Grimes (9,708 views)

[Alex61]

Claire Elise Boucher
Vocal Range: D3 – B♭6

Significant High Notes:
B♭6 ("Circumambient")
A6 ("Unknown Unplugged" live Montreal 2010)
G6 ("Circumambient")
F♯6 ("Intor / Flowers" live Freud's Bathhouse Diner 2010, "Unknown Unplugged/Dream Fortress" live Ontario 2010)
F6 ("A Cappella Singing" live yourstru.ly, "Unknown Unplugged/Dream Fortress" live Ontario 2010)
E6 ("Skin")
E♭6 ("Black Hair", "Hallways", "Intor / Flowers")
D6 ("Colour of Moonlight (Antiochus)", "Don't Smoke My Blunt Bitch", "Weregild")
C♯6 ("Feyd Rautha Dark Heart", "Go")
C6 ("Beast Infection", "Dream Fortress", "Hallways")
B5 ("Black Hair", "Crystal Ball", "Jam" live CKUT Radio 2010, "† River †", "Summon the Sound" remix)
B♭5 ("Be a Body (侘寂)", "Butterfly", "Beast Infection", "Eight", "Flesh Without Blood", "∆∆∆∆Rasik∆∆∆∆", "принцесса")
A5 ("4ÆM", "Don't Smoke My Blunt Bitch", "Eyes Be Closed" remix, "Human Heart", "Nightmusic", "Skin", "Swan Song", "Vowels = Space and Time")
G♯5 ("Darq Souls", "Eyes Be Closed" remix, "Go", "My Name Is Dark", "Pretty Dark", "Realiti", "Sagrad Прекрасный", "Urban Twilight", "Vanessa")
G5 ("Be a Body (侘寂)", "Beast Infection", "Butterfly", "Clean Up Your Dreams", "Colour of Moonlight (Antiochus)", "Darkseid", "David", "Delicate Weapon", "Eight", "Fifteen Minutes To", "Grisgris", "Human Heart", "Shadout Mapes", "Sleepwalking" live 2014, "So Heavy I Fell Through the Earth", "Unknown Song [2010, 3:02]", "Vodianoi", "Wherever With You")
F♯5 ("Black Hair", "California", "Conditioning" remix, "Dragvandil", "Dream Fortress", "Go", "Hedra", "IDORU", "Intor / Flowers", "Jam" live CKUT Radio 2010, "Kill V. Maim", "Laughing and Not Being Normal", "New Gods", "Sagrad Прекрасный", "Saturn Princess", "Shadout Mapes", "Swan Song", "Symphonia IX (My Wait Is U)" live FYF Fest 2014, "Tabula Rasa", "Vowels = Space and Time", "World Princess Part II", "You'll Miss Me When I'm Not Around")
F5 ("4ÆM", "Artangels", "Ave Maria" live BBC Radio 1 2016, "California", "David", "Delicate Weapon", "Easily", "Favriel", "Gambang", "My Name Is Dark", "Nightmusic", "Outer" live Ontario 2010, "Pin", "Sardaukar Levenbrech", "Shadout Mapes", "Things That Were Not", "Unknown Song [2011]", "Unknown Song [2012]", "Violence", "Welcome to the Opera", "Weregild", "принцесса")
E5 ("Ambrosia", "Behaviour", "Circumambient", "Clean Up Your Dreams", "Colour of Moonlight (Antiochus)", "Crystal Ball", "Devon", "Dream Fortress", "Dream World", "Eyes Be Closed" remix, "Fifteen Minutes To", "Golden Calf", "Grisgris", "Heartbeats", "Hilda Main Theme", "Jam" live CKUT Radio 2010, "Laughing and Not Being Normal", "Life After Death", "LOVE", "Mars Theme", "My Sister Says the Saddest Things", "Nihilist Blues", "Oblivion" live Glastonbury 2016, "Ophia", "Realiti", "Sagrad Прекрасный", "Shall I Compare Thee", "Shinigami Eyes", "Song for Ric", "Symphonia IX (My Wait Is U)", "Tabula Rasa", "Take Me Away", "Unknown Live Performance" live Los Angeles 2011, "Unknown Unplugged" live Montreal 2010, "Unknown Song [2010, 3:02]", "Unknown Song [2012]", "Urban Twilight", "Vanessa", "Venus Fly", "Vodianoi", "We Appreciate Power", "Wherever With You")
E♭5 ("100% Tragedy", "Butterfly", "Darkseid", "Enjoy the Angels on Earth", "Entropy", "Flesh Without Blood", "Gambang", "Go", "IDORU", "Intor / Flowers", "Know the Way (Outro)", "Life in the Vivid Dream", "Love4Eva", "The Medicine Does Not Control Me", "New Gods", "No Man's Land", "Samana" Levant mix, "Sleepwalking" live 2014, "Unknown Song [2011]", "Welcome to the Opera", "World ♡ Princess", "World Princess Part II")
D5 ("100% Tragedy", "4ÆM", "Artangels", "Ave Maria" live BBC Radio 1 2016, "Before the Fever", "Behaviour", "Belly of the Beat", "Conditioning" remix, "Crystal Ball", "Darkseid", "David", "Death Angels", "Devon", "Digital Calypso", "Don't Smoke My Blunt Bitch", "Dragvandil", "Enjoy the Angels on Earth", "Hilda Main Theme", "I Wanna Be Software", "I Won't Let You Down", "Kill V. Maim", "Last Day / Новый День", "Nothing Lasts Forever" demo version, "Oblivion", "Pin", "Play Destroy", "∆∆∆∆Rasik∆∆∆∆", "R.I.P" remix, "† River †", "Saturn Princess", "So Heavy I Fell Through the Earth", "Symphonia IX (My Wait Is U)", "Tabula Rasa", "Take Me Away", "Unknown Song [2010, 1:47]", "Unknown Song [2012]", "Utopia", "Vodianoi", "We Appreciate Power", "Wherever With You", "≈Ω≈Ω≈Ω≈Ω≈Ω≈Ω≈Ω≈Ω≈", "принцесса")
C♯5 ("Ambrosia", "Anhedonia", "Caladan", "California", "Delete Forever", "Dream World", "Feyd Rautha Dark Heart", "Genesis", "Heartbeats", "Hedra", "IDORU", "Kill V. Maim", "The Medicine Does Not Control Me", "Medieval Warfare", "My Name Is Dark", "New Gods", "No Man's Land", "Outer", "Phone Sex", "Realiti", "Ritual", "Sardaukar Levenbrech", "Sleepwalking" live 2014, "Take Me Away", "Unknown Unplugged" live Montreal 2010, "Unknown Song [2023]", "Vanessa", "Vowels = Space and Time", "You'll Miss Me When I'm Not Around")
C5 ("100% Tragedy", "Artangels", "Avi", "Be a Body (侘寂)", "Belly of the Beat", "Brotherhood", "Circumambient", "Clean Up Your Dreams", "Cry", "Delicate Weapon", "Easily", "Entropy", "The Eye", "Favriel", "Fly to You", "The Horizon" remix, "Human Heart", "I Wanna Be Software", "Infinite ❤ Without Fulfillment", "Last Day / Новый День", "LOVE", "Medieval Warfare", "Nightmusic", "No Man's Land", "Pynk", "R.I.P" remix, "Rosa", "Samana" Levant mix, "Sheesh", "Shinigami Eyes", "Skin", "Things That Were Not", "Unknown Song [2010, 3:02]", "Violence", "Weregild", "World Brain", "World ♡ Princess")

Significant Low Notes:
B3 ("Anhedonia", "Caladan", "Colour of Moonlight (Antiochus)", "Dark Come Soon", "Delicate Weapon", "Dragvandil", "Dream Fortress", "Eyes Be Closed" remix, "Favriel", "Fragments of the Future", "Go", "Hedra", "Human Heart", "Jam" live CKUT Radio 2010, "Kill V. Maim", "Nightmusic", "Oblivion", "Pretty Dark", "Realiti", "Rosa", "Saturn Princess", "Summon the Sound" remix, "Unknown Live Performance" live Los Angeles 2011, "Urban Twilight", "Venus Fly", "Vodianoi", "whoknoidontno", "You'll Miss Me When I'm Not Around")
B♭3 ("Ave Maria" live BBC Radio 1 2016, "Be a Body (侘寂)", "Before the Fever", "Black Hair", "Brotherhood", "Butterfly", "California", "Cry", "Digital Calypso", "Easily", "Eight", "Entropy", "Flesh Without Blood", "Fly to You", "Genesis", "Golden Calf", "I Wanna Be Software", "Infinite ❤ Without Fulfillment", "Intor / Flowers", "My Name Is Dark", "New Gods", "Nothing Lasts Forever", "Phone Sex", "∆∆∆∆Rasik∆∆∆∆", "Real Is a Feeling" remix, "R.I.P" remix, "Sagrad Прекрасный", "Samana" Levant mix, "Sheesh", "Unknown Song [2012]", "Venus in Fleurs", "Visiting Statue", "Vowels = Space and Time", "World Princess Part II", "Zoal, Face Dancer", "принцесса")
A3 ("Ambrosia", "Angel", "Avi", "Behaviour", "Belly of the Beat", "Black Hair", "Christmas Song", "Colour of Moonlight (Antiochus)", "Crystal Ball", "Darq Souls", "David", "Devon", "Dream Fortress", "A Drug from God", "Eyes Be Closed" remix, "Fifteen Minutes To", "Gloam", "Grisgris", "Ham Mer Maid", "Hilda Main Theme", "The Horizon" remix, "Human Heart", "Jam" live CKUT Radio 2010, "Life After Death", "LOVE", "Mars Theme", "Ophia", "Player of Games", "† River †", "So Heavy I Fell Through the Earth", "Shinigami Eyes", "Song for Ric", "Symphonia IX (My Wait Is U)", "Unknown Unplugged" live Montreal 2010, "Unknown Song [2010, 3:02]", "Voignamir", "We Appreciate Power", "whoknoidontno", "World Brain")
G♯3 ("Brotherhood", "California", "The Crazy Doctor", "Delete Forever", "Fly to You", "Fragments of the Future", "Life in the Vivid Dream", "My Name Is Dark" Genius verified, "My Sister Says the Saddest Things", "Real Is a Feeling" remix, "Summon the Sound" remix, "Unknown Live Performance" live Los Angeles 2011, "Unknown Song [2023]", "Urban Twilight", "Zoal, Face Dancer")
G3 ("100% Tragedy", "Be a Body (侘寂)", "Before the Fever", "Behaviour", "Butterfly", "Circumambient", "Christmas Song", "Darkseid", "David", "Death Angels", "Delicate Weapon", "Devon", "Eight", "The Eye", "Golden Calf", "I Wanna Be Software", "Infinite ❤ Without Fulfillment", "Intor / Flowers" live Freud's Bathhouse Diner 2010, "Life After Death", "Nightmusic", "Nothing Lasts Forever", "∆∆∆∆Rasik∆∆∆∆", "Realiti" demo version, "Rosa", "Sheesh", "Skin", "Unknown Song [2010, 1:47]", "Urban Twilight", "Voignamir", "Wherever With You", "World Brain", "≈Ω≈Ω≈Ω≈Ω≈Ω≈Ω≈Ω≈Ω≈")
F♯3 ("Ambrosia", "Caladan", "California", "The Crazy Doctor", "Dream World", "Feyd Rautha Dark Heart", "Genesis", "Gloam", "Jam" live CKUT Radio 2010, "Heartbeats", "IDORU", "Saturn Princess", "Unknown Live Performance" live Los Angeles 2011, "whoknoidontno")
F3 ("Brotherhood", "The Crazy Doctor", "Delete Forever", "The Eye", "Ham Mer Maid", "Know the Way (Outro)", "Nothing Lasts Forever", "Skin", "Weregild", "World Brain")
E3 ("A Cappella Singing" live FaceCulture, "Dream World", "The Eye", "Fifteen Minutes To", "Life After Death", "Heartbeats", "Nihilist Blues", "Song for Ric", "Unknown Song [2023]", "Unknown Unplugged/Dream Fortress" live Ontario 2010, "World ♡ Princess" live Ontario 2010)
E♭3 ("Feyd Rautha Dark Heart", "Infinite ❤ Without Fulfillment", "My Sister Says the Saddest Things", "Weregild")
D3 ("100% Tragedy", "Outer", "Song for Ric", "Swan Song", "Symphonia IX (My Wait Is U)", "We Appreciate Power")
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• Blue marks high falsetto or whistle register notes.
• Bold marks notes or passages that are particularly outstanding (relative to the singer).
• Italics mark non-melodic notes.
• Underlines mark notes that are obscured in the song mix.

Grimes (not in any way affiliated with the genre of grime) is a Canadian singer-songwriter. Self-described as "ADD music", her unique style incorporates elements from a variety of genres including pop, electronic and R&B, frequently utilising looping techniques in her earlier work.

Grimes' vocal style is just as quirky as her music. Singing with a noticeable lisp, Grimes often uses a very light, girlish tone, frequently singing comfortably in the upper fifth octave in head voice (and even being able to extend into the sixth with her occasionally demonstrated whistle register). That said, though, her voice isn't necessarily an extremely high one placement-wise, as evidenced by her surprisingly strong lower register. Though something of a marmite musician, Grimes' voice is much stronger than one may immediately assume, and perusing through her discography may leave you pleasantly surprised.

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{A Few Examples of Her Voice}
Probably her catchiest song. A nice enough showcase of her quirky upper register.


A good display of how agile her head voice is - highs up to E♭6!


Surprisingly strong (I would say legitimate, given that she has other notes in this area and they do sound like her lowest point) lower notes and some highs here, too.

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{Questionable Notes}
B♭6 ("Scream"^[1])
E6 ("Kill V. Maim"^[1], "Scream"^[1])
G3 ("World ♡ Princess"^[2])
C♯3 ("Vodianoi"^[2])
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1. Questionable non-melodic screams.
2. Questionable identity or legitimacy.
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Questionable notes are any notes of questionable significance. In short, this spoiler acknowledges notes that I am aware exist, but do not want to contribute to the singer's range. These involve (but are not limited to) notes of questionable identity, notes of questionable legitimacy and notes of significantly poor quality.

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{Notewatching Credits & Other Info}
Alex61
Solo:
Geidi Primes (2010): E♭3 – C♯6
Halifaxa (2011): D3 – A5 – E♭6
Visions (2012): D3 – B♭5 – B♭6
Art Angels (2015): F♯3 – B♭5
Miss Anthropocene (2020): F3 – A5

Unspecified performances can be found here.

Countless unknown songs and demos notewatched very kindly by galaxyseal ! Notewatching of other performances not listed above done by Alex61 .

[IhateMana]

are there not D3s in "Outer"?

also that "Intro / Flowers" track is actually meant to be misspelled as "Intor / Flowers" and you may be asking yourself, "why. the fuck. would she do that" and I'll tell you:




It's a vibe






Edit: oh also, "Weregild" has a bunch of whistle stuff in the background, dunno if you'd count it so I also, you'll be happy to hear I'm sure, did not bother pitching it for you! Think of it as a late christmas present.

['S]

Also the random Russian words are kewl but ah maybe would make sense if it were my thread just to put "Princess" instead of "Принцесса" & "Sagrad Beautiful" instead of "Sagrad Прекрасный", or to put the Russian titles in parentheses like the Chinese characters are
Just my thoughts anyhow, it's no bother~

[IhateMana]

I would argue the juxtaposition of the latin and cyrillic is integral to the title's aesthetic

[Alex61]

I actually had the track down as "Intor / Flowers" for aaaaages and only changed it recently because I thought it was a typo on Wikipedia lol. I didn't bother with most of the "Outer" stuff because it sounded rather dubious and heavily processed.

[Leimont]

Hey so there's a bonus track on Halfaxa and there are some nice low notes (F♯3 and G3 I think?). Don't know if you have heard it already but since it's not on your post I'll leave it here:
youtu.be/st3oU0z0e_U

[heirloom]

Can't wait for the update with the miss anthropocene era.

[galaxyseal]

B♭3 and C5 on her song "Cry" with Ashnikko

[galaxyseal]

Been listening to a lot of Grimes lately and thought I'd help out by notewatching a bunch of shit that's been released since you made the thread/anything you might have missed

I am so fucking sorry for how long this post is going to be (and also how awfully formatted it is lol)

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{the notez from new studio shit, unreleased stuff, demos and some other stuff/collabs you might've missed}
"Hilda Main Theme" - A3, D5, E5
"Cry" - B♭3, C5
"Black Hair" - A3, B♭3, F♯5, B5, E♭6
"Player of Games" - A3s
"Shinigami Eyes" - A3, C5, E5 (boldworthy imo, at like 0:29 in the music video)
"I Wanna Be Software" - G3, B♭3, C5 and D5
"Welcome to the Opera" - E♭5, F5
"∆∆∆∆Rasik∆∆∆∆" - G3, B♭3, D5, B♭5
"Heartbeats" - E3, F♯3, E♭5, E5
"Ambrosia" - F♯3, A3, C♯5, E5
"Sheesh" - G3, B♭3, C5
"Golden Calf" - G3, B♭3, E5
"Delicate Weapon" - G3, B3, C5, F5, G5
"Last Day / Новый День" - C5, D5
"No Man's Land" - C5. C♯5, E♭5
"Fly to You" - G♯3, B♭3
"Angel" - A3
"Christmas Song" - G3, A3
"Life After Death" - E3, G3, A3, E5
"Song for Ric" - D3, E3 (at like 0:38, might be boldworthy?), also A3s and E5s
"A Drug from God"- A3
"Brotherhood" - F3 (boldworthy imo), G♯3, B♭3, C5
"Clean Up Your Dreams" - C5, E5, G5
"Dream World" - E3, F♯3, C♯5, E5
"Wherever With You" - G3, D5, E5, G5 (maybe boldworthy? idk)
"Everyone Is in My Mind" - G♯3, B♭3
"I Won't Let You Down" - D5
"Voignamir" - G3, A3
"Enjoy the Angels on Earth" (demo) - D5, E♭5
"Digital Calypso" (demo) - B♭3, D5
"LOVE" (demo) - A3, C5, E5
"Utopia" (demo) - D5
"100% Tragedy" (demo) - D3, G3, C5, D5, E♭5
"Darq Souls" (demo) - A3, G♯5
"Anhedonia" - B3, C♯5
"Mars Theme" - A3, E5
"Samana" (Levant Mix) - B♭3, C5, E♭5
"David" - G3, A3, D5, F5, G5
"Shall I Compare Thee" - E5
"Death Angels" - G3, D5
"Real Is a Feeling" (remix) - G♯3, B♭3
"Conditioning" (remix) - D5, F♯5
"Don't Smoke My Blunt Bitch" - D5, A5, D6
"Ritual" - C♯5
"The Horizon" (remix) - A3, C5
"Eyes Be Closed" (remix) - A3, B3, E5, G♯5, A5
"R.I.P." (remix) - B♭3, C5, D5
"Saturn Princess" - F♯3, B3, D5, F♯5
"Summon the Sound" (remix) - G♯3, B3, B5
"Tabula Rasa" - D5, E5, F♯5
"Fragments of the Future" - G♯3, B3
"whoknoidontno" - F♯3, A3, B3
"Things That Were Not" - C5, F5
"Vodianoi" - B3, D5, E5, G5 (there's also something quiet at the start that sounds like it might be her singing a D3 or maybe a C♯3? i'm not sure cuz it's really quiet so i'll just link the song too) www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnVxxCOz8r4
"Fifteen Minutes To" - E3, A3, E5, G5
"Human Heart" - A3, B3, C5, G5, A5
"The Eye" - E3, F3 (boldworthy imo), G3, C5
"Behaviour"- G3, A3, D5, E5

Some notes from an old EP she released on Myspace back in like 2007 called "Lethe"
• "Ham Mer Maid" - F3, A3
• "Gloam" - F♯3, A3
• "The Crazy Doctor" - F3, F♯3, G♯3
• "World Brain" - F3, G3, A3, C5

There's also some unnamed unreleased songs that can be found in this playlist. I'll just list out the notes I found going through each one. I have no idea how these would even be listed so uhhhh, up to you I guess?
• "Unknown Dom Dolla Collab" - G♯3, C♯5 (also some spoken parts down to E3 or F3?)
• "Unknown Song [2012]" - B♭3, D5, E5, F5
• "Unknown Song [2011]" - E♭5, F5 (the video that's under a minute long)
• "Unknown Song [2010]" - G3, D5 (the 1 minute long vid in the playlist)
• "Unknown Song [2010]" - A3, C5, E5, G5 (the 3 minute long vid in the playlist)

Here's some other random unknown songs she's done before (and probably will never release lol)
• "Unknown Song [Live at The Wiltern, Los Angeles, May 31st 2011]" - F♯3, G♯3, B3, E5 www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4CYRuJTfac

Also some other things:
• The "Realiti" demo actually goes down to G3 at 3:23 here www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9XKLqGqwLA
• Aren't there F♯3s in the harmonies of the second pre-chorus of "California"? At 2:00 here (they sound like her voice imo) www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSS1uPC6dnA
• In album ranges, the lowest note for Visions should be D3, not E♭3.
• Some notes are marked as blue in album ranges while they aren't in the thread itself. For example, the highest note in Geidi Primes is listed as a blue C♯6, but the C♯6 for that album, which is in the song "Feyd Rautha Dark Heart", is left black in the main thread. Some similar examples include Halfaxa, but instead this album actually has higher non-blue notes (such as the C6 in "Dream Fortress"). Same goes for Visions, which has non-blue B♭5s in a few songs.

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{live shit and other stuff}"Sleepwalking" (live 2014) - C♯5, E♭5, G5

"Jam" (live CKUT Radio 2010) - F♯3, A3, B3, E5, F♯5, B5 www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTOm66QfrW0

"Unknown Unplugged" (live Montreal 2010) - A3, C♯5, E5, and an A6 at the start (which I think is countable tbh) www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7rM67NPhZ8 (I don't think this song has an official title since it was never released but "Unknown Unplugged" is how most people refer to it)

Here's a cool vid of her performing at The Apollo back in 2010 with some new notes I found
• "Outer" (live The Apollo 2010) - F5 (also I don't think the notes in the studio version are pitch-shifted tbh but that's just my opinion)
• "World ♡ Princess" (live The Apollo 2010) - E3s
• "Unknown Unplugged" or "Dream Fortress" (I can't tell which song is playing at this point in the video but it starts at like 11:10) - a bunch of fifth octave notes, an F6 (at like 11:50 in the video I linked above), and a (boldworthy, imo) F♯6 at 13:16. There's also a bunch of weird low shit at like 13:40 that goes down to like um, E3? Idk but they're weird so your call.
• "Black Hair" (live The Apollo 2010) - nothing higher or lower than the studio version of it

Also, a bunch of G♯3s in her Genius Verified video for "My Name Is Dark" www.youtube.com/watch?v=35jKpGa6fV0