Demonizing it is one of the reasons it becomes such an issue.
heart broken care
I just watched another person I care deeply about basically turn into Gollum and my heart is broken.
icons people looks
If you look at the way people behave at shows, icons are now musicians; they are the people that we worship.
rocks tin done
You don't just have to be influenced by rock, or goth, anymore. It's okay to say, 'My influences are Tin Pan music from Bali and Rihanna.' There are still so many combinations that haven't been done yet.
teenager thinking media
I think the internet is kind of redefining what it is to be a teenager. Because there's a lot of media that's aimed at teenagers that other people are getting into. But, conversely, pornography or stuff that's intended for adults is completely readily available to anyone, like teenagers.
block artist people
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.
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.
cities america culture
In America there's lot of cool cities, but in Canada there's, like, well, Vancouver, Toronto and Halifax may be cool, but they're so expensive. Montreal is the only city that's affordable but also has buses and culture.