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Most of my music videos were made for under $200.
Grimes
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Grimes
Age: 36
Born: 1988
Born: March 17
Blogger
Composer
Director
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Music Producer
Music Video Director
Musician
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Songwriter
Vancouver
British Columbia
Claire Elise Boucher
Claire Boucher
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Videos
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I grew up with four brothers, and in the back of my head I feel pretty masculine. It's always funny when I hear recordings of my voice, because it's so deep when I hear it in my head.
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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 approach music - and this sounds crazy - as though I'm Phil Spector, and I'm cranking out these pop stars and forcing them to do all this stuff - except they're all me. But I'm not, like, transgendered.
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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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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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Success, for me, is a song that can deliver shivers.
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I listen to a lot of medieval music.
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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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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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If I think about what other people are thinking when I'm making music, I just can't do it. It's too withheld - I need to go totally over the top, and then kind of clean it up a bit and make it more reasonable after the fact.
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As a producer, I'm trying to challenge myself to just make something that is of a professional quality - not necessarily pop music, but maybe in the sense that Nine Inch Nails is professional quality.
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Removing all stimulation around you is a really positive thing in terms of stimulating your creativity.
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It's important for people not to feel like doing things that are immature, stuff you have to try out when you're a teenager, is bad, per se. Demonizing it is one of the reasons it becomes such an issue.
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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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I have a lot of Japanese friends: I grew up in Vancouver, and there's this huge Japanese population over there.
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I just can't perform well unless I'm wearing jeans.
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