Grimes Reveals Y, Her New Baby Daughter With Elon Musk, in Cover Interview | Vanity Fairhttps://www.vanityfair.com/style/2022/03/grimes-cover-story-on-music-and-mars“Like, bro wouldn’t even get a new mattress.” This was back when they were both living in Los Angeles. Her side of the mattress had a hole in it. When she raised the issue, he suggested they replace his mattress with the one at her house. The mattresses are fine now. Still: “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?”
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she doesn’t want this to become all about Musk, but…she wishes his progressive haters would show some respect for the work, for actually accomplishing their goals. He’s done more than any other private citizen to wean the planet off fossil fuels. He helped protect internet service in Ukraine by making his Starlink satellite terminals available. And Grimes is baffled that so many people view his Mars ambition as some billionaire’s boondoggle, rather than the essence of being human and maybe, just maybe, the key to our survival.
“The Mars project is hard,” she says. “There’s no income for it. There’s no way for it to make money.” You can’t make money, after all, without customers. “It’s for the benefit of humanity, and it’s dangerous and it’s expensive, and people are like, He’s hoarding money! No, he’s spending everything on R&D.” She knows she can sound too admiring, and she knows it’ll get her mocked. Screw it.
“Bro might say a lot of stupid shit,” she says finally, “but he does the right thing.”