>>128064946 (OP)
This takes me back. There was a time, after Visions and before Art Angels, when Grimes was viewed as this wunderkind who could do anything, and was now on the verge of infiltrating the pop mainstream. The whole world was dying to know--What Will Grimes Do Next? She signed with Jay Z's management company. She was the subject of numerous laudatory magazine profiles (in hindsight, the lethargy and lack of progress that seeped out between the lines of these pieces should've been warning signs). She was modeling, turning up at MTV galas, always on a front cover somewhere. She casually dropped the Realiti demo--if this was something she could just throw out there, imagine how good the album must be! All while being down to earth and posting on Twitter/tumblr.
Genius realized is never as exciting as genius-to-be, or genius-in-waiting. In this vacuum she was a genius, bursting with "post-internet" potential and the hopes and dreams of an entire generation.
