California

“It’s actually a hate track for Pitchfork…for the music industry. For the indie blogs. I’m just very tired of the “Grimes is so sad! Grimes is protesting and ranting and having a terrible time! She is so insecure!” narrative. It’s actually really destructive like to make it seem like I’m like “Everything is out of my control!” To say that I scrapped an entire album, without fact-checking, saying that “Go” was my first single. I didn’t produce that song. I would never put out an album that I didn’t produce. Like to take that away from me and still…I can’t get away from it. The press wrote about it. No one fact-checked it, no one will amend. Like you just fucked my narrative. You just fucked years of work that I’ve done. Like I’m trying to go out there, and especially to the white male Pitchfork audience, to be like “Women can produce”, and you just took that away. And you’re too immature to take it down”. You’re not a force for good. You’re a force for really really bad”. -Grimes, in an interview with Sirius XM. (c) + (c) - "California" is the second track from Grimes' fourth studio album, "Art Angels", following her 2012 album "Visions".

[Verse 1] This, this music makes me cry It sounds just like my soul Oh, I'm not ready to win Oh Lord, cause I don't wanna know what they say Cause I get carried away Commodifying all the pain [Pre-Chorus] The things they see in me, I cannot see myself When you get bored of me, I'll be back on the shelf And when the ocean rises up above the ground Maybe I'll drown in... [Chorus] California You only like me when you think I'm looking sad California I didn't think you'd end up treating me so bad [Verse 2] Oh (ah-ah-ah) Come Monday, it's a dream (ah-ah-ah) Broken my own heart again Chasing something beautiful Oh Lord, but I don't understand what they say Cause I get carried away Commodifying all the pain [Pre-Chorus] The things they see in me, I cannot see myself When you get bored of me, I'll be back on the shelf And when the ocean rises up above the ground Maybe I'll drown in... [Chorus] California You only like me when you think I'm looking sad California I didn't think you'd end up treating me so bad California You only like me when you think I'm looking sad California I didn't think you'd end up treating me so bad [Outro] Oh, I, oh, I Oh na, na, na, ne