In a series of tweets, Claire Boucher has explained how she came up with the name Grimes. Apparently, it started with the "genre" options offered by MySpace—not from "The Simpsons" character Frank Grimes or artist Ken Grimes, Stereogum points out.
She wrote:
on myspace ur genre could be grime and u could have 3 genres so i was plural grime, b4 knowing what grime was
— Clear Butcher (@Grimezsz) December 20, 2014 i was very please to discover that i actually loved grime music
— Clear Butcher (@Grimezsz) December 20, 2014 dizzee is one of my all time favorite musicians, discovered him whilst googling 'grime', guess i am so named cuz like dizzee, wiley etc
— Clear Butcher (@Grimezsz) December 20, 2014 an odd series of events
— Clear Butcher (@Grimezsz) December 20, 2014 i was originally too embarased of this story so i told journalists i was named after frank grimes, who is also very cool
— Clear Butcher (@Grimezsz) December 20, 2014 or wait, no i said i was named after someone else named grimes argh, -- see this is why you shouldnt lie to journalists
— Clear Butcher (@Grimezsz) December 20, 2014 frank grimes is possibly best simpsons ep tho
— Clear Butcher (@Grimezsz) December 20, 2014 Watch Grimes perform "Genesis" at the 2012 Pitchfork Music Festival:
