Grimes Loves Star Wars, Remains The Best

Surprise film critic Grimes – aka Claire Boucher – wants everyone to know just how much she adores Star Wars.

Writing for LOVE magazine, the Oblivion hit-maker expressed her adoration for the series, and C-3PO in particular. “I really relate to his fear of death,” she explains. That actually makes a lot of sense.

The NME reproduced her whole article, which you can find here.

Have a read of its endearing first paragraph below:

"My name is Grimes and I first came to love Star Wars before I could even walk. It's one of my dad’s favourite film series and we had all the box sets and remastered versions when I was growing up. He made us watch all the making-of documentaries and flagged up the technological innovations, such as the way they smeared peanut butter on lenses to make the cars look like they were floating. We even had super-detailed books about how to draw all the machinery and stuff, which was a huge influence on me as an illustrator.”

In case you were wondering, she’s definitely looking forward to Episode VII, and especially its female cast.

“Gwendolyn Christie and Lupita Nyong’o are two of my favourite actresses, and neither made her name doing something overtly feminine or sexualised, which is not the norm for female leads in action films these days.”

Also: “Carrie Fisher is also a total babe and slayer.”

Seriously, read the whole thing. Grimes is the best. Where's that new album already?