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
continues glad happiness life
Life continues to be difficult. It always will be because that's just life. But I am so glad I have put some happiness into the world.
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The thing about music is it's not an obscure pursuit, it's a very natural thing for human beings to do. Once you put in the effort, the learning curve is very fast.
cranking hits job
My dream job would be sitting in a room, cranking out hits for Rihanna.
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I'm not, like, a natural performer. It's sort of a thing that I've had to learn to do.
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My image seems to be so infantilized, and I don't really know why. It belittles the music.
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My favorite music is never the music that anyone else likes, and other people's favorite songs are always my least favorite.
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I need to be able to work for 20 or 30 hours in one go in complete darkness, alone with just the computer glow.
aspect definitely
There's definitely a solitary aspect to not having a band, and there are times when I wish that I did.
record
I want to make an a cappella record to release for free.
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I've seen Animal Collective live, and I suffered permanent hearing loss from that show!
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The thing is, I really like working. If I sit around too much, I get really bad anxiety.
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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.
driving people wanting
I'm actually not a particularly negative person, but I feel like most things are better when they're not actualized. The motivation that comes from wanting something is so much more driving of people than actually getting it.
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I remember the first time I ever drove through deep, southern West Virginia. I couldn't even understand the accent of the people there, you know. They couldn't understand me. West Virginia, actually, is a state that's made up of some different kinds of communities.