Grimes says her relationship with Elon Musk was like 'the best internship ever'

• Grimes said dating Elon Musk was like "the best internship ever."

• The pair share two children, who were born in 2020 and 2021.

• The artist said that Musk made her "tougher and smarter" than she was previously.

Grimes said that dating Elon Musk, the father of her two children, was "the best internship ever."

The artist spoke with Wired in an wide-ranging interview covering her music career, interest in AI, NFT sales, children, and relationship with Musk.

Grimes said that Musk, the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, helped her gain technological knowledge. In the process, she also praised his leadership style.

"I learned from him, like, the best internship ever," Grimes told Wired. "People don't like talking about Elon, but it was incredible to be right there watching all that SpaceX stuff happen. That's a master class in leadership and engineering and makes you understand how rare it is to have a leader of that quality."

Grimes and Musk made their red-carpet debut together at the Met Gala in 2018. While their relationship has undergone several status changes since, the pair co-parent their two children: Grimes gave birth to their first child together, named X Æ A-XII (nicknamed "X"), in May 2020. The pair's daughter, named Exa Dark Sideræl (and later renamed "Y," "Why?" or "?" per a Grimes tweet), was born via surrogate in December 2021.

Musk has been in headlines lately for his 2022 acquisition of Twitter (since renamed X), which has played out chaotically in the past months and sent the platform into a downward spiral.

Grimes told Wired that she's learned from Musk's experience with X, saying that she now understands the difficulties of doing "something of that magnitude." The artist said that Musk's "old world" discipline may rub people the wrong way, but she's learned from him.

"He's challenged me a lot," she said. "I learned a lot about running my own team and my own life. I'm now way tougher and smarter than I used to be."

And as for what he's learned from her? Grimes told Wired that she thinks she may have taught Musk to "have more fun."

"I try to soften him up, to build family culture," she said. "And he steals a lot of my memes."

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