NME/2013/Interview

===Interviewhttps://grimes-claireboucher.tumblr.com/post/39522057778/freaksandweirdos-from-nme===
DOES ROCK'N'ROLL KILL BRAINCELLS?
TESTING THE MEMORY OF LAST YEAR'S RADAR STAR
This Year 
GRIMES
QUESTION 1
Your rapping stepbrother Jay Worthy, with whom you collaborated on "Christmas Song', released a mixtape this time last year-what was it called?
"I have no idea (laughs)."
Could you name any of bis mixtapes?
"I didn't even know he put out mixtapes. (laughs again)."
Wrong. "The Lifestyle"''
"Oh cool. Yeah, I guess he lives the lifestyle. He lives a pretty strange lifestyle, but it's a notable one."
QUESTION 2 
What are you wearing on your bead on the cover of the "Darkbloom' EP? 
"Ohhh man, I don't know, a scrunchy? 
Wrong: Plastic leaves 
"Oh fuck yeah, sorry. I have a really bad memory. But I'll get one of these."
QUESTION 3
Your album 'Geidi Primes'is based on Frank Herbert's cult sci-fi novel Dune, which was made into an awesome film starring Sting. What's the name of the stringed instrument that the character Gurney Halleck plays?
"I haven't read this book in a decade. Does it start with a 'B'?"
Yep.
"I can't remember." 
Wrong: Baliset 
"DAMN IT!"
QUESTION 4
In the NME Radar feature you did last January, you said that your next album was going to be a combination of which two types of music?❘
"Like, Burial and pop or hip-hop or something? 
Wrong: "New Jack Swing meets TLC"
QUESTION 5 
Which famous military leader did you kind of compare yourself to in an interview this year? 
"I hope it wasn't Stalin accidentally, because that did happen."
That wasn't the one I was thinking of. Less controversial.
"Erm, Rommel?"
Wrong: Napoleon
"(Shouts) Napoleon! I do identify a lot with Napoleon. Especially with my feelings about my stature."
QUESTION 6
How many symbols that aren't letters in any language appear in the song titles of your albums?
"Like, 35? Oh, I don't know, eight?" 
Wrong: Four
QUESTION 7
What are the first words spoken on your album 'Visions"?
"Like, "I would" or "I will, wait for you, if you want me to', but I'm not sure which ones." 
Correct
"I haven't heard that song since I made it."
QUESTION 8
In the video for 'Oblivion', counting separately each time one appears on the screen, how many male nipples appear, to the nearest five?
"OK, I dunno. 60? No, 40."
It's 37. Just close enough
"How is there an odd number?"
Because sometimes you're looking at balf the guy's chest.
QUESTION 9
How many naked buttocks are there in the same video?
"One? Oh wait, two."
Correct. As in one arse, two buttocks 
"That's terminology I'm not familiar with."
QUESTION 10
In the video for 'Genesis' what does your hat say on it?
"Pussy. I was not actually thinking about making a political statement or the fact that it said 'Pussy', I was just like, 'Oh, a baseball cap is cool"."
Correct
Total Score 
4/10
"Well, I knew it wasn't going to be good. I don't know very much trivia... Yeah, I don't even know whereabouts I'm supposed to go tomorrow."Category:Interview
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