111-678: Claire Elise Boucher ( / b uː ˈ ʃ eɪ / boo- SHAY ; born March 17, 1988), known professionally as Grimes , is a Canadian musician, singer, songwriter, and record producer. Her lyrics often touch on science fiction and feminist themes. The visuals in her videos are elaborate and sometimes have fantasy themes. She has released five studio albums. Born and raised in Vancouver , Grimes began releasing music independently after moving to Montreal in 2006. She released two albums, Geidi Primes and Halfaxa , in 2010 on Arbutus Records , before signing with 4AD and rising to prominence with
222-761: A computer -like screen , computer viruses , video chat , tanning beds , home treadmills , and more. In 1963, the time travel-themed Doctor Who premiered on BBC Television. The original series ran until 1989 and was revived in 2005. It has been extremely popular worldwide and has greatly influenced later TV science fiction. Other programs in the 1960s included The Outer Limits (1963–1965), Lost in Space (1965–1968), and The Prisoner (1967). Star Trek (the original series), created by Gene Roddenberry , premiered in 1966 on NBC Television and ran for three seasons. It combined elements of space opera and Space Western . Only mildly successful at first,
333-467: A glam rock track inspired by David Bowie and Queen . Art Angels was also influenced by Billy Joel , Bruce Springsteen , and The Godfather movies. Grimes said that while touring with How to Dress Well , his song "Suicide Dream 2" "made me tear up every night... [and] after this tour I got really re-inspired, went home, and immediately wrote [songs that] are, in my opinion, the best shit I've ever done." Early on, Grimes stated that "an early diet of
444-443: A houseboat they built. Following several mishaps, including engine trouble and encounters with law enforcement, the houseboat was impounded by the city of Minneapolis. Grimes claims that elements of the story were exaggerated in the newspapers that reported on it at the time. The adventure has been turned into an animated video narrated by T Bone Burnett . Grimes has been open about her past drug use, revealing intense periods during
555-429: A remix album featuring new versions of songs on the album by artists including BloodPop , Channel Tres , Richie Hawtin , and Modeselektor , along with two remixes from her Cyberpunk 2077 Apple Music DJ mix . On March 5, 2021, Grimes signed with Columbia Records . On May 8, Grimes appeared on a Saturday Night Live sketch as Princess Peach alongside the host, Elon Musk , as Wario . Her song "California"
666-428: A space opera , went on to become a worldwide popular culture phenomenon , and the second-highest-grossing film series of all time. Since the 1980s, science fiction films , along with fantasy , horror , and superhero films, have dominated Hollywood's big-budget productions. Science fiction films often " cross-over " with other genres, including film noir ( Blade Runner - 1982), family film ( E.T.
777-553: A "surprise" release in October, Grimes said that record was recorded with "real instruments", a departure from the primarily synth and sampler driven composing of her prior releases. On October 26, 2015, Grimes released the lead single of the album, " Flesh Without Blood ", as well as a two-act music video comprising both "Flesh Without Blood" and "Life in the Vivid Dream", another song from the upcoming album. The album, titled Art Angels ,
888-465: A 10th anniversary vinyl of her album Visions . On January 26, she released "Shinigami Eyes". A week later, on February 3, 2022, Grimes announced her forthcoming EP titled Fairies Cum First . In April, Grimes was featured on the song, "Last Day" by the Russian band IC3PEAK from the album Kiss of Death . Grimes was featured in the music video for Bella Poarch 's "Dolls" which was released on July 15. Grimes
999-535: A great and influential film. In 1954, Godzilla , directed by Ishirō Honda , began the kaiju subgenre of science fiction film, which feature large creatures of any form, usually attacking a major city or engaging other monsters in battle . 1968's 2001: A Space Odyssey , directed by Stanley Kubrick and based on the work of Arthur C. Clarke , rose above the mostly B-movie offerings up to that time both in scope and quality, and influenced later science fiction films. That same year, Planet of
1110-669: A journey to the Moon and how the Earth 's motion is seen from there. Kepler has been called the "father of science fiction". Following the 17th-century development of the novel as a literary form , Mary Shelley 's Frankenstein (1818) and The Last Man (1826) helped define the form of the science fiction novel. Brian Aldiss has argued that Frankenstein was the first work of science fiction. Edgar Allan Poe wrote several stories considered to be science fiction, including " The Unparalleled Adventure of One Hans Pfaall " (1835), which featured
1221-515: A lo-fi series of seven music videos including songs by Grimes ("Butterfly", "World Princess Part II", "Belly of the Beat" and "Scream") and Hana ("Underwater", "Chimera" and "Avalanche"), each starring in their respective segments. Additional appearances include Aristophanes in Scream and two of Grimes' backup dancers, Linda Davis and Alyson Van, throughout the series. "The AC!D Reign Chronicles" were recorded over
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#17328483611501332-557: A loose concept album about an " anthropomorphic goddess of climate change" inspired by Roman mythology and villainy . Heather Phares of AllMusic described the album as a "brooding embodiment of climate change". In the single "So Heavy I Fell Through the Earth" she also experimented with AI-generated music using the NSynth neural synthesizer. Grimes described her music as " ADD music", shifting frequently and dramatically – "I go through phases
1443-562: A lot." She said "Most music with traditional verse, chorus and bridge structures can probably be considered 'pop'. But I think most people think about Top 40 these days when they use the word 'pop', and I'm emphatically not from that world." She said that Panda Bear 's 2007 album Person Pitch "jumpstarted" her mind. She explains, "Up until that point I had basically only made weird atonal drone music , with no sense of songwriting. I barely understood anything about music ... But suddenly all music clicked into place and seemed so simple and easy. I
1554-449: A new singing competition series in which the contestants make the use of motion capture technology to portray themselves as "dream avatars". She also made a cameo appearance in the short film Discord: The Movie , alongside Awkwafina , Danny DeVito , and J Balvin . On September 30, Grimes released a new song titled "Love" recorded in response to her separation from Elon Musk and its subsequent media attention. On December 3, Grimes announced
1665-434: A really different context". Grimes described her fifth studio album Miss Anthropocene as "mostly ethereal nu metal ". The Guardian summarised her musical style: "By sounding a little like everything you've ever heard, the whole sounds like nothing you've ever heard." The Japan Times wrote that Grimes' "otherworldly, Ableton -assisted music is crammed full of hooks fit to sit alongside Rihanna and Taylor Swift in
1776-522: A role in creating a number of her music videos including "Violence", "Go", " Realiti ", and "Venus Fly", among others. She and her stepbrother, who raps under the name Jay Worthy , collaborated on the single "Christmas Song", released on the Rough Trade bonus disc of her Visions album. In 2009, Grimes and a friend attempted to sail down the Mississippi River to New Orleans from Minneapolis in
1887-418: A society (on Earth or another planet) that has developed in wholly different ways from our own." There is a tendency among science fiction enthusiasts as their own arbiter in deciding what exactly constitutes science fiction. David Seed says it may be more useful to talk about science fiction as the intersection of other more concrete subgenres. Damon Knight summed up the difficulty, saying "Science fiction
1998-399: A song called "Shinigami Eyes" which she continued to promote in subsequent social media posts, as well as an upcoming collaboration with British DJ Chris Lake . Grimes spoke about an upcoming concept album with Billboard, describing it as a "space opera". In July 2021, Grimes, alongside will.i.am , Alanis Morissette , Nick Lachey , and Rocsi Diaz were revealed as judges on Alter Ego ,
2109-495: A total estimated readership of at least 1 million), making it the world's most popular science fiction periodical . In 1984, William Gibson 's first novel, Neuromancer , helped popularize cyberpunk and the word " cyberspace ", a term he originally coined in his 1982 short story Burning Chrome . In 1986, Shards of Honor by Lois McMaster Bujold began her Vorkosigan Saga . 1992's Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson predicted immense social upheaval due to
2220-516: A trip to the Moon . Jules Verne was noted for his attention to detail and scientific accuracy, especially in Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas (1870). In 1887, the novel El anacronópete by Spanish author Enrique Gaspar y Rimbau introduced the first time machine . An early French/Belgian science fiction writer was J.-H. Rosny aîné (1856–1940). Rosny's masterpiece
2331-760: A two-day event at the Audio Visual Arts Gallery in New York City with a silent auction to benefit the Native Women's Association of Canada's campaign to raise awareness of violence against aboriginal women in Canada. In early 2021, she sold original digital art in the form of non-fungible tokens for $ 5.8 million. In May 2022, she said on Twitter she was joining the board of Unicorn DAO , "to help their mission to fund/ develop female and non-binary lead [ sic ] art and projects". Grimes's brother Mac Boucher has played
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#17328483611502442-575: A very palatable form... New adventures pictured for us in the scientifiction of today are not at all impossible of realization tomorrow... Many great science stories destined to be of historical interest are still to be written... Posterity will point to them as having blazed a new trail, not only in literature and fiction, but progress as well. In 1928, E. E. "Doc" Smith 's first published work, The Skylark of Space , written in collaboration with Lee Hawkins Garby , appeared in Amazing Stories . It
2553-424: A visual artist". Her art is influenced by Japanese anime , manga , and comic artists such as Charles Burns and Daniel Clowes . Her illustrations have appeared in gallery shows, including at Guggenheim Museum Bilbao . She created an alternate cover for Image Comics ' The Wicked + The Divine , and designed a capsule collection of t-shirts for Hedi Slimane 's Saint Laurent, in 2013. That year, she also curated
2664-419: A voice role in the 2020 action role-playing video game Cyberpunk 2077 and was a judge on the music competition game show Alter Ego . She has three children with businessman Elon Musk . Grimes was born Claire Elise Boucher in Vancouver , British Columbia on March 17, 1988, the eldest child of Sandy Garossino, a former Crown prosecutor and arts advocate, and Maurice Boucher, a former banker who works "in
2775-623: A world of harmony and conformity within a united totalitarian state . It influenced the emergence of dystopia as a literary genre . In 1926, Hugo Gernsback published the first American science fiction magazine , Amazing Stories . In its first issue he wrote: By 'scientifiction' I mean the Jules Verne, H. G. Wells and Edgar Allan Poe type of story—a charming romance intermingled with scientific fact and prophetic vision... Not only do these amazing tales make tremendously interesting reading—they are always instructive. They supply knowledge... in
2886-470: Is Les Navigateurs de l'Infini ( The Navigators of Infinity ) (1925) in which the word astronaut, "astronautique", was used for the first time. Many critics consider H. G. Wells one of science fiction's most important authors, or even "the Shakespeare of science fiction". His works include The Time Machine (1895), The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896), The Invisible Man (1897), and The War of
2997-532: Is an American musician, record producer, songwriter, and gaming executive. Tucker was born in Kansas City, Missouri , United States. Tucker studied jazz guitar in school and, under the guidance of Cody Critcheloe of SSION, learned how to produce music in his parents' basement while he studied at the Kansas City Art Institute . He moved to Vancouver in the late 2000s to study video game design at
3108-619: Is often called the first great space opera . The same year, Philip Francis Nowlan 's original Buck Rogers story, Armageddon 2419 , also appeared in Amazing Stories . This was followed by a Buck Rogers comic strip , the first serious science fiction comic . Last and First Men: A Story of the Near and Far Future is a " future history " science fiction novel written in 1930 by the British author Olaf Stapledon . A work of unprecedented scale in
3219-503: Is one of the most influential examples of social science fiction , feminist science fiction , and anthropological science fiction . In 1979, Science Fiction World began publication in the People's Republic of China . It dominates the Chinese science fiction magazine market , at one time claiming a circulation of 300,000 copies per issue and an estimated 3–5 readers per copy (giving it
3330-560: Is related to fantasy , horror , and superhero fiction and contains many subgenres . Its exact definition has long been disputed among authors, critics, scholars, and readers. Subgenres include hard science fiction , which emphasizes scientific accuracy, and soft science fiction , focusing on social sciences. Other notable subgenres are cyberpunk , which explores the interface between technology and society, and climate fiction , addressing environmental issues. Precedents for science fiction are argued to exist as far back as antiquity, but
3441-537: Is what we point to when we say it." Forrest J Ackerman has been credited with first using the term "sci-fi" (analogous to the then-trendy " hi-fi ") in about 1954. The first known use in print was a description of Donovan's Brain by movie critic Jesse Zunser in January 1954. As science fiction entered popular culture , writers and fans active in the field came to associate the term with low-budget, low-tech " B-movies " and with low-quality pulp science fiction . By
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3552-536: The Golden Age of Science Fiction . Science fiction has been called the "literature of ideas ", and continues to evolve, incorporating diverse voices and themes, influencing not just literature but film, TV, and culture at large. Besides providing entertainment it can also criticize present-day society and explore alternatives, and inspiration a " sense of wonder ". According to Isaac Asimov , "Science fiction can be defined as that branch of literature which deals with
3663-447: The Adidas by Stella McCartney Fall 2019 collection on Instagram, stating that she would release the first single off her upcoming album, Miss Anthropocene , on September 13, 2019. She released the music video for " Violence ", featuring i_o , on September 5, 2019. On October 25, 2019, an unfinished version of the album was leaked online. On November 15, 2019, she released two versions of
3774-477: The Russian writer and paleontologist Ivan Yefremov presented a view of a future interstellar communist civilization and is considered one of the most important Soviet science fiction novels. In 1959, Robert A. Heinlein 's Starship Troopers marked a departure from his earlier juvenile stories and novels. It is one of the first and most influential examples of military science fiction , and introduced
3885-660: The Spice Girls , Marilyn Manson , OutKast and Skinny Puppy drove her to build pop songs out of the harsher sonic textures she rarely heard on the radio." Some of her other influences include Jedi Mind Tricks , Kenji Kawai , Yoko Kanno , Alicia Keys , Christina Aguilera , Panda Bear , Bikini Kill , Kate Bush , Al Green , Salem , Trent Reznor , Tool , Yeah Yeah Yeahs , Beyoncé , and Paramore . Grimes designs her album art for all of her albums, gig fliers, comic book covers, and merchandise. She has done exhibitions showcasing her works and has stated that "[she has] always been
3996-700: The Top 40 ". Dazed stated: "In a sense, she'd always thrived on being too pop for indie and too indie for pop". Her lyrics were described by The Guardian as "generally elusive and impressionistic, shying away from specifics". Grimes is a soprano . The Daily Telegraph described her vocals as "sweet, thin and hazy". She utilizes looping and layering techniques, particularly with vocals; many of her songs feature layers of over fifty different vocal tracks which create an "ethereal" sound. Her lyrical themes include science fiction , feminism , and climate change . Her fifth studio album Miss Anthropocene has been considered to be
4107-642: The Vancouver Film School . It was while in Vancouver that Tucker bonded with fellow creatives - most notably Grimes , a Vancouver native - while frequently DJ'ing at local parties. In his spare time, he continued producing music with Ableton and sporadically released glitchy, multi-layered electropop instrumentals online, eventually catching the attention of Transparent Records and dubstep artist Skrillex 's Owsla imprint. He then relocated to Los Angeles. After relocating to Los Angeles and using
4218-460: The grime music genre was. Grimes was self-taught in music and visual art. In January 2010, Grimes released her debut album, Geidi Primes , a concept album inspired by the Dune series, followed by her second album, Halfaxa , in October of the same year. After the release of Halfaxa , she began to publicly promote her music and tour beyond Montreal. In 2011 Grimes released five songs on her side of
4329-447: The information revolution . In 2007, Liu Cixin 's novel, The Three-Body Problem , was published in China. It was translated into English by Ken Liu and published by Tor Books in 2014, and won the 2015 Hugo Award for Best Novel , making Liu the first Asian writer to win the award. Emerging themes in late 20th and early 21st century science fiction include environmental issues ,
4440-489: The "best new Grimes song since Visions ". On March 15, 2015, Grimes and Bleachers released their collaboration, "Entropy" for the HBO TV show Girls . In the summer of 2015, Grimes toured with Lana Del Rey for several of her Endless Summer Tour dates. She then toured in the fall of 2015 as the headliner of her own Rhinestone Cowgirls Tour with opener Nicole Dollanganger . Speaking of her upcoming fourth album, scheduled for
4551-400: The 1970s, critics within the field, such as Damon Knight and Terry Carr , were using "sci fi" to distinguish hack-work from serious science fiction. Peter Nicholls writes that "SF" (or "sf") is "the preferred abbreviation within the community of sf writers and readers." Robert Heinlein found even "science fiction" insufficient for certain types of works in this genre, and suggested
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4662-564: The Ac!d Reign Tour. Grimes continued touring through the summer of 2016, performing at various music festivals across North America and opening for Florence and the Machine on select dates of the How Beautiful Tour . Continuing the series of music videos for songs off Art Angels that began with "Flesh Without Blood" and "Life in the Vivid Dream" ("Act I" and "Act II", respectively), Grimes released
4773-550: The Apes (the original), directed by Franklin J. Schaffner and based on the 1963 French novel La Planète des Singes by Pierre Boulle , was released to popular and critical acclaim, its vivid depiction of a post-apocalyptic world in which intelligent apes dominate humans . In 1977, George Lucas began the Star Wars film series with the film now identified as " Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope . " The series, often called
4884-575: The Extra-Terrestrial - 1983), war ( Enemy Mine - 1985), comedy ( Spaceballs - 1987, Galaxy Quest - 1999), animation ( WALL-E – 2008, Big Hero 6 – 2014), Western ( Serenity – 2005), action ( Edge of Tomorrow – 2014, The Matrix – 1999), adventure ( Jupiter Ascending – 2015, Interstellar – 2014), mystery ( Minority Report – 2002), thriller ( Ex Machina – 2014), drama ( Melancholia – 2011, Predestination – 2014), and romance ( Eternal Sunshine of
4995-540: The Full Flex Express Canadian Train Tour. In August 2012, Grimes made her American television debut on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon . In April 2013, Grimes posted a written statement addressing her experience as a female musician as rife with sexism and expressed disappointment that her feminist stance was often interpreted as anti-male. When speaking about her preference to produce all her studio albums herself, she said, "I don't wanna be just like
5106-513: The Mac series on their YouTube channel, with a preview of a song from her upcoming album titled "That's What the Drugs Are For", later released as " My Name Is Dark ". On the same day, she posted two Twitter videos previewing two songs from her upcoming album, "adore u (beautiful game)" and "4ÆM". In 2018, Grimes composed the theme music for Netflix 's animated series Hilda . On October 19, 2018, Grimes
5217-457: The Spotless Mind – 2004, Her – 2013). Science fiction and television have consistently been in a close relationship. Television or television-like technologies frequently appeared in science fiction long before television itself became widely available in the late 1940s and early 1950s. The first known science fiction television program was a thirty-five-minute adapted excerpt of
5328-548: The States and Empires of the Moon (1657) and The States and Empires of the Sun (1662), Margaret Cavendish 's " The Blazing World " (1666), Jonathan Swift 's Gulliver's Travels (1726), Ludvig Holberg 's Nicolai Klimii Iter Subterraneum (1741) and Voltaire 's Micromégas (1752). Isaac Asimov and Carl Sagan considered Somnium the first science fiction story; it depicts
5439-472: The Visions Tour from 2012 to 2014 with supporting acts Born Gold , Myths, Elite Gymnastics , and Ami Dang. In March 2012, Grimes collaborated with Cop Car Bonfire's Tim Lafontaine and went under the name, Membrain. They released an EP called, Sit Back, Rewind . In May 2012, Grimes was featured on Blood Diamonds 's song "Phone Sex". In July 2012, Grimes toured as a supporting act with Diplo and Skrillex on
5550-510: The Worlds (1898). His science fiction imagined alien invasion , biological engineering , invisibility , and time travel . In his non-fiction futurologist works he predicted the advent of airplanes , military tanks , nuclear weapons , satellite television , space travel , and something resembling the World Wide Web . Edgar Rice Burroughs 's A Princess of Mars , published in 1912,
5661-533: The bulk of Visions while isolated in her Montreal apartment in Mile End for three consecutive weeks. Notably, this intensive recording session included a period of nine days without sleep or food and with blacked out windows, since she generally could not make music as readily during the day, and doing "tons of amphetamines " She described the writing process as being "equally enjoyable and tortuous", feeling that its difficulty contributed to its success. Grimes went on
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#17328483611505772-495: The business side of biotech." She is of French Canadian (including Québécois ), Ukrainian , and Italian descent. Her grandmother was from Ukraine and immigrated to Canada. Grimes and her younger brother, Mac, were raised Roman Catholic , and attended Catholic school in Vancouver. She later commented that her religious upbringing had a significant impact on her: "It totally influences everything I do. I think I have serious latent Catholic guilt issues." Her parents divorced when she
5883-413: The concept of powered armor exoskeletons . The German space opera series Perry Rhodan , written by various authors, started in 1961 with an account of the first Moon landing and has since expanded in space to multiple universes , and in time by billions of years. It has become the most popular science fiction book series of all time. In the 1960s and 1970s, New Wave science fiction
5994-453: The course of two weeks during the duo's time touring Europe and were made with minimal production, shot exclusively on iPhones with no crew aside from her brother, Mac Boucher, who assisted with filming. In 2016, Grimes co-wrote the song " Heaven " for Troye Sivan 's album Blue Neighbourhood . On February 2, 2017, Grimes premiered on Tidal the high budget futuristic music video of "Venus Fly", starring herself and Janelle Monáe . The video
6105-506: The creation of microrobots and micromachinery , nanotechnology , smartdust , virtual reality , and artificial intelligence (including swarm intelligence ), as well as developing the ideas of "necroevolution" and the creation of artificial worlds. In 1965, Dune by Frank Herbert featured a much more complex and detailed imagined future society than had previously in most science fiction. In 1967 Anne McCaffrey began her Dragonriders of Pern science fantasy series. Two of
6216-402: The creation of her third album Visions in 2012, during which she "blacked out the windows and did tons of amphetamine and stayed up for three weeks and didn't eat anything". In 2014, she wrote a blog post expressing her aversion to hard drugs. Grimes embraces her distinctive lisp and has expressed no desire for speech therapy to alter it. Grimes has said that she is autistic , saying she
6327-443: The creepy, lo-fi R&B of her early releases to the futuristic dance-pop of her...[third] album, Visions ." For her fourth studio, Art Angels , Grimes learned how to play guitar and violin. She stated "I didn't want to play the keys, 'cause I don't want to be considered synth-pop." Rolling Stone described the album as a move away from her "hazy synth-pop toward an off-kilter guitars-and-beats sound", and "uses rock sounds in
6438-571: The dance-style song "Sheesh" on the latter's debut album, Hey U X , released on November 11, 2020. Her song, "Kill V Maim" was featured in the soundtrack of the 2020 film, Mainstream . On December 11, 2020, Grimes and other associated artists, all using aliases, released a Cyberpunk 2077 -themed DJ mix album on Apple Music , titled This story is dedicated to all those cyberpunks who fight against injustice and corruption every day of their lives! . It contains two new songs by Grimes, "Samana" and "Delicate Weapon". On December 18, 2020, nine months after
6549-472: The devoted aficionado or fan—has a hard time trying to explain what science fiction is," and the lack of a "full satisfactory definition" is because "there are no easily delineated limits to science fiction." Another definition comes from The Literature Book by DK and is, "scenarios that are at the time of writing technologically impossible, extrapolating from present-day science...[,]...or that deal with some form of speculative science-based conceit, such as
6660-439: The episodes, ran from 1959 to 1964. It featured fantasy , suspense , and horror as well as science fiction, with each episode being a complete story. Critics have ranked it as one of the best TV programs of any genre . The animated series The Jetsons , while intended as comedy and only running for one season (1962–1963), predicted many inventions now in common use: flat-screen televisions , newspapers on
6771-475: The face of this thing I built, I want to be the one who built it". In December 2013, Grimes employed the services of Jay-Z 's management company, Roc Nation . On June 26, 2014, Grimes premiered the new track "Go", produced by and featuring Blood Diamonds . It was a track that had been written for and rejected by Rihanna and was premiered on Zane Lowe's radio 1 show. Rolling Stone ranked it number fourteen on their Best Songs of 2014 list. In July 2014, Grimes
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#17328483611506882-400: The first bands I was into that was considered alternative ". In a tweet, Grimes replied to someone saying that her recent influences were Chris Isaak , St. Vincent , and Mindless Self Indulgence . The theories of her second studio album, Halfaxa were inspired by Hildegard of Bingen . Before releasing her fourth studio album, Art Angels , Grimes described one of her upcoming songs as
6993-743: The first science fiction novel . Some of the stories from The Arabian Nights , along with the 10th-century The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter and Ibn al-Nafis 's 13th-century Theologus Autodidactus , are also argued to contain elements of science fiction. Written during the Scientific Revolution and later the Age of Enlightenment are considered true science-fantasy books. Francis Bacon 's New Atlantis (1627), Johannes Kepler 's Somnium (1634), Athanasius Kircher 's Itinerarium extaticum (1656), Cyrano de Bergerac 's Comical History of
7104-480: The genre, it describes the history of humanity from the present onwards across two billion years. In 1937, John W. Campbell became editor of Astounding Science Fiction , an event that is sometimes considered the beginning of the Golden Age of Science Fiction , which was characterized by stories celebrating scientific achievement and progress . The "Golden Age" is often said to have ended in 1946, but sometimes
7215-536: The idea of 'killing copyright'. On June 8, Grimes released "Welcome to the Opera", along with Anyma, also known as Matteo Milleri of the Italian duo Tale of Us . On July 28, Grimes released "I Wanna Be Software", with Canadian record producer, Illangelo . On November 3, Grimes collaborated with Iranian-Dutch singer, Sevdaliza , on the song, "Nothing Lasts Forever". In December, it was announced that Grimes would be partnering with
7326-472: The implications of the Internet and the expanding information universe, questions about biotechnology , nanotechnology , and post-scarcity societies . Recent trends and subgenres include steampunk , biopunk , and mundane science fiction . The first, or at least one of the first, recorded science fiction film is 1902's A Trip to the Moon , directed by French filmmaker Georges Méliès . It
7437-415: The late 1940s and the 1950s are included. In 1942, Isaac Asimov started his Foundation series , which chronicles the rise and fall of galactic empires and introduced psychohistory . The series was later awarded a one-time Hugo Award for "Best All-Time Series". Theodore Sturgeon 's More Than Human (1953) explored possible future human evolution . In 1957, Andromeda: A Space-Age Tale by
7548-456: The modern genre primarily arose in the 19th and early 20th centuries when popular writers began looking to technological progress and speculation. Mary Shelley 's Frankenstein , written in 1818, is often credited as the first true science fiction novel . Jules Verne and H.G. Wells are pivotal figures in the genre's development. In the 20th century, expanded with the introduction of space operas , dystopian literature, pulp magazines , and
7659-479: The monikers Blood and Blood Diamonds , Tucker began to make his mark by working with established artists. He collaborated with Grimes (on his debut 2011 EP, Phone Sex , and later on her 2014 track, "Go"), while also being drafted in to officially remix tracks by artists such as Kendrick Lamar , Beyoncé , Ellie Goulding , and Major Lazer . In 2014, he worked alongside fellow producers Avicii and DJ Dahl on Madonna's 13th album. The record, Rebel Heart ,
7770-549: The music video for "Kill V. Maim" ("Act III") on January 19, 2016, and the music video for "California" ("Act IV") on May 9, 2016. Grimes crafted a slightly remixed version of "California" for the music video to achieve a less "dissonant" visual/auditory mix. On August 3, 2016, Grimes released the song "Medieval Warfare" as part of the soundtrack of the 2016 superhero film, Suicide Squad . On October 5, 2016, Grimes with friend and collaborator Hana Pestle, more commonly known by stage name Hana , released "The Ac!d Reign Chronicles",
7881-599: The name BloodPop that year, and he rounded off 2016 by producing John Legend 's " What You Do to Me ". The following year saw him return with a remix of " Little of Your Love " by indie pop trio Haim , as well as a single co-written with Bieber entitled " Friends ". 2019 saw Tucker issue the jubilant single "Newman" under the BloodPop moniker, as well as contributing to Post Malone 's " Internet ". Tucker executive produced Lady Gaga 's sixth studio album, Chromatica , including lead single, " Stupid Love ". In 2023, Tucker
7992-472: The novellas included in the first novel, Dragonflight , made McCaffrey the first woman to win a Hugo or Nebula Award . In 1968, Philip K. Dick 's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? was published. It is the literary source of the Blade Runner movie franchise . In 1969, The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin was set on a planet in which the inhabitants have no fixed gender . It
8103-603: The play RUR , written by the Czech playwright Karel Čapek , broadcast live from the BBC's Alexandra Palace studios on 11 February 1938. The first popular science fiction program on American television was the children's adventure serial Captain Video and His Video Rangers , which ran from June 1949 to April 1955. The Twilight Zone (the original series), produced and narrated by Rod Serling , who also wrote or co-wrote most of
8214-598: The process of being mixed. In January 2023, Grimes gave an update on her delayed sixth album, Book 1 , announcing that her career was a 'side quest' now and that her children, friends and family were her priorities. On January 31, was announced that Grimes would feature on Caroline Polachek 's song "Fly to You", alongside Dido . The song is from Polachek's fourth studio album, Desire, I Want to Turn Into You , which released on February 14. In April 2023, Grimes invited people to use her voice in AI generated songs, stating that she likes
8325-468: The reaction of human beings to changes in science and technology ." Robert A. Heinlein wrote that "A handy short definition of almost all science fiction might read: realistic speculation about possible future events, based solidly on adequate knowledge of the real world, past and present, and on a thorough understanding of the nature and significance of the scientific method ." American science fiction author and editor Lester del Rey wrote, "Even
8436-531: The release of her 2012 album, Visions . The album received the Canadian music industry Juno Award for Electronic Album of the Year, and yielded two singles: " Genesis " and " Oblivion ". Following this, her fourth studio album, Art Angels , was released in 2015, and several publications named it the best album of the year. Her fifth studio album, Miss Anthropocene , was released in 2020. Outside of music, Grimes had
8547-467: The release of her fifth studio album, Miss Anthropocene , Grimes changed the cover art for the album on all streaming platforms. The new cover art is a painting by Rupid Leejm that Grimes commissioned to use. In discussing the process of choosing the cover art originally, "I polled a bunch of ppl and everyone said not to use it (??) but I wish I trusted my gut. I fucking LOVE this painting." On January 1, 2021, Grimes released Miss Anthropocene: Rave Edition ,
8658-424: The second highlighting themes of "pure darkness and chaos". On April 10, 2018, Grimes was featured on " Pynk ", the third single from Janelle Monáe 's album, Dirty Computer . On May 30, 2018, Grimes was featured on "Love4Eva" by Loona yyxy , the lead single from South Korean girl group Loona 's third sub-unit's debut EP Beauty & the Beat . On June 15, 2018, she was featured in a video for Apple 's Behind
8769-676: The series gained popularity through syndication and extraordinary fan interest . It became a very popular and influential franchise with many films , television shows , novels , and other works and products. Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994) led to six additional live action Star Trek shows: Deep Space Nine (1993–1999), Voyager (1995–2001) , Enterprise (2001–2005), Discovery (2017–2024), Picard (2020–2023), and Strange New Worlds (2022–present), with more in some form of development. BloodPop Michael Tucker (born August 15, 1990), known professionally as BloodPop (stylized as BloodPop ),
8880-400: The single " Delete Forever ", which was partly inspired by the death of Lil Peep and the ongoing opioid crisis . On February 27, 2020, Grimes released a music video for the song "Idoru". On April 1, 2020, Grimes released a music video for the song "You'll Miss Me When I'm Not Around" and asked fans to finish the video because it only features Grimes and a green screen. On June 17, 2020, Grimes
8991-405: The single "So Heavy I Fell Through the Earth" and performed "4ÆM" at the 2019 Video Game Awards in order to introduce herself as Lizzy Wizzy, a voiced character in the game Cyberpunk 2077 . On November 29, 2019, Grimes released the single "My Name Is Dark". On December 13, 2019, Grimes released the single "4ÆM". Miss Anthropocene was released on February 21, 2020. On February 12, 2020, she released
9102-510: The song anyway. u got what you want. Let it go." On November 29, 2018, Grimes released the single, " We Appreciate Power " featuring Hana , which was described as an industrial rock and nu metal song. On December 11, 2018, Grimes performed the song on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon . Grimes also appeared on Bring Me the Horizon 's " Nihilist Blues " from their sixth album, Amo . On August 13, 2019, Grimes posted an advertisement for
9213-414: The song coming out months ago, and she was preventing it. I got to watch her bully songwriters into signing NDA and not taking credit for songs that they were a part of. She doesn't practice what she preaches." Grimes responded by saying: "Poppy, you dragged me into a disgusting situation and won't stop punishing me for not wanting to be a part of it", Grimes says. "I don't want to work with you, you leaked
9324-404: The song is called "Sci Fi" and is set for release in mid-2022. She also provided more details about her upcoming studio album and EP, stating, "all these projects [will] come together and merge into one project at the end." On September 17, she revealed that she has twenty songs for her upcoming album and teased that the album might be divided into two albums. She also confirmed that the album was in
9435-754: The split 12" with d'Eon , Darkbloom (through both Arbutus and Hippos in Tanks ). Beginning in May 2011, Grimes opened for Lykke Li on her North American Tour, and the following August her debut album was re-released through No Pain in Pop Records, in CD and vinyl format for the first time. In 2011, she collaborated with DJ/producer Blood Diamonds . Following extensive touring and positive reception to her first two albums and Darkbloom contribution, Grimes signed with record label 4AD in January 2012. Her third studio album, Visions ,
9546-515: The term speculative fiction to be used instead for those that are more "serious" or "thoughtful". Some scholars assert that science fiction had its beginnings in ancient times , when the line between myth and fact was blurred. Written in the 2nd century CE by the satirist Lucian , A True Story contains many themes and tropes characteristic of modern science fiction, including travel to other worlds, extraterrestrial lifeforms , interplanetary warfare, and artificial life . Some consider it
9657-571: The title of her sixth studio album, Book 1 , and released a new single titled "Player of Games". In December, Grimes teased a collaboration with the Weeknd on Discord, saying it would be released in 2022. In January 2022, Grimes partnered with the video game Rocket League for the Neon Nights event. The event ran from January 26 to February 8, and featured Grimes-themed items and her songs "Shinigami Eyes" and "Player of Games". In January, Grimes announced
9768-459: The toy Curio company to launch an interactive AI toy named "Grok" that she provided the voice for. In April 2024, Grimes DJed at Coachella which was cut short due to technical problems, in a set dubbed the "worst performance in the history of Coachella". Grimes restarted songs several times, punctuated by loud yelps and screeches, telling the crowd she was experiencing speed issues with her tracks which were playing double their normal tempo and she
9879-441: Was 11 years old, after which her mother remarried. Through her mother's remarriage, she has two stepbrothers, one of whom is a member of the hip hop duo LNDN DRGS and performs under the name Jay Worthy. In 2006, Grimes graduated from Lord Byng Secondary School and relocated from Vancouver to Montreal to attend McGill University 's joint Bachelor of Arts and Science program. "I was studying general Arts and Science degree, but I
9990-568: Was an opening act on select dates for Swedish House Mafia 's "Paradise Again Tour" alongside Kaytranada , ZHU , and Alesso . The tour ran from July 29 to November 13 Grimes appeared on Bella Poarch's song, "No Man's Land" from the Dolls EP, which was released on August 12. In August 2022, Grimes was featured on the cover of Vogue Plus China , in which she did an interview and further discussed her upcoming collaboration with The Weeknd. She confirmed that
10101-605: Was featured in the animated film The Mitchells vs. the Machines . In June, she appeared in Doja Cat 's music video " Need to Know ". Later in June, Grimes started a new partnered Discord server called "Grimes Metaverse Super Beta" and a new podcast "Homo Techno", co-hosted with science communicator Liv Boeree . She used the Discord server to tease new music frequently, and released a snippet of
10212-451: Was featured on Ashnikko 's song, " Cry " from her mixtape, Demidevil . Grimes made an appearance on the Adult Swim sketch comedy show, The Eric Andre Show . Her collaboration with Janelle Monáe , " Pynk ", was featured on episode 5 of the television series, I May Destroy You . Her song " Oblivion " was featured on episode 9 of the same series. Grimes collaborated with Benee on
10323-416: Was featured on Bleachers ' song "Take Me Away" from their album, Strange Desire . On August 19, 2014, Grimes was featured in the music for the remix of Haim 's My Song 5 . On March 8, 2015, Grimes released a self-directed video for a demo version of " Realiti " from an abandoned album. It received critical acclaim from music critics, being named Best New Music by Jenn Pelly from Pitchfork , calling it
10434-440: Was featured on Jimmy Urine 's "The Medicine Does Not Control Me" from the album, Euringer . On October 31, 2018, Grimes was featured on " Play Destroy " by Poppy on her album Am I a Girl? Shortly after the release of "Play Destroy", Poppy accused Grimes of bullying during the making of "Play Destroy" stating: "I was kind of bullied into submission by [Grimes] and her team of self-proclaimed feminists", she says. "We planned
10545-686: Was having trouble “doing the math”. Grimes claimed the problems came from her having outsourced preparation work to third parties due to time constraints. On September 20, 2024 Grimes released a remix of a song called " Supernova ", originally by K-pop group, Aespa . Grimes' music has been described with a number of labels, including synth-pop , electropop , art pop , indie pop , dream pop , experimental pop , pop , avant-garde pop , lo-fi , dance , witch house , electronic , glo-fi , bedroom pop , and electronica with elements of rock , hip hop , R&B , folk , drum and bass , and classical . According to Vulture , "[Grimes moved away] from
10656-508: Was in the electro-acoustics program" she said in early interviews. However, she later claimed to have studied neuroscience. She was expelled in December 2010 for skipping classes. According to the timestamps on her original Myspace page, she began writing music under the name Grimes in 2007. Her performer name was chosen because at the time, MySpace allowed artists to list three musical genres. She listed "grime" for all three, without knowing what
10767-404: Was influential on later filmmakers , bringing a different kind of creativity and fantasy . Méliès's innovative editing and special effects techniques were widely imitated and became important elements of the cinematic medium . 1927's Metropolis , directed by Fritz Lang , is the first feature-length science fiction film. Though not well received in its time, it is now considered
10878-480: Was known for its embrace of a high degree of experimentation, both in form and in content, and a highbrow and self-consciously " literary " or " artistic " sensibility . In 1961, Solaris by Stanisław Lem was published in Poland . The novel dealt with the theme of human limitations as its characters attempted to study a seemingly intelligent ocean on a newly discovered planet . Lem's work anticipated
10989-414: Was later revealed that this was due to a clash with her label, 4AD. She later revealed on an Instagram post that she would eventually be releasing two albums, and that "they would be separated by a period of time", with the first being released with 4AD, and the second with an undisclosed label. Grimes stated that this first album would be "highly collaborative and [characterized by] most glorious light", with
11100-631: Was listening to Aphex Twin , Black Dice , Dungeon Family , Michael Jackson , New Edition , Outkast , Nine Inch Nails , Burial , TLC , Mariah Carey and stated "I'm into the really caustic beats, the kind of sharp drum and bass kind of stuff. Really nice vocals too, with lots of tight harmonies at the same time." Grimes cites Blink-182 as an influence in her Amoeba Records "What's In My Bag?" episode where she picked one of their live DVDs. Grimes considers Blue Hawaii "a big part of [her] family in Montreal". Grimes stated that Cocteau Twins are "one of
11211-701: Was named best album of the year by NME , Exclaim! , and Stereogum . It peaked at number 1 on the Billboard US Top Alternative Album Chart and number 2 on the Billboard Top Independent Album chart. Grimes won the 2016 International award at the Socan Annual Awards and the 2016 Harper's Bazaar Musician of the Year Award in October. In the spring of 2016, Grimes toured Asia and Europe with supporting act Hana on
11322-489: Was named the best song of 2012 by Pitchfork and was produced into a music video co-directed by Emily Kai Bock and Grimes. Pitchfork ranked "Oblivion" at number one on their 200 Best Tracks of the Decade So Far list in 2014. In interviews following the album's release, Grimes explained that she was assigned a strict deadline by which to have her third album finished far before it was complete, resulting in her recording
11433-533: Was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song for ‘’ Hold My Hand ’’ - co-written and performed by Lady Gaga - from the Top Gun: Maverick soundtrack. In 2023, Tucker announced the formation of Genpop Interactive, a studio dedicated to driving “forward the next-gen of music, fashion, and gaming culture.” Tucker has been dating American songwriter and producer Hana since May 2013. They met in
11544-715: Was nominated for the Breakthrough Artist of the Year at the Junos . Grimes also won the Artist of the Year Award at the 2013 Webbys . [After nine days] you have no stimulation, so your subconscious starts filling in the blanks ... I started to feel like I was channelling spirits. I was convinced my music was a gift from God. It was like I knew exactly what to do next, as if my songs were already written. Grimes in The Guardian , April 27, 2012 The album's second single, " Oblivion ",
11655-446: Was pretty much able to spontaneously write songs immediately after listening to this album once." Her work has been likened to various artists, including Björk , Julianna Barwick , Siouxsie Sioux , and Enya . She has stated that she loves British rock bands like Bring Me the Horizon and Foals . She was described by Tastemakers Magazine as an "alien love-child of Aphex Twin and ABBA ". While making her third studio album, Grimes
11766-633: Was previously misdiagnosed with restless legs syndrome and schizoaffective disorder . She described personal motor-skill issues when "[she] went to check [her] kids and performed worse than them on every test". Science fiction Science fiction (sometimes shortened to SF or sci-fi ) is a genre of speculative fiction , which typically deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts such as advanced science and technology , space exploration , time travel , parallel universes , and extraterrestrial life . It often explores human responses to changes in science and technology. Science fiction
11877-566: Was released in November to favourable reviews, garnering an 88 (out of 100) rating on Metacritic and the Best New Music designation from Pitchfork . Jessica Hopper of Pitchfork described Art Angels as "evidence of Boucher's labor and an articulation of a pop vision that is incontrovertibly hers... an epic holiday buffet of tendentious feminist fuck-off, with second helpings for anonymous commenters and music industry blood-suckers". Art Angels
11988-563: Was released on January 31, 2012, in Canada through Arbutus Records, February 21, 2012 in the United States through 4AD, and various dates in March 2012 elsewhere. appeared on a number of publications' year-end lists and was considered Grimes' breakout album. NME included it on their 500 Greatest Albums of All Time list in 2013. Visions won the Electronic Album of the Year Award and Grimes
12099-611: Was released the following year, with Tucker providing input on the tracks " Devil Pray ", " Iconic ", "Body Shop" and "Beautiful Scars". Tucker also earned a prominent production credit for smash hit, " Sorry ", on Purpose , the fourth album by Justin Bieber , in 2015. Tucker then went on to produce tracks for Britney Spears , Fifth Harmony , and Hana before working on Lady Gaga 's 2016 album, Joanne , alongside Mark Ronson and Kevin Parker of Tame Impala . Tucker began operating under
12210-408: Was the first of his three- decade -long planetary romance series of Barsoom novels , which were set on Mars and featured John Carter as the hero . These novels were predecessors to YA novels , and drew inspiration from European science fiction and American Western novels . In 1924, We by Russian writer Yevgeny Zamyatin , one of the first dystopian novels, was published. It describes
12321-524: Was uploaded on YouTube on February 9, 2017. She won Best Dance Video for "Venus Fly" at the Much Music Video Awards. In 2017, Grimes won a JUNO Award for Video of the Year, featuring "Kill V. Maim". On October 19, 2017, Grimes released a cover of Tegan and Sara 's "Dark Come Soon" with Hana . The cover is a part of Tegan and Sara's The Con X: Covers album . In February 2018, Grimes wrote on Instagram , "welp no music any time soon after all". It
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