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﻿AS GRIMES, 24-YEAR-OLD CLAIRE BOUCHER IS QUICKLY BEGINNING TO RIVAL JUSTIN BIEBER AS CANADA'S BIGGEST EXPORT
Grimes is the poster girl for 'post-Tumblr pop'. The talented 24-year-old has been photographed by Hedi Slimane for the cover of Dazed & Confused and styled by Carine Roitfeld for the cover of V magazine following the crossover success of her entirely self-produced third album, Visions - a brilliantly bonkers pop album that everyone should own. I wanted to make a pop album that used a lot of the basic aspects of pop," she says. It needed to feel really good and be easy to understand, regardless of how much you know about music. I always wanted to be really experimental. A lot of the time when listening to pop music I'm like, "This would be a lot better if it was a bit more meaningful.""
The former goth kid from Vancouver's sound is a textural blend of new age, k-pop, DIY and witch house, looped and then sung by Julee Cruise (if she had a lisp and homemade, stick-and-pin tattoos). Grimes' counter-and popular-culture references and clear/confusing attitude towards music have confirmed a new and exciting direction for pop. 'When I'm listening to like, noise music or something else,' she says, I'll be like, "This would be so much better if Mariah Carey was singing it." I just try to mediate between what I come from musically.'
The heavily blogged-about artist doesn't look at the internet, doesn't have a Tumblr account, and would bet on Lil' Kim if she and Nicki Minaj were in a fight -'because she'd fight dirtier'. She thinks they're both cool, though. Her favourite Nicki Minaj rap is her verse on Kanye West's Monster. Agreed. She can't do the rap, though. She can't remember a lot of the lyrics to her own songs, either. It doesn't matter; when this happens, she just dances. When quizzed on which planet she'd most like to play on, she picked Europa - it's a moon of Jupiter and her favourite right now. The last film Grimes saw at the cinema was Twilight: Breaking Dawn -'the most recent one where she gets, like, impregnated by like a demon baby and stuff". Ideal. The most-played song on her iPod is Selena Gomez's Love You Like A Love Song and her dream crush is Willem Dafoe. She rarely gets downtime but if she does, she watches Game of Thrones. She's into historical dramas and her favourite Canadian celebrity is Celine Dion. Best person ever-right?
Between getting a new weave and planning a trip to Mexico for the apocalypse, the sleep-deprived workaholic has still found time to work on a new album, about which she gives us a sneaky hint of what to expect. 'Visions was really soft and nice. I want to sound more mature and more aggressive.' So finally, if she weren't being Grimes, how exactly would she be spending her time? 'Ummm, I'd be getting a degree and stuff, she ponders. Well, thank God she's Grimes.
Visions is out now on 4ADCategory:InterviewCategory:2012