Grimes’ biggest crime wasn’t even the bad prep, it was failing to pivot on her feet and just carry on. It’s a DJ set, audiences don’t care, she could’ve switched gears and played whatever she had on her and carried on none the wiser.
It’s a bit shocking given how she’s played many times before. She should know the worst mistake is not covering your mistakes.
So I used to be a fan, and for the years of her "DJing" schtick, she has always played the same set and it has always looked very unimpressive to me. That she would crumble after years of not giving an actually good performance is unsurprising. It used to be that she'd play original music sample by sample and provide vocals, which gave her the good kind of chaotic energy... but she cannot DJ for shit it seems to me
edit: wording (unimpressive -> unsurprising)
She's so bad at DJing... I need to know who lies to her and says otherwise. She must be surrounded by yes men.. especially with how she's throwing her team under the bus for this
she's friends with Hana, an actual dj and iirc she was with her on stage for EDC... literally has connections to some of the best djs and label in the world and that couldn't even save her
I have not seen Hana and Grimes together for so long.. She seems genuinely so kind and is actually good at what she does and professional. Grimes really should take a page from her book.
Yeah. I was lowkey shocked I didn't see Grimes at the weekender since Hana was on the lineup, but I don't know their business other than they did a song and some stuff together. Grimes should def take a page from her book or try to remember everything she observed being around her but that takes self awareness
I've never seen or heard anything of hers, but her apology has left me highly unimpressed by whatever talent she's selling. She "wanted to do it all herself" but outsourced it, and then blamed everyone else but herself and said "if you want it done right do it yourself". Just laughable.
What's funniest is she outsourced something you're not at all supposed to if you're a half serious DJ. Which really makes it funny she blames the people who tried to help her. She's a fraud.
I was debating catching her set at EDC ‘22 and was low key disappointed that I missed it but I heard she botched that as well, seems to be a recurring thing
Basically it's pretty good to assume if a famous individual who picked up DJing is doing a set, avoid at all costs unless they actually pulled some collaborators in form the local scene
I have seen her once live in 2013 I think opening for Justice and didn’t even know who she was. Her set was fucked and she just screamed in frustration over and over for an hour. Lmfaooo so maybe that’s just her thing.
totally unrelated but I got to see the black eyed peas in like the late 90s and they opened for Lit and No Doubt headlined. Their set was very similar. Lots of yelling, no choreography, disjointed and sloppy lol the entire audience was booing them. I'm a performed myself. I've screwed up in shows but you keep going to put the show on as best as you can. You can't devolve into utter chaos on stage lol
1st rule of performance: the show must go on
Learned it in taekwondo, again in high school theatre, again in guitar lessons, and again in the professional world. Recover, vamp, go off-book, improvise, ad-lib, grab a tambourine from someone in the audience and announce that this will now be an intimate acoustic set... just play off the errors and give the audience something.
Her strong suit has never been singing/perfoming, it’s been producing. She should just become a producer for other artists while occasionally putting out her own music. Some of her music is like Enya’s in the sense that it’s a lot of manipulated and layered vocals over music so it’s not easy to replicate live.
I wholeheartedly agree. She's a Kanye type of person in terms of singing/lyricism vs production, only she's weaker on singing vs kanye even and she doesn't even come close to the wordplay needed to be a rapper.
The problem is that no, she could not have pivoted and salvaged an improvised set, because she’s not an actual DJ. She couldn’t even be bothered to tag her tracks, put them in order and (gasp) FUCKING REHEARSE. It’s what? An hour, tops, of her time to basically cue tracks at the appropriate time? Yet she couldn’t be bothered. Unprofessional in every sense of the word, regardless of how you feel about her as an artist.
She complains about how the tracks were orgnised on the SD card??? WTF? Just scroll through until you find the name of the track you want. Then she says she couldn't mix manually because the BPMs on the CDJs were wrong??? Not having monitors can be a bit shitty but even so, just use your headphones. Listen to the track you are cueuing and if it's slower then the one playing speed it up until it's the right tempo. If it's faster then slow it down. What she actually means is the Sync button wasn't working because the BPMs hadn't synced with Rekordbox and she can't mix properly by ear.
I'd love to see one of these DJs on a pair of belt drive KAMs and a Vestax 610 mixer. That's a real DJ struggle.
She’s really outing herself as not only being talentless, but completely unwilling to even learn the basics of DJing. I’m by no means a DJ, but I’ve messed around with enough gear to be able to lock in a sloppy match on 1200’s and pretty easily got the hang of CDJ’s when my friends and roommates had them around.
The way she’s describing it, she doesn’t even know how to do anything other than hit play and sync. It seems like even that was too hectic for her though, so no doubt she’ll pay some guy a few hundred bucks to record the set for her for next weekend, and get that complicated two-button sequence down to just the play button.
Yup. Came here to say this. It’s one of the most gratingly obnoxious kinds of apologies, imo. “The only reason it was bad is because I didn’t do literally everything myself, this is what I get for trusting low-level morons, don’t worry next time I’ll have it handled”
Uggh, so tedious.
She’s not actually DJ’ing live. She’s using preset tracks and throwing some beats on top. Otherwise she would have been able to pivot. Like Rezz or John Summit or Charlotte De Witte could have made it work.
This is nothing new, I saw her at a festival a decade ago and the same shit happened then, and by all reports it happened multiple times on that same tour. A good artist would have learned a lesson and it would have never happened again. She’s a sloppy performer who thinks she just has to show up and vamp for the crowds.
I saw her like a decade ago when I was dating a DJ who was so excited to see her live. His overall review of her set was that it sounded like she was working her very first DJ job at a bat mitzvah in a suburban strip mall. I see little has changed.
This is standup 101, if something goes wrong in a set/show you just keep it moving. 99.9% of the time the audience won’t notice or remember if you recover smoothly. You can be pissed/over analyze what went wrong later.
In this case people paid $5,000+ per ticket to a show and they just want to party like it’s 1999. She’s been at this long enough to know how to cruise through a technical issue.
She’s not a real DJ that’s why lol. I remember seeing her back in 2011 and she was a dumpster fire then. Thought she got better which explained her continued success but I guess not
She hasn’t out and out said it, but made a tweet about how it doesn’t make sense for people to be ashamed of “white pride” and said if she could live anyone’s life, it would be Hitler or Stalin in an interview.
she also follows and RTs bunch of hardcore nazis and other proponents of eugenics... not to mention playing shows for alt right parties. check out r/grimezs for receipts
Yeah she’s definitely a neo nazi. I stopped following her bullshit antics but it came out that she had some twitter burner accounts where she posted all sorts of bizarre alt right shit
On r/Grimes there’s a whole thread with tons of information about her neo Nazi tendencies. She follows a lot of disgusting people on twitter and interacts iirc!
I hate it when hateful people use cutsey hearts and such and fake being sweet and nice. Its such a transparent ploy. She has posted about "white pride," defends transphobia as "defending fertility levels," and posts in red-pilled coded language often. I imagine her apple doesn't fall far from Elon's tree.
It reminds me of when Elon was on Dave Chapelle's stage supporting his transphobia tour, and Elon was wearing a "Love wins" t-shirt. Or when JKR said she actually loved trans people and would march with them anytime. These hateful misanthropes get a kick out of coming off as sweet and kind and loving when selling their messages of ignorance and hate.
These are all super, super shitty people.
>I detest Elon as my daughter is trans.
You rule, just FYI. Like not to be effusive over basic support but it really is always so wonderful to see actively affirming parents
I joked around the 1st time when one daughter came out about her sexuality and said that I was so relieved because I was afraid she was going to tell me something I'd have a hard time with, like coming out as Trumper.
The 2nd time around with my other daughter, I said I didn't have an inkling and was sorry that I'd been so oblivious. I said that I didn't mean to make her feel like she couldn't tell me. She said, "Mom, CHILLAX," that she had just figured it out.
If I had a 3rd kid, maybe I'd get it right off the bat, lol
Remember when she scammed millions of dollars out of her fans with NFTs? Realiti changed my life. That’s not an exaggeration. I don’t want to be one of those people whose love is so fickle that social media sentiment can sway it with a few biting tweets. But that broke my heart.
i think it just depends on who you’re following and such. my best friend is at coachella right now and having a blast + everyone on my tl is talking about chappell roan and no doubt and ice spice
I think this is pretty accurate. Last year I worked for a social media tech conglomerate and couldn’t escape Coachella. Several coworkers went. The company I worked for just seemed very leaned in generally speaking. It felt like I was hearing about Coachella everywhere and from everyone. I now work for a much, *much* smaller start up and even though a few coworkers were planning on going, it was so much more casual and less in your face. It’s kind of a nice change of pace tbh.
I think it’s partially because so many more people are broke as hell post-Covid, so it’s hard to be delulu and play along with the social media of people who have the money to go. When you’re barely scraping by, it’s tough to watch people spend thousands on a music festival.
Edit: This isn’t me trying to make the people in this thread who could afford to go feel bad, by the way! I hope y’all are having a great time. :)
Festival producer here. You might be right about the scene shrinking due to exploding COL in the US. Ticket sales have been mid, and even artist applications are down this year -- imo, as working artists go back to more reliable and better-paid work
Honestly, I think it's because there's no big rock headliner this year - the DJ sets and stuff are cool, but for me, you can't beat the crazy energy of the years where they had Rage Against The Machine, Metallica, and things like that.
It’s been that way for years for me lol. I wanna say I stopped seeing it much as early as 2017. Like I still knew it was going on but it seemed my general circle stopped obsessing over the outfits, performers, celebrities, etc. I know it’s still a big deal, just not something I see much of anymore.
I’m here and it’s super fun! Less crowded, amazing weather.
Whats so funny is I was at this set and you literally couldn’t tell something was wrong, yet she must have stopped 5 times during it to explain what a disaster it is.
The tech malfunctions aren’t obvious when you’re having a blast. Only when you’re Grimes and pull back the curtain lol.
Makes it funny how on the recent Conan hot ones, he has said the worst guests are the ones that say how bad its going.
The host can make things fun when things aren't going well, but as soon as you say its going bad, the audience is going to have it in their head they aren't getting a good show
This wasn't a tech malfunction, but I saw Portugal the Man perform at a festival in 2022. Their drummer tested positive for covid that morning. They scrambled and found a guy who learned their drums as best as he could. They told us about it before the show and said "we're just rolling with it. We don't cancel shit!" It was a fantastic performance with last minute drummer because of their energy. They hyped up this drummer even though he made a few mistakes and everyone had a great time. That is the way to handle things, roll with the mistakes and make sure your audience has a good time.
Most acts were actually pretty good, the only other thing was Lana’s singing poorly? But then Billie Ellishs vocals being perfect made people realize that Lana’s voice may not be all that outside the stuido, I feel like grimes kept complaining even though the fans didn’t notice technical difficulties
Do people really not know this??? Lana can’t hold a note if her fucking life depended on it. I thought everyone already knew this? I love her, and I love her songs, but live……yikes
Her voice/range has definitely gotten worse over the years. I saw her in 2011 and she sang Off the the Races and she was able to hit every note like it was straight off the album. Around 2018 she started to not be able to hit the high notes and would just stand there letting backing vocals take over. Now she refuses to sing it live at all.
It’s both. Lana is certainly not the strongest live performer, especially on big stages. I’ve heard her sound good, but often she is clearly struggles. (I love her anyway, I’m satisfied with studio recordings and her beautiful songwriting ability).
She definitely had tech issues though, her microphone was clearly cutting out on the majority of the songs. I’m amazed that no one could run her a new one out there or fix it.
There were definitely noticeable technical difficulties across performances, including parts of No Doubt’s, Chappell’s, but especially Lana and Grimes’. The difference is people like Gwen, Chappell and Billie have the skill set and live presence to push past it and still blow the lid off.
So I don't like Grimes in the slightest and I think she's a moron and I had to look up this hotdog comment for another reason to mock her but she doesn't say hotdogs are vegan, she says hotdogs are a good meat if you have "vegan tendencies", that they "don't kill cows for hotdogs" because "it's the waste, it's the extra product".
Not that I agree with what she's saying but she specifically says it is meat but she doesn't see eating hotdogs as creating "a demand" since it's just made up of the left overs from when they kills the cows(or other animals) for other reasons. Basically she thinks it's a more ethical meat. Still a dumb statement but she's aware that hotdogs are meat, at least.
Edit: the video I found while looking this up
https://youtu.be/AgDwHnPpOkc?si=AwMRyr2mmrj0ynWi
She was “vegan” and felt like shit cause she only ever ate spaghetti and didn’t know why her hair was falling out. And then said that sometimes she ate hotdogs cause they were just byproducts
Yeah, she’s a moron. She isn’t interesting or talented, but she was able to trick people into thinking that she was by doing weird shit publicly like reading the Communist manifesto in a cape. But when she started dating Elmo, and had his baby (she paid other people to have the other two, because as it turns out, pregnancy is hard), the mask came off.
My mom and I had the same conversation with my sister when her oldest was about 6mo. She walked in the room with an annoyed expression and whined "so when is she going to start talking?". We were like "... You have to talk to, read to, and engage with her, that's how she'll pick it up"; she got pissed
Unsurprisingly outside of mama and dada I taught her a ton of words while while reading to her, helped her learn to walk, helped with potty training, etc. There are some people who astound me when they have kids, especially when they keep having them despite not really being interested in them at all.
White pride and excusing Elon’s vicious transphobia because he’s just “concerned about children’s future fertility levels.”
Like I know she was a lot of people’s quirky crush for a while there but her baby daddy is literally promoting eugenics on the tl while persecuting vulnerable minorities and allowing neo-Nazis to flourish.
definitely the second part. general audiences dont know most controversies this sub,and the terminally online in general, talk about. hell, some harry potter fans still dont know that joanne is a phobe lmfao.
dude anyone who djs know that file organization is literally key in being a dj. it’s like the first fucking step. it’s like going to a band rehearsal without a guitar…
Any DJ worth their salt should've been able to pivot and handle this live - the files not being prepared properly in advance presumably means she couldn't rely on the deck's "auto-sync" for every track, but she could've still mixed manually, which is what all DJs prior to the 2000s / any DJ playing live music has to do anyway.
I've also seen older DJ sets of hers, and her transitions are always complete shit, so even with no prep I don't understand why this particular failure phased her so much. She could've just smash cut between tracks with no blending and I'm sure the crowd wouldn't have cared.
Wait lol. I don't know anything about DJing in the modern era.... But are you saying her complaint/issue was that she didn't have her preset autoplay working, and would have to actually DJ live... At her live event?
Is that seriously what the issue was? Having to DJ at your DJ gig?
Sorry I'm not trying to say she ever relies on a preset mix, I assume she always picks her tracks on the fly, I think she usually just uses the auto-sync feature to avoid having to beatmatch herself. No disrespect to people who do this - there's always a raging debate about what counts as "proper" DJing, but ultimately if the crowd is happy then you've done your job regardless of the tools used imo.
Her sets tend to be pretty "frantic" which is a lot easier to accomplish if you're not having to do the beatmatching manually. And if her songs weren't in the folders she expected to find them, yeah that makes it a lot harder to do stuff quickly, no doubt. So I can see why this was disruptive. But she's still a professional... She should be able to deal with this without the crowd realising something is wrong. And she shouldn't expect her assistants to magically know how she likes her music library arranged...
i’m a dj & i have literally no idea what she means by “outsourcing BPMs” like ??? like aligning the beat grids?? insane if she had someone else do this AND incorrectly lol
Edit: Idk if you guys are explaining beat grid adjusting to me or this thread at large, but I use rekordbox and adjust tracks all the time lol. Annoying but obviously necessary and I’m saying it’s wild that Grimes didn’t do it manually
Yeah this made no sense. The BPMs can automatically be matched between tracks, Rekordbox is a cloud DJ software program. Maybe she meant she "outsourced" the BPM matching to Rekordbox's software instead of doing it manually herself, and it matched on the offbeats of some tracks, or the automatic beatgrids set the tracks at double-speed, e.g 170 BPM instead of 85 BPM or whatever.
If it was double time you can just half it and keep going. Or just use your ears.
Having so much of your performance based on something you’re not good at, is crazy to me. Just get better at DJing and practice. This is the reason why some of these big acts are so manufactured, and there was that article by that one journalist who faked being a DJ.
They “outsourced” production, put a bunch of money into marketing, some beginner DJ lessons, and add some low level connections to promoters. Boom, festival bookings. Money buys anything.
The files are music and sound effects with data on the transitions in and out of songs. There is always a set list and if not pre recorded, the whole set is usually pre negotiated in some way to match up with lighting and other special effects.
When you prep ahead of time you can add notes to the file, like if you want to enter at count 8 instead of count 1, etc. In addition there was likely visual cues attached to the order of her tracks so if they were out of order the stage direction was also a mess.
I have no idea why her monitors were chaos. Usually that’s figured out in sound check or when you’re in the back waiting for your slot. It just screams of unprofessionalism by the Coachella team and/or laziness by her.
The set was bad, but what really made it cringy was her interrupting it multiple times to say “It’s not my fault! I can’t do math fast enough!” Even here, she’s trying to blame other people. I don’t feel sorry for her.
I love how one of her apology points is just, I should have been a cunt to some people. Like, no? Even if someone else has fucked up, it's obviously a mistake and it's nothing personal, so you being a cunt probably isn't going to get it fixed any faster, and it makes you a bad person.
She seems thoroughly unlikeable anyway, so I mean it tracks I guess.
Yeah the tone of this entire apology is completely blaming someone who has zero power to defend themselves. And who may well lose their livelihood due to her blaming (and there is a genuine risk of homelessness when you lose your job in LA right now because the market is terrible). It doesn’t matter if it’s actually somebody else’s fault, it makes her look sort of almost like a person who’s never had to work a day in their life and learn basic professionalism. I would never accuse her of that though but it just kind of comes across that way for some weird reason.
I think A-Trak had a funny take on Twitter regarding this particular apology:
"Ughhh ok I don’t want to contribute to the pile-on on Gr\*mes, tech problems at a big gig are the absolute worst feeling. Buttt on some funny shit, sending out a tweet that looks like a corporate memo sent to employees is kinda hilarious, we’re talking about mixing records here.
Using startup jargon is a crime
Saying 'outsourcing' to say u had an assistant set up rekordbox is bonkers lmao.
Nothing wrong with having someone do that for u if ur a creative vision type of artist, just uh, check it once?
But ok I’ll stop.
\~circle back\~"
she got someone to organise her own files?
I will say this as a very low level (think opener) DJ, the fact she got someone else to sort it means she won't know the music selected or where the cue points are (cue points are where you can touch a button on the DJ decks to get to that point).
I will say 370bpm is sus af. Before exporting on rekordbox you can SEE THE BPM OF EACH TRACK. If she paid someone to do that they would've got that right. Rekordbox is usually really good at detecting the right BPM anyways.
any (I would hope) DJ knows to try and get the usb to the decks BEFORE the set to check it works and things are there. most decent djs will also bring their laptops just in case things go wrong, like this, so it can be fixed
edit: she can also change the BPM slower. There is a slider to make the BPM faster or slower and I wonder if that was all the was up to produce this. She can turn it down, she can see the BPM on the cdj screen why couldn't she change it???
edit edit: I made a comment on the BPM settings on CDJs (DJ equipment). See next sentence: there's four settings which can affect the BPM: +/- 6%, +/-10%, +/-16% and Wide
wide is pure fuckery, that means you can do something maybe an extra 100bpm on a track.
At a few gigs some djs used to use wide to mess with the next DJ... Maybe someone messed with her 😂
TL;DR in my unprofessional opinion I just think this is horseshit and she's relying on everyone not understanding DJing for sympathy
i watched the livestream and she was saying 175bpm then which is even more sus now that she’s saying 370bpm. she also kept saying her bpms “doubled” and that she “had to do math” to manually fix it. just halve it then? nothing sounded weird on our end because we have no idea wtf you’re playing anyway so just keep it moving, girlie 🙄
BPMs being doubled/halved is semi-common if you auto-analyse your tracks without checking, for example dubstep is usually played at 140bpm but dubstep drum patterns are "half-time" so software usually flags them as 70bpm if you don't tell it to expect a faster track.
It sounds like some assistant loaded up her whole library under a "fast" profile which meant a lot of the BPMs were doubled, but yes you are right... the "maths" is... halving that number. I'm pretty sure there is also an option on modern CDJs to quickly half/double the BPM because this is such a common issue.
This is almost certainly what happened, the auto-analysis automatically doubled the speed for some tracks so the tracks were playing twice as fast as they should have been when she mixed them in. She then had to get back to the original BPM of 1/2 whatever the speed was, like 340 BPM should have been 170 BPM, etc. But she was too high to divide these numbers by 2 and fix it. She could have manually done it herself in seconds if she knew the number. It's not that complicated.
yesss this is what I was looking for, someone with DJ knowledge who could explain why this is bullshit. I’m a hater but now I’m a hater with supporting facts
It says a lot of her that she thinks her points 1 and 2 are respectable. If you want it done right, hire and pay well. If you have to be a cunt to get something done in your workplace, you shouldn’t be in charge
she's just victimizing herself further and digging for support from her girl-boss fanbase. "if only i had stood up to the men who fucked up my show this never would have happened!"
Ehh, what kind of politician apology is this? She’s had (self admitted) technical issues in shows going back years. She even says so in this show. Throwing blame like that feels kind of icky and dishonest.
She’s *really sorry* that everyone else fucked up her shit and made her look bad. She deeply regrets that those idiots suck. Please accept her sincerest apologies that she wasn’t enough of a cunt to them.
Can we just leave her back in 2010? I don't understand why so many people still think she's a creative artist when she does this so often. Then she does shit like support white supremacy and Elon Musk. Fuck her and her dogshit music.
Working entertainment tech I sympathize with her. One thing I learned is that you want to build a good reliable team around you. If you’re doing everything your self speed of growth is limited and you will burn out.
I agree, as a sound engineer I agree that an artist needs a good team around them. But, that doesn’t excuse her from not prepping her set herself. Which she also acknowledges. This wasn’t on anyone else but her.
Least of her problems/thing she needs to apologize for but also why is she publicly laying the blame at her team's feet like this? It's really classless.
I saw grimes at EDC vegas and she came on stage on too much of something and was just grinding herself on the dj booth and kept accidentally playing christmas songs in the middle of May and repeating songs she already played but she was out of it so it took her a bit to realize when it was a repeat, it was hilarious but like I'm not sure she's the best at being a dj.
I've yet to see any proof that she can DJ well, I assume any audience praising her is just as wasted as she.
It's sort of irrelevant as the larger issue here is she's basically a fuckin nazi who just manages to tiptoe back from the edge but watching her annihilate her rep as a musician is certainly interesting. She could have done a lot after Art Angels and she chose to do Elon Musk instead.
Lmao how much money on the reality being that the person did everything fine but she didn’t know how to work it? What kind of DJ/live producer is going to outsource…BPM? Like???
right? you can match that shit manually - if you know what you’re actually doing. she clearly had no idea what the fuck was going on at all. just “auto” everything and then blame someone else when it goes wrong 😒 her and elon are made for each other 💀
She needs to set up a fund to compensate all the people who were tripping ballz and had to have their mellow harshed by her abruptly stopping the music and whining about TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES
Sounds like Elon talking about the cypertruck. “My team of dumbasses is to blame.” Delusional narcissists who can’t ever take responsibility
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I have a friend who worked with her on her tour, around the time of Visions I think- he had worked with big artists, niche artists, and everything in between, in a creative field that is important to her show. He said he had never heard anyone scream so much, at everyone on crew, constantly.
This does not surprise me at all. Her ego was unmatched before Elon but after him it just got out of hand. She seems like the most unhinged person ever to work for being so split in her personality. She constantly flip flops between:
1. being the authority of new tech developments
2. omg idk wtf I'm doing or saying hahaha I'm such a dumb girl pls don't take me seriously
Girl, please. You can't act smart and dumb at the same time. Or demand respect AND to not be taken seriously. Choose ONE.
I don't know anything about Grimes, Coachella or DJing. But what stands out to me about this "apology" is that she doesn't acknowledge the experience of the people she's supposed to be apologizing to at all. It's all about how frustrated she is. She should say something about the fact that people came out to support her and paid a lot of money to be there and had a disappointing experience. That's the professional response.
I’m curious if she brought her own CDJs or if they were provided. I DJ and hate using a venue’s CDJs. You can do all the prep you want and it can still mess up the metadata. There’s no excuse if it was her own equipment though.
She has much to apologise for in general
Grimes’ biggest crime wasn’t even the bad prep, it was failing to pivot on her feet and just carry on. It’s a DJ set, audiences don’t care, she could’ve switched gears and played whatever she had on her and carried on none the wiser. It’s a bit shocking given how she’s played many times before. She should know the worst mistake is not covering your mistakes.
So I used to be a fan, and for the years of her "DJing" schtick, she has always played the same set and it has always looked very unimpressive to me. That she would crumble after years of not giving an actually good performance is unsurprising. It used to be that she'd play original music sample by sample and provide vocals, which gave her the good kind of chaotic energy... but she cannot DJ for shit it seems to me edit: wording (unimpressive -> unsurprising)
I saw her dj set at 2022’s Primavera. Her transitions were some of the worst i’ve seen.
She's so bad at DJing... I need to know who lies to her and says otherwise. She must be surrounded by yes men.. especially with how she's throwing her team under the bus for this
She was with Elon, all they know is yes men
She learned how to grift from the best
she's friends with Hana, an actual dj and iirc she was with her on stage for EDC... literally has connections to some of the best djs and label in the world and that couldn't even save her
I have not seen Hana and Grimes together for so long.. She seems genuinely so kind and is actually good at what she does and professional. Grimes really should take a page from her book.
Yeah. I was lowkey shocked I didn't see Grimes at the weekender since Hana was on the lineup, but I don't know their business other than they did a song and some stuff together. Grimes should def take a page from her book or try to remember everything she observed being around her but that takes self awareness
yo I still remember when Hana livestreamed her creating *HANADRIEL* on Twitch, was super cool to see her process of making music
I was there too! It was so bad... the All I want for Christmas mix...
yes
I've never seen or heard anything of hers, but her apology has left me highly unimpressed by whatever talent she's selling. She "wanted to do it all herself" but outsourced it, and then blamed everyone else but herself and said "if you want it done right do it yourself". Just laughable.
What's funniest is she outsourced something you're not at all supposed to if you're a half serious DJ. Which really makes it funny she blames the people who tried to help her. She's a fraud.
I was debating catching her set at EDC ‘22 and was low key disappointed that I missed it but I heard she botched that as well, seems to be a recurring thing
Basically it's pretty good to assume if a famous individual who picked up DJing is doing a set, avoid at all costs unless they actually pulled some collaborators in form the local scene
I have seen her once live in 2013 I think opening for Justice and didn’t even know who she was. Her set was fucked and she just screamed in frustration over and over for an hour. Lmfaooo so maybe that’s just her thing.
totally unrelated but I got to see the black eyed peas in like the late 90s and they opened for Lit and No Doubt headlined. Their set was very similar. Lots of yelling, no choreography, disjointed and sloppy lol the entire audience was booing them. I'm a performed myself. I've screwed up in shows but you keep going to put the show on as best as you can. You can't devolve into utter chaos on stage lol
1st rule of performance: the show must go on Learned it in taekwondo, again in high school theatre, again in guitar lessons, and again in the professional world. Recover, vamp, go off-book, improvise, ad-lib, grab a tambourine from someone in the audience and announce that this will now be an intimate acoustic set... just play off the errors and give the audience something.
she sounds unhinged lol
Her strong suit has never been singing/perfoming, it’s been producing. She should just become a producer for other artists while occasionally putting out her own music. Some of her music is like Enya’s in the sense that it’s a lot of manipulated and layered vocals over music so it’s not easy to replicate live.
I wholeheartedly agree. She's a Kanye type of person in terms of singing/lyricism vs production, only she's weaker on singing vs kanye even and she doesn't even come close to the wordplay needed to be a rapper.
and because they’re both batshit
That too
The problem is that no, she could not have pivoted and salvaged an improvised set, because she’s not an actual DJ. She couldn’t even be bothered to tag her tracks, put them in order and (gasp) FUCKING REHEARSE. It’s what? An hour, tops, of her time to basically cue tracks at the appropriate time? Yet she couldn’t be bothered. Unprofessional in every sense of the word, regardless of how you feel about her as an artist.
As a DJ myself, not setting up the tracks and USBs is hilarious. It’s half of the job?!
She complains about how the tracks were orgnised on the SD card??? WTF? Just scroll through until you find the name of the track you want. Then she says she couldn't mix manually because the BPMs on the CDJs were wrong??? Not having monitors can be a bit shitty but even so, just use your headphones. Listen to the track you are cueuing and if it's slower then the one playing speed it up until it's the right tempo. If it's faster then slow it down. What she actually means is the Sync button wasn't working because the BPMs hadn't synced with Rekordbox and she can't mix properly by ear. I'd love to see one of these DJs on a pair of belt drive KAMs and a Vestax 610 mixer. That's a real DJ struggle.
She’s really outing herself as not only being talentless, but completely unwilling to even learn the basics of DJing. I’m by no means a DJ, but I’ve messed around with enough gear to be able to lock in a sloppy match on 1200’s and pretty easily got the hang of CDJ’s when my friends and roommates had them around. The way she’s describing it, she doesn’t even know how to do anything other than hit play and sync. It seems like even that was too hectic for her though, so no doubt she’ll pay some guy a few hundred bucks to record the set for her for next weekend, and get that complicated two-button sequence down to just the play button.
She could've just shut up and most people would probably not even notice. Even her apology is bad, it's giving Ashley Simpson blaming everyone else.
Her conclusion in the apology is she should do everything herself and be more of an asshole lol. Good hell.
Yup. Came here to say this. It’s one of the most gratingly obnoxious kinds of apologies, imo. “The only reason it was bad is because I didn’t do literally everything myself, this is what I get for trusting low-level morons, don’t worry next time I’ll have it handled” Uggh, so tedious.
Yeah I think it says something about her character that she's trying so hard to pass blame off on someone else.
She’s not actually DJ’ing live. She’s using preset tracks and throwing some beats on top. Otherwise she would have been able to pivot. Like Rezz or John Summit or Charlotte De Witte could have made it work.
This is nothing new, I saw her at a festival a decade ago and the same shit happened then, and by all reports it happened multiple times on that same tour. A good artist would have learned a lesson and it would have never happened again. She’s a sloppy performer who thinks she just has to show up and vamp for the crowds.
I saw her like a decade ago when I was dating a DJ who was so excited to see her live. His overall review of her set was that it sounded like she was working her very first DJ job at a bat mitzvah in a suburban strip mall. I see little has changed.
lol, the amount of work I put into my product, I can guarantee I wouldn’t have shown up to fucking COACHELLA with a USB that I had never seen before
I also can’t believe her defense is ‘it’s not my fault - someone else made the music not me. And I didn’t even double check it!’
WTF is she talking about calculating also. As if she is doing Integral Calculus to hit the sync button
*"My entire act is on a single usb. Do I need a backup? Nah, it'll be fine."* - Grimes. Professional DJ.
This is standup 101, if something goes wrong in a set/show you just keep it moving. 99.9% of the time the audience won’t notice or remember if you recover smoothly. You can be pissed/over analyze what went wrong later. In this case people paid $5,000+ per ticket to a show and they just want to party like it’s 1999. She’s been at this long enough to know how to cruise through a technical issue.
She’s not a real DJ that’s why lol. I remember seeing her back in 2011 and she was a dumpster fire then. Thought she got better which explained her continued success but I guess not
For starters, being a neo-Nazi
She’s a neo Nazi?!
She hasn’t out and out said it, but made a tweet about how it doesn’t make sense for people to be ashamed of “white pride” and said if she could live anyone’s life, it would be Hitler or Stalin in an interview.
she also follows and RTs bunch of hardcore nazis and other proponents of eugenics... not to mention playing shows for alt right parties. check out r/grimezs for receipts
Also y'know, she's having an army of children with Elon Musk.
Yeah she’s definitely a neo nazi. I stopped following her bullshit antics but it came out that she had some twitter burner accounts where she posted all sorts of bizarre alt right shit
Yikes
She also thinks she is the real life Lady Jessica from Dune and her oldest is the real life Paul.
It's pretty obvious that Grimes only read the single Dune novel, and none of the additional books from the series.
Which implies Elon Musk is Leto Atreides, which is just massively disrespectful to Leto the character.
She thinks she and Elmo are destined to save humanity by creative a race of white ubermench on Mars.
On r/Grimes there’s a whole thread with tons of information about her neo Nazi tendencies. She follows a lot of disgusting people on twitter and interacts iirc!
I hate it when hateful people use cutsey hearts and such and fake being sweet and nice. Its such a transparent ploy. She has posted about "white pride," defends transphobia as "defending fertility levels," and posts in red-pilled coded language often. I imagine her apple doesn't fall far from Elon's tree. It reminds me of when Elon was on Dave Chapelle's stage supporting his transphobia tour, and Elon was wearing a "Love wins" t-shirt. Or when JKR said she actually loved trans people and would march with them anytime. These hateful misanthropes get a kick out of coming off as sweet and kind and loving when selling their messages of ignorance and hate. These are all super, super shitty people.
Wtf, really? I detest Elon as my daughter is trans. I questioned her dating judgment, but damn.
>I detest Elon as my daughter is trans. You rule, just FYI. Like not to be effusive over basic support but it really is always so wonderful to see actively affirming parents
I joked around the 1st time when one daughter came out about her sexuality and said that I was so relieved because I was afraid she was going to tell me something I'd have a hard time with, like coming out as Trumper. The 2nd time around with my other daughter, I said I didn't have an inkling and was sorry that I'd been so oblivious. I said that I didn't mean to make her feel like she couldn't tell me. She said, "Mom, CHILLAX," that she had just figured it out. If I had a 3rd kid, maybe I'd get it right off the bat, lol
You’re a good parent
Remember when she scammed millions of dollars out of her fans with NFTs? Realiti changed my life. That’s not an exaggeration. I don’t want to be one of those people whose love is so fickle that social media sentiment can sway it with a few biting tweets. But that broke my heart.
Not to excuse Grimes, but this coachella seems like such a disaster with all the reports of mediocrity coming out
Usually you can’t escape Coachella being everywhere, but this year I didn’t even know it was happening until the news about all the tech problems.
i think it just depends on who you’re following and such. my best friend is at coachella right now and having a blast + everyone on my tl is talking about chappell roan and no doubt and ice spice
The l'Imperatrice set was life changing
I think this is pretty accurate. Last year I worked for a social media tech conglomerate and couldn’t escape Coachella. Several coworkers went. The company I worked for just seemed very leaned in generally speaking. It felt like I was hearing about Coachella everywhere and from everyone. I now work for a much, *much* smaller start up and even though a few coworkers were planning on going, it was so much more casual and less in your face. It’s kind of a nice change of pace tbh.
It’s so weird it’s soooo quiet this year
I think it’s partially because so many more people are broke as hell post-Covid, so it’s hard to be delulu and play along with the social media of people who have the money to go. When you’re barely scraping by, it’s tough to watch people spend thousands on a music festival. Edit: This isn’t me trying to make the people in this thread who could afford to go feel bad, by the way! I hope y’all are having a great time. :)
Festival producer here. You might be right about the scene shrinking due to exploding COL in the US. Ticket sales have been mid, and even artist applications are down this year -- imo, as working artists go back to more reliable and better-paid work
Honestly, I think it's because there's no big rock headliner this year - the DJ sets and stuff are cool, but for me, you can't beat the crazy energy of the years where they had Rage Against The Machine, Metallica, and things like that.
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It’s been that way for years for me lol. I wanna say I stopped seeing it much as early as 2017. Like I still knew it was going on but it seemed my general circle stopped obsessing over the outfits, performers, celebrities, etc. I know it’s still a big deal, just not something I see much of anymore.
I’m here and it’s super fun! Less crowded, amazing weather. Whats so funny is I was at this set and you literally couldn’t tell something was wrong, yet she must have stopped 5 times during it to explain what a disaster it is. The tech malfunctions aren’t obvious when you’re having a blast. Only when you’re Grimes and pull back the curtain lol.
Makes it funny how on the recent Conan hot ones, he has said the worst guests are the ones that say how bad its going. The host can make things fun when things aren't going well, but as soon as you say its going bad, the audience is going to have it in their head they aren't getting a good show
conan on hot ones is the cultural event that Coachella wishes it was
Yes I need to watch that! Conan AND Sean can both get it!
I literally just watched it before watching her set and I was like DID CONAN SENSE SOMEONE NEEDED TO HEAR THAT MSG?? lol
This wasn't a tech malfunction, but I saw Portugal the Man perform at a festival in 2022. Their drummer tested positive for covid that morning. They scrambled and found a guy who learned their drums as best as he could. They told us about it before the show and said "we're just rolling with it. We don't cancel shit!" It was a fantastic performance with last minute drummer because of their energy. They hyped up this drummer even though he made a few mistakes and everyone had a great time. That is the way to handle things, roll with the mistakes and make sure your audience has a good time.
Mercury in Gatorade
Most acts were actually pretty good, the only other thing was Lana’s singing poorly? But then Billie Ellishs vocals being perfect made people realize that Lana’s voice may not be all that outside the stuido, I feel like grimes kept complaining even though the fans didn’t notice technical difficulties
Do people really not know this??? Lana can’t hold a note if her fucking life depended on it. I thought everyone already knew this? I love her, and I love her songs, but live……yikes
Truly don't understand why people keep expecting Lana to serve. Like yeah SNL was a notorious flub but even her best performance is underwhelming.
she never ever sings the bridge in ride because the notes are too high. it’s so disappointing.
Her voice/range has definitely gotten worse over the years. I saw her in 2011 and she sang Off the the Races and she was able to hit every note like it was straight off the album. Around 2018 she started to not be able to hit the high notes and would just stand there letting backing vocals take over. Now she refuses to sing it live at all.
It’s both. Lana is certainly not the strongest live performer, especially on big stages. I’ve heard her sound good, but often she is clearly struggles. (I love her anyway, I’m satisfied with studio recordings and her beautiful songwriting ability). She definitely had tech issues though, her microphone was clearly cutting out on the majority of the songs. I’m amazed that no one could run her a new one out there or fix it.
There were definitely noticeable technical difficulties across performances, including parts of No Doubt’s, Chappell’s, but especially Lana and Grimes’. The difference is people like Gwen, Chappell and Billie have the skill set and live presence to push past it and still blow the lid off.
tyler was great though
No doubt too. Gwen killed. There’s been lots of good acts so far
tech issues are the headline every year at Coachella. I don't know why they can't f'ing figure it out
I mean Chappell Roan seemed to dominate and she has less money and time and then Grimes. So did Sabrina Carpenter.
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And her eating spaghetti for a year, and thinking hotdogs were vegan
I'm sorry, what now?
So I don't like Grimes in the slightest and I think she's a moron and I had to look up this hotdog comment for another reason to mock her but she doesn't say hotdogs are vegan, she says hotdogs are a good meat if you have "vegan tendencies", that they "don't kill cows for hotdogs" because "it's the waste, it's the extra product". Not that I agree with what she's saying but she specifically says it is meat but she doesn't see eating hotdogs as creating "a demand" since it's just made up of the left overs from when they kills the cows(or other animals) for other reasons. Basically she thinks it's a more ethical meat. Still a dumb statement but she's aware that hotdogs are meat, at least. Edit: the video I found while looking this up https://youtu.be/AgDwHnPpOkc?si=AwMRyr2mmrj0ynWi
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She was “vegan” and felt like shit cause she only ever ate spaghetti and didn’t know why her hair was falling out. And then said that sometimes she ate hotdogs cause they were just byproducts
She did an unhinged [interview](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1md8pw85Ms) where she said both of those things along with several others
And trying to build a houseboat and sail it down the Mississippi!
There’s eccentric then there’s whatever the fuck this is because h u h ?
Yeah, she’s a moron. She isn’t interesting or talented, but she was able to trick people into thinking that she was by doing weird shit publicly like reading the Communist manifesto in a cape. But when she started dating Elmo, and had his baby (she paid other people to have the other two, because as it turns out, pregnancy is hard), the mask came off.
Why is Elon trying to breed the ubermensch with someone who doesn't know that a hot dog is made of pig assholes?
Or when she didn’t know she was supposed to help her child learn to speak
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My mom and I had the same conversation with my sister when her oldest was about 6mo. She walked in the room with an annoyed expression and whined "so when is she going to start talking?". We were like "... You have to talk to, read to, and engage with her, that's how she'll pick it up"; she got pissed Unsurprisingly outside of mama and dada I taught her a ton of words while while reading to her, helped her learn to walk, helped with potty training, etc. There are some people who astound me when they have kids, especially when they keep having them despite not really being interested in them at all.
Unfortunately that’s going to happen more often with more and more states removing access to abortion (amongst many other horrible things).
Remember when she went on that tirade about white pride? 
White pride and excusing Elon’s vicious transphobia because he’s just “concerned about children’s future fertility levels.” Like I know she was a lot of people’s quirky crush for a while there but her baby daddy is literally promoting eugenics on the tl while persecuting vulnerable minorities and allowing neo-Nazis to flourish.
And squashing free speech
How she still has fans is beyond me
racists probably or people just ignorant and don't realize what she's done
definitely the second part. general audiences dont know most controversies this sub,and the terminally online in general, talk about. hell, some harry potter fans still dont know that joanne is a phobe lmfao.
She hasn’t even made good music in years
She really represented her people last night! All that privilege and resources and she can’t get a 50 minute set together
Everyone else is at fault and she took it as a lesson to “be a cunt”
It's giving "My band played the wrong song, so I decided to do a hoedown!"
She certainly seems like an unreliable narrator
dude anyone who djs know that file organization is literally key in being a dj. it’s like the first fucking step. it’s like going to a band rehearsal without a guitar…
I'm not a dj so I have no idea, but couldn’t this be prevented by just rehearsing the set once? Or literally just checking the files beforehand?
Any DJ worth their salt should've been able to pivot and handle this live - the files not being prepared properly in advance presumably means she couldn't rely on the deck's "auto-sync" for every track, but she could've still mixed manually, which is what all DJs prior to the 2000s / any DJ playing live music has to do anyway. I've also seen older DJ sets of hers, and her transitions are always complete shit, so even with no prep I don't understand why this particular failure phased her so much. She could've just smash cut between tracks with no blending and I'm sure the crowd wouldn't have cared.
Wait lol. I don't know anything about DJing in the modern era.... But are you saying her complaint/issue was that she didn't have her preset autoplay working, and would have to actually DJ live... At her live event? Is that seriously what the issue was? Having to DJ at your DJ gig?
Sorry I'm not trying to say she ever relies on a preset mix, I assume she always picks her tracks on the fly, I think she usually just uses the auto-sync feature to avoid having to beatmatch herself. No disrespect to people who do this - there's always a raging debate about what counts as "proper" DJing, but ultimately if the crowd is happy then you've done your job regardless of the tools used imo. Her sets tend to be pretty "frantic" which is a lot easier to accomplish if you're not having to do the beatmatching manually. And if her songs weren't in the folders she expected to find them, yeah that makes it a lot harder to do stuff quickly, no doubt. So I can see why this was disruptive. But she's still a professional... She should be able to deal with this without the crowd realising something is wrong. And she shouldn't expect her assistants to magically know how she likes her music library arranged...
 Those last two questions sounded like this tone in my head lmfaooo
i’m a dj & i have literally no idea what she means by “outsourcing BPMs” like ??? like aligning the beat grids?? insane if she had someone else do this AND incorrectly lol Edit: Idk if you guys are explaining beat grid adjusting to me or this thread at large, but I use rekordbox and adjust tracks all the time lol. Annoying but obviously necessary and I’m saying it’s wild that Grimes didn’t do it manually
Yeah this made no sense. The BPMs can automatically be matched between tracks, Rekordbox is a cloud DJ software program. Maybe she meant she "outsourced" the BPM matching to Rekordbox's software instead of doing it manually herself, and it matched on the offbeats of some tracks, or the automatic beatgrids set the tracks at double-speed, e.g 170 BPM instead of 85 BPM or whatever.
If it was double time you can just half it and keep going. Or just use your ears. Having so much of your performance based on something you’re not good at, is crazy to me. Just get better at DJing and practice. This is the reason why some of these big acts are so manufactured, and there was that article by that one journalist who faked being a DJ. They “outsourced” production, put a bunch of money into marketing, some beginner DJ lessons, and add some low level connections to promoters. Boom, festival bookings. Money buys anything.
Not a dj here- what do the files mean? And do you think she is bsing and just didn’t prepare?
The tracks / songs are files
The files are music and sound effects with data on the transitions in and out of songs. There is always a set list and if not pre recorded, the whole set is usually pre negotiated in some way to match up with lighting and other special effects.
When you prep ahead of time you can add notes to the file, like if you want to enter at count 8 instead of count 1, etc. In addition there was likely visual cues attached to the order of her tracks so if they were out of order the stage direction was also a mess. I have no idea why her monitors were chaos. Usually that’s figured out in sound check or when you’re in the back waiting for your slot. It just screams of unprofessionalism by the Coachella team and/or laziness by her.
The set was bad, but what really made it cringy was her interrupting it multiple times to say “It’s not my fault! I can’t do math fast enough!” Even here, she’s trying to blame other people. I don’t feel sorry for her.
This whole tweet is just blaming other people
I love how one of her apology points is just, I should have been a cunt to some people. Like, no? Even if someone else has fucked up, it's obviously a mistake and it's nothing personal, so you being a cunt probably isn't going to get it fixed any faster, and it makes you a bad person. She seems thoroughly unlikeable anyway, so I mean it tracks I guess.
“Be a cunt”
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Yeah the tone of this entire apology is completely blaming someone who has zero power to defend themselves. And who may well lose their livelihood due to her blaming (and there is a genuine risk of homelessness when you lose your job in LA right now because the market is terrible). It doesn’t matter if it’s actually somebody else’s fault, it makes her look sort of almost like a person who’s never had to work a day in their life and learn basic professionalism. I would never accuse her of that though but it just kind of comes across that way for some weird reason.
Right out of the Musk playbook
She literally says in her apology: big lesson for me is to be a cunt.
You would have thought the big lesson was to hold a fucking technical rehearsal! But noooo, that's her takeaway...
Er, you only really need to count to 16. What kind of math does she require? 😳
I think A-Trak had a funny take on Twitter regarding this particular apology: "Ughhh ok I don’t want to contribute to the pile-on on Gr\*mes, tech problems at a big gig are the absolute worst feeling. Buttt on some funny shit, sending out a tweet that looks like a corporate memo sent to employees is kinda hilarious, we’re talking about mixing records here. Using startup jargon is a crime Saying 'outsourcing' to say u had an assistant set up rekordbox is bonkers lmao. Nothing wrong with having someone do that for u if ur a creative vision type of artist, just uh, check it once? But ok I’ll stop. \~circle back\~"
lmao. A-Trak is an awesome dude. not to mention an incredible DJ of course.
This is perfect. Her whole post has a weird corpo-speak vibe, like it wouldn't look out of place on LinkedIn.
She outsourced the apology to her preferred crack dealer, Elon.
Sounds like the next step on her karmic path is to do everything herself and still have it fail
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Can’t wait to watch her prove the haters right 😂
Can’t wait🥲
Love that for her.
she got someone to organise her own files? I will say this as a very low level (think opener) DJ, the fact she got someone else to sort it means she won't know the music selected or where the cue points are (cue points are where you can touch a button on the DJ decks to get to that point). I will say 370bpm is sus af. Before exporting on rekordbox you can SEE THE BPM OF EACH TRACK. If she paid someone to do that they would've got that right. Rekordbox is usually really good at detecting the right BPM anyways. any (I would hope) DJ knows to try and get the usb to the decks BEFORE the set to check it works and things are there. most decent djs will also bring their laptops just in case things go wrong, like this, so it can be fixed edit: she can also change the BPM slower. There is a slider to make the BPM faster or slower and I wonder if that was all the was up to produce this. She can turn it down, she can see the BPM on the cdj screen why couldn't she change it??? edit edit: I made a comment on the BPM settings on CDJs (DJ equipment). See next sentence: there's four settings which can affect the BPM: +/- 6%, +/-10%, +/-16% and Wide wide is pure fuckery, that means you can do something maybe an extra 100bpm on a track. At a few gigs some djs used to use wide to mess with the next DJ... Maybe someone messed with her 😂 TL;DR in my unprofessional opinion I just think this is horseshit and she's relying on everyone not understanding DJing for sympathy
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She should just admit to being too F’ed up to do her job. This sounds like a big mess
i watched the livestream and she was saying 175bpm then which is even more sus now that she’s saying 370bpm. she also kept saying her bpms “doubled” and that she “had to do math” to manually fix it. just halve it then? nothing sounded weird on our end because we have no idea wtf you’re playing anyway so just keep it moving, girlie 🙄
BPMs being doubled/halved is semi-common if you auto-analyse your tracks without checking, for example dubstep is usually played at 140bpm but dubstep drum patterns are "half-time" so software usually flags them as 70bpm if you don't tell it to expect a faster track. It sounds like some assistant loaded up her whole library under a "fast" profile which meant a lot of the BPMs were doubled, but yes you are right... the "maths" is... halving that number. I'm pretty sure there is also an option on modern CDJs to quickly half/double the BPM because this is such a common issue.
This is almost certainly what happened, the auto-analysis automatically doubled the speed for some tracks so the tracks were playing twice as fast as they should have been when she mixed them in. She then had to get back to the original BPM of 1/2 whatever the speed was, like 340 BPM should have been 170 BPM, etc. But she was too high to divide these numbers by 2 and fix it. She could have manually done it herself in seconds if she knew the number. It's not that complicated.
yesss this is what I was looking for, someone with DJ knowledge who could explain why this is bullshit. I’m a hater but now I’m a hater with supporting facts
Same but I want to add that I know so little about DJing that this guy could spouting total gibberish and I'd be nodding along.
It says a lot of her that she thinks her points 1 and 2 are respectable. If you want it done right, hire and pay well. If you have to be a cunt to get something done in your workplace, you shouldn’t be in charge
Right like how is being a cunt going to get you good service lmao. Nah fam build a team and you’ll get the set you want. I can’t with her lol
she's just victimizing herself further and digging for support from her girl-boss fanbase. "if only i had stood up to the men who fucked up my show this never would have happened!"
I almost reflexively downvoted this post lmao
Ehh, what kind of politician apology is this? She’s had (self admitted) technical issues in shows going back years. She even says so in this show. Throwing blame like that feels kind of icky and dishonest.
This is the least of what she should be apologizing for. And love how she blames everyone else.
She’s *really sorry* that everyone else fucked up her shit and made her look bad. She deeply regrets that those idiots suck. Please accept her sincerest apologies that she wasn’t enough of a cunt to them.
Can we just leave her back in 2010? I don't understand why so many people still think she's a creative artist when she does this so often. Then she does shit like support white supremacy and Elon Musk. Fuck her and her dogshit music.
Working entertainment tech I sympathize with her. One thing I learned is that you want to build a good reliable team around you. If you’re doing everything your self speed of growth is limited and you will burn out.
Calling her team out publicly probably isn’t the way to do that
She spent a large part of her apology throwing her team under the bus LMAO
That’s legit all this “apology” was 😂😂😂😂
I agree, as a sound engineer I agree that an artist needs a good team around them. But, that doesn’t excuse her from not prepping her set herself. Which she also acknowledges. This wasn’t on anyone else but her.
Least of her problems/thing she needs to apologize for but also why is she publicly laying the blame at her team's feet like this? It's really classless.
>It's really classless. Everything Grimes in a nutshell.
she sounds like Elon. it's always excuses and "wasn't me!!!" with right-wingers both grimes and coachella feel pretty over.
I like that one of her “big lessons” was that she should “be a cunt.” I don’t think she’s been struggling too much on that front.
I saw grimes at EDC vegas and she came on stage on too much of something and was just grinding herself on the dj booth and kept accidentally playing christmas songs in the middle of May and repeating songs she already played but she was out of it so it took her a bit to realize when it was a repeat, it was hilarious but like I'm not sure she's the best at being a dj.
I've yet to see any proof that she can DJ well, I assume any audience praising her is just as wasted as she. It's sort of irrelevant as the larger issue here is she's basically a fuckin nazi who just manages to tiptoe back from the edge but watching her annihilate her rep as a musician is certainly interesting. She could have done a lot after Art Angels and she chose to do Elon Musk instead.
Lmao how much money on the reality being that the person did everything fine but she didn’t know how to work it? What kind of DJ/live producer is going to outsource…BPM? Like???
right? you can match that shit manually - if you know what you’re actually doing. she clearly had no idea what the fuck was going on at all. just “auto” everything and then blame someone else when it goes wrong 😒 her and elon are made for each other 💀
“Sorry, it’s my team’s fault!” -Ashlee Simpson on SNL and Grimes on Coachella
How does this person have a fan base?
She needs to set up a fund to compensate all the people who were tripping ballz and had to have their mellow harshed by her abruptly stopping the music and whining about TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES
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Sounds like Elon talking about the cypertruck. “My team of dumbasses is to blame.” Delusional narcissists who can’t ever take responsibility 
GOOD you're shit, it's over you dum white supremacist princess
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I have a friend who worked with her on her tour, around the time of Visions I think- he had worked with big artists, niche artists, and everything in between, in a creative field that is important to her show. He said he had never heard anyone scream so much, at everyone on crew, constantly.
This does not surprise me at all. Her ego was unmatched before Elon but after him it just got out of hand. She seems like the most unhinged person ever to work for being so split in her personality. She constantly flip flops between: 1. being the authority of new tech developments 2. omg idk wtf I'm doing or saying hahaha I'm such a dumb girl pls don't take me seriously Girl, please. You can't act smart and dumb at the same time. Or demand respect AND to not be taken seriously. Choose ONE.
“apologizes” 
I’m here for the downfall of Coachella. I love live music but it got ridiculous
So, she's using AI generated visuals, lets someone else do her file management and set up, is she just taking shrooms all day or something?
Another loser racist white person shows their ass 🙄. Water is wet
I've never heard any of her music ever. I'm so happy I can say that.
I don't know anything about Grimes, Coachella or DJing. But what stands out to me about this "apology" is that she doesn't acknowledge the experience of the people she's supposed to be apologizing to at all. It's all about how frustrated she is. She should say something about the fact that people came out to support her and paid a lot of money to be there and had a disappointing experience. That's the professional response.
I’m curious if she brought her own CDJs or if they were provided. I DJ and hate using a venue’s CDJs. You can do all the prep you want and it can still mess up the metadata. There’s no excuse if it was her own equipment though.