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but the only reason anyone bought her NFTs is because she’s famous… from making music. all this illustrates is that NFTs, like anything crypto related, is just yet another scheme to make the rich even richer.

but ignorant kids will see articles like this and think, if I want to be a successful artist I should make NFTs, it worked for Grimes! but of course they will only lose money because they’re not famous and nobody cares about them. and that’s what the crypto ghouls need to sustain their scam, fresh victims to swindle.

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I think she’s far more famous at this point for her proximity to Elon Musk. I love her music, don’t get me wrong, but she wasn’t playing on daytime radio or anything.

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the important part is that grimes is technically a vocaloid now

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Vocaloid is software for synthesizing vocals for music. it’s a pre-AI thing so the results are robotic and uncanny but it works best for Japanese vocals. it’s what they use to give a voice to the virtual pop-star Hatsune Miku

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“I Saw Elon Musk’s Penis Multiple Times”

Azealia Banks already leaked DMs from Grimes surrounding Elon’s penis (warning: traumatizing):

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Yowza

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proper olde english

afrikaner

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Grimes is not that big, each show probably only sells 65000 worth of tickets at most (taking 50 average price * 1300 capacity) and that’s before all operating costs to venue, her entire tour team, and her label

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Yeah there’s indie rappers like Immortal Technique and Lupe Fiasco and others who will rap about how fucked up the recording industry is.

Same with pop. Look at Britney.

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At least you can drink a Vitamin water :50:

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Paying a lot for memorabilia is nothing new

This is just meme-orabilia

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“Gaming and crypto will save the world” shithead gets rich off crypto.

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she’s such a stupid asshole it’s unreal

I hope she keeps giving interviews. she’s been really useful in exposing the idiocy of the techno-utopian ideology

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https://www.wired.com/story/grimes-big-interview/

Good lord is that interview an insight into the dumbest version of narcism

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Claire Boucher is open sourcing her musical persona to let people create their own version of Grimes with AI.

I WONDER WHERE THAT WILL IMMEDIATELY BE GOING, PROBABLY INTENTIONALLY, FOR A QUICK BUCK FROM THIRSTY BAZINGAS

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the artist says the NFT and crypto space “got polluted fast” with people trying to make money.

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