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.
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.
decent equipment exist fourth miners move number plants roads schools starting virginia west
We have like a fourth the number of miners as we used to have, and the equipment is doing a lot of the work. And, I think that we are starting to get a lot of the other plants and everything like this, that would exist because, a lot of times when plants want to move into a state, they look at the lifestyle. Are the schools decent? Are the roads decent? Do you have, is there decent recreation? West Virginia has those things, now.
became clinic high kansas medical outside school tech
With a lot of help from my high school teachers, I went to college and became a medical tech at a clinic outside Kansas City.
girl school kids
I've always been the girl the kids in school would be like, 'What is she wearing?' Then eventually some trends would stick.
music
Most of my music videos were made for under $200.
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.
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.