Vogue/2016/Interview

Interview
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=ONE WOMAN SHOW=
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Claire Boucher-the music producer and performer better known as Grimes-is engineering her own pop stardom.
I really hate encores," Grimes said recently to a sold-out crowd of 3,000 at Manhattan's Terminal 5. Having paired Adidas chest pads with a medical boot decorated with glow tape-her occasional accessory thanks to a calcium deficiency (she calls herself "an irresponsible vegan") she explained that she considers encores, like many social situations, just too awkward to face. "Shows are really hard for me, and this will probably be my last year touring because of it," she will later say. "My high school friends are shocked that I perform at all." But while she may be the world's most socially anxious pop star, she's exactly the sort of tour de force that the music industry needs.
Grimes is the alter ego of Claire Boucher, the 27-year-old Canadian who in 2012 ignited the indie-music world with her third album, Visions and then swiftly disappeared. Her follow-up, the recently released and unanimously praised Art Angels a sonic romp through references as diverse as K-pop, David Bowie, heavy metal, and the Danish pop group Aqua-welcomes a wider audience. "Genre never crosses my mind," Boucher says. "Music is something that's really gut level for me." Perhaps that's not surprising coming from a woman who's equally interested in Nijinsky and Benazir Bhutto and who dresses herself more believably like a Harajuku concoction than even Gwen Stefani in her heyday.
Above all, what makes the Grimes project significant is Boucher's rigorous self-reliance: She writes, produces, mixes, and performs all of her own songs, directs her own videos, and draws the cover art for her albums. Boucher also performs without a band, so onstage she oscillates between dancing front and center and rushing back to her equipment in time to play the next cue. Alone, she accomplishes what normally requires whole teams of well-paid professionals. "Everyone asks me, 'Who's producing your album?" People just cannot understand that a woman would ever do this," Boucher says, adding that her male counterparts aren't met with the same doubts. "I've cut that conversation off."-MARK GUIDUCCI
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