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 MORE GucciEsDeeKid, Fakemink and more shut down Gucci’s AW26 afterparty5 acts to know from Manchester’s musical underground Reebok Your favourite Reeboks are getting a makeoverThe 7 most bleak, hopeless and depressing Mitski songs – ranked!February 2026 playlist: All the music we loved from the last monthMagdalena Bay on romance, fate and the best advice they ever receivedEvery Gorillaz album, rankedWhat do cats think of Mitski’s new album? Find out in this new video‘Thug metal’ band Empty Shell Casing are the nu kids on the blockThese evocative photos depict the in-between moments at Rio Carnival These photos straddle ‘pre and post-iPhone’ London nightlifeListen to Evissimax’s ‘Black, vampy and sexy’ Dazed mixEscape 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