A couple of years ago, Grimes thought art might be dying. She worried that TikTok was overwhelming attention spans; that transgressive artists were becoming more sanitized; that gimmicky NFTs like the Bored Ape Yacht Club— digital cartoon monkeys which were selling for millions of dollars—were warping value systems. “I just went through this whole big ‘art isn't worth anything’ internal existential crisis,” the Canadian singer-songwriter says. “But I've come out the other end thinking, actually,