Grimes ‘killing’ off stage name for new album: ‘It’ll be a public execution’

Grimes will no longer exist in music as the singer has announced plans to ‘kill-off’ her famous stage name, describing the moment as a ‘public execution’.

The 31-year-old singer, real name Claire Boucher, is preparing for the release of her new album, Miss_Anthropocene, and it sounds like she’s ready for a new chapter.

Sharing her plans for a clean slate, Grimes told The Wall Street Journal: ‘I think I’ll kill “Grimes” soon.

‘It will be a public execution followed by… by something else.’

Eh? The suspense is, ahem, killing us.

The artist currently known as Grimes, continued: ‘I shouldn’t say yet. […] I’m super bound by the limits I’ve set for myself [as Grimes]. It would be easier for me if I wasn’t stuck with the branding I made in 2009, you know?’

Fair enough.

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New Album: Grimes – Miss_Anthrop0cene 1.  mis·an·thrope noun:  a person who dislikes humankind and avoids human society. 2.  Anthropocene:  The Anthropocene is a proposed epoch dating from the commencement of significant human impact on the Earth’s Geology and ecosystems including, but not limited to, anthropogenic climate change. ———————————— Just fount out my first interview in a few years is coming out tomorrow. I thought the writer was quite smart so hopefully it’s accurate haha. But just in case (cuz I’ve had some p fucked press drama this year) I’m announcing album here first: ———————————-🖤🌸It’s called Miss_Anthropocene. It’s a concept album about the anthropomorphic Goddess of climate Change: A psychedelic, space-dwelling demon/ beauty-Queen who relishes the end of the world. She’s composed of Ivory and Oil (I’ve done some illustrations of her if you scroll down my instagram). ———————————-🧚🏻‍♀️ I love Godly personifications of abstract/ horrific concepts (For example, Mars as the Roman God of War) — so I wanted to update the list to include our modern issues. ———————————-🧬🚬 Each song will be a different embodiment of human extinction as depicted through a Pop star Demonology. The first song ‘we appreciate power’, introduced the pro-AI-propaganda girl group who embody our potential enslavement/destruction at the hands of Artificial General intelligence. ———————————-🤖💣 It’s possible I will drop an EP or a few more singles of synth-based stuff b4 the album because its mostly ethereal nu metal (ish), and I know a lot of ppl miss the synths and whatnot. ———————————- 💫🌋Climate change is something I’m only ever confronted with in a sad/ guilty way…. Reading news and what not… so my goal is to make climate change fun (lol..??)…. uhhh… (I mean, everybody loves a good villain… re: the joker, Queen Beryl).. so maybe it’ll be a bit easier to look at if it can exist as a character and not just abstract doom. ———————————-☢️☣️ More musique soon! <3

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In a lengthy Instagram post, Grimes announced that her new album will, interestingly, tackle climate change, a topic she is immensely passionate about.

Grimes told her Instagram followers: ‘Each song will be a different embodiment of human extinction as depicted through a Pop star Demonology.

‘The first song ‘we appreciate power’, introduced the pro-AI-propaganda girl group who embody our potential enslavement/destruction at the hands of Artificial General intelligence.’

The popstar continued: ‘Climate change is something I’m only ever confronted with in a sad/ guilty way….

‘Reading news and what not… so my goal is to make climate change fun (lol..??)…. uhhh… (I mean, everybody loves a good villain… re: the joker, Queen Beryl).. so maybe it’ll be a bit easier to look at if it can exist as a character and not just abstract doom.’

So long, Grimes.

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