Nylon/2011/Interview

Interview
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===Interviewhttps://fyeahgrimes.tumblr.com/post/13683143515/nylon-who-is-on-your-speed-dial-and-why-grimes===
﻿Claire Boucher makes pop music like a conceptual artist: It's smart and knowing, winking and ironic even as it trades in the most infectious of pop hooks. It's a lot like Boucher, who's better known as Grimes-she's bubbly and friendly, but clever, too, and not about to let life's absurdities pass by unacknowledged. She calls us via Google Phone (see below), on a break from mixing her first full-length album, tentatively titled Vizions. What does the title mean? "It's really complicated," she says, from her home in Montreal. "I like it because it's sort of forward-looking and backward-thinking at the same time." That sounds pretty straightforward, we tell her. "Yeah, but there's a lot going on there." DIANE VADINO
WHO IS ON YOUR SPEED DIAL AND WHY?
I actually don't have a phone. I'm calling you from Google Phone. I get anxiety when people can contact me all the time.
WHAT'S ON YOUR IPOD?
I actually don't have an iPod, either!
WE WERE GOING TO ASK YOU WHAT PEOPLE MIGHT BE SHOCKED TO LEARN ABOUT YOU. BUT YOU NOT HAVING A PHONE OR IPOD SEEMS SORT OF SHOCKING... DO YOU HAVE A SECRET TALENT?
I have tons and tons of ballet history, so I can dislocate my shoulder. I saw someone do it and then I tried to do it, and it was possible. I also knew I could dislocate my hips from a really young age. It's getting harder and harder to do-when I was working out eight hours a day, it was easy. Now, when I try to do it, I'm, like, drunk at a party, and, "Hey. look what I can do!"
IF YOU HAD AN ENTIRE DAY FREE TO DO ANYTHING YOU WANTED. WHAT WOULD YOU DO?
I'd love to spend a day at the beach and then go to a Beyonce concert-they seem like the two most pleasurable things. I think she's really a meta performer, everything she does with projecting dancers, with not knowing what's real and what's not I think she's the pinnacle of contemporary performance.
WHO IS YOUR IT GIRL?
Raphaelle Standall Preston. She's my old roommate. I've learned a lot from her because she's a couple steps ahead of me.
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