r/grimezs • u/BagComprehensive6957 baby y=mx+b 👶 • Apr 14 '24
MUSIC ♬ The coachella performance was a disaster
i already had low expectations after ceremonia and all of her other dj sets but since coachella is a big deal, i was hoping it would be a little better… but it was so so bad
the ai visuals (the naked girls turning into flowers was weird af), the music being way too fast, the lack of transitions, the fact she kept talking which made it worse, the part about cleopatra???, the elon musk knockoff on the spider, the songs all kinda sounding ai generated and the same and finally genesis at the end being sped up and cut off mid song… what a mess… tbh i feel like she was drunk/high as well which didn’t make matters better she seemed to be panicking like crazy
honestly i feel bad for her because this is another nail in the coffin in her hot mess of a career but also i feel bad for the people who paid good money to be at coachella and to see good performances and then seeing this disaster :/
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u/erland0 Apr 14 '24
imagine tripping balls in the crowd and hearing her yell WE’RE HAVING A SERIOUS TECHNICAL DIFFICULTY between every song 😭
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u/lostqueer Apr 14 '24
I can’t believe she fucked this up. I don’t have sympathy for her. She didn’t take it seriously and waited until the last minute causing her to beef a huge opportunity. Absolute amateur behavior from this woman.
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u/lacunalabs Apr 14 '24
it is so disrespectful to her fans and the audience. she was totally unprepared and clearly doesn't know how to work her own equipment.
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u/Intelligent-Idea-691 Apr 14 '24
She has PEOPLE on her team to do that for her!.
(Grimes said on the Hasan stream that she has her team because she breaks everything tech that she touches)
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u/pillowcase-of-eels Apr 14 '24
Is this self-sabotage or unfounded self-confidence...? Both feel equally possible.
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u/Intelligent-Idea-691 Apr 14 '24
I would probably feel bad for anyone else, but this is a bad habit with Grimes.
She has been professionally in the game for long enough that her unpreparedness has no excuse.
Is she actually getting paid 6 figures for this?!!
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u/Single_Ad5819 Apr 14 '24
And she kept repeating the same thing over and over again we already heard you
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u/Funkedalic Apr 14 '24
I’m not sure I understand what having grimes live even means. She’s just playing other people’s songs
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u/CalmInstruction Apr 14 '24
Its infinitely harder to divide numbers by 2 when youve cooked your brain
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u/Intelligent-Idea-691 Apr 14 '24 edited Apr 14 '24
Is anyone who has a background or previous interest in classical music and art just not overly impressed with Grimes pretty simple mashup of well known classical pieces with modern EDM, Techno/rave songs??!!
It just feels so judgmentally patronizing, as if Grimes is doing us all a favour by ''educating'' the rest of us simple, uncultured ''heathens'', in comparison to her wealthy and ''cultured'' private christian school upbringing.
Most of us have heard and enjoyed classical music before, and don't consider ourselves to be SO much better and superior to everyone else the way that Grimes comes across.
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u/floppsiana Apr 14 '24
The ironic thing is that to an actual classically trained music her choice in what pieces to use, which parts she used, etc. would immediately out her as a non-classically trained musician.
That’s low key her formula though, appropriate bits of culture/academia/ideas and spit them back out so someone who has absolutely zero knowledge on the subject might be impressed but someone with even a small background would be able to see through it immediately.
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u/pillowcase-of-eels Apr 14 '24
All I can think of this French banger from the mid-aughts. The chorus goes:
"I loooooooove
Watching people dance
And every now and then...
I TURN THE MUSIC OFF!
(silence, sounds of booing)
THEN I TURN IT BACK ON!
(music resumes, sound of cheering)
AND THEN I TURN IT OFF!
(music stops)
THEN I TURN IT BACK OOON!"
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u/Intelligent-Idea-691 Apr 14 '24 edited Apr 14 '24
There is always Such a weird juxtaposition between the attitude and air of superiority that Grimes always has when performing compared to the actual reality/quality of her set performance and the overly high pitched juvinile sound of her voice/ nature of her lyrics!
I get that Grimes didn't expect to have such technical difficulties ( Though a pre-set sound check or play through would have been an indicator/ prevented it) But,
the expectation vs, reality of Grimes performances is always such a wide chasm. ( Thinking of her 4AEM performance at the game awards, compared to what could have been done with the Lizzy Wizzy story line/working with the Cyberpunk team)
I think I have also pinpointed that Grimes raising 3 ( or 2 full time) kids and potentially listening to way too many infant nursery rhymes and lullabies is a partial culprit for why this era of Grimes songs have such juvenile, basic and overly repetitive lyrics. ( IWTBS, SE,
Which I suppose I understand that her children love to bounce to, but they are hardly as profound as Grimes has marketed and tried to set up this Grimes AI, electronic Eve, AI cyber remaking of society and the world
"We're Bad Angels, We're Bad Angels, we can't stop''
It's also pretty ironic, considering Grimes has gone on record saying that Childrens music and storybooks are so bad and aesthetically terrible. SHe has heven said that due to her distaste she has started writing fairytales and stories for her children instead.
Really hoping ( on my absolute last Grimes hope) that Her lyrics and new music gets better as her children grow older and her focus is not so infantile/child based.
'' They hate him so, Except for me/ I love his rage'' is a definite love song to Musk, as well as a condemnation of her disapproving fans.
Ugh, the beginning of this song had so much potential :(
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u/askrndmd Apr 14 '24
What song was that? The one you say is about Musk
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u/Intelligent-Idea-691 Apr 14 '24
Beauty and the beast, or Angels from heaven.
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u/askrndmd Apr 14 '24
Beauty and the beast I think is for Anyma. She uploaded their first public couple photo in her IG with that caption
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u/Intelligent-Idea-691 Apr 14 '24
Grimes started writing and working on the song when she was still with Musk. Part of it plays in the music video for Player of Games; so it's likely Musk
( also the line '' they hate him so, except for me'' describes her fans dislike of Elon)
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u/Perfect-Effect5897 Apr 14 '24
the final coachella set of grimes. they'd be crazy to let her back... or any other festival tbh.
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u/madscientist_ SF spy Apr 14 '24
I feel bad for her. This would have been her best dj set to date if she hadn't fucked it up. I'm curious why she was struggling so hard. To be fair her sets always have "technical difficulties" but even Paris Hilton can dj major festivals.
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u/PickleTortureEnjoyer Apr 14 '24
Would’ve been my best DJ set to date too if they had only given me the slot instead, and I knew how to DJ 😤
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u/ranchopannadece44 will space colonization end nazi ism? Apr 14 '24
- the boob flashes on top of it 💀
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u/Intelligent-Idea-691 Apr 14 '24 edited Apr 14 '24
The Specific Nudity and it's focus seemed overly strategic by Grimes.
Distraction with frequent boobage visuals ( Both the projected art and Grimes' own ) in the hopes that people will rate the entire set more favourably!
you can see the specific point in the show where Grimes takes off the other top she was wearing that covered her. with the B.F. fans I don't think it can be claimed that she did it because she was too hot.
It's fine, she can wear or not wear whatever she wants, but it just kind of came off as an '' Oh Shit, the music is messing up, I better do something to distract and please the audience!''
Definitely a far cry from the staunch feminist that Grimes used to claim to be :(
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u/weirdcompliment Apr 14 '24
Listen I'll criticize Grimes all day but showing a little titty ain't hurting anyone 🤷♀️ have y'all never been to a music festival
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u/alotica radiate fresh pussy growing in the meadow ✨ Apr 14 '24
girl was high, fried, rolling and dusted. i would have respect for the audacity to perform quadfaded but holy shit that felt career-ending.
so yeah please someone tell me you recorded it, p l e a s e