Outfit Of The Day
Grace posted her "Outfit of the Day" on TikTok to the tune of Nina Simone's "I Put A Spell On You". In answer to a follower she said that the top was from "Edikted"
Interview with Eric Alper, SiriusXM posted
Grace was interviewed by Eric Alper for his show on the Canada Talks channel on SiriusXM. Possibly taped when she was in Toronto for the Megalopolis Screening at the Toronto Film Festival.
“Canada Talks” is a Canadian current affairs and talk channel produced for the SiriusXM network. The programs on the channel are “related to all aspects of Canadian life including business and the economy, politics, entertainment, lifestyle, health, sports analysis and play-by-play. Coast to coast Canadian talk radio with the topics and personalities that bring all corners of the country together.” (from the Canada Talks page on SiriusXM.com)
Getting to be your own woman in the industry – and how that allows you to share responsibility
Since she has had so few albums out, how involved is she in deciding what is released and what is not, and where she will perform? “You lack a lot of confidence when you are in a room where everyone has a lot of experience. And that imbalance is the dangerous part of it. I have found that that [experience] always trumped intuition. And I was always making music, and I was like, ‘Why don’t we just release it!?’. But this experience was also necessary for me because I feel like that gifted me so much growth and now confidence. I could never have been able to make the behind-the-scenes professional decisions that I have made in the past year If I wasn’t like – this really can’t be applied to me anymore – the whole ‘we have been doing this longer than you – you don’t know what you are talking about’. I feel like I have definitely graduated from that. If you looked at me a year and a half ago, and you granted me that space and just said – ‘what do you want to do?’ I would have been like, ‘ I don’t know’.”
Thriving under chaos
”You are either going to be miserable when the schedule is very busy and exhausting, or your someone who kind of like chaos and problem-solving and being busy. And there is a part of me who finds pleasure in being completely stressed out – everything is going wrong. There is something about it, the action of it, solving it right now. I thrive under chaos because it’s kind of all I know.”
Achieving full creative freedom
”I am very re-inspired. I feel like I was given a new path recently. Before that, I felt lost; I definitely felt creatively lost. There was a lot of pressure on what was expected to be heard from me. And now I feel like completely breaking the chains of all of that. I have now been granted the creative freedom. And now that I have let go of all these people and all these expectations, I feel like my brain is so open because I am writing really without a care in the world.”
Making music vs acting
Q: What does acting do for you that music doesn’t? ”Acting is such an interesting medium compared to music. Because I feel like music is so controlling. Most artists you’ll meet are probably slightly control freaks. You often have the option to micromanage and design everything. And the thing about movies is that if you are an engineer or a producer in the room, your name is going to be on it, but you are just a tool for a grand scheme project. And that is really scary for me. To give up control. I did not have that experience in Megalopolis. It was a very, very collaborative environment.”
Fighting the overconsumption of content
”I have some very strong philosophies on life. I am a very annoying, very stubborn person. I am really passionate about fighting the overconsumption of content. They are clearly putting out as much as possible to keep up with the entertainment demand. Nothing marinates. No one hangs on to things. I don’t believe in that creatively, and I don’t believe in that for people’s minds. And if you subscribe to that system, people are going to treat your art in the same way you are promoting it. Which is something to chew, taste, spit out, and then look at the next thing. I am just like people who believe in enriched, thought-out art. That says something about us, not just – chew, spit. And for movies, it’s more about the project than like – ‘I wanna be in movies”.
What’s left of me – the music video
”I normally make all the concepts for all my visuals, like “Call It What You Want”, And one of my first singles – “Moonlight” I described scene by scene, what I wanted that to be. And I just recently started collaborating with Pulse, and I wanted to like grant them this space. At times, I limit my collaboration with the creative people around me, and I think I am learning that there has to be an equal balance. I was just presented with this idea of like paintings come to life, a series of different scenes that are kind of paintingesque.”
A wild trip to London
”Are you booked all of 2025 – do you know what you are doing all of next year? No. I feel in advance booked if I know what I am doing three weeks from now. A lot of things are really last minute. I just flew to London a day in advance. That was a crazy one because there were some things that went on. I went to a club. I am 20, and I went to the bouncer and there, I can give my real ID to a bouncer. I did that; I indulged in that. And that was very fun, and then the next day, I did the photoshoot that we were doing and fought for my life all that day – water, water. “ This turned out to be a photoshoot for Re-Edition Magazine, published in November that year.