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I like creating beauty out of scary things.
Grimes
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Grimes
Age: 36
Born: 1988
Born: March 17
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Vancouver
British Columbia
Claire Elise Boucher
Claire Boucher
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Obviously, I like things that are cute and aggressive at the same time, but I didn't want it to just be mini-bangs and lip-syncing in a dress. I need to get away from that stuff.
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Miami is just really fun whenever I go there. It's like this post-apocalyptic Barbie world: everything is pink, and there're palm trees everywhere. But then there are also all these people in crazy sunglasses, warehouses with sick parties where all the girls are covered in spikes and black leather. It's a very weird place.
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I write music better in the winter, I prefer making music when it's dark.
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I usually like to get people in because I don't have a band or anything. In cities where I have friends, I try to get them to come out and dance for me.
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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.
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Ugly girls generally don't become successful in music. And it sucks because it's a standard that just exists.
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I listen to a lot of medieval music.
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I'm sad that it's uncool or offensive to talk about environmental or human rights issues.
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I think one of the reasons I'm successful as a musician is that the first like 30 shows I played, I played with no monitors standing in front of guitar amps in a shitty, smoky warehouse where people were screaming and wasted, knocking over my gear. So shows after that seem pretty easy!
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I don't think I know anyone who has a steady job in Montreal.
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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!
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I always wanted to be really experimental.
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Sometimes you find people who are magnetic, but once they get in front of a camera, they freak out and get weird.
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I like being behind the camera because I can control perception and what people see.
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From an early age I knew I would be unhappy if I wasn't doing something creative.
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Most of my music videos were made for under $200.
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If you tell someone you're doing something innovative, they'll think you're doing something innovative.
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I'm so sick of my own music that I don't know if I can edit another video, which involves hundreds of hours of listening to your own song again and again and again. It becomes so grating after a while.
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I think a lot of music that's really innovative is not even considered because it was made by people who had a sexual image. And people assume that it's a commodified thing, so it can't be indie.
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I want to make Grimes a high-fashion sci-fi act.
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