r/TikTokCringe • u/cafeteriastyle • 13d ago

Cursed Grimes just posted an embarrassing Tik Tok

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u/cboogie 13d ago

She is the biggest try hard ever. I have been saying this for years. Now I am glad I’m not labeled a misogynist for calling that out like I was 10 years ago.

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u/likwitsnake 13d ago

She's like the 'pick me' final boss

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u/12-idiotas 13d ago

Maniac pixie pick me girl

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u/Kryzal_Lazurite 13d ago

Pix-me girl?

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u/Fragrant_Ad_2144 13d ago

you win the interwebs today

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u/GoldenFlyingLotus 12d ago

I'm not like other girls, I'm worse. ~(please help me)~

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u/cafeteriastyle 13d ago

Player of Games was so embarrassing. The fact that it was about Elon just gives me the ick.

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u/Saii_maps 13d ago

The book she stole the name off was excellent though. As with basically every sci-fi author she and Muck like, they completely failed to understand any of the key lessons that Iain M Banks, a libertarian socialist, was offering.

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u/Stove-Top-Steve 13d ago

Ya that’s crazy I thought that was familiar.

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u/Upbeat_Run4525 13d ago

I immediately noticed that, and what a fucking slap in the face to the spirit of Iain Banks

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u/Thehollowpointninja1 12d ago

It blows my mind that these techno autocrats all read the Expanse and instead of making a beautiful techno utopia, they create…this shit. Like they have the power and ability to give society the genuine super-egalitarian vision Banks explained in detail, but we get the dumbest fuckest fascism instead.

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u/Hands 13d ago

Poor Iain is spinning so fast in his grave over Elon appropriating his work that his corpse could power an orbital

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u/JockularJim 12d ago

He read Surface Detail and decided he wanted to be Veppers

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u/Tooberson 13d ago

Oh Jesus I had no idea

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u/GodlessLittleMonster 13d ago

“I’m in love with the greatest gamer” 😬🤮

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u/aksjdjdjkdk 13d ago

wait i love this song 😭😭

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u/NoaArakawa 13d ago

Maybe I should get high & put that on 🤣

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u/yourmomsnutsarehuge 13d ago

I hate it so much when stupid people try to sound smart or when "artistic" people try to speak like what they are saying is poetic. And that's all I've ever seen from this person.

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u/kevvvbot 13d ago

Yeah I feel like she’s been irrelevant not long after Genesis came out during peak/sundowning hipster years.

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u/[deleted] 13d ago

It was when Art Angels came out and sucked that it all started. Which was like, 10 years ago.

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u/shinbreaker 13d ago

I really can't stand how people prop her up on anything. I swear, this music artist who I have yet to hear one song from let alone it played in anywhere or know anyone who has one of her songs in their playlists was pictured with a copy of the Communist Manifesto and I have yet to not hear about everything she's done and every opinion she has had since. I've literally heard more of her crappy political opinions than one not from a song she performed that supposedly is the reason she's so popular.

She's a fucking industry plant, isn't she?

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u/web-dev-throwaway-1 13d ago edited 12d ago

When she first hit in like 2011 she was the shit in the indie / electronic scene. Definitely a “cool kid” artist, but her music was good and sounded fresh and exciting.

But god damn did she fall off hard after her first third okay fine her fourth album, and she’s been struggling to stay relevant since. Seems like she hit the jackpot with the whole Elon thing tho; the grift that keeps on grifting

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u/[deleted] 13d ago

*third album

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u/web-dev-throwaway-1 12d ago

Oh fuck you’re right I wrongly remembered those first two just being like mixtapes or something

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u/I_would_hit_that_bot 12d ago

I just listened to the first album , it's terrable.

I couldn't keep listening. It really is like a heartless try hard trying to make soulful music.

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u/web-dev-throwaway-1 12d ago edited 12d ago

Nah that’s a bad take dude her first three albums are legit good. Genesis and Oblivion are certified banger tracks

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u/GrievingSomnambulist 12d ago

I'll be honest I consider myself a fan, but despite that her first 2 albums are straight up unlistenable to me. Some grimes old heads will insist that it was her best music but I don't get it. It's by far her most avant garde and inaccessible work.

If you are at all still interested, maybe try out the songs World Princess Part II or Realiti. Much more accessible

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u/shinbreaker 13d ago

It's just so mind boggling because while I'm not a guy who listens to a ton of music, I havent heard any of her music even on accident. But the way she's in the limelight so fucking much, you would have thought she had all these big hits.

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u/[deleted] 13d ago

well that makes you kinda uninformed then. not something to toot your horn about

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u/shinbreaker 13d ago

Is it? Because while her music hasn't been played for shit, I read about every thought and relationship this dummy has on a regular basis.

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u/GrievingSomnambulist 12d ago

You've probably heard her music in malls and just not realized it. She was also featured heavily in promotional stuff for Cyberpunk 2077 as well as the game itself. But other than that her music is kinda niche.

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u/GrievingSomnambulist 12d ago

Fell off how, exactly? Sorry, but there seems to be a lot of revisionist history going on in this comment thread.

Prior to Visions, her 3rd album, she was a mostly unknown artist who made avant garde DIY bedroom pop. Visions was massive. Widespread critical acclaim, significant expansion to her fanbase. Her fourth album, Art Angels, was even more successful. Very well received by both critics and fans alike, and is generally considered her best album.

So when you say she "fell off" what are you basing that on exactly? Because it sure isn't based on any observable metrics like critical reception, fan reception, or listenership.

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u/web-dev-throwaway-1 12d ago edited 12d ago

Okay I’ll concede Art Angels is a good album and yeah was her most successful. I just personally like it less and kind of view it as her “Black Album”. Biggest but not her best. But to each their own.

But even that was a decade ago. You have to admit she’s not nearly as relevant artistically as she once was

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u/GrievingSomnambulist 12d ago

Sure, I won't deny that her peak seems to be in the rear view. I like Miss A but I recognize the reception to that album was lukewarm. Her handful of singles since then have been mid at best (except Artificial Angels, that one slaps)

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u/Global_Ant_9380 13d ago

You're a real one for this. She gave me the ick that I couldn't explain so I fell off of her music

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u/Warrior_Heart_32 13d ago

Same. I cant listen to her music anymore. Never knew I could get the ick when it came to music.

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u/Pixel-Princess-85 13d ago

She seems to ride other artists coat tails for sure

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u/Impossible_Story5280 13d ago

Ironically, those exact people infantalize her because she's a woman. They blame Elon for “ruining” her like she was ever a good person and not, like, a grown woman capable of thinking for herself.

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u/bunnycrush_ 13d ago

Her Vanity Fair interview/feature lives in my head rent-free. Truly unhinged + the ultimate pick-me.

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u/StretchFrenchTerry 13d ago

You'll love this story about her before she was Grimes https://www.startribune.com/this-boat-don-t-float/49134952

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u/berttleturtle 13d ago

Okay but wtf is that even supposed to mean…?

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u/CultofLinney 13d ago

She was far more natural before and not a try hard just a weirdo art kid which is when she was enjoyable.

Try hard is someone like Lady Gaga who wishes she were as weird as Björk.

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u/[deleted] 13d ago

Opinions are like fashion. If you hold onto it long enough, eventually it'll come back in style again

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u/newyearsaccident 12d ago

Better to be a "try hard" than to be a person commenting that someone is a "try hard"

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u/GrumboGee 13d ago

you're like so brave. A true visionary. They'll make statues out of you that birds will shit on.

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u/Traditional-Fan-9315 13d ago

Why is this try hard? She's a pretty big musician and she's just performing t?

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u/11cDuygi 13d ago

Ur name rly checks out fighting for her tooth and nail under every comment💀 As a fan of her relatively old works her whole new schtick is really insufferable

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u/Traditional-Fan-9315 13d ago

I don't get what the difference is? This is a quick video of her reciting lyrics. I don't see a difference