#grimesdaily

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Grimes attending 2021 Met Gala at Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City  

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“We live in a simulation. If you look at a video game, a video game is a simulation of the world but it’s a distillation of the most entertaining or beautiful or scary stuff. Part of the reason a video game is so addictive is that it’s like a reality but it’s just like without mundane shit. Social media is a similar thing. It’s a mirror of reality but so much mundanity has been removed from it. So it feels like reality, it looks like reality, and you know you’re interacting with people that you know in reality, but all the boring shit has been taken out. Our minds are just sort of primed toward that, I think.”

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butterfly - grimes (art angels, 2015)

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“most of my music is unplaylistable, which is a huge problem: ‘this is not pop. this is not rock.’ they’re not discernible genres”  - grimes for rolling stones

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Fashion has been generous with me. It’s allowed me to promote my work. Fashion is one of the ways the human body can be transformed into a work of art, so I take it very seriously. I’m really passionate about digital fashion in video games, and prefer the ones which offer plenty of clothing options, or where buying virtual clothes is actually an integral part of the game. I think that it’s a mark of cultural progress, and it’s definitely more sustainable than creating and consuming real clothes. – Grimes for Vogue Italia | May 2020

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Two of my best friends died before I was 18, and I lost like five friends to opiate-related deaths. Really close friends. I had one die when I was on a shoot, and found out while filming the second day. All this stuff, fucked up stuff, is happening. Before I would just not mention any of it. I feel like I’ve been through war when I think that all these people around me are dead. In 2016, my good friend died. They were a friend of 15 years, and I felt nothing. Just nothing. And it was so weird. But, you know, there you go. So you start removing yourself from everybody because you don’t want to face it. Life becomes too shockingly fragile, you know? - Grimes for Flaunt Magazine

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grimes for rodarte fw18 by autumn de wilde

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miami is just really fun whenever i go there. it's like this post-apocalyptic barbie world: everything is pink, and there're palm trees everywhere. but then there are also all these people in crazy sunglasses, warehouses with sick parties where all the girls are covered in spikes and black leather. it's a very weird place.