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Grimes x Bleachers - Entropy

Whether she’s making power-pop or wearing socks and sandals in public, Grimes does what she wants.

17th March 2015

Grimes just can’t stay out of the news, can she? She scrapped her entire album because she thought it was ‘depressing’. She hit out against sexism on her blog. She had a Twitter spat with DIIV over her dietary choices. She even wears socks and sandals in public. There’s never a dull moment with Grimes.

‘Entropy’, her second collaboration with the co-captain of FUN. - Jack Antonoff - is essentially an upbeat power-pop song, featuring Grimes’ echoing vocals and the glitzy, well-oiled production Antonoff has made his trademark. ‘Entropy’ is a real earworm; catchy and smooth. It’s in stark contrast to Grimes’ recent demo of her own solo work, ‘REALiTi’; a surging, atmospheric mix-match of EDM and trance that wouldn’t look out of place in Nicholas Winding Refn’s ‘Drive’ soundtrack. It’s great to see Grimes continuing to collaborate, and showing that not only can she dabble and succeed in many different genres, but, most importantly, that she does whatever the fuck she wants - be it making power-pop alongside her experimental solo output or wearing socks and sandals in public. Kudos for making the word ‘entropy’ work in a pop song, though.

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