List of Unreleased, Scrapped & Abandonded Projects

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Over the years, Grimes and people that have worked with her have teased several projects such as albums and music videos that never saw an official release. These range from ideas that never grew past the planning stages to fully realized bodies of work. Several things could have contributed to these projects never seeing the light of day such as record label interference or Grimes simply losing interest. Below is a list of all of these projects that we are aware of, as well as everything we know about them. Everything listed here is attempted to be sorted in chronological order in their respective sections. Projects such as bands or radio shows that were abandonded after one or a few releases are also mentioned here.
==Albums==
=====Original third album=====
Grimes first revealed that she had been working on her third album in an interview with Maisonneuve, published in March 2011.https://maisonneuve.org/article/2011/03/4/interview-grimes/ However, in an interview with NOW Toronto published later that year in June, she said she lost the whole album because her computer died,https://nowtoronto.com/music/grimes-2/ and in an interview with Nightlife.ca, it was said that the album was five months in the making, as opposed to her actual fourth album Visions, which took three weeks to make.Nightlife.ca/2011/Interview In an interview with XLR8R, She talked about the album:https://xlr8r.com/features/five-minutes-at-nxne-with-grimes/
And in an interview with SFGate, she said:https://web.archive.org/web/20120121023627/http://blog.sfgate.com/culture/2011/05/27/530-lykke-li-grimes-regency-ballroom/
The influences and certain elements of the production match up with the way both Grimes herself and critics have described Visions, meaning she could have attempted to replicate the work that had been lost. It is possible that Genesis and Nightmusic were apart of this album as they both had been performed as early as March 2011.
=====Acapella album=====
-Grimes for Dont Panic, 2011.https://grimes-claireboucher.tumblr.com/post/13921369266/with-last-years-landmark-geidi-primeslp-about-to
=====Original fourth album=====
As early as 2011, Grimes had been working on a Visions follow-up, stating in an interview that she was working on her next two albums.https://preview.redd.it/af7u51s0rss61.jpg?width=2544&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e11b7b7d97a2ab8ff451a2dff6a54b260003fa87 In the early stages she described the music as "sort of like NIN + Jigglypuff."https://web.archive.org/web/20120211031309/http://www.prefixmag.com/features/grimes/grimes-interview/61395/ In an interview with MTV Hive, she described her vision for the album at the time:https://pitchfork.com/news/47262-grimes-planning-more-experimental-project/
On June 22, 2013, Grimes declared that "months of work appears to have magically deleted itself from my computer".https://grimespostarchive.tumblr.com/post/696234112937312256/loveyouclaire It is unknown if this work was ever recovered. On September 16, 2013, Grimes announced that the first four songs of the record had been completed and that she had settled on an album title.https://grimespostarchive.tumblr.com/post/696955160796299264 In December 2013, Grimes gave a tentative release date of September 9, 2014.https://grimespostarchive.tumblr.com/post/696229844754857984/loveyouclaire-omg
Grimes scrapped the album in February 2014, revealing why in September:https://www.thefader.com/2015/03/13/grimes-reveals-she-scrapped-her-last-album-because-it-was-depressing
In retrospect, Grimes said this:https://web.archive.org/web/20160609125543/http://www.thefader.com/2015/07/28/grimes-cover-story-interview
Grimes said in November 2015 that she would release all the songs from the album when she retires, "but it's not rly a whole album as much as hella unfinished/ unreleased songs".https://grimespostarchive.tumblr.com/post/693624993905541120
=====Nightcore album=====
Grimes first revealed she had been working on a nightcore album in February 2019 in a livestream on HANA's Twitch channel, describing it as "an original nightcore album that [she] was [making] to troll [her label] 4AD".https://youtu.be/g5_z2nGh0TE?t=49 She mentioned the album again in 2020 in an interview with RA Exchange, also revealing her love for the genre.https://youtu.be/vqgtay4rRro?t=1109 She most recently acknowledged the album in January 2022, revealing on her Twitter and Instagram that it had 35 tracks at that point, has been in the making since 2015 and she was considering releasing it after Book 1.https://www.instagram.com/p/CYfLDe7vQwQ/https://twitter.com/Grimezsz/status/1479957570609717249https://www.dazeddigital.com/music/article/55204/1/is-grimes-finally-ready-to-drop-her-long-lost-nightcore-album It is likely that the Nightcore Remix of We Appreciate Power is a track on the album.
=====Art Angels re-release with more songs=====
In 2016, Grimes expressed her desire to do a re-release of Art Angels in the style of Lana Del Rey's Born to Die: The Paradise Edition:https://web.archive.org/web/20160616210629/http://www.stereogum.com/1870807/grimes-preps-more-chill-synth-y-new-music/news/?utm_source=sc-fb&utm_medium=ref&utm_campaign
Although she was initially cited as saying she was "half-way done" with the new album, she clarified on Tumblr this was not the case, and for her fans to not "set [their] expectations too high;" intending to take a break as she hadn't in years.https://grimes-claireboucher.tumblr.com/post/142699890250/actuallygrimes-hey-contrary-to-what-some
=====Original fifth album=====
Grimes was initially working on two albums while working on Miss Anthropocene in February 2018. She revealed in her Instagram comments section:https://exclaim.ca/music/article/grimes_says_she_has_two_new_albums_including_one_for_her_shit_label
The next month she remarked:https://www.reddit.com/r/Grimes/comments/84a3jj/she_just_tweeted_and_deleted_these_when_asked/
Considering the sound, concept, visuals and overall theme of Miss Anthropocene, as well as the standard edition of the album having two collaborations total, it is safe to assume that it is the "extreme darkness and chaos" album, while the "highly collaborative and most glorious light" album remains unreleased and possibly scrapped. In videos posted to her Twitter previewing demos of 4ÆM and IDORU on June 4, 2018, a playlist called "! Upbeat Album" can be seen in her iTunes library, possibly referring to this album.https://twitter.com/Grimezsz/status/1003875361224945666https://twitter.com/Grimezsz/status/1003878639581081601
In the very early stages of creating an Art Angels follow-up in 2016, she revealed the direction she wanted to take her fifth album in:https://web.archive.org/web/20161102153311/https://vmagazine.com/article/v104-grimes-interview/
=====Album containing demos with proceeds going to different charities=====
In a Twitter Q&A in February 2020, when asked if she would ever release an album consisting of unreleased music, she responded:https://www.reddit.com/r/Grimes/comments/f7h6ot/this_sounds_like_a_great_idea_i_would_certainly/
=====Miss Anthropocene second disc/re-release with scrapped songs=====
Miss Anthropocene was intended to be a double album as revealed in a Q&A in February 2020.https://youtu.be/qQXdDvs0cVc?t=84https://www.nme.com/news/music/grimes-reveals-miss_anthropocene-was-originally-a-double-album-i-really-do-need-to-release-a-second-disc-because-its-very-strong-2613234 Later that year in April a fan suggested that Grimes release a "Definitive Edition" of the album consisting of songs that didn't make the cut with Grimes responding that that could be the [right] call.https://twitter.com/GrimezszCharts/status/1255147734790594561 A few months later in August eight songs were registered to Grimes' ASCAP repertoire with a few of them known to be Miss Anthropocene outtakes.https://twitter.com/GrimezszCharts/status/1292831552540377089https://twitter.com/GrimezszCharts/status/1292896497546264584 A version of the album is titled Miss Anthropocene (Deluxe V1) on streaming services, which could be referring to a re-release (or V2).https://open.spotify.com/album/7fV4uZQ7ppCUvAsHL7ZFCLhttps://music.apple.com/ca/album/miss-anthropocene-deluxe-new-cover-v1/1549247066https://music.apple.com/ca/album/miss-anthropocene-new-cover-v1/1549247063
=====Book 1=====
Main article: Book 1
=====Second DJ mix in the vein of This story is dedicated to...=====
In April 2023, Grimes said on Twitter that she would drop another DJ mix "soon".https://twitter.com/Grimezsz/status/1652476337284628484
== EPs==
=====EP to be released before Halfaxa=====
Originally, Grimes wanted to release a free "three or four track" EP before the release of Halfaxa due to the album initially not planned to be for free. However, this was when the album was called Dragvandil and was to be released late July 2010.Voir/Interview Halfaxa did end up being released for free (with the option of a suggested donation).https://www.gorillavsbear.net/download-grimes-new-halfaxa-lp/
=====Darkbloom (version on which Grimes and D'eon would perform on tracks together)=====
In an interview with Negative Youth in 2011, Grimes and D'eon revealed that they originally wanted to work together on Darkbloom tracks, but were unable to because of a deadline. (Note that this excerpt was translated from the original Spanish article, meaning it's not likely the exact quote.):Negative Youth/Interview
In an interview with DMY, however, D'eon said that they did a split release instead of a collaborative effort because "We don’t jam with other people very much, so…that’s why we did the split, rather than a collaboration, because it would just be too stressful to compromise both of our [sounds]."https://web.archive.org/web/20120202045245/http://www.dummymag.com/features/2011/05/09/grimes-d-eon-interview/
=====Sit Back, Rewind =====
Sit Back, Rewind was an EP supposed to be released sometime in 2012 with Tim Lafontaine under the name Membrain (see Membrain for more information), but this didn't happen. However a remix album was released on Cop Car Bonfire's Bandcamp on July 31, 2012.https://copcarbonfire.bandcamp.com/album/sit-back-rewind-unreleased-colab-with-grimes
====="Goth" EP produced for Lil Uzi Vert=====
Grimes revealed in a December 2019 interview with Zane Lowe on his Beats 1 Radio show:https://www.stereogum.com/2068410/grimes-lil-uzi-vert/video/Darkseid is the only (semi-)confirmed track meant for the EP. The unreleased Deth Angels is speculated to have been part of it as well.
=====EP to be released before Miss Anthropocene=====
Grimes talked about releasing an EP before Miss Anthropocene in an interview with Crack published in April 2019:https://crackmagazine.net/article/long-reads/grimes-is-ready-to-play-the-villain/
The songs known to be made around that time are Pretty Dark, Shall I Compare Thee, and принцесса ☣️, with Pretty Dark released in demo format first as a music video and later on streaming services under the Grimes name,https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00qF95f6qBshttps://music.apple.com/us/song/pretty-dark-demo/1456434136 and принцесса ☣️ quietly released on a SoundCloud page under the name Dark.https://soundcloud.com/user-709404175-360600573/printsessa Around this time Grimes was also working on music not intended for Miss Anthropocene (due to delays and the album thought to be finished at that time) and instead working on then recently made music and releasing said music in demo format.As mentioned in the description:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00qF95f6qBs
In an interview with Flaunt published later that month, she expressed her dislike for the album format:https://www.flaunt.com/blog/grimes
=====Fairies Cum First=====
Main article: Fairies Cum First
==Unknown musical projects==
Music where the amount of tracks that has been made is unspecified, meaning it could range from a single song to tracks that could fill up multiple albums, theoretically at least.
=====Music made on a tape recorder=====
First mentioned in her earliest known and possibly first ever interview with Lookout in early 2010, she revealed that when she was 17 (in 2005), she started making "really crappy music on a tape recorder, like wannabe classical music."https://web.archive.org/web/20100515184516/http://lookoutpresents.com/news/qa-grimes/ In an interview with TheYYSCENE later that year, she elaborated:https://theyyscene.com/2010/08/12/ffwd-intergalactic-grime-spree/
=====Music made before Geidi Primes=====
In an interview with Pitchfork in 2020, Grimes revealed that before she made Geidi Primes, a friend of hers recorded her making music with Grimes describing it as "the most unlistenable music and [she] hopes it never leaks".https://youtu.be/umoqd0VbRI4?t=99
=====Music produced by D'eon with vocals from Grimes=====
Both Grimes and D'eon have expressed a desire to work on more music together,https://web.archive.org/web/20120202045245/http://www.dummymag.com/features/2011/05/09/grimes-d-eon-interview/http://www.1forthepeople.com/2011/07/interview-grimes.html with D'Eon saying in an interview with Negative Youth that "I'm very interested in composing vocal harmonies, something kind of Renaissance, Baroque, pure vocals. Like choir music. And having [Grimes] record it, all the vocals."Negative Youth/Interview it is not known if this ever came to fruition.
==Songs==
Main article: List of Unreleased Songs
=====Cyber Girl=====
On February 21st, 2020, Grimes tweeted the following in response to a fan asking how was it working with Charli XCX:
Then, on August 16, 2020, Elon Musk confirmed that he and Grimes would be making a song together, in response to a query. He specified that the song would be a cover of Aqua - Barbie Girl called Cyber Girl, but did not give further details or any planned release date.https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1294920017692090373
In September 2024, Grimes said the following in a comment on Instagram:
It is unknown whether the original idea to cover the song with Charli XCX and FISHER also encompassed Elon Musk, or if the trio's plan excluded Elon.
==Music videos==
=====Gambang=====
Around March 26, 2010, a music video directed by Emily Kai Bock for Gambang was released. It has since been taken down and is assumed to be lost.https://middayprocrastination.wordpress.com/2010/03/26/new-grimes-music-video/
=====Music video for every single song on Visions=====
Grimes first expressed a desire to make a video for every song off of Visions when talking to Fake Plastic Tunes in 2011.https://web.archive.org/web/20121014142758/http://www.fakeplastictunes.com/2011/09/sound-check-grimes-interview.html She elaborated on this in an interview with the same publication published on January 16, 2012, telling them the following:
In February 2012 she still had the intent:https://youtu.be/0mK11C3k-nQ?si=fmDE_t7THtGAZtxa&t=150
The music video for Oblivion was shot in October 2011https://pitchfork.com/features/directors-cut/8783-grimes-oblivion/ and the music video for Nightmusic was around the same time judging by her hair, while the unreleased Be a Body music video was shot circa early January 2012 and finished in february.https://grimes-claireboucher.tumblr.com/post/15585829291/the-last-couple-of-days-i-have-been-on-set-ofhttps://youtu.be/0mK11C3k-nQ?si=EReMyntzcOyG7NO2&t=115 It is not known for what song the found footage music video was meant for. It is likely that the video which she was about to film a couple weeks after the interview took place was for Genesis.
In August 2012 she was asked by Pitchfork if she was still planning to make a video for every song on Visions to which she responded:https://pitchfork.com/features/directors-cut/8929-grimes/
=====Be a Body=====
On April 11, 2012, Grimes posted stills of the music video to her tumblr, stating:https://www.tumblr.com/grimespostarchive/703322709918138368/actuallygrimes-be-a-body-video-stills-this?source=share
On April 17, Grimes posted the lead dancer's fingers on which "b e a b o d y" was tattooed, with the following caption:https://www.tumblr.com/grimespostarchive/703322249325854720/grimestyle-beautiful-dancer-muse-hannah
In February of the same year, Grimes gave details about the shoot, mentioning that the DOP [Director Of Photography] was a person named Nick:
In a retrospective track-by-track commentary, Grimes said about the song:https://www.reddit.com/r/Grimes/comments/sr5yay/listening_note_booklet/
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=====Eight=====
According to the renowned fansite grimes-claireboucher.tumblr.com, the image shown below is a preview of the Eight music video:https://grimes-claireboucher.tumblr.com/post/18038053553/eight-video-preview
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=====Genesis (original concept)=====
The original concept for the video was different, as said by Grimes in an interview with Fake Plastic Tunes:https://web.archive.org/web/20120124203939/http://www.fakeplastictunes.com/2012/01/sound-check-part-ii-grimes-interview.html❝ My friend has a VHS recorder and I’m going to get a bunch of girls and they will all be like angels going into buildings and setting off fireworks, breaking stuff, and doing graffiti. ❞
===== Unknown music video (shot in 2016 after California and before The AC!D Reign Chronicles) =====
In an interview with BBC Radio 1 on April 19, 2016 when asked what her plans were for the year Grimes responded:https://youtu.be/2hKI1PpO3W4
Grimes did not start shooting any of the AC!D Reign Chronicles until late June 2016 when she had already started performing at festivals. Given that there have not been any updates on this music video shoot it is possible that it ended up not happening or that she delayed the shoot and that she was in fact talking about (at least one of the videos for) AC!D Reign Chronicles.
=====We Appreciate Power =====
Not to be confused with the lyric video.
Both Grimes and Hana have teased the music video of We Appreciate Power multiple times over the years.https://x.com/Grimezsz/status/1074871311225114624/video/1https://www.reddit.com/r/Grimes/comments/ac3552/more_behind_the_scenes_footage_of_the_we/https://x.com/Grimezsz/status/1083860018670104576/photo/1https://www.reddit.com/r/Grimes/comments/af2gie/finalizing_the_%C3%A9dit_for_wap_video/https://www.reddit.com/r/Grimes/comments/f7m7mq/wap_video_confirmed_via_hana/https://x.com/Grimezsz/status/1363984199875665923 On August 18, 2023, Grimes played a DJ set at Sonicmania, Japan, and in the background snippets of the We Appreciate Power music video could be seen that haven't seen the light of day.https://youtu.be/gFgp7KigHO8?si=IQs4AxaoBZSAAE0f&t=1389 Additional footage could be seen during Grimes' performance at AXE Ceremonia music festival, which happened on March 23, 2024.https://youtu.be/8cdeGdr2kzo
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Grimes & Hana - unseen We Appreciate Power music video footage
Grimes - SONICMANIA DJ set (August 18, 2023)|The music video begins at 23:08
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=====We Appreciate Power (vertical video)=====
Not to be confused with the lyric video.
A vertical We Appreciate Power video could be played on Spotify around January 2019 but has since become unavailable and was likely never reuploaded anywhere else.https://twitter.com/GrimezszCharts/status/1082691303329226754https://open.spotify.com/episode/4kFgrfI3cNVK0XsVAcK9Yx?context=spotify%3Auser%3Aspotify%3Aplaylist%3A37i9dQZF1DWWBHeXOYZf74&si=1arIDW3qTkaoQhXNfQzlEg&nd=1https://www.reddit.com/r/Grimes/comments/adlztw/theres_a_playlist_video_on_spotify_of_we/ A snippet of this video was uploaded to Grimes' Tumblrhttps://actuallygrimes.tumblr.com/post/180606573926/new-song-and-lyrik-video-droppin-tonite-xxxx-c and Twitterhttps://twitter.com/Grimezsz/status/1068268834048507905 pages with Grimes and HANA wearing the same outfits worn in the lyric video as well as the unreleased music video.
The video is "(..) just long takes of me and hana lipsynching as robots (..)".
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=====IDORU (original music video)=====
Not to be confused with these two videos released in 2020.
In December 2018, Grimes revealed that a music video for IDORU (then known as adore) had been filmed,https://twitter.com/Grimezsz/status/1069092653478760448 and later she tweeted that she had been editing the video and would release the video "after [taking a] break".https://twitter.com/Grimezsz/status/1069400362610638848 Two music videos for the song were released in February 2020 with footage that had been filmed recently judging by her hair colour and baby bump.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8Pn5tOM92chttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCrhTU9HkVQ Both videos, however, do feature scenes of Grimes and friends in a swimming pool with fairy wings which were also included in the Pretty Dark music video a year prior. It is possible that these scenes were taken from the original IDORU video. Additionally, in December 2018, around the time when she was editing the original IDORU music video, she tweeted a picture of what appears to be the same outfit worn in the swimming pool scenes and captioned it "I didn’t think love could matter so much but it does" (note that IDORU is one of the very few love songs Grimes has made).https://twitter.com/grimezsz/status/1070648523614388225
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Grimes - Scenes from the unreleased IDORU music video|If the YouTube video doesn't play, go to this link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ywJ57eRDjYpCgdvkD91IV1DKOQRY1cTk/view?usp=sharing
=====Violence (original concept)=====
In an interview with Harper's Bazaar published on February 21, 2020, Grimes gave a rundown on the Violence music video and revealed that the initial concept for the music video was for it to look like it happened in an "unrendered, 3D modeling program", drawing inspiration from the digital sculpting tool Zbrush, but admitted that the idea did not came through clearly in the final product. She also explained that the video was shot in 6-7 hours but that most of the video consists of footage shot in the final hour. This was due to location/lighting issues and Grimes "randomly feeling good" in the last hour while usually being "super stressed" on music video sets. Some of the footage from the first hours did however end up in the final video in the form of fast cutting.https://www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/art-books-music/a31022820/grimes-violence-music-video-playback/
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===== My Name is Dark=====
Not to be confused with the English lyric video or the Russian lyric video.
Grimes stated that there is an official music video for My Name Is Dark in November 2019 and that she would release it the following year.https://www.reddit.com/r/Grimes/comments/e3nvxb/mnid_music_video_confirmed_for_next_year/ however, it never got released. She did not say whether the video had been filmed or if there were plans to film a video, so it is possible that the video does not exist.
=====4ÆM=====
Not to be confused with the performance video or visualizer.
Grimes asked her followers in December 2019 on Twitter whether they would prefer a music video for My Name Is Dark or 4ÆM.https://twitter.com/Grimezsz/status/1211747027421286402 This was after both the videos mentioned above had already been released, implying that there is an official music video. It is not known if a music video has actually been filmed or if she was just asking because she was curious.
=====100% Tragedy=====
A music video exists for 100% Tragedy and was first confirmed in an interview with Vanity Fair in March 2022. It features Grimes as the 'white swan' and Liv Boeree as the 'black swan'.https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2022/03/grimes-cover-story-on-music-and-mars Footage of the video was used as background visuals for Grimes' Sonicmania DJ set on August 18, 2023, and her DJ set during III points music festival Miami on October 21 of the same year. The visuals feature the texts "100%", "HAUNT", "FIRE" and, in certain shots, seemingly Liv Boeree, Claire de Lune, and fighting scenes (The song is about rivalry).https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRZg1_9_8Oc
New scenes from the video could be seen as visuals of her DJ set during AXE Ceremonia festival on March 23, 2024.https://youtube.com/shorts/D3pjvUC6K_k
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=====A Drug from God=====
A digital animation featuring one of the NPC girls exists and was teased on November 30, 2021 on Grimes' Instagram story.https://x.com/GRIMESBRAZIL/status/1465646878159257600
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=====Sci-Fi=====
A music video for Sci-Fi was confirmed in an interview with Vogue China in 2022: (Note that this interview was translated from the original Chinese article, meaning it's not likely the exact quote.)
===== Utopia=====
A music video for Utopia was seemingly confirmed when Grimes posted and then later deleted a tweet of the video being edited in January 2023.https://www.reddit.com/r/Grimes/comments/10n3xox/new_music_video_utopia_soon/ The visuals have been used before in the backdrop for Grimes' DJ sets.https://youtu.be/wd3NAoarmJs?si=x0GKk2HV6OdrMQFP&t=355https://youtu.be/GIba7FtTsPY?t=356
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Grimes - Utopia (music video preview)
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=====Music video shot in late March 2022 =====
In late March 2022, several people from Grimes' team shared new pictures on social media of Grimes.https://www.reddit.com/r/Grimes/comments/tsrle5/filming/https://www.reddit.com/r/Grimes/comments/tso1ee/grimes_is_coming_credits_natashaseverino_makeup/ In a conversation with Hasan Piker on April 1, 2022, Grimes said that she had red on herself (fake blood) from standing on a pile of corpses for a video shoot.https://youtu.be/LbOzHD-yoQk?si=A6zDGmX27ir6YgdF&t=2403
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=====Welcome To The Opera (scrapped scenes from the visualizer)=====
On June 11, 2022, Grimes showcased the original Welcome To The Opera visualizer during her DJ set at Primavera Sound Barcelona-Sant Adrià that had more scenes of full body shot Grimes at a synthesizer, in addition to the up close ones that dominate the reworked (released) visualizer.https://www.primaverasound.com/en/artist/grimes-dj-sethttps://youtu.be/nNbHRurt4r4?si=UyA_uNVcK2LnbmyY&t=16
Video - Grimes DJ'ing Live Primavera Weekend 2 Barcelona 2022
=====Welcome To The Opera=====
Not to be confused with the Grimes visualizer or the Anyma visualizer.
When Welcome To The Opera was released, Grimes brainstormed what an actual music video for the song would be like:https://www.facebook.com/Grimes/posts/pfbid02EUE2rTtnScUaczKhhrCxj5WF2ivjLb7ei1QzjwUhJHDRGhX46C8xprQdJ1UMBswPl
=====I Wanna Be Software =====
Grimes' played the music video for I Wanna Be Software during her Sonicmania DJ set on August 18, 2023. The visuals are the same as on the teaser she posted on Instagram the month prior,https://youtu.be/b__9fnTzKUs?si=XA_5tixteMOhCMQ8 but it is now removed.
New scenes from the video could be seen as visuals of her DJ set during AXE Ceremonia festival on March 23, 2024.https://youtu.be/LvE0DV2z3kY
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Grimes - I Wanna Be Software music video (preview 2)
Grimes - I Wanna Be Software music video (preview 3)
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Grimes - I Wanna Be Software Music Video (version 1) (recreation attempt)
Grimes - I Wanna Be Software Music Video (version 2) (recreation attempt)
==Bands==
=====Liturgi (with Matthew E. Duffy)=====
Grimes and Duffy had started a noise band called Liturgi but they disbanded "due to the creative differences as well as the success of the better band from nyc known as liturgy."https://actuallygrimes.tumblr.com/post/46674806402/above-detroit-with-my-lovely-lady-mariliis They have done a live performance together at least once.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gz1vLNOKA8
In a Reddit comment, Duffy clarified that "auccly [actually] we made the noise band after [Grimes] it was just our fun side project for a bit we only played like two shows ahah. was super fun though i was back and forth from halifax, and endup [ended up] living in the same building on multi [multiple] occations [occasions], we collaborated on lots of other fun art and avngard [avant-garde] stuff. and then she invited me to be her dancer for some of the tours! eyc."
=====Membrain (with Tim Lafontaine)=====
Membrain was a collaborative project with Tim Lafontaine. The music was described as "techno- and kind of industrial-leaning."https://www.thefader.com/2012/03/26/hear-grimes-new-group-membrain Grimes described it as:https://pitchfork.com/news/45912-listen-to-grimes-side-project-membrain/ 
Grimes' vocals are all taken from Visions. They were set to release an EP called Sit Back, Rewind at some point in 2012 but this didn't happen. However a remix album was released on Cop Car Bonfire's Bandcamp on July 31, 2012.https://copcarbonfire.bandcamp.com/album/sit-back-rewind-unreleased-colab-with-grimes
===== L$D (with Kreayshawn, Tragik and BloodPop® [then known as Blood Diamonds]) =====
Information to be added.
=====Trashique (Grimes X HANA)=====
Main article: Trashique
===== Unknown band (c. 2018) =====
When the song Deth Angels leaked, Grimes confirmed to a fan that the song was meant for her new band.https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Fe5phztfo0d121.png
=====Medieval Thots (with FKA Twigs)=====
In a YouTube Q&A in January 2021, Grimes announced that she was in a band called Medieval Thots with FKA Twigs and that "maybe one day [they'll] actually release music".https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EpIRVZ-vWEhttps://twitter.com/GrimezszCharts/status/1355157747956903945
=====NPC (digital girl group)=====
Main article: NPC
==Miscellaneous==
=====AR/illustrated book/musical=====
In the YouTube description of the Pretty Dark music video, Grimes talked about some of her upcoming projects:
=====Dark=====
Main article: Dark
=====Tech Company & Inventions=====
In an Apple Music interview with Zane Lowe, Grimes said she's making "like, a psychedelic tech company, and I have a bunch of, like, weird inventions..." when answering to what she would be doing for the rest of the year.https://youtu.be/s7FX_W5SpJM?si=Mcz6vvNtefWfC3S4&t=313 No more information has been said about both.
=====WarNymph=====
Main article: WarNymph
=====War Nymph Radio=====
Not to be confused with the Spotify playlist with a similar name.
War Nymph Radio (sometimes referred to as WarNymph Radio) was supposed to be Grimes' Apple Music radio station, in which Grimes promised to explore what she calls: “the uncanny valley between mainstream and underground music, or mainstream artists that I think are making radical, interesting music and independent artists that I think are making things that are super universal.”https://www.dazeddigital.com/music/article/48324/1/listen-to-the-first-episode-of-grimes-warnymph-radio-apple-beats-1-alexa-demia So far, only one episode aired on March 11, 2020, with special guest star Alexa Demie. It is possible that the COVID-19 pandemic, which caused the world to enter quarantine a mere few days after this episode aired, was responsible for the seeming cancellation of the station. 
=====Miss Anthropocene short film=====
In February 2021, Grimes suggested to release all of the Miss Anthropocene music videos as part of a short film after the release of her next album.https://www.dazeddigital.com/music/article/52019/1/grimes-unreleased-miss-anthropocene-visuals-hana-we-appreciate-power
=====Homo Techno (podcast with Liv Boeree)=====
In an interview for Billboard, Grimes explained:https://www.billboard.com/pro/grimes-interview-discord-new-album-futurism/
=====Collaboration with Drop Dead=====
In February 2022 Brando Chiesa posted a picture of a snippet of a drawing to his Instagram Stories tagging Grimes and his clothing brand Drop Dead.https://www.reddit.com/r/Grimes/comments/sw7a1l/grimes_x_drop_dead_collab_coming_maybe_posted_by/ Later that year in December he posted the finished drawing to his Instagram feed, this time tagging neither Grimes or Drop dead.https://www.instagram.com/p/CmhS-dQIbaC/ The design has not been used in their clothing. It is possible that Grimes was not involved at all but rather served as inspiration for the drawing due to spotting a similar look to then then recently released Shinigami Eyes music video from the neck up.
=====Collaboration with Ava Max=====
On March 22, 2022, at Avalanche Summit in Barcelona, an unknown digital film was played that was produced by Indigo Projects and directed by Bryan Huynh. Shortly after in an Avalanche web article it was revealed that Grimes had collaborated on Ava Max's new music video, that would "follow suit".https://www.theblock.co/post/139265/avalanche-launches-100-million-creator-fund-with-grimes-and-web3-platform-op3n 
Bryan Huynh posted a snippet of the video as an Instagram story with the text:
It's possible that the video, which is viewable below, is part of that collaboration.
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=====Video/short film with Bella Poarch=====
Not to be confused with the music video for Dolls
In her TikTok comments section of her cameo in Bella Poarch's Dolls video, Grimes revealed the following information:
This was posted in July 2022, meaning the video would have to have been released in August of that year. Visuals featuring both Grimes and Bella Poarch have been used as the backdrop for Grimes' dj sets.https://www.instagram.com/p/C1X-JJ0xo9ohttps://youtu.be/Kik8pVgCpoU?t=254
=====Baby project centering around lesser known historic women=====
In August 2022, Grimes tweeted:https://twitter.com/Grimezsz/status/1556084291095986208
It is possible that this project is connected to Book 1, since that is also inspired by historic women, or her "civilization proposals" mentioned under "Creative writings'.
=====elf.tech=====
Main article: Elf.tech
=====Book 2 ("treatise, or manifesto-type thing”)=====
Main article: Book 2
=====Book 3=====
Main article: Book 3
==Creative writings==
Grimes first revealed that she had been working on a novel in 2017, saying on her Instagram that she "started my novel, but my editor, @hanatruly – informs me that my first chapter needs more showing and less telling [...] re read some good intros to double check and i guess its best to start w a plot [...] don’t expect anything good for like 20-25 years."https://crackmagazine.net/2017/04/grimes-reveals-novel-works/
In 2019, she revealed yet again that she had been working on a novel, which might be the same as the one she started on in 2017:https://twitter.com/Grimezsz/status/1082461955116404736https://twitter.com/Grimezsz/status/1082467051363536897
The plot of this novel may have evolved and been integrated into both the Book lore and NPC.
On a Facebook post on March 27, 2020, Grimes mentioned writing a "(..) hard sci fi young adult romance novel that’s sort of a mix of Twilight and Surface Detail. It’s probably trash tho".https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=3710572632318007&set=a.268765877943300
In a cryptocurrency article published on March 2022, it was revealed that Grimes was planning "(..) to create an "intergalactic childrens' metaverse book" which she hopes can follow in the footsteps of the acclaimed Studio Ghibli film My Neighbor Totoro."
:In an interview for Wired, Grimes said this:https://www.wired.com/story/grimes-big-interview/
Grimes has also written a book she believes is too deranged to be published. She used the content of the book to train a large language model that talks like a diety from the Chaos manual.https://discord.com/channels/844669718288007198/1094999431226593400
When Grimes spoke about the performance she did at Sphere, she said "we didn't have time to get the poem in too which rly recontextualizes the meaning of the song and video piece. For me it's rly incomplete without the spoken word intro (..)".https://x.com/Grimezsz/status/1874850132602114349https://www.instagram.com/p/DETTaw7yyVN/?img_index=2 It is likely that poem is hers, as she is present in the video and song.
Grimes holds her "bad" poetry in a folder on her computer, implying she has written poems and other creative writings.https://youtu.be/kOYX4ZzL0WI?si=qFX3ZjY5d3PG4tDA&t=413
Grimes has claimed she has "(..) hundreds of pages of [my personal] unpublished writing (..)"https://web.archive.org/web/20231206204035/https://twitter.com/Grimezsz/status/1732177148583240168
More to be added.
==References==
Category:Miscellaneous