Sorry, Grimes followers, but it surely appears like new music is way from the star’s prime precedence today. On Wednesday (Jan. 4), the singer took to social media to replace followers on the standing of her subsequent album, BOOK 1.
“I do know BOOK 1 is so late motive is minor authorized stuff, however moreso… fame and notoriety is a singular hell. To not say life isn’t blessed and my GOD ten time higher = I’m the luckiest woman on earth, however do I would like the eye an album brings? 100% nooo (with all due respect),” she tweeted at first.
Her preliminary pronouncement was shortly adopted by one other: “Ofc I’ll nonetheless launch BOOK 1 & extra. I owe y’all, the artists life is blessed and I take that critically. However! My fam, finest buddies, and infants get dragged in it doesn’t matter what i do,’ the narrative doesn’t belong to me. my buddies/ fam r my entire Life – that is their battle too.”
Ultimately, Grimes concluded the string of tweets by writing, “’ll all the time launch music but when it hasn’t been clear ; music is my aspect quest now. Tbh lowered strain x elevated freedom = prob extra music simply ideally ‘Low key I’ll all the time do my finest to entertain while depleting my literal repute I hope that’s okay I really like y’all.”
In September, Grimes advised her followers that the brand new set was nearly prepared. “Album is completed we’re mixing,” she tweeted on the time. “My buddy and I. perfected the final track within the cosmetic surgery clinic cuz they wouldn’t let me depart and we had been laughing that this was essentially the most Hollywood second of all time. I’ve 20 songs so perhaps BOOK 1 and BOOK 2? Deciding format/ tracklist.”
The musician’s most up-to-date album was 2020’s Miss Anthropocene, which included singles “Violence,” “So Heavy I Fell Via the Earth,” “My Identify Is Darkish” and “Delete Endlessly.” Since then, she’s additionally launched one-offs equivalent to 2021’s “Participant of Video games” and final 12 months’s “Shinigami Eyes.”
All through 2022, Grimes additionally turned her consideration to physique modification, expressing her need for vampire tooth caps, “elf ear modifiers” and a white face tattoo.
Learn Grimes’ collection of tweets beneath.
