via Instagram (@grimes)Music / NewsMusic / NewsGrimes says she plans to ‘kill off’ her stage name‘It will be a public execution’ShareLink copied ✔️March 21, 2019March 21, 2019TextSelim Bulut Just hours after announcing her new album Miss_Anthropocene, the long-awaited follow-up to 2015’s Art Angels, Grimes was the subject of a new profile in the Wall Street Journal. In it, Claire Boucher discussed the record and the hectic year leading up to it, in which she was in the press more than ever thanks to conflicts with her record label, that whole Azealia Banks thing, and her public relationship with billionaire Elon Musk. We say ‘Claire Boucher’, but as the interview reveals, she has followed through with her plans to legally change her name to c (italics and lowercase deliberate). Claire is “done and dead”, c says. What else is done and dead? Well, possibly Grimes entirely. As c explains, the Grimes project might be nearing its end. “I think I’ll kill ‘Grimes’ soon. It will be a public execution followed by – by something else. I shouldn’t say yet.” She elaborated that the Grimes name is too limiting. “It would be easier for me if I wasn’t stuck with the branding I made in 2009, you know?” The Grimes character, she says, is almost the exact opposite of who she is today. Read the full profile at the Wall Street Journal, and check out a new Grimes demo, “Pretty Dark”, below. Escape the algorithm! Get The DropEmail address SIGN UP Get must-see stories direct to your inbox every weekday. Privacy policy Thank you. You have been subscribed Privacy policy Expand your creative community and connect with 15,000 creatives from around the world.READ MORESilvana Estrada: ‘Bad Bunny is my hero, but Latin America is a continent’ The ultimate guide to music festivals in 2026Oakley Oakley’s new collection was designed to weather the stormStop calling Justin Bieber’s Coachella set ‘lazy’Xaviersobased’s online obsessions: NBA 2K, skate videos and Nickelodeon Nike Airmaxxing with New York designer Annie LianQueer nightlife is thriving in Bucharest’s abandoned backroomsThe rise of Rico Ace in 5 tracksSwedish House Mafia unpack their Miami Ultra festival mega-set2Slimey isn’t here to be a meme artist: ‘I want a fucking Grammy’ Nourished by Time: ‘Music should be fun – but it can’t be fun all the time’K-pop has an AI problemEscape the algorithm! Get The DropEmail address SIGN UP Get must-see stories direct to your inbox every weekday. Privacy policy Thank you. You have been subscribed Privacy policy