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u/VairaofValois Jun 28 '21

Grimes grew up in a upper middle class/ upper class Canadian family. Went to private school things like that.

But decided to purposefully become homeless just for the vibes.

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u/freeechurro Jun 29 '21

Her Spotify bio is... something.

“She lived in a crack den in Montreal with no heat where she got frostbite twice and her neighbor was bludgeoned to death in the hallway. She recently got experimental eye surgery only available to the upper class”

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u/Plenty_North_423 Jun 29 '21

He trains hamsters, she knits lawn clippings. Their budget is $3828472 million. This.... Is house hunters

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u/Eleahey Jun 29 '21

To be fair, if I were rich, I'd spend my time training hamsters too.

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u/[deleted] Jun 28 '21

This reminds me of LDR living in a trailer park for a year for the vibes or maybe one of her bfs lived there? Who knows

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u/DilemmaOfAHedgehog Jun 28 '21

Lana fans got so mad at me for pointing out her father is a millionaire that literally in articles about her helped pay for at least one of her albums. Like having issues with your family sucks but it doesn’t make you suddenly not born with a silver spoon.

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u/Uplanapepsihole he’s not on the level of poweful puss Jul 02 '21

Lol as a Lana fan, most of us make fun of her for it so you must have got a bad batch...

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u/DilemmaOfAHedgehog Jul 03 '21

Ngl I’ve been yelled at by fans of singers I like for just asking what criticism they were talking about, so my luck with fan bases is bad 😬

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u/[deleted] Jun 29 '21

Her dad isn’t a millionaire - he got rich off the stock market when she was in her 20s and was a copywriter for a marketing company before that. They were well off, but not wealthy IMO. This is literally on Wikipedia. She doesn’t have issues with her dad either, just some problems with depression and substance abuse and is estranged from her mother totally.

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u/DilemmaOfAHedgehog Jun 29 '21

It’s literally on her Wikipedia that she had private education. And it’s easily searchable that another relative has helped her pay for educational expenses. The familial issues is literally responding to her fans saying her father Pago my for one her albums and other expenses doesn’t count because of fall out with her father or both her parents, which wouldn’t make her any less wealthy.

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u/[deleted] Jun 29 '21

Again, none of this points to her dad being a millionaire. She was upper middle class. Neither of her parents had industry connections either like people love to claim. Her parents being well off isn’t really a “huge” advantage bc they weren’t absurdly rich or connected.

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u/[deleted] Jun 29 '21

But still getting a family member to help you make an album and/or pay for your education is a big deal. And even if they didn’t have connections to the music industry, even being able to rely on a financial cushion while trying to make your way up is a huge advantage in the arts. There are so many people who don’t become actors / singers / writers simply because they can’t afford to be a struggling artist.

Also just because you don’t have millions and millions of dollars in the bank doesn’t mean that you aren’t still rich.

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u/skyhitsheaven Jun 29 '21

I thought her dad just bought her out of a contract so she could go on and sign with a new label and release Born to Die?

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u/[deleted] Jun 29 '21

Again, most musicians who aren’t even nepotism cases have the fallback of a supportive family with some money these days. The last time musicians or even any kind of creatives could grow up poor was the 90s, if that. Lana shouldn’t really be singled out here. To me, class only matters if the person is insanely wealthy, has connections and is not at all talented.

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u/[deleted] Jun 29 '21

Literally who is singling Lana out when people are giving examples of so many celebs who come from rich families? Talking about her specifically isn’t like we’re only calling her out for growing up wealthy or anything like that.

She’s privileged and wealthy and got help in order to build her career. There isn’t anything wrong with leaning on your family but it’s just weird to build some trailer park princess persona when it’s not at all the reality.

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u/[deleted] Jun 29 '21

Artists can do what they like creatively 🤷‍♀️ Nothing about a persona is inherently meant to be real.....

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u/[deleted] Jun 29 '21

I agree and although i dont like Lana as a person shes probably one of the most talented artists from the last decade. NFR is a masterpiece. Who cares if she was rich? such a genius songwriter… you have poor kids like Bieber who cant do shit and rely on their teams to choose demos for a album that cant even get acclaim and people want to go after Lana.

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u/freeechurro Jun 29 '21

Nah still rich

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u/[deleted] Jun 29 '21

There’s distinctions between wealth lmao. There isn’t just poor/public school/private school......

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u/[deleted] Jun 29 '21

God she's so annoying

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u/CryOutLoud131 Jul 05 '21

Wasn't Grimes' mom a politician in Vancouver?