He is the richest man who’s ever lived.
In other words, Musk is one of the most controversial figures on the planet.
Grimes is very online.
I will not make a statement every time he does something.
I can only send love back into a world that is hurting."
So … who is Grimes, Elon Musk’s ex-girlfriend?
Read on to find out.
The album was recorded entirely on GarageBand in a three-week sprint, which she toldClashshe quickly found embarrassing.
“GarageBand is actually stupid, I know it is,” she said.
“It really can’t do anything, there’s like one bang out of reverb, y’know?
There’s not a lot of stuff in GarageBand that’s good.”
“I’m defined by songwriting and catchiness and stuff.”
In summary: Grimes is weird, and people love her for it.
“I was really unpopular in high school,” she toldThe Edmonton Journal.
She fled Vancouver and headed to Montreal where she planned to study neurobiology and philosophy at McGill University.
It didn’t go particularly well for her.
“I decided I might as well take a risk,” she said.
“It was a crazy journey sleeping on random people’s floors.
And then I played 11 shows in three days.
It was fun.”
In a 2011 interview withPitchfork, however, she revealed that the school took administrative action against her.
“I was actually expelled for missing almost a year of class,” she said.
She explained, “We did, like, psycho-physics and s*** …
I constantly had to be teaching myself calculus behind the class.
I mostly just tried to prove that I could.”
They started going by the names Veruschka and Zelda Xox and tried to sail down to New Orleans.
“I always wanted to live on a boat,” Grimes explained.
It ended catastrophically, leading to what the paper called a three-week standoff with cops.
Their engine had cut out almost immediately, and they were drifting out of control.
“I love the idea of the Tom Sawyer adventure.
The problem is it’s not 1883,” Officer Rob Mooney told the paper.
“you’re able to’t do that anymore.
You have to follow the rules.”
Grimes ultimately told The Fader that the story was exaggerated by the press.
“The main thing that’s true is the potatoes.
We had lots of sacks of potatoes, but that’s not that weird.”
All they’ve ever done is kill my friends and cause me to be unproductive."
Fans were frustrated for political reasons, too, as Grimes explained in a 2020 interview withRolling Stone.
“I was hard, hard, hard, left before,” she explained.
“I still actually sort of am, but there’s the obvious dissonance of my boyfriend.
And I think this is the crux of most of the rage.”
Still, she mused that all of the attention she’d received was overwhelming.
“I just did not understand what I was getting into at all.
Not that I’m mad about it.
I just didn’t think it would be a thing,” she said.
“Infamy is kind of fun.”
Then, the kicker that cemented the feud in pop culture history: Banks leaked their texts.
And you smell like a roll Of nickels."
The insult was so iconically withering that Grimes couldn’t even be mad.
In 2024, she wrote onX, “She is the best hater on the planet.
For more, check out thisbrief history of Azealia Banks’s beefs.
If you say so!
He has three kids with Grimes, all of whom have names that one might call … ill-advised.
Raising children with the world’s richest man actually presented some obstacles, Grimes toldWired.
She explained, “I think their life is gonna be pretty intense.
Being Elon’s kid is not the same as being anyone’s kid.
“I feel a social responsibility with my art to make future-optimistic art,” she said.
“Not a lot of people are doing that.”
He couldn’t tell whether people were saying exactly what they meant or if they were concealing their intentions.
“I found it rewarding to spend all night programming computers, just by myself,” he explained.
“But I think that is not normal.”
Musk is not the only one.
“I went to check my kids and performed worse than them on every test,” she wrote.
Her journey to understanding her autism included a number of instances when doctors gave her bad or incorrect advice.
After all, even her first major album “Visions” was recorded entirely on GarageBand.
She also promised to split royalties 50/50.
The company behind the software, CreateSafe, toldTechCrunchthat they were working on using AI responsibly.
Leonard, for the record, is Grimes' manager.
“Then she finished the show as a cyborg.
One of the greatest pieces of performance art ever made.”
As she toldWired, “I’m here for that.
X knows a lot about rockets.
He knows more about rockets than me.”
X is still by his side, including during a strange February 2025 press conference in the Oval Office.
