Grimes wishes "ethereal" to be a genre

Grimes made a playlist with her, Bjork, Massive Attack, Cocteau Twins and others on in, lobbying to make "ethereal" a genre. She usually disagrees with the idea of genre as such, and believes her music "doesn't fit into any existing format or genre" and "therefore cannot be on playlists or radio", Brooklyn Vegan reports. She argues that there "is a long lineage of auteur artists, often producing their own music and/ or directing their own music videos. Oft with a heavy visual component and fantasy, sci fi or literary elements… often very ethereal, otherworldly and futuristic in nature".