The Famous Grimes Album That Mysteriously Made People Want To Shave Their Heads

This writer has a close relationship with this particular subject, considering this writer is a victim of it.

Electronic pop artist Grimes released the highly acclaimed album Art Angels in 2015. It was her fourth studio album and a notable departure from the sound of her cult classic 2013 album Visions.

It took years for Grimes to release the follow-up after inexplicably destroying the material from the first round of sessions. Though, “Realiti” is an earlier recording that survived and made it to the album. She began recording new material in 2014 and released the record in 2015.

The finished product was an excellent piece of work. Many described it as more “accessible” than her previous works, without sacrificing the experimental nature and creativity of the album. It featured the likes of Aristophanes and Janelle Monáe. Tracks “Kill V. Maim” and “Flesh Without Blood” are just a couple of memorable tracks.

Overall, it’s a great album. However, Art Angels allegedly (and we want to make it clear that all of this is extreme speculation) is responsible for a large number of people shaving their heads after listening to it.

Did Grimes’ Album ‘Art Angels’ Make People Shave Their Heads?

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from August of 2024, a user put together an album of screenshots that featured a large number of Grimes fans admitting that they shaved their heads almost immediately after listening to the album.

One user even said that the urge to shave their head started while listening to the album, but almost immediately went away once they stopped listening to it.

“In 2015 I was listening to art angels […] and I felt this sudden urge to completely shave my head,” said the user. “[…] I’d never felt a desire to shave my head before or since and I saw at least 3 or 4 people saying the same thing. Freaked me out.”

Some users in that Reddit thread believe that Grimes used subliminal messaging to get her listeners to shave their heads. A few users connected Grimes to McGill University, which was rumored to be involved with MKUltra. Grimes’ father, Maurice Boucher, also happens to be a former banker who worked in biotech.

Grimes also famously “predicted” the pandemic in a music video (“Violence”, featured above) in which she and her dancers wear masks and perform six feet apart months before the global pandemic began. And, of course, Grimes has since been linked to Elon Musk.

Could any of these factors play a role in what Art Angels allegedly did to listeners? Did Grimes use subliminal messaging to get a whole audience of listeners to chop off their locks? Is there something supernatural about the album? Was it just mass hysteria?

Who knows?

However, this writer shaved their head in 2015 just a few weeks after listening to it for seemingly no reason other than the cool kids on Tumblr were doing it. There could be something to this theory; or, it could all just be a weird coincidence and a subconscious need to “belong”.

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