So, Grimes… Word on the street is that you’re scrapping your upcoming record and starting anew. We trust your judgment and everything — and your taste in shower-to-night footwear — but we have to ask: Are you suuuuure? And we’re not just saying that because we want new music so badly it hurts.
The New York Times reported Friday (September 12) that you said that your new music “sucked,” so you “threw it out and started again.” You also told the Grey Lady that your song “Go,” which you initially penned for Rihanna, didn’t rub your fans the right way. “It upsets a lot of my fans, and I get why it upsets them,” you said. “Everybody was like, ‘Oh, Grimes is pandering to the radio.’”
We get it. We get the need to innovate and create work that’s truly indicative of who you are. Your current situation — chilling in LA, making music and hanging with friends — also sounds pretty rad. But, we also have to wonder: Was the entire record worth scraping? Wasn’t there something there you think you might want to save?
So, dear Grimes, before you take out the trash, allow us to direct you to three hit projects that would never happened if the artist in question had given up. In the end, lady, we trust you — “Oblivion” was rad, after all, and you destroyed Pitchfork this year — but, you know… Just read on.
Stephen King literally threw away “Carrie”…
King initially threw away three pages of type that eventually became “Carrie.” If his wife hadn’t fished them out of the garbage, well, then we’d all be sleeping better at night but infinitely less entertained.
Gotye almost gave up on “Somebody That I Used To Know”
The song that was everywhere a few years ago was almost nowhere, as Gotye — a.k.a. Wouter “Wally” De Backer — went through a series of serious doubt-yourself moments with the track. The biggest hurtle happened when the female vocalist who he had signed on to duet on the jam dropped out. Gotye was set to scrap the project at that point. Enter Kimbra Johnson, and the rest is history — a history that included a TON of covers and airtime for the track.
Lil Bub almost didn’t find a home…
The world’s MOST FAMOUS CAT (emphasis added by this over-enthused reporter) Lil Bub initially had a really hard time finding a home. Well, the laugh’s on whoever passed up on snagging this purrfect perma-kitten. After owner Mike Bridavsky took home the bug-eyed li’l wonder, the cat became a star — complete with more than one-million fans and her own documentary.
Brenna Ehrlich
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