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Claire Elise Boucher (; born March 17, 1988), known professionally as Grimes, is a Canadian musician, singer, songwriter, and record producer. Her lyrics often touch on science fiction and feminist themes. The visuals in her videos are elaborate and sometimes have fantasy themes. She has released five studio albums. Born and raised in Vancouver, Grimes began releasing music independently after moving to Montreal in 2006. She released two albums, '' Geidi Primes'' and '' Halfaxa'', in 2010 on Arbutus Records, before signing with 4AD and rising to prominence with the release of her 2012 album, '' Visions''. The album received the Canadian music industry Juno Award for Electronic Album of the Year, and yielded two singles: "Genesis" and " Oblivion". Following this, her fourth studio album, ''Art Angels'', was released in 2015, and several publications named it the best album of the year. Her fifth studio album, ''Miss Anthropocene'', was released in 2020. Outside of music, Grime ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vancouver
Vancouver is a major city in Western Canada, located in the Lower Mainland region of British Columbia. As the List of cities in British Columbia, most populous city in the province, the 2021 Canadian census recorded 662,248 people in the city, up from 631,486 in 2016. The Metro Vancouver area had a population of 2.6million in 2021, making it the List of census metropolitan areas and agglomerations in Canada#List, third-largest metropolitan area in Canada. Greater Vancouver, along with the Fraser Valley, comprises the Lower Mainland with a regional population of over 3million. Vancouver has the highest population density in Canada, with over , and the fourth highest in North America (after New York City, San Francisco, and Mexico City). Vancouver is one of the most Ethnic origins of people in Canada, ethnically and Languages of Canada, linguistically diverse cities in Canada: 49.3 percent of its residents are not native English speakers, 47.8 percent are native speakers of nei ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arbutus Records
Arbutus Records is a Montreal based record label and Artist Management, management company founded by Sebastian Cowan in 2009. The label is named after the street by the same name in Vancouver, where Cowan grew up. The label have also begun expanding outside of Montreal, signing international artist Σtella, from Athens, Greece, on April 16, 2019, and Toronto-based trio Rapport on August 28, 2019. History Arbutus Records was created by a community of artists and musicians from the Montreal DIY music scene that came together in the 4600 square foot Mile End, Montreal, Mile End, warehouse loft space called Lab Synthèse. Lab Synthèse was co-founded by Sebastian Cowan in 2007. The record label was created in order to promote and cultivate the bands associated with the space. Police shut down Lab Synthèse and Cowan began managing the artists that performed there shortly after, resulting in the formation of Arbutus Records. Cowan and the label kickstarted the music careers of Blue Haw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Art Angels
''Art Angels'' is the fourth studio album by Canadian musician Grimes. It was digitally released on November 6, 2015, through 4AD, and in physical formats on December 11. Boucher began planning the record in 2013 as the follow-up to her third studio album, '' Visions''; however, for unknown reasons, she scrapped most of the material from these sessions and began a new set of recordings in 2014. The track " Realiti", which came from the earlier recordings, was released as a demo in early 2015. ''Art Angels'' has been described as being more accessible than Boucher's previous albums while retaining her experimental influences. The album features guest appearances by Taiwanese rapper Aristophanes and American singer Janelle Monáe. The album spawned two singles—" Flesh Without Blood" and "Kill V. Maim"—as well as music videos for several tracks. ''Art Angels'' sold 11,000 copies in its first week, peaking at number 36 in the United States. The album was released to widespread ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oblivion (Grimes Song)
"Oblivion" is a song by Canadian musician Grimes from her third studio album, '' Visions'' (2012). It was released as a promotional single in 2012 by the British record label 4AD. Creation In an April 2012 interview with Jacinda Govind for ''Music Feeds'', Grimes explained that the song is about a violent assault: It made me crazy for a few years. I got really paranoid walking around at night and started feeling really unsafe. The song is more about empowering myself physically amongst a masculine power, and the hate of feeling powerless, making light of masculine physical power, making it jovial and non-threatening. I took a typically violent cultural situation and made it pop and happy. Chandler Levack for ''CBC'' in 2020 and Caz Tran for ''ABC'' in 2022 have reported on Grimes' sexual assault, with Tran writing that "as a survivor of a violent sexual assault, 'Oblivion' was the result of rimes'most determined efforts to turn feelings of fear and paranoia into something light h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Genesis (Grimes Song)
"Genesis" is a song by Canadian singer and songwriter Grimes (musician), Grimes, released in 2012, as the lead single from her third studio album, ''Visions (Grimes album), Visions'' (2012). The song is one of Grimes' most successful releases so far, as a result of the song's music videos becoming Viral video, viral, mostly through micro-blogging site Tumblr. The ''NME'' placed the song at number 16 on its list of 50 Best Tracks of 2012. Music video The self-directed video for "Genesis" premiered on August 22, 2012. It was filmed in Los Angeles and co-stars rapper and stripper Brooke Candy, whom Grimes describes as "a very contemporary muse". In the video, Grimes is seen alongside a group of friends while driving an Cadillac Escalade, Escalade in the desert, holding an Burmese Python, albino python in the back of a limousine, and posing in the woods. She said of the concept of the video: "It's loosely based on this painting by my favorite painter, Hieronymus Bosch, called ''The Sev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juno Award
The Juno Awards (stylized as JUNOS), or simply known as the Junos, are awards presented by Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, the Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences to recognize outstanding achievements in Canada's music industry. The Grammy Awards are the United States' equivalent of the Juno Awards. Alongside the Canadian Screen Awards, they are considered one of the main annual Canadian entertainment award shows. New members of the Canadian Music Hall of Fame are also inducted as part of the awards ceremonies. History The Juno Awards were originally called the RPM Gold Leaf Awards named after RPM Magazine. The winners would be announced in RPM magazine before awards night. The first ceremony was held on February 23, 1970 to honour the musical accomplishments of performers for the year 1969, and the trophy resembled a metronome. But the name was changed in honour of Pierre Juneau, the first president of the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunica ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Visions (Grimes Album)
''Visions'' is the third studio album by Canadian musician Grimes. It was released on February 21, 2012, through 4AD. Her first since signing with 4AD, the album was recorded entirely on Apple's GarageBand software in Grimes' apartment over a three-week period. It was mixed by Grimes and her manager, Sebastian Cowan, at their La Brique Studio Space in Montreal. ''Visions'' was streamed on the NPR website a week before it was released in the United States. ''Visions'' was acclaimed by music critics and was included in several year-end lists. The album's two singles, " Oblivion" and "Genesis", were named among the best songs of 2012 by many publications including ''Rolling Stone, Pitchfork'' and ''NME''. It has also appeared on several decade-end lists, with '' Gorilla vs. Bear'' naming it the best album of the decade and ''Pitchfork'' naming "Oblivion" as the second best song of the decade. It was also ranked as the 252nd best album of all time by ''NME''. ''Visions'' won a Juno A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Halfaxa
''Halfaxa'' is the second studio album by Canadian electronic music artist Grimes. It was released in Canada on October 5, 2010, by Arbutus Records, and in the United Kingdom and mainland Europe in May 2011 by Lo Recordings. Background Grimes described ''Halfaxa'' as "dark" but created at a more positive point in her life, contrasting with the other albums she had produced. The album is mostly inspired by her time in Halifax, Nova Scotia, while staying at her friend's home. Composition ''Halfaxa'' has been described as a goth-pop, witch house, dark wave, and glo-fi release, as well as featuring influences of glitch pop, R&B, techno, industrial, and electro. Grimes has said ''Halfaxa'' was created to "evoke the feeling of believing in God in a very Medieval Christian way", and has described it as her "medieval" album. Track listing Notes * On the Lo Recordings version, the tracks: 1, 2, 4, 6 are stylised in lowercase and 9, 10 are stylised as "Dreamfortress" and "worl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geidi Primes
''Geidi Primes'' ( ) is the debut studio album by Canadian musician Grimes. It was released through Arbutus Records on January 10, 2010. In 2011, the album was released in the United Kingdom through No Pain in Pop Records on CD and LP, containing a slightly different cover art. ''Geidi Primes'' is a concept album based on Frank Herbert's novel ''Dune'' and David Lynch's 1984 film adaptation of the book. On March 1, 2024, coinciding with the release of '' Dune: Part Two'', Grimes released a nightcore version of ''Geidi Primes''. Background The album's title refers to the fictional planet Giedi Prime, from the ''Dune'' novels by Frank Herbert, originating with the 1965 novel ''Dune'', Grimes' favourite book. "Caladan", the first track, refers to another fictional planet. The next, "Sardaukar Levenbrech", refers to the military rank of Levenbrech — roughly in between a sergeant and a lieutenant — in the Sardaukar army. A Face Dancer, as used in track three's title "Zoal, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fantasy
Fantasy is a genre of speculative fiction that involves supernatural or Magic (supernatural), magical elements, often including Fictional universe, imaginary places and Legendary creature, creatures. The genre's roots lie in oral traditions, which later became fantasy literature, fantasy literature and drama. From the twentieth century onward, it has expanded into various media, including film, television, graphic novels, manga, animation, and video games. The expression ''fantastic literature'' is often used for this genre by Anglophone literary critics. An archaic spelling for the term is ''phantasy''. Fantasy is generally distinguished from the genres of science fiction and horror fiction, horror by an absence of scientific or macabre themes, although these can occur in fantasy. In popular culture, the fantasy genre predominantly features settings that reflect the actual Earth, but with some sense of otherness. Characteristics Many works of fantasy use magic (paranorma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Feminism
Feminism is a range of socio-political movements and ideology, ideologies that aim to define and establish the political, economic, personal, and social gender equality, equality of the sexes. Feminism holds the position that modern societies are patriarchal—they prioritize the male point of view—and that women are treated unjustly in these societies. Efforts to change this include fighting against gender stereotypes and improving educational, professional, and interpersonal opportunities and outcomes for women. Originating in late 18th-century Europe, feminist movements have campaigned and continue to campaign for women's rights, including the right to Women's suffrage, vote, Nomination rules, run for public office, Right to work, work, earn gender pay gap, equal pay, Right to property, own property, Right to education, receive education, enter into contracts, have equal rights within marriage, and maternity leave. Feminists have also worked to ensure access to contr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Science Fiction
Science fiction (often shortened to sci-fi or abbreviated SF) is a genre of speculative fiction that deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts. These concepts may include information technology and robotics, biological manipulations, space exploration, time travel, Parallel universes in fiction, parallel universes, and extraterrestrials in fiction, extraterrestrial life. The genre often explores human responses to the consequences of projected or imagined scientific advances. Science fiction is related to fantasy (together abbreviated wikt:SF&F, SF&F), Horror fiction, horror, and superhero fiction, and it contains many #Subgenres, subgenres. The genre's precise Definitions of science fiction, definition has long been disputed among authors, critics, scholars, and readers. Major subgenres include hard science fiction, ''hard'' science fiction, which emphasizes scientific accuracy, and soft science fiction, ''soft'' science fiction, which focuses on social sciences. Other no ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
