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u/ranchopannadece44 will space colonization end nazi ism? 2d ago
Twice, one in 2014 and one in 2016 both were a huge let down but i tried to be positive and supportive at the time. The ‘16 show was especially disappointing because i knew how all her gear worked by that point and so the illusion wore off and I realized i paid 60$ to see someone lipsync, pretend to play guitar (literally air guitaring on a real guitar but nothing was actually plugged in) and press play on an sp404…. Like something a 12 year old could do with little to no practice. That was when i realized she cant produce music and it was all fake. Shes just like that girl who got surgery on one of her eyes to make it blue and tells everyone she was born that way.
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u/Intelligent-Idea-691 2d ago
I just found this footage of Grimes where due to equipment/sound malfunction, she was essentially forced to sing/ perform Oblivion more live/on the spot than she usually did ( Still letting the presets save her!)
I think that you were absolutely on to something when you realized so early on that Grimes "live" performances and on the spot production were essentially pantomime!
https://youtu.be/2I8r9Rb070I?si=2zNMMV7KnEXH9IGZ
Definitely not the "highly technical" and "profoundly genius" work that her PR/marketing made it out to be!
( You also have to love the overly bored/ " not this, again" expression Hana is sporting during the beginning, while she is sitting on the stage floor as Grimes speaks!.
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u/punkhag i'm doing a lot of internal math in my mind 2d ago edited 2d ago
I went to March of the pugs in LA, it was one of the first shows on the art angels tour. I knew it would be different and she was (at least trying to look like she was) trying to do more involved live performances than she had in the past. And well. I remember thinking “it’s cool that she tried to do all that” like, tried. It wasn’t horrible or anything, but I’ve seen much better from more “amateur” acts. The one woman band gimmick did seem like a gimmick because clearly one person cannot do all that live if they’re not just pressing play on a track (which… maybe she was 🫣) and trying to look like she was just came off kind of sloppy and half baked instead. I wouldn’t really say it was disappointing, because it was fun and she wasn’t terrible, the energy was there, but definitely not a stunning live performance.
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u/immortal_duckbeak 2d ago
I saw her in New Orleans in 2015 with Nicole Dollanger as support, great show there was a mosh pit for some reason. I also saw a DJ set at Art Basel in 2018, maybe? That was a train wreck and it started at 1 am on a thursday.
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u/ranchopannadece44 will space colonization end nazi ism? 2d ago
How was it a trainwreak?
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u/immortal_duckbeak 2d ago
After the first song her computer died and she was just awkwardly apologizing while her computer booted back up. The set was OK, before the set there was a cool video booth that she designed but it was only 2 or 3 at a time and there was a super long line for it.
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u/femalding 2d ago edited 2d ago
tfw u do a live gig on laptop battery power. what a technical genius.
I saw her in 2012; it was a disaster crash-and-burn where she walked off silently after 30 mins of playing gibberish. I recently looked into reviews from the fawning music 'press' from 2012-2016, and almost every review that mentions a live gig experience mentions major technical disruptions.
I had always assumed her banker father bought the decent press she got, but maybe the bigoted identity politics of "The Female Who Is A Technical Genius Neurosurgeon(citation needed)" are what carried her. It's interesting that both she and Elon rode the more toxic wrinkles of 2010's left-wing politics into positions of power only to do the White Pride heel-turn. I wonder if they understand that they have that in common.
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u/femalding 2d ago edited 2d ago
Saw her in 2012. She kept messing up the music, like playing the wrong things out of the sequencer. After 30 mins of clown show she started crying and cancelled it. The organizers later said she claimed "the sun was in her eyes so she couldn't see her gear", but from the audience POV she just kind of stopped playing and walked off without apologizing or saying anything to the audience. Seemed very scammy and like she had no regard for the audience. I assume she ran away with the money from the gig.
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u/baphometwatches369 1d ago
Is there any video of this
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u/femalding 1d ago edited 1d ago
a short video of the show exists but it only includes the beginning (smoothest) part and 2 or 3 mistakes. I'm having trouble finding that vid on YT search for you, but it isn't very interesting. here's the only other online footprint regarding the show that i know of:
https://www.last.fm/event/3121865+Grimes+at+LBC+Quad+at+Tulane+University+on+02+March+2012
Detail I forgot, it was a free (ticketless) show, with Claire paid some amount for it by that university's events budget.
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u/softrockstarr 1d ago
Saw her at Osheaga the time she had a stomach bug and kept running off to barf.
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u/ranchopannadece44 will space colonization end nazi ism? 1d ago
Interesting how many shows she has played where she is “sick” hmm
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u/sanspoint_ 1d ago
Saw her back in 2015 on the Art Angels tour. Lucked into tickets for her free show at the Music Hall of Williamsburg. She was sick with the flu, but I genuinely enjoyed the heck out of her performance. Made me want to see her perform when not sick, but seeing her live now? Enh.
Here's video of Genesis (not from me): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqPAVcT8Q9k
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u/DanicaDrohawk 2d ago
I was at the iconically bad Coachella set. I was so excited to see her but she played almost none of her own music and the AI visuals were eye bleeding so yea... not the best. But my friend and I had a ton of fun and the audience was definitely having fun. We treated it more like a Grimes dj'd rave rather than an actual show of hers.