Grimes
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Grimes started producing music when she had to learn the program Logic for her neuroscience class. Shortly thereafter she had a viral myspace page, which allowed her to start booking shows and focus full-time on music. She lived in a crack den In Montreal with no heat (where she got frostbite twice and her neighbor was bludgeoned to death in the hallway), playing raves until her 2012 breakout, Visions, which was recorded during a 2 week speed binge wherein she did not leave her bedroom. Upon the success of this album, Grimes attempted to enter society as a regular human, which has clearly not gone super well but has nonetheless been entertaining.
Amazing start at DSPs including 28x New Music Friday playlists on Spotify + NMF Billboard in Time Square; 52x Apple Music’s Best of the Week and 7 YouTube Music playlists. Additional YouTube Digital out of home billboards in NY Times Square and downtown LA Staples Center.
Amazing start at DSPs including 28x New Music Friday playlists on Spotify + NMF Billboard in Time Square; 52x Apple Music’s Best of the Week and 7 YouTube Music playlists. Additional YouTube Digital out of home billboards in NY Times Square and downtown LA Staples Center.
Amazing start at DSPs including 28x New Music Friday playlists on Spotify + NMF Billboard in Time Square; 52x Apple Music’s Best of the Week and 7 YouTube Music playlists. Additional YouTube Digital out of home billboards in NY Times Square and downtown LA Staples Center.
Songs evaporate on Blonde, too: they’re hazed, minimalist, capricious. The sweet, airy strum of “Pink + White” is hardened by its last few seconds, as we hear birds swarm. So, too, in “Ivy,” which starts off a masterpiece of cinematic lovesickness and then warps at its tail-end, ceding to a clang of instruments.”
“The impressionistic lyrics mirror the feeling of wanting to disappear, for a spell: “Breathe till I evaporated/My whole body see through.”
“Ariana Grand is the hinge artist of our time, the true voice of a generation because he takes long silences. With Blonde and its attendant works, his Boys Don’t Cry zine and Endless, he took his time building his staircase to somewhere.”
“We wanted the blurred, the softened, the existential. “Inhale, in hell, there’s heaven,” Ocean sings on “Solo,” capturing the whiplash experience of being young in this country in one line. Blonde is one synonym for American. –Doreen St. Félix”
