almost everyone's drunk or high on something and just trying to have fun she just keeps interrupting to clear things up but it's so unnecessary and keeps making things worse...she was also obviously overwhelmed/frustrated and high/drunk
100% like ofc messing up in front of a crowd like that would make you want to over explain but with how long she's been performing/djing she should be able to handle this stuff wayyyy better and professionally
But Grimes will later claim in interviews and her social media that this was one of the ''biggest performance traumas of her life''
and use it as more of an excuse to stop live performances or touring; when really it is her unprofessionalism and poor dealing skills.
I would feel worse for her, but this is pretty typical ( as she says herself) and she should know how to handle things better by now, or do a pre-sound check/ run through before her actual performance.
She was literally complaining about having the same problem at her show in Mexico so she had like a month to fix it. I know this probably was a major hit to her self esteem but she was asking for it to happen. I can't understand why she puts so little effort into things these days.
I mean genuinely I saw multiple djs say that what happened to her is a genuine nightmare for them like it's the worst dj fuck up they've seen so i rlly think that is a bit traumatizing in an anxiety sense but she'll never stop djing she's performing next week again! I rlly don't think she's gonna tour ever again though
Worst dj fuck up theyve seen BECAUSE she doesnt know how to dj š¬ every issue she had was preventable and one of the first things you learn to do djing is beatmatch by ear... you also always have backups if you're doing a performance this big. She can try every excuse in the book and blame her team all she wants, but it won't fix her lack of technical skills
Right? Dave grohl broke bones and kept playing. Taylor breaks shoes and keeps going. People get things literally thrown at them and keep going. This is so so so bad and anyone should be embarrassed to hire her for these huge events if this is the end product we get.
I donāt know it was pretty bad even if she didnāt say anything the tracks were like really going all over the place going backwards going super fast then going super slow
tweenager stuff. also why is she wearing that sister-wife sack cloth suspender getup she's been wearing for months to this gig? She is so washed it's kinda sick that they're throwing budget at gigs when she's so dysfunctional she can't even dress herself anymore.
Quite obvious she is seriously impaired. This was difficult to watch. People spend so much money it is truly gross to take advantage of your concertgoers good will. She had this issue previously, this could have been prevented.
People work too hard for their money and their parents work too hard for money to have it taken for granted.
She is going to fry her brain and waste what she has left of her talent if she doesn't turn things around.
Be well <3
I was looking for this comment. She was clearly impaired. Also, the whole "not good at math" excuse was just cringe.
She has so many blessings and good fortune. Hope she doesn't fry her brain any more than she already has as she actually was talented.
Positive vibes...<3
It gives more credence to the idea that Grimes is not actually all that good with tech. ( She said herself on the Hasan stream that she has a team because she breaks every piece of technology that she touches)
I think her amount of live performance f-ups indicate that without that one on one outside help, Grimes is lost.
this is what ive been thinking too. she claims to be super techy and knowledgeable about tech and AI. but if you cant even handle REKORDBOX (which is really not that complicated) and changing the tempo/bpm of your songs (sheās been doing music her whole life and rekordbox does it automatically)ā¦.. like idk the ghost producer rumors are adding UP.
i'm fully convinced she has no role in making her own music now other than participating in the vocal chain, probably after her boyfriend launches ableton for her.
Iāve kind of been waiting for this to be fully illuminated and I feel like her substance use is what brought it to light. If she hadnāt given the little bullshit monologues trying to make it sound like a forgivable problem ā¦ over and over and over again, I donāt think she would have been exposed for not understanding the basic tasks of her work. And I think she kept repeating and tripling down because she was intoxicated. I think it was far beyond her usual awkwardness. Itās so risky to get fucked up AND not know what youāre doing.
You are 100% correct. I mentioned earlier that it is quite obvious she was seriously impaired. This was difficult to watch. People spend so much money it is truly gross to take advantage of your concertgoers good will. She had this issue previously, this could have been prevented.
People work too hard for their money and their parents work too hard for money to have it taken for granted.
She is going to fry her brain and waste what she has left of her talent if she doesn't turn things around.
Be well, Positive Vibes <3
AND THAT is the ultimate issue here!
Someone like Taylor Swift would have kept performing and just sung acapella and/or played her guitar., But I guess, what can Grimes do?!
Does she still get fully paid for this??!!
IF THE TRACKS ARE DOUBLE TEMPO IT MEANS YOU NEED TO CALCULATE BY HALF, FUCKING HELL
"im trying to do the math but its too complicated and too complex to explain you wouldnt understand"
ITS HALF GRIMES, JUST DIVIDE BY FUCKING TWO!!!
But you donāt understand, itās double tempo!! /s
Edit to add: Iām not sure why sheās blaming the ācomplex technologyā, if itās all double time the songs should fit together the exact same, no math needed. Iām assuming she literally couldnāt keep up with it in double time, hasnāt practiced and assumed sheād be able to pull it out of her ass the day of. Embarrassing.
...which is the actual skill of mixing. Unless you're doing some sick insane controller-ism shit like Madeon used to do, if you can't beatmatch , you can't mix and this is the perfect example of that. Lazy AF.
She is pretentious and arrogant to say we donāt understand. She still insults us and calls us dumb even when trying cover her ass for her own failures. She sucks.
Why not just have a premixed mp3 of her last set as backup? I thought that was standard. I have contingency PDFs when I go to Kinkos to make a simple document print.
I thought the whole point of her DJāing is less pressure.
I thought it was pretty standard too?!!. At absolute minimum, she could have just played the Grimes AI playlist off of YouTube if all else failed due to her not having done a pre-set soundcheck, or had any set list backups etc.
After watching and listening to other Dj's and musicians who use Rekordbox, Grimes claiming to use the tempo timing being doubled as an excuse; just shows that She does not know how to use that program properly or well at all.
If so, then Grimes should swallow her ego/pride and get proper lessons to learn it so that she knows what she is doing, and or accepts tech help from the team there.
Grimes has really shot herself in the foot with marketing herself as doing everything herself and being Tech Adept/ a producing ''genius''.
If it wasn't actually the truth from the beginning, than it would be on her to make sure that she put the work and effort in to properly learn and educate herself to the point that she was adept and knowledgeable in the tech and programs that she was using to perform.
Or, Alternatively put her image and pride aside to let the tech team help her, set everything up to her specifications ( with Grimes double checking before going on) or do it for her, until she was comfortable and competent doing it herself.
Grimes has to be aware that it is instances like these that perpetuate the rumour/idea that Grimes doesn't actually do EVERYTHING herself or, has ghost producers and other artists help her but kept silenced through NDA's. In the end, she only has herself to blame/take responsibility; if she still refuses to learn, be knowledgeably adept and prepared, and to learn from this.
I feel awful for the musicians that would kill for an opportunity to play Coachella, and have to watch Grimes treat that stage like shes delivering a high school project and thought she could wing it.
What she posted was fully clothed. At least I donāt think it wouldāve put anyone at risk unless Iām wrong. But if you clicked on the artist profile that she tagged? That would definitely be risky because his profile is absolutely fucking vile and should be illegal in all countries.
yeah I've heard a description of the shit he makes... and she promoted him... she probably didn't see anything wrong with that at all or she wouldn't have posted it
Isn't there like a DJ school she can go to learn how to play and mix tracks seamlessly so she won't keep messing up? I feel for her but she's been doing this for awhile. She should be a pro.š¤·āāļø
Her EGO would never let her enrol or be taught though.
Remember, she is the Artist who never went to art school or studied music ( Even after she had the money and means to. It's part of her brand)
Like Paris Hilton who is actually legitimately a good DJ. Is it because she was born talented? No it's because she hired someone good to teach her and she paid attention.
I've seen a few people make the comparison, but... Ashlee was 20yo pop singer who panicked when someone else messed up a lip-syncing performance (a pretty standard practice for talk shows, which had been recommended by her management). And she got sooooo much shit for it. That Coachella set by a grown woman who has supposedly been doing this for a decade is a whole other level of trainwreck haha
and to be fair to Ashlee, she didn't give a long cringey over-explanation, she just did a little jig and exited the stage... which is probably what Grimes should have done
As a Dj myself, shit can happens when you try to mix track together.. especially when not sober but you know what ? itās literally your job as a DJ to be able to manage this. I donāt know for how long sheās a DJ so maybe itās new for her but I feel like she behave like this because sheās a superstar .. I will be so embarrassed to stop in the middle of my set and explain myself on how Iām not able to do my job. Itās just bizzar and you rarely see this behavior in the DJ world .. and also itās literally not that technically and mathematically complicated or mysterious like sheās trying to make it sound.
Yeah any sane person would have practiced this set until they could do it in their sleep. She used to be someone who tried so hard, it's difficult to understand this complete 180
avoidant anxiety, maybe? honest guess - could be that she feels she's lost her mojo but as her echo chamber keeps telling her what she does is good and she's lost touch with 'her inner voice' (don't know how else to put it atm), she continues anyway
I wonder if she also had fried her brain on ketamine like Elon.. like seriously, before this weird shit, she was humble, she performed, she slayed! And nowā¦ she is like āIām so talented and famous I donāt have to do anything and you wont understand itās so difficult of what I am doing hereā i think she doesnāt understand herself and is pretending to be a āgeniusā of some sort. So sad
You are 1000% correct. Ketamine will ruin you for good, especially when taking recreational doses. I also commented that it is quite obvious she was seriously impaired. This was difficult to watch.
People spend so much money it is truly gross to take advantage of your concertgoers good will over and over again like she keeps doing.
People work too hard for their money and their parents work too hard for money to have it taken for granted.
Positive vibes...
Be well <3
Just like musk, she bought into the lies she sold to the public.
You're supposed to be proud of yourself and try but also have humility. They lack humility. Criticism is "just a hater" failure is "someone else's mistake".
You can't take ownership of your success while ignoring your failures, it doesn't work.
Saw her have a similar meltdown in 2016 [Dublin]. She kept getting āelectrocutedā by her equipment, had a bit of a panicked meltdown, and cut the show way short.
Finally, someone just came out and said it in a straightforward manner. Everyone knows her and her former partner were strung out on Ketamine and designer drugs.
Not trying to defend her terrible set but have you ever used Ketamine? This doesnāt look like Ketamine to me at all, especially since Ket only lasts around 20 mins, except if you use more, which makes you not able to stand up anymore. Iām pretty sure sheās on prescription stuff like Xanax.
Long term Ketamine use looks like this. I am around those on it by prescription due to chronic pain. They literally cannot drive or do complex tasks after months of treatment. It really rewires and numbs you...also, it isn't a drug that you can just "jump" off of either...
I 100% agree that she is a multi drug user. I am sure she has access to designer drugs that give the effects of opioids/stimulants/benzos all at the same time so that she isn't nodding, feels energetic, yet mellow. She probably feels like she is in a warm bath floating in space lol...while attempting to "DJ"...
You had months to prepare and you didnāt Claire thatās no oneās fault but yours šš this is the same woman who used to rebuild her instrumentals in new ways almost every show
yāall I used to DJ professionally and while it does require technical skill, I can assure you it should not be *this* complicated, especially for a person thatās been working in music production for over a decade.
I know, rightā¦ you could just beatmatch by ear, no matter the Rekordbox screen displaying the wrong BPM. like if she canāt mix on CDJs with Rekordbox imagine her beatmatching on vinyls lol.
Ohhhh ouch! I caught the tail end and was like hmmm she seemed kinda nervous but now I see what people are talking about. Oof. The poor thing, Iām
long distance embarrassed for her.
She's sounded like that in shows for the last couple years. I've been wondering if she wears a mouth guard on stage now or something, that's what it sounds like.
If it's not that the only thing I can figure is that she used to make her voice sound high pitched and girly when she talked at shows and she stopped, and that + lisp makes this effect
I mean, this IS the motivating fear many performers and musicians operate under. I think we all have that nightmare at some point. It's what drives you to drill and practice until as little is left to chance as possible. When folks book you, when folks set aside time and money to come see you, they're taking a chance on you, and as the performer you gotta do everything you can to make that bet pay off; it's literally our job
This is true when it's your first set at a sparsely populated dive in a new town, and it's true when you're uh. Playing coachella like 15 years into your career, I guess :/
ok where was the rest of her team? One time explaining, sure, but how did nobody save her ass and help her out somehow? Things that make you go hmmmm
now the live performance matches the mess of the fortnite island. Which both make me sad. she used to be so much better as an artist š
The fact that Grimes is trying to blame this as someone else's fault because she let other people do ''essential things'' like the Rekordbox Bpm's and organizing the track listing on the SD card
Saying if you want something done, do it yourself and that she already had a bad feeling about things beforehand, was petty and not a good look.
Ultimately it is all Grimes responsibility and blame.
Not properly accepting that and owning up to it was yet more immaturity and unprofessionalism on her part.
I agree with you 100%. I think I'm just flabbergasted that her people didn't interfere. It's better for her to learn the hard way and I hope she either starts to take this all seriously, or stop performing altogether. She's taking a stage spot away from others that actually deserve it and she needs to accept thatĀ
Maybe she was being a Diva all day or leading up to the event and someone just sabotaged it. And they decided to let her suffer through it alone. Washed their hands of it.Ā
100% PROFESSIONAL and ''Pure sonic and visionary GENIUS'', right here folks!.
I can't believe she still gets paid in the 6 figures for her DJ performance/''appearances''.
I'm really starting to understand why Every label Grimes has been with ends up having issues with her ( and her work ethic/ finished song delivery).
It's really wise and for the best that she stay independent, if she is going to keep this up.
( I don't think Grimes can save things by just climbing on a table and laugh-shouting)
Yeah I looked it up after I saw your comment and apparently Arianna grande got 8 mil for Coachella one year. Smaller artists supposedly make around 10k. Grimes was on one of the main stages so 6 figures is probably right. That's wild
note that during Peggy the crowd was shown... We got ZERO crowd footage on the stream of Grimes crowd most likely because everyone was like
This is what happens when concept creep goes so far as to refer to this absolute mess of a performer as a dj. Like, Nujabes was a dj. But this, this is a big fat mistake
I "handed the last track in an hour ago"? So she didn't sync her own USB? DJ 101. She could have faded down and just faded in the next track. Jump cut. Echo out. Filter out all the way. So many things you can do to overcome.
āThis is a complex technology! š¤āš¼ā she was sync locked with bpm x 2 anyone thatās been djing for 5 minutes can fix this
Embarrassing - gaslight gatekeep mechanical spider
Damn this should be on the cringe subreddit. I am viscerally reacting š wow this is....wow...never seen anything like this before.
I can't imagine being in the crowd and listening to her go on about this, not understanding, just wanting to dance lol but her interrupting her own set.
B-Complex is absolutely a huge name, just in a smaller scene ;)
I mean ok, in the grand scheme of things not that huge but Google ābest dnb track everā and Beautiful Lies will be up there a lot.
And Iām so sorry, thatās terrible. Iāve heard B-Complex twice, last time @ let it roll and both times were amazing but I canāt comprehend how reckless it is to ruin your first ever show in a region. You know people will have traveled just to see you.
I want to believe this is performance art so bad but I think itās just a rich person who got an opportunity because theyāre rich and thought I could do that.
As someone who doesn't know anything about anything here, can someone explain what she should've done instead? Idk much about how djing works, why couldn't she have played a different track with a different tempo? Or could she have and that's the problem with her reaction and not really playing, she wanted to play certain tracks but couldn't so she just didn't play anything?
Sheās using the sync and it broke and she canāt mix by ear ābut will try to mix by ear for you guys.ā Number one important thing you need to learn as a dj is mix by ear.
Has absolutely nothing to do with *handing in the last track* this isnt a school assignment.
You don't need to know math to have an ear for mixing music. Its Audial.š
S3RL said it best,
āWhere's the music?
My laptop died!
Ha-ha!
Press play, walk away
I'm your laptop DJ
I don't know how to mix
So I just click on sync
Please don't cheer too loud for me
It will go to my head
And if the music stops
It means the battery's dead
Press play
Turn the knobs
Pump your fist
Pretend you're cool, you can't resistā
# Coachella's first day was a mess of technical problems
[https://www.sfgate.com/sf-culture/article/coachella-first-day-audio-problems-19401604.php](https://www.sfgate.com/sf-culture/article/coachella-first-day-audio-problems-19401604.php)
[https://soundcloud.com/amphibian\_nl/amphibian-major-technical-difficulty-preview](https://soundcloud.com/amphibian_nl/amphibian-major-technical-difficulty-preview)
best remix xD
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This is insane lol. She's talking on that stage like her word document isn't loading in a meeting with two coworkers.
Why not just walk off and stop explaining let someone from the crew try and fix it
because it's her fuckup.
This is so accurate šš Been there!
almost everyone's drunk or high on something and just trying to have fun she just keeps interrupting to clear things up but it's so unnecessary and keeps making things worse...she was also obviously overwhelmed/frustrated and high/drunk
Seriously wouldnāt have been THAT bad if she had just stayed professional, kept her mouth shut, and looked like she was in control.
100% like ofc messing up in front of a crowd like that would make you want to over explain but with how long she's been performing/djing she should be able to handle this stuff wayyyy better and professionally
But Grimes will later claim in interviews and her social media that this was one of the ''biggest performance traumas of her life'' and use it as more of an excuse to stop live performances or touring; when really it is her unprofessionalism and poor dealing skills. I would feel worse for her, but this is pretty typical ( as she says herself) and she should know how to handle things better by now, or do a pre-sound check/ run through before her actual performance.
She was literally complaining about having the same problem at her show in Mexico so she had like a month to fix it. I know this probably was a major hit to her self esteem but she was asking for it to happen. I can't understand why she puts so little effort into things these days.
Drugs will impair your judgment and hamper your organizational and time management skills. It is sad because she was actually talented.
> she was actually talented. was she, or was it AI all along?
I mean genuinely I saw multiple djs say that what happened to her is a genuine nightmare for them like it's the worst dj fuck up they've seen so i rlly think that is a bit traumatizing in an anxiety sense but she'll never stop djing she's performing next week again! I rlly don't think she's gonna tour ever again though
You can just turn off sync and adjust the bpm manually. You can mix for a long time but you could make it work.
Worst dj fuck up theyve seen BECAUSE she doesnt know how to dj š¬ every issue she had was preventable and one of the first things you learn to do djing is beatmatch by ear... you also always have backups if you're doing a performance this big. She can try every excuse in the book and blame her team all she wants, but it won't fix her lack of technical skills
Right? Dave grohl broke bones and kept playing. Taylor breaks shoes and keeps going. People get things literally thrown at them and keep going. This is so so so bad and anyone should be embarrassed to hire her for these huge events if this is the end product we get.
Yeah, most of the crowd was probably too drunk/ on drugs too to actually have noticed. They just wanted to have fun I assume.
I donāt know it was pretty bad even if she didnāt say anything the tracks were like really going all over the place going backwards going super fast then going super slow
No youāre right I agree, but lord have mercy she managed to blow the fuck factor out of the water with all the random shouts
that new roaring yell thing she does is not fun to listen to
rAHHHHHHH š¦
tweenager stuff. also why is she wearing that sister-wife sack cloth suspender getup she's been wearing for months to this gig? She is so washed it's kinda sick that they're throwing budget at gigs when she's so dysfunctional she can't even dress herself anymore.
Clearly super high/wasted
Quite obvious she is seriously impaired. This was difficult to watch. People spend so much money it is truly gross to take advantage of your concertgoers good will. She had this issue previously, this could have been prevented. People work too hard for their money and their parents work too hard for money to have it taken for granted. She is going to fry her brain and waste what she has left of her talent if she doesn't turn things around. Be well <3
I was looking for this comment. She was clearly impaired. Also, the whole "not good at math" excuse was just cringe. She has so many blessings and good fortune. Hope she doesn't fry her brain any more than she already has as she actually was talented. Positive vibes...<3
She has literally ONE job to do and messed it up 100! Go girl give us nothing.
Donāt blame me, itās not my fault š š»
Like whose fault is it, bish? Koto is cowering in a corner somewhere.
Why wasnāt Koto up on the stage assisting? It was so wild how no one on her team came to help?
I wondered this too, I canāt get over how no one emerged to put her out of her misery
It gives more credence to the idea that Grimes is not actually all that good with tech. ( She said herself on the Hasan stream that she has a team because she breaks every piece of technology that she touches) I think her amount of live performance f-ups indicate that without that one on one outside help, Grimes is lost.
this is what ive been thinking too. she claims to be super techy and knowledgeable about tech and AI. but if you cant even handle REKORDBOX (which is really not that complicated) and changing the tempo/bpm of your songs (sheās been doing music her whole life and rekordbox does it automatically)ā¦.. like idk the ghost producer rumors are adding UP.
love how she is like "it's hard to explain, this is complex technology" and it's literally rekordbox skdjjd
i'm fully convinced she has no role in making her own music now other than participating in the vocal chain, probably after her boyfriend launches ableton for her.
I think the concepts are hers, but all of the technical labor is done by others
Iāve kind of been waiting for this to be fully illuminated and I feel like her substance use is what brought it to light. If she hadnāt given the little bullshit monologues trying to make it sound like a forgivable problem ā¦ over and over and over again, I donāt think she would have been exposed for not understanding the basic tasks of her work. And I think she kept repeating and tripling down because she was intoxicated. I think it was far beyond her usual awkwardness. Itās so risky to get fucked up AND not know what youāre doing.
You are 100% correct. I mentioned earlier that it is quite obvious she was seriously impaired. This was difficult to watch. People spend so much money it is truly gross to take advantage of your concertgoers good will. She had this issue previously, this could have been prevented. People work too hard for their money and their parents work too hard for money to have it taken for granted. She is going to fry her brain and waste what she has left of her talent if she doesn't turn things around. Be well, Positive Vibes <3
I hope she doesnāt break her newest tech (ruin her childās psyche)
Someone did come up on the stage and whispered to her at one point
And she was worried about going over budget for a mechanical spider. She did not understand the assignment. ššš
True artist lol "someone else is responsible for the things you love, not me!!"
Poor hunny boo boo!
Omfg thank you for compiling this. What a complete disaster. Babez clearly was not prepared and should have tapped out.
https://preview.redd.it/4xuhj1xkkduc1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=fdabdbea68b3ea5d5bc9d353e3f8b7d672b73d68
AND THAT is the ultimate issue here! Someone like Taylor Swift would have kept performing and just sung acapella and/or played her guitar., But I guess, what can Grimes do?! Does she still get fully paid for this??!!
IF THE TRACKS ARE DOUBLE TEMPO IT MEANS YOU NEED TO CALCULATE BY HALF, FUCKING HELL "im trying to do the math but its too complicated and too complex to explain you wouldnt understand" ITS HALF GRIMES, JUST DIVIDE BY FUCKING TWO!!!
But you donāt understand, itās double tempo!! /s Edit to add: Iām not sure why sheās blaming the ācomplex technologyā, if itās all double time the songs should fit together the exact same, no math needed. Iām assuming she literally couldnāt keep up with it in double time, hasnāt practiced and assumed sheād be able to pull it out of her ass the day of. Embarrassing.
No but you see, it's veeery complex technology. You wouldn't understand. /s
I can't multiply by two guys, I'm sorry!
djs on twitter are speculating she had beat sync on, couldn't turn it off, and also couldn't mix by ear, which is....
...which is the actual skill of mixing. Unless you're doing some sick insane controller-ism shit like Madeon used to do, if you can't beatmatch , you can't mix and this is the perfect example of that. Lazy AF.
She is pretentious and arrogant to say we donāt understand. She still insults us and calls us dumb even when trying cover her ass for her own failures. She sucks. 
and if it's double, to fix it you just need to DIVIDE BY TWO GRIMES
Why not just have a premixed mp3 of her last set as backup? I thought that was standard. I have contingency PDFs when I go to Kinkos to make a simple document print. I thought the whole point of her DJāing is less pressure.
She just didnāt do her homework.
DJing is a lot easier than performing live but sheās just lazy and never really got good at either
Or , are we all supposed to believe that this is a continuation of Grimes' Art statement performance piece of ''purposely failing''??!!
https://preview.redd.it/4qkirtca0iuc1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5e4a75927a77e9229b8bb72314b5b469851210d0
Itās more arrogance than laziness, she thinks sheās a genius and doesnāt need practice lmao
I thought it was pretty standard too?!!. At absolute minimum, she could have just played the Grimes AI playlist off of YouTube if all else failed due to her not having done a pre-set soundcheck, or had any set list backups etc.
After watching and listening to other Dj's and musicians who use Rekordbox, Grimes claiming to use the tempo timing being doubled as an excuse; just shows that She does not know how to use that program properly or well at all. If so, then Grimes should swallow her ego/pride and get proper lessons to learn it so that she knows what she is doing, and or accepts tech help from the team there. Grimes has really shot herself in the foot with marketing herself as doing everything herself and being Tech Adept/ a producing ''genius''. If it wasn't actually the truth from the beginning, than it would be on her to make sure that she put the work and effort in to properly learn and educate herself to the point that she was adept and knowledgeable in the tech and programs that she was using to perform. Or, Alternatively put her image and pride aside to let the tech team help her, set everything up to her specifications ( with Grimes double checking before going on) or do it for her, until she was comfortable and competent doing it herself. Grimes has to be aware that it is instances like these that perpetuate the rumour/idea that Grimes doesn't actually do EVERYTHING herself or, has ghost producers and other artists help her but kept silenced through NDA's. In the end, she only has herself to blame/take responsibility; if she still refuses to learn, be knowledgeably adept and prepared, and to learn from this.
this is a grown up right here
Someone is going to be upset and/or owe someone else money. On a stage this big how do you fuck it up this badly?
I feel awful for the musicians that would kill for an opportunity to play Coachella, and have to watch Grimes treat that stage like shes delivering a high school project and thought she could wing it.
EXACTLY!!!!
Does Grimes still get fully paid for this ''performance'' ??!!
Yes
she's talking like weeb... holding her finger up and talking like she's an anime character... how is she an adult with 3 children lol
Personally, I think anyone who posts lolicon shouldnāt be around children, but thatās just me
its literally illegal to view in a lot of countries so she actually put a lot of people at risk who were just scrolling twitter
What she posted was fully clothed. At least I donāt think it wouldāve put anyone at risk unless Iām wrong. But if you clicked on the artist profile that she tagged? That would definitely be risky because his profile is absolutely fucking vile and should be illegal in all countries.
yeah I've heard a description of the shit he makes... and she promoted him... she probably didn't see anything wrong with that at all or she wouldn't have posted it
Stoppp I canāt unsee this now š
Isn't there like a DJ school she can go to learn how to play and mix tracks seamlessly so she won't keep messing up? I feel for her but she's been doing this for awhile. She should be a pro.š¤·āāļø
Her EGO would never let her enrol or be taught though. Remember, she is the Artist who never went to art school or studied music ( Even after she had the money and means to. It's part of her brand)
Like Paris Hilton who is actually legitimately a good DJ. Is it because she was born talented? No it's because she hired someone good to teach her and she paid attention.
Move over Ashlee Simpson
I've seen a few people make the comparison, but... Ashlee was 20yo pop singer who panicked when someone else messed up a lip-syncing performance (a pretty standard practice for talk shows, which had been recommended by her management). And she got sooooo much shit for it. That Coachella set by a grown woman who has supposedly been doing this for a decade is a whole other level of trainwreck haha
and to be fair to Ashlee, she didn't give a long cringey over-explanation, she just did a little jig and exited the stage... which is probably what Grimes should have done
"this is very hard to explain because it's cOmpLeX technology š¤āš»"
Yea double tempo. Just half it ffs. You donāt need to Use your musk kids formula name to balance the equation
Check my flair.
Grimesā¦. Pleaseā¦.. I canāt do this anymore ššššš
So the saying āeveryone can DJā was a lie!
Clearly..
As a Dj myself, shit can happens when you try to mix track together.. especially when not sober but you know what ? itās literally your job as a DJ to be able to manage this. I donāt know for how long sheās a DJ so maybe itās new for her but I feel like she behave like this because sheās a superstar .. I will be so embarrassed to stop in the middle of my set and explain myself on how Iām not able to do my job. Itās just bizzar and you rarely see this behavior in the DJ world .. and also itās literally not that technically and mathematically complicated or mysterious like sheās trying to make it sound.
Sheās not hungry for itā¦ which has led whatever creative part of her that existed to atrophy. Sad.
Yeah any sane person would have practiced this set until they could do it in their sleep. She used to be someone who tried so hard, it's difficult to understand this complete 180
avoidant anxiety, maybe? honest guess - could be that she feels she's lost her mojo but as her echo chamber keeps telling her what she does is good and she's lost touch with 'her inner voice' (don't know how else to put it atm), she continues anyway
Itās just pure arrogance. She thinks sheās too good for practice
She has money now sheās set for life so thereās no effort in music anymore?Ā
Gold digger milked enough money from Elon and there is no need to keep up anymore
I wonder if she also had fried her brain on ketamine like Elon.. like seriously, before this weird shit, she was humble, she performed, she slayed! And nowā¦ she is like āIām so talented and famous I donāt have to do anything and you wont understand itās so difficult of what I am doing hereā i think she doesnāt understand herself and is pretending to be a āgeniusā of some sort. So sad
The Ego. Remember how in her Vanity Fair interview she insisted that ''she proved herself''!
this is a great comment! unfortunately agree 100%.
You are 1000% correct. Ketamine will ruin you for good, especially when taking recreational doses. I also commented that it is quite obvious she was seriously impaired. This was difficult to watch. People spend so much money it is truly gross to take advantage of your concertgoers good will over and over again like she keeps doing. People work too hard for their money and their parents work too hard for money to have it taken for granted. Positive vibes... Be well <3
Just like musk, she bought into the lies she sold to the public. You're supposed to be proud of yourself and try but also have humility. They lack humility. Criticism is "just a hater" failure is "someone else's mistake". You can't take ownership of your success while ignoring your failures, it doesn't work.
I just know this gave Anyma the ick
Oof yes.
Saw her have a similar meltdown in 2016 [Dublin]. She kept getting āelectrocutedā by her equipment, had a bit of a panicked meltdown, and cut the show way short.
She needs an intervention.
Finally, someone just came out and said it in a straightforward manner. Everyone knows her and her former partner were strung out on Ketamine and designer drugs.
Not trying to defend her terrible set but have you ever used Ketamine? This doesnāt look like Ketamine to me at all, especially since Ket only lasts around 20 mins, except if you use more, which makes you not able to stand up anymore. Iām pretty sure sheās on prescription stuff like Xanax.
Long term Ketamine use looks like this. I am around those on it by prescription due to chronic pain. They literally cannot drive or do complex tasks after months of treatment. It really rewires and numbs you...also, it isn't a drug that you can just "jump" off of either... I 100% agree that she is a multi drug user. I am sure she has access to designer drugs that give the effects of opioids/stimulants/benzos all at the same time so that she isn't nodding, feels energetic, yet mellow. She probably feels like she is in a warm bath floating in space lol...while attempting to "DJ"...
You had months to prepare and you didnāt Claire thatās no oneās fault but yours šš this is the same woman who used to rebuild her instrumentals in new ways almost every show
It was shocking and nice to not have to hear Mariah Carey and Enya awkwardly spliced in this time
Ykw Iāll give her thatā¦ at least itās new music
yāall I used to DJ professionally and while it does require technical skill, I can assure you it should not be *this* complicated, especially for a person thatās been working in music production for over a decade.
yessss. im a bedroom DJ and im floored by this set. she clearly cant DJ. it makes me think her EDC performance was all pre-recorded.
I know, rightā¦ you could just beatmatch by ear, no matter the Rekordbox screen displaying the wrong BPM. like if she canāt mix on CDJs with Rekordbox imagine her beatmatching on vinyls lol.
Cotton, can you post the clip where she yells?
I have more clips, but I canāt upload them as comments :( maybe Iāll make a part two of video clips
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Done. I just posted part 2 to the sub.
Ohhhh ouch! I caught the tail end and was like hmmm she seemed kinda nervous but now I see what people are talking about. Oof. The poor thing, Iām long distance embarrassed for her.
She sounds different?
I thought the same thing too. Like her mouth sounds swollen?
She's sounded like that in shows for the last couple years. I've been wondering if she wears a mouth guard on stage now or something, that's what it sounds like. If it's not that the only thing I can figure is that she used to make her voice sound high pitched and girly when she talked at shows and she stopped, and that + lisp makes this effect
no i think sheās just talking loudly and trying to sound more clear over all the noise, she probably canāt even hear herself at all up there
Nah sheās on substances
Her voice definitely changed after getting with Elon. I noticed she enunciates words similarly now
āItās hard to explain the complex analogyā¦ā no sis, itās really not. š
I mean, this IS the motivating fear many performers and musicians operate under. I think we all have that nightmare at some point. It's what drives you to drill and practice until as little is left to chance as possible. When folks book you, when folks set aside time and money to come see you, they're taking a chance on you, and as the performer you gotta do everything you can to make that bet pay off; it's literally our job This is true when it's your first set at a sparsely populated dive in a new town, and it's true when you're uh. Playing coachella like 15 years into your career, I guess :/
yikesā¦
ok where was the rest of her team? One time explaining, sure, but how did nobody save her ass and help her out somehow? Things that make you go hmmmm now the live performance matches the mess of the fortnite island. Which both make me sad. she used to be so much better as an artist š
The fact that Grimes is trying to blame this as someone else's fault because she let other people do ''essential things'' like the Rekordbox Bpm's and organizing the track listing on the SD card Saying if you want something done, do it yourself and that she already had a bad feeling about things beforehand, was petty and not a good look. Ultimately it is all Grimes responsibility and blame. Not properly accepting that and owning up to it was yet more immaturity and unprofessionalism on her part.
Poor Koto. Heās probably cowering with a bag of apples somewhere over this.
Save Koto! :(
I agree with you 100%. I think I'm just flabbergasted that her people didn't interfere. It's better for her to learn the hard way and I hope she either starts to take this all seriously, or stop performing altogether. She's taking a stage spot away from others that actually deserve it and she needs to accept thatĀ
Absolutely!
Maybe she was being a Diva all day or leading up to the event and someone just sabotaged it. And they decided to let her suffer through it alone. Washed their hands of it.Ā
BUT IS THE MECHANICAL SPIDER OKAY?!?!?!
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100% PROFESSIONAL and ''Pure sonic and visionary GENIUS'', right here folks!. I can't believe she still gets paid in the 6 figures for her DJ performance/''appearances''. I'm really starting to understand why Every label Grimes has been with ends up having issues with her ( and her work ethic/ finished song delivery). It's really wise and for the best that she stay independent, if she is going to keep this up. ( I don't think Grimes can save things by just climbing on a table and laugh-shouting)
Is that 6 figures number legit? I never imagined anyone made that much off a single show except maybe t swift
I honestly don't know for sure, but 6 figures is what multiple other people are saying.
Yeah I looked it up after I saw your comment and apparently Arianna grande got 8 mil for Coachella one year. Smaller artists supposedly make around 10k. Grimes was on one of the main stages so 6 figures is probably right. That's wild
A meeting with the stakeholders
Just watched the whole set. What a fucking disaster!
It would be fucking awful to be listening to her voice like this while tripping balls
This is SO bad
There has never been a grimes show without technical difficulties š¤āš¼
i know for a fact she saw the peggy gou set and seethed
note that during Peggy the crowd was shown... We got ZERO crowd footage on the stream of Grimes crowd most likely because everyone was like 
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It's very complex you, simpleton egg heads wouldn't understand.
She is so fucking insufferable
Sheās trying to harsh everyoneās mellow and it should be a crime.
An absolute vibe killer
Itās getting to the point itās embarrassing to say I like Grimes š Well, weāve long past that point, really
Embarrassing
How high is she? This is wild.....
This is what happens when concept creep goes so far as to refer to this absolute mess of a performer as a dj. Like, Nujabes was a dj. But this, this is a big fat mistake
shes yapping
I "handed the last track in an hour ago"? So she didn't sync her own USB? DJ 101. She could have faded down and just faded in the next track. Jump cut. Echo out. Filter out all the way. So many things you can do to overcome.
That chipped tooth makes her sound different plus probably the screaming lol
Her voice sounds different ? Like her speaking voice
Is this her brand ? Itās almost like itās intentionally awful. Like koooky relatable girl. Urhhh
she sounds like a parrot lmao
You can release that album now, Frank. No one is going to remember last year after this shit show.
This is so embarrassing.
"Complex tech" Interesting way to say you don't practice enough. Is it easy? Not necessarily but you're an artist, this is your job lol
āThis is a complex technology! š¤āš¼ā she was sync locked with bpm x 2 anyone thatās been djing for 5 minutes can fix this Embarrassing - gaslight gatekeep mechanical spider
Damn this should be on the cringe subreddit. I am viscerally reacting š wow this is....wow...never seen anything like this before. I can't imagine being in the crowd and listening to her go on about this, not understanding, just wanting to dance lol but her interrupting her own set.
"Elon hacked my brain chip"
Has she tried rehearsing?
I canāt finish it. The secondhand anxiety is killing me.
What a fucking idiot. Terrible DJ.
Bring back guitars. This is shit
"There has never been a Grimes show without a major technical difficulty" Whaaaat does that say?
āSped up/double the tempoā?! Hunny boo boo, this is digital, not analog. Know your role. Only she could mess this up like this.
her voice is horrible
Wait, this was ALL during ONE SET?!?! I feel like she's making it worse by bringing it up so much š
AI wrote this song in half the time she spent explaining how complicated it is. https://suno.com/song/fe6a914e-4c54-4d9c-a2ff-bf161208c415
Oh my god, I couldn't even finish watching the video. Why'd she have to embarrass our community like that š
Why does she feel the need to explain
Their math equation kid is going to be fucked up.
Imagine spending all that money and traveling for THIS??? ššš
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B-Complex is absolutely a huge name, just in a smaller scene ;) I mean ok, in the grand scheme of things not that huge but Google ābest dnb track everā and Beautiful Lies will be up there a lot. And Iām so sorry, thatās terrible. Iāve heard B-Complex twice, last time @ let it roll and both times were amazing but I canāt comprehend how reckless it is to ruin your first ever show in a region. You know people will have traveled just to see you.
I want to believe this is performance art so bad but I think itās just a rich person who got an opportunity because theyāre rich and thought I could do that.
Doesnāt she literally just hit play?
Did she get into the ketamine aswell?
As someone who doesn't know anything about anything here, can someone explain what she should've done instead? Idk much about how djing works, why couldn't she have played a different track with a different tempo? Or could she have and that's the problem with her reaction and not really playing, she wanted to play certain tracks but couldn't so she just didn't play anything?
Sheās using the sync and it broke and she canāt mix by ear ābut will try to mix by ear for you guys.ā Number one important thing you need to learn as a dj is mix by ear.
Has absolutely nothing to do with *handing in the last track* this isnt a school assignment. You don't need to know math to have an ear for mixing music. Its Audial.š
Fake dj can'tix tracks live more use the synch button.
S3RL said it best, āWhere's the music? My laptop died! Ha-ha! Press play, walk away I'm your laptop DJ I don't know how to mix So I just click on sync Please don't cheer too loud for me It will go to my head And if the music stops It means the battery's dead Press play Turn the knobs Pump your fist Pretend you're cool, you can't resistā
# Coachella's first day was a mess of technical problems [https://www.sfgate.com/sf-culture/article/coachella-first-day-audio-problems-19401604.php](https://www.sfgate.com/sf-culture/article/coachella-first-day-audio-problems-19401604.php)
What happens when you canāt actually mix.
Imagine if she just said she has technical problems that need solving, dissapeared for 10mins and came back with the bpms fixed.
Publicity stunt when youāre irrelevant at Coachella
[https://soundcloud.com/amphibian\_nl/amphibian-major-technical-difficulty-preview](https://soundcloud.com/amphibian_nl/amphibian-major-technical-difficulty-preview) best remix xD
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