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she is software, weirdly specific software you need for one thing and it's buggy as hell cause it hasn't been updated since 2016 but you put up with it for that one thing

pre-save link for I wanna be software, it has a countdown, which might age really badly we'll just have to see https://droplink.io/grimes/i-wanna-be-software

we don't know, I think she might do a 'surprise' drop, maybe not the whole album, but the reveal etc being out of the blue as she hasn't spoken about being in the studio or writing at all & has been off social media mostly. which is probably a good thing and less pressure for her.

I think maybe cause of the L+F 'drama' around the acoustics? for those that don't know/weren't there: she announced an acoustic version of baby which tbh I think a lot of people wanted (including me) as it's very obvious the song was too fast for her (which she admitted it herself & was having nightmares about it lol) then it was released and it was literally just the song with some stems removed/changed. she got a bit uptight/self righteous on twitter that fans were disappointed and said something like 'acoustic just means blah blah', which considering all her previous acoustic versions were live (sounding) acoustics I really don't think it was unreasonable for fans to expect live acoustics. then she was asked if she would do love + fear acoustics and she said yes, made everyone wait like 7 months to basically pull the same thing as the baby acoustic, orange trees is practically the same, superstar wasn't that much difference, no more suckers was pretty much reproduced iirc but it sound really clear to me they just took her vocal sessions from the album and changed the instrumental I really doubt she did any more vocal takes. people were just upset that they weren't live acoustics, especially after the serve of the froot acoustic sessions. (though all of her eras have really great acoustic versions) also the song choices were weird. I think this is why we got 'man's world (stripped)' because if she called it 'man's world (acoustic)' it would be the same drama again

I feel like a lot of people are forgetting it’s for a soundtrack and for a movie that’s going really heavy on marketing (so it needs to be tiktok friendly) like yes I’d be mad if she dropped a sub 2m single for an album but that’s not what this song is for at all.

this is so fucking funny

well she has sort of done both to be fair, she's admitted music is a 'side quest' and that she has music coming. she's just stuck in this catch 22 that if she gives dates everyone hates on her and expects her to miss them even when she doesn't, like welcome to the opera, and if she gives dates and misses them people hate her. it is really fucking annoying waiting though, but tbh I think grimes isn't a person you can really 'stan' and wait on their every update, you just have to ignore her and wait for something to be uploaded to spotify whilst you stan someone else

it's kind of ironic how desperately she wants to 'simp' over AI yet AI can't really reproduce her voice (even though it's literally trained on her own stems by her own team!!) because of how 'unique' her voice is due to her lisp and (lack of) enunciation.

tbh she falls flat cause she tries to be political in songs then doesn’t do anything on social media & in some cases literally does the things she criticises others for. I would rather she do 0 political songs but was a good activist. like you said it’s like she gets all her opinions from tweets and doesn’t look into any actual sources to form her own opinions.

it was also 'forced' because she was getting out of her contract asap, I was hoping that perhaps her new stuff will be better without that restriction but her poetry isn't it. it's like she has a good idea then has to 'ruin' it with a live laugh love-esqe line. I don't think your opinion is that controversial, I think it's what a lot of people are thinking but no one wants to say... I think on the surface ADIAML seems better because the production is better/more consistent, L+F has songs that have good lyrics with bad production and 'bad' lyrics with good production. but that's what having 22 co-writers and 13 producers will do.

she said she made the song in 20 minutes edit: she also said she sent both songs and greta & mark preferred speed drive

she’s winding us up for her own amusement

surprised no one has done royals with charliAI...

I looked it up and LanaBoards is mentioned on the HIFN wikipedia page she formally announced hifn on the 6th and released forever on the 9th, so that would make some sense but she also works super quickly so idk i always felt party 4 u a weird inclusion, I’m glad we have it but it’s from 2017 and not even about Huck, she should have put gravity or if I cried in it’s place (both preferably) and released party 4 u as a separate single maybe for an album of reworked fan favourites

and also ‘now we gotta let this go’ and ‘I know in the future we won’t see each other, cold just like december’ to me it always sounded like a breakup song which was confusing because of claws and how she seem to be with him during that era, but she said in a more recent interview that they were probably going to break up because of a lack of time together then quarantine happened (or something like that)

I guess that spotify concert was a mistag cause she posted nothing about it at all, I thought we were over this

since it's a single for anyma's debut album, maybe we'll get some remixes? one of those might be better, maybe we'll get a grimes remix... (unlikely)

I have to agree sounds fanmade

official extended version:

I just wanna remind people this isn’t really her song, and therefore probably not a reflection of the upcoming album like how Go doesn’t sound like art angels, she said it was a collab from the start so there has never been a ‘just grimes’ version either. personally I wish it was a bit more catchy like shinigami eyes, but it’s obviously just for anyma’s DJ sets and enjoyable enough (for now, maybe it will age)

the boredom is really showing I want her to announce literally anything but then I don't want her to announce something then leave us in a weird lurch for months like her first singles usually do. spotify says she has a concert on the 9th and then one in july which maybe that means she's ready to soft launch a new era... but who knows

I think most of it is because it replaced midnights on the album, I like it on the mixtape but there are so much better TR outtakes that could have been there instead. I’m sure it was just added to try and capitalise off a feature which in retrospect I don’t think has aged that well if you compare monthly Spotify listeners Brooke Candy (300k) and Charli (15m). I don’t wanna come across like I’m dragging Brooke or anything I haven’t heard her music and I don’t know anything about her but I just think that’s part of the reason, it’s not really a beyoncé on telephone moment.

we’ve gotten a load of leaked songs since the release of crash though sky ferreira fans are screaming crying throwing up at that comment

I get that, but these weren't just used on the digital remixes they were used as the official artwork on all the single vinyls. she had already bought tickets, so she wasn't asking for freebies, it feels like a courtesy thing.

this would be cute but the person that did the remix artwork didn't even get to meet marina despite having concert tickets for a show, her whole team ghosted this poor girl when she asked (which I don't think is an unreasonable request as she met Gabriel) and she wasn't even told when one of the vinyls was dropping. edit: my point being if she does do something like this again I hope she isn't weirdly exploitative about it.