In 2020, the happy couple of Grimes and Tesla billionaire Elon Musk welcomed their first child, a boy named X Æ A-12 Musk. Since then, Grimes’ public life, which was already wild, has grown even more complicated. Today brings some heavy new revelations. A new Vanity Fair cover story on Grimes touches on a great many things, including her forthcoming album Book 1 and her relationship with Musk. But the most pressing news is this: Grimes and Elon Musk now have a second baby, a girl named Exa Dark Sideræl Musk. They call her Y.

Another great bit here:

“Grimes also says that she and Musk plan to have more kids. As for the cognitive dissonance of a once-leftist artist being in a relationship with the world’s richest man, Grimes gets philosophical:”

I mean, when people say I’m a class traitor that is not… an inaccurate description. I was deeply from the far left and I converted to being essentially a capitalist Democrat. A lot of people are understandably upset… But at the same time, like, bro wouldn’t even get a new mattress… Bro does not live like a billionaire. Bro lives at times below the poverty line. To the point where I was like, can we not live in a very insecure $40,000 house? Where the neighbors, like, film us, and there’s no security, and I’m eating peanut butter for eight days in a row?

Marx failed to consider a rich guy who has an old bed.

  • voice_of_hermes [he/him,any]
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    3 years ago

    Also:

    It’s also a nod to her favorite Lord Of The Rings character, the powerful Galadriel, who “chooses to abdicate the ring.”

    Like, is this saying they're going with even the most extreme version of the "firstborn son" inheritance strategy and that this kid ain't gonna get any of the billions, or what? LMFAO.

    Also, nerd rant: Gandalf, Elrond, and Bombadil also all "abdicated the ring". It was a pretty common theme for everyone outside of the idiots from Gondor to do that (credit to Faramir, who also rejected the temptation to go for it). So, like, okay: Galadriel was cool and the only prominent woman among the "great ones" from the main books, but picking her out specifically for the fact that she "abdicated the ring" is a pretty dumb. Obviously Grimes' "care-free not-at-all" attitude about reality extends to even the fiction she's a fan of. I really hate the phenomenon of celebrity (and private property, obviously, and when they're combined...).

    • Florn [they/them]
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      3 years ago

      Turning down the Ring is the high point of Galadriel's character arc though. Like, it took her literally thousands of years, but she learned her lesson about power and ambition.

    • ElGosso [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      I am going to name my child Bombadil and his first words will be " Hey dol! merry dol! ring a dong dillo!"

      I will buy him a St. Bernard and name it Fatty Lumpkins