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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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Grimes
Age: 36
Born: 1988
Born: March 17
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Vancouver
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Claire Elise Boucher
Claire Boucher
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