Dazed/2015/Q&A

### Q&A

**hey grimes! ✨ was it important for you to focus more on the lyrics than you did on the last album?**

not necessarily. my old manager had set a release date for visions before I ever started it, so i consider it unfinished. Artangels i think is just more finished so there are more lyrics. but the sound design etc. was def just as important if not more this time

**How is the spaghetti at The Madonna Inn? Great, good, or bad? Love your work. Cheers.**

its great

**Do you play splatoon? Your make up seems like ink girl**

I've played it a bit, but my friend plays a lot. i was watching them play often when finishing the album and i think the styling is good

**Wanna come hangout in the wooded hills of Kentucky? We can shoot guns n drink Kentucky Bourbon!! Lol**

sure

**Which song(s) took the longest to make ?**

kill, belly of the beat was really hard for some reason, butterfly was a true pain in the ass haha

**what are your pet peeves?**

people who leave the tap on when they brush their teeth or start washing their hands and talking but the tap is still running. ahhhhh

**hey grimes! ✨ could you imagine producing a song for a pop singer?**

no

**Main inspiration?**

history and the earth, but also space and human art

**first i just wanna say that ur album is really cool, different from vision, which is my favorite album of all time. u're my favorite artist, and i've always loved hearing u make weird noises -(^.^)-**

**my main question is about your "sad album" which never came out. Do you think it'll be out one day, how was it and why did u cancel it ? love u baby grimzmzzz**

I never cancelled anything. Most artists have unreleased music ❤ for every song i release i have like 60 unreleased songs or something. there was never really a finished album per se, just tons of songs.

mostly they were depressing but all my new shit is equally depressing imo

**any comic recommendations? I started reading Saga thanks to you and now I need more good stuff 🙃**

y the last man by the same dude is epic. also if use never started akira i would do that. then move onto literally anything by dan clowes.

**I love your artwork as much as your music! Do you plan on publishing more of it soon, maybe in a volume, and do you plan on making prints of newer material available? Love the new album so much, thank you for it and everything.**

perhaps 🙂 I've not thought about it much, i love that art is a hobby though

i think having hobbies is important

**hey grimes ✨ what is the last song you recorded for the album?**

Venus fly w/ janelle, i mixed her vocals under that eclipse thing and just barely made the deadline with it

**Why is the new album titled Art Angels?**

because i refer to the demons in my head as the art angels

**Hey Grimes! I really like your new album and the production of your music continues to blow me away. I was wondering what the hardest song, in a technical sense, was for you to make on Art Angels, and why? (P.S. Thanks for all the joy you have given me over these past few years!~)**

kill v maim was the hardest because its like layers and layers of mic'd electric guitar over synths and then tons of layering with drums and vocals too, but per formatively it had to be super tight.

**is there gonna be a kill v maim vid? if so will there be killing or maiming??? will there be swords, grimes?????**

trying to locate a fight choreographer indeed

**Thoughts on FKA TWIGS?**

i respect her so much. a savior

**Claire !! You said something along the lines of wishing that you never made songs like oblivion and that stuff, or that the label kinda forced you into it ? Well do you feel that way about Genesis ? that's one of my favorite songs of all time, if not my favorite, and I feel like it has a lot of meaning to it and it really feels like a piece of art and it would kinda break my heart if you never wanted it to be created in the first place, btw Artangels is life**

i never said that. someone asked me how it feels to play the same songs every night and i was explaining in a self deprecating manner that sometimes it makes you hate ur own music. it was a joke that was taken out of context by journalists. they like to fuck with me for clickbait

**What are some of your absolute favorite bands to listen to?**

Tool and Smashing pumpkins

**Hey Grimes!! In complete love with the new album it exceeded every expectation and can't listen to anything else!! 🙌🏼 but I have been so obsessed with Ya vas lyubil since the first time you ever sang it on tour and was wondering will you ever release it? Or any songs that didn't make the insane cut for Art Angels? ♥️👽**

hey! ya vas lyubil is actually just me interpolating a pushkin poem, so its not really my song to release per se, its more of a live jam 🙂 ❤ i may release some other songz later that didnt make the cut

**what do fishes do for fun?**

they have no central nervous system I'm afraid

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