Grimes Scraps New Album Sessions and Starts Again

Claire Boucher—aka Grimes—has revealed that she has scrapped recordings for her next album and begun again from scratch. In an interview with The New York Times (written by Pitchfork contributor Carrie Battan), Grimes said that the Visions follow-up she had been working on “sucked, so I threw it out and started again.”

The reaction to “Go”—which was originally written for Rihanna—helped dictate the change of pace. “It upsets a lot of my fans, and I get why it upsets them,” she said. “Everybody was like, ‘Oh, Grimes is pandering to the radio.”

According to the Times, Grimes is currently recording in L.A., having relocated from Vancouver, where the scrapped songs were made. 

Grimes also talked about the fallout from her refusal to do the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge due to the ALS Association’s funding of research on animals. “All these people with ALS were like, ‘You’re the worst person ever.’ I was crying for days,” she told the Times.

According to the story, Grimes also recently underwent media training, saying that she was supposed to learn “how to stop saying stupid things so I stop having all these constant dramas.” But, she added, “I didn’t really learn anything.” 

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