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  • axont [she/her, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    1 year ago

    Is it? I mean it’s niche but it’s not technically incompetent or anything. I used to listen to her music all the time before knowing anything about her personality. She’s pretty good at drawing cool synth noises out of a Roland Jupiter.

    Most people are pushed away by her voice. She does this breathy almost falsetto lispy thing that’s kind of annoying.

    • TreadOnMe [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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      1 year ago

      I mean, there are one or two songs that are good, but her big thing was kinda pre-staging the actually great artists that would come out afterwards. But even then, stuff like Crystal Castles (specifically Alice Gao), A.G. Cook (P.C. Music production in general), and a whole other host of artists were far more directly responsible for the pre-staging the huge take off of what would be called ‘hyper-pop’.

      Grimes is fine, maybe even above average, but definitely overblown.

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        1 year ago

        I think she uses a Jupiter-8 in her first few albums. Those are full synthesizers with ADSR controls and an LFO bank, but she might have been using presets, who knows.

        I guess it’s still a matter of taste though because I’ve always thought her music is above average.