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
Most of my music videos were made for under $200.
incredibly school
I was incredibly unpopular in high school but also extremely notorious.
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.
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.
music songs
My favorite music is never the music that anyone else likes, and other people's favorite songs are always my least favorite.
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.