Who’s your idol, like,
as far as stage presence is concerned?
Lil Wayne or something.
But I’m not that cool.
Who do you really admire as, like,
a female pop star?
I mean Katy B I think is the
coolest ‘cause she’s…
she’s sort of like, she’s not all like
here’s my tits, or something, um…
But I do, I really like Nicki Minaj.
I mean Nicki Minaj is very, like,
sexual, which is something that I’m
just not good at, uh…
but, uh, I think she’s also really,
like, a lot of times she’s like,
like she’s, you know, she’s not just pretty
like, she’s like really harsh and like
caustic and like offensive and like
I like that about her.
Without being like super trashy or anything
or like, you know, she’s just actually
like just weird which is great in
my opinion.
Do you feel like that’s something that
you always kinda have to work against
being a female artist?
It’s hard to say because I don’t wanna
be all like victim, victim, uh…
‘cause I also think that’s a very negative
attitude to take, uh…
I think it’s definitely kind of like
like it’s a relatively male dominated scene
but it is becoming much more accepting.
Maybe when I first started I had problems
like you know like playing in like Frederton
people are like where’s your band, bitch,
but you know stuff like that but like
I feel like right now, it’s been
it hasn’t been that
I’m not really questioned that much,
like no one’s, it’s been pretty easy
to like do things without a lot of
difficulty.
Do you want your music to be smart?
Is that something...
Yes.
I really hate the idea of like
I’m a musician, I’m cool, I’m just cool
and I make music ‘cause it’s cool
and I really feel like a lot of people
have lost faith in contemporary music
because they sometimes feel—
although I actually think that music right
now
is really better than it’s been in like
a long fuckin’ time. Like there’s a lot
of musicians right now that I think are really
great
but I think it’s because they’re like
you know, educated, you know, have heard a
lot of music or are drawing a lot of influences,
like Ciara, like DJ Screw is getting referenced
and getting appreciated is like maybe
pretty innovative and like important.
I wanna be like, as if Katy B did
everything herself. Like I like the idea
of using like the pop star and the producer
or something. So like I really like
Rihanna and I really like Nicki Minaj
but I also really like, like, I don’t know,
Black Dice. Like I wanna be like knob
twisting and doing all that stuff and I
also wanna be like (sings).
You know.
Thank you, we’re Grimes.
Have a good night.
