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- Entertainment
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Loading If you missed their live shows over the last couple of weeks, you're in luck because we nabbed them for an exclusive mix on triple 2012 producer/singer Matt Stephenson and percussionist Sean Kelly have been creating whacked-out, glitchy electronic sounds as Machine Girl. It's the sort of music that is hard the define by genre, as equal parts rave weapon and noise ritual, bringing together ravers, metalheads, gamers, goths, and industrialists year saw the release of their latest LP MG Ultra on Australian label Future Classic, their most mind-bending chapter yet. Check it out here:Matt from Machine Girl is stepping up to the decks to unleash an hour of genre-bending, full-throttle electronic sounds on the airwaves tonight. Expect everything from techno and breakcore to jungle, footwork and even a few cheeky edits along the soon!
Yahoo
24-03-2025
- Health
- Yahoo
Grimes Warns Against ‘Social Media Mental Health' Advice After ADHD and Autism Diagnosis
After receiving a diagnosis of both ADHD and autism as an adult, Grimes has come to view the widespread pop psychology shared across social media as increasingly sinister. In a recent post on X (formerly Twitter), the musician suggested that accounts sharing generalizations about symptoms that could signify certain mental health conditions has led to an uptick in potentially harmful self-diagnoses. 'There's this subculture of I guess 'mental health' accounts that I actually think are like, extreme infohazards,' Grimes wrote. After being diagnosed earlier this year, she said, she realized dyslexia might be the reason she's unable to spell anything without using spell-check. 'I feel like had we known this when I was a child I would have worked so much less hard, been on drugs, and so many of the weird obsessions and motivations I had would have been seen as pathological,' she continued. 'I could have written off certain things that were very hard for me but I'm glad I over came them.' More from Rolling Stone Grimes Crowns Adéla a 'Future Reigning Popstar' After 'Machine Girl' Video Cameo 6 Deaths, 3 States and the Radical Breakaway 'Rationalists' at the Center of the Nightmare Grimes Asks People to 'Stop Posting Images of My Kid Everywhere' Grimes shared her lengthy rumination in response to a post from an account called ADHD Memes, which read: 'I saw a TikTok about how excessive reading in childhood is a sign of dissociation and I can't stop thinking about it.' In the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, or DSM, a number of combinations of present symptoms can be used to reach a diagnosis for any particular disorder. What's relevant for some might not be for others. Grimes noted that in her own experience, being an avid reader actually helped her manage her ADHD symptoms. 'An adhd account trying to pathologize one of the best things a child can do to help with adhd (and also become an auto didact and knowledgeable person etc etc) is so dark…. I can't even begin,' she continued. 'I think the nature of this uninformed social media mental health subculture is rly a big concern. Some are great ofc but a lot of these seem like explicitly anti civilizational and geared towards making people worse.' Some users who engaged with the post took issue with Grimes suggesting that mental illnesses can be 'contagious.' She cited learning about mental health in school and noticing that herself and other classmates would 'start getting symptoms of them during those units' that would later go away. She later clarified: 'I meant symptoms – I've def seen people get into lifestyle changes and adhd symptoms stop cuz they didn't have it, they had dopaminergic burn out, which essentially mimics the disorder.' Generally, Grimes said, 'I just think unsupervised medical advice and proliferation of info about symptoms is a very tricky thing.' In defense of her stance, she later added that she went to school for neuroscience. In 2016, she told NPR she 'was in a program at McGill [University in Montreal] called Electroacoustics, where we studied a lot of how the brain interacts with music,' which isn't quite the same thing. Like the pop psychology accounts, it all should be taken with a grain of salt. Best of Rolling Stone The 50 Greatest Eminem Songs All 274 of Taylor Swift's Songs, Ranked The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time
