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[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

but the only reason anyone bought her NFTs is because she's famous... from making music. all this illustrates is that NFTs, like anything crypto related, is just yet another scheme to make the rich even richer.

but ignorant kids will see articles like this and think, if I want to be a successful artist I should make NFTs, it worked for Grimes! but of course they will only lose money because they're not famous and nobody cares about them. and that's what the crypto ghouls need to sustain their scam, fresh victims to swindle.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

I think she's far more famous at this point for her proximity to Elon Musk. I love her music, don't get me wrong, but she wasn't playing on daytime radio or anything.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago

"Gaming and crypto will save the world" shithead gets rich off crypto.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

the artist says the NFT and crypto space "got polluted fast" with people trying to make money.

surprised-pika

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

she's such a stupid asshole it's unreal

I hope she keeps giving interviews. she's been really useful in exposing the idiocy of the techno-utopian ideology

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

https://www.wired.com/story/grimes-big-interview/

Good lord is that interview an insight into the dumbest version of narcism

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Claire Boucher is open sourcing her musical persona to let people create their own version of Grimes with AI.

I WONDER WHERE THAT WILL IMMEDIATELY BE GOING, PROBABLY INTENTIONALLY, FOR A QUICK BUCK FROM THIRSTY BAZINGAS awooga no-mouth-must-scream

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Maybe cuz her music is bad??

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Is it? I mean it's niche but it's not technically incompetent or anything. I used to listen to her music all the time before knowing anything about her personality. She's pretty good at drawing cool synth noises out of a Roland Jupiter.

Most people are pushed away by her voice. She does this breathy almost falsetto lispy thing that's kind of annoying.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I mean, there are one or two songs that are good, but her big thing was kinda pre-staging the actually great artists that would come out afterwards. But even then, stuff like Crystal Castles (specifically Alice Gao), A.G. Cook (P.C. Music production in general), and a whole other host of artists were far more directly responsible for the pre-staging the huge take off of what would be called 'hyper-pop'.

Grimes is fine, maybe even above average, but definitely overblown.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

I guess? It's kinda already dead now, but at least it experienced a life outside the internet unlike vapor-wave.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I'd like to say that because I don't like her or her music, and especially because she's a rich kid to begin with, but this is probably just that the music industry fucks everyone over, and getting the bag early on a pool yramid scheme is pretty lucrative.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

artist says the NFT and crypto space "got polluted fast" with people trying to make money.

wonder-who-thats-for

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

the only reason it was ever possible to make that much money was because it "got polluted fast" lol. does she think people forked over the dubloons because they thought the monkeys looked cute?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (4 children)

So what's everyone's opinions on Grimes?

✓ Shooting a music video at a Canadian football game

✓✓✓ Her music is great. The past 3 albums are some of my favorites. Probably among the top 5-10 non-rap albums for me.

XX Martian Musk Ox celebrity relationship

X Giving the kid that name

✓ Before Musk her Twitter bio said "anti-imperialist"

✓✓ She's very funny

✓✓ Dating Chelsea Manning after dating Musk. I think she was taking a hard left turn and I really like the idea of Columbia Music and Elon's money paying Chelsea's court fees as she was repeatedly jailed for not snitching on Assange

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think her politics are incoherent and she’s good at posturing. Read the comments in this thread, even in her own subreddit people think she’s alt-right in a lot of ways

https://www.reddit.com/r/Grimes/comments/12n9xmg/can_ppl_stop_with_the_grimes_nazi_claims/

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Well yeah thanks for that...I went down a weird rabbit hole for too long. She made a space nazi joke on Holocaust Rememberance Day and liked some serious bullshit on Twitter. Surprised me as I remember she did Communist Manifesto photoshoot around the time she was dating Chelsea Manning. Her 2020 album had an environmentalist name, right before a global pandemic which seemed a bit prescient.

I've always known that We Appreciate Power is a song about femme fascism furturism but well incoherent is the right word for her politically. She's always been a troll. As of right now she's trying to get a subreddit taken down she accuses of just being a defamatory sub playing gotcha games with Twitter. It's a headscratcher. She's 100% troll so "play stupid games..." etc.

Apparently Elon and Grimes aren't together so maybe she was being badly influenced.

I'll never forget hearing College Dropout and Late Registration and being a huge Kanye fan til about 5yrs ago. So this shit happening again would piss me off.

I won't accept her as being a Nazi til she does the Grimey equivalent of what Kanye did. She hasn't yet.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

You either like a musician's music or you don't. Everything else is celeb gossip.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I've said it before, critical support for insane women

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Who tf even is she? I never heard of her til she married the Muskrat.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Niche electronic musician who had a few hits and parroted a lot of leftist stuff. She even had "anti-imperialist" in her Twitter bio for the longest time.

As someone who listened to a lot of small electronic music in 2010 I can't express how surreal it is that Grimes of all people is this famous now, and not even for her music

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

shes sold a lot less music than i thought in that case

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

She makes music?

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