via Instagram (@grimes)MusicNewsMusic / 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. Expand your creative community and connect with 15,000 creatives from around the world.READ MOREDoppel-gäng gäng gäng: 7 times artists used body doublesWesley Joseph is the Marty Supreme of R&B (only nicer) How Turnstile are reinventing hardcore for the internet ageWill these be the biggest musical moments of 2026?Rising singer Liim is the crooning voice of New York CityFrench producer Malibu is an ambient antidote for the chronically online10 musicians to watch in 202610 great albums you may have missed in the last three monthsZukovstheworld on the UK Ug scene: ‘It’s modern pop music’The only tracks you need to hear from December 202511 alt Christmas anthems for the miserable and brokenhearted Last Days: The opera exploring the myth of Kurt Cobain