{"id":25156,"date":"2015-11-30T10:50:23","date_gmt":"2015-11-30T18:50:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/?p=25156"},"modified":"2015-11-30T10:58:34","modified_gmt":"2015-11-30T18:58:34","slug":"listen-to-grimes-meld-much-in-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2015-11\/listen-to-grimes-meld-much-in-california\/","title":{"rendered":"Listen to Grimes&#8217; Meld Much In &#8220;California&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Grimes-Cali.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-25157\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Grimes-Cali-600x600.jpg\" alt=\"Grimes Cali\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Grimes-Cali-600x600.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Grimes-Cali-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Grimes-Cali-400x400.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Grimes-Cali.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Having just driven almost the entirety of the state in the last five days, we&#8217;ve had <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.grimesmusic.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Grimes<\/a>&#8216; <\/strong>captivating<strong>\u00a0<em>California<\/em><\/strong> in our ears and minds. \u00a0The multi-talented <strong>Grimes<\/strong> has written one of the most infectious songs of the year in <em><strong>California<\/strong><\/em>. \u00a0Whether it be a kiss-off of <strong>Pitchfork<\/strong>\u00a0(amen!) or other music blogs (fo&#8217; shame!), the song&#8217;s (Dolly)<strong> Parton<\/strong>-esque vocals over <strong>Swiftian<\/strong> pop\/country and <strong>Rhianna<\/strong> samples is as catchy as chlamydia, and we can&#8217;t stop listening to it. \u00a0Check it out below (lyrics at bottom).<\/p>\n<p>Afterwards, check out the equally catchy <em><strong>Flesh without Blood<\/strong><\/em>. \u00a0Both songs are off of Grimes&#8217; universally-acclaimed new album <em><strong>Art Angels<\/strong><\/em>, which is on 4AD and is out now digitally but which will be released in full on December 11th.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vqa9xx2vBQc\" width=\"625\" height=\"425\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MNuQmBRB69g\" width=\"625\" height=\"425\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<em><strong>California:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This, this music makes me cry<br \/>\nIt sounds just like my soul, oh<br \/>\nOh I&#8217;m not ready to win<br \/>\nOh lord cause I don&#8217;t wanna know what they say<br \/>\nCause I get carried away<br \/>\nCommodifying all the pain<\/p>\n<p>The things they see in me, I cannot see myself<br \/>\nWhen you get bored of me, I&#8217;ll be back on the shelf<br \/>\nAnd when the ocean rises up above the ground<br \/>\nBaby I&#8217;ll drown in&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>[Chorus]<br \/>\nCalifornia<br \/>\nYou only like me when you think I&#8217;m looking sad<br \/>\nCalifornia<br \/>\nI didn&#8217;t think you&#8217;d end up treating me so bad<\/p>\n<p>Oh, I, I, I<br \/>\nCome Monday, it&#8217;s a dream<br \/>\nOh, I, I, I<br \/>\nBroken my own heart again<br \/>\nChasing something beautiful<br \/>\nOh, but I don&#8217;t understand what they say<br \/>\nCause I get carried away<br \/>\nCommodifying all the pain<\/p>\n<p>The things they see in me, I cannot see myself<br \/>\nWhen you get bored of me, I&#8217;ll be back on the shelf<br \/>\nAnd when the ocean rises up above the ground<br \/>\nBaby I&#8217;ll drown in&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>[Chorus]<br \/>\nCalifornia<br \/>\nYou only like me when you think I&#8217;m looking sad<br \/>\nCalifornia<br \/>\nI didn&#8217;t think you&#8217;d end up treating me so bad<br \/>\nCalifornia<br \/>\nYou only like me when you think I&#8217;m looking sad<br \/>\nCalifornia<br \/>\nI didn&#8217;t think you&#8217;d end up treating me so bad&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having just driven almost the entirety of the state in the last five days, we&#8217;ve had Grimes&#8216; captivating\u00a0California in our ears and minds. \u00a0The multi-talented Grimes has written one of the most infectious songs of the year in California. \u00a0Whether it be a kiss-off of Pitchfork\u00a0(amen!) or other music blogs (fo&#8217; shame!), the song&#8217;s (Dolly) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25156"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25160,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25156\/revisions\/25160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}