13 Must-Know Facts About Grimes If You're New Here
If you're one of the few people on the planet who isn't already fascinated by Grimes, person with phenomenal taste in baby names, it's clearly time to brush up on some fast facts about the visual artist. Starting with this plot twist:
Her Real Name Is Not Grimes
It's Claire Boucher! Somewhat hilariously, she came up with the name Grimes after listing "grime music" for all three of her musical interests on MySpace. "On myspace ur genre could be grime and u could have 3 genres so i was plural grime, b4 knowing what grime was," she said in a since-deleted tweet. "I was originally too embarrassed of this story so i told journalists i was named after frank grimes."
She's Very Smart
Before dropping out to pursue music, Grimes was a double major in psychology and philosophy at the University of McGill and minored in Russian and electro-acoustics!
She's Collaborated With Super Talented Artists
Like Janelle Monáe...
Not to mention Bleachers on a song for Girls (and she's also toured with Lana Del Rey and Florence and the Machine).
She Has Two Kids With Elon Musk
They have a son named X Æ A-Xii and a daughter named Exa Dark Sideræl Musk. (Though please note Elon and Grimes aren't together anymore. Grimes confirmed they are still best friends back in May 2022.)
Me and E have broken up *again* since the writing of this article haha, but he’s my best friend and the love of my life, and my life and art are forever dedicated to The Mission now, I think Devin wrote that part of the story rly well. Sique - peace out
— 𝔊𝔯𝔦𝔪𝔢𝔰 (⌛️,⏳) ᚷᚱᛁᛗᛖᛋ (@Grimezsz) March 10, 2022
"I think having a baby was a big rebirth for me artistically," Grimes told Vogue in 2021. "Being a mother feels weird for me to say. X says 'Claire,' but he doesn’t say 'mama.' Maybe he can sense my taste for the word 'mother'—which, I don’t even know why I have a distaste for it, I respect it. I just don't...I can’t identify with it, weirdly.”
She and Elon Met in the Most Grimes and Elon Musk-y Way
Page Six broke the news of their relationship, saying they met online after Elon was going to tweet a joke about artificial intelligence, only to discover that Grimes had already beat him to the punch.
"Elon was researching the idea of joking about Rococo Basilisk, and when he saw Grimes had already joked about it, he reached out to her," a source said. "Grimes said this was the first time in three years that anyone understood the joke. They were both poking fun at AI."
She and Elon Debuted Their Relationship at the Met Gala
It's called committing to the theme!
Now Grimes Is Allegedly Dating Chelsea Manning
At least as of a Page Six report from back in March 2022, where a source said Grimes and Chelsea had already moved in together. “They’re getting serious. They U-Hauled it,” a source said. “They’ve been living together in Austin.”
She's an Artist (Pen-to-Paper Style)
Grimes creates all the art for her albums, illustrates her own merch, and has even had her work shown in galleries!
She's a Vegetarian
"My stepdad is Hindu and never had meat, so it was very easy for me growing up; there would always be vegan food around," she told Teen Vogue in 2016. "It is political for me, but also, to be honest, I have no idea how to cook meat. Touring is difficult, but if we’re somewhere and I can only have something with dairy in it, then I will eat it because I won’t starve myself."
She Doesn't Do "Hard" Drugs
Grimes made her position clear when an anonymous person edited her Wikipedia page to imply she was into drugs.
"Losing people to drugs and alcohol is the worst because they destroy any good memories you have of them before forcing you to deal with the empty space they leave behind," she wrote on Tumblr. "Also whoever keeps putting the few quotes i said early in my career about drugs back into my Wikipedia page is an asshole. I don’t want that to be part of my narrative, and if it has to be I want people to know that i hate hard drugs. All they’ve ever done is kill my friends and cause me to be unproductive. Editing a website that people take seriously and reference all the time so that it looks like i think amphetamines are cool is incredibly irresponsible, people might read that and think its a cool thing to emulate. I hope you know you are doing the world a disservice. I just watched another person I care deeply about basically turn into gollum and my heart is broken."
She Might Have a Giant Cross Tattoo, but She Isn't Religious
"I wanted to cover up a really bad tattoo that I got when I was younger," Grimes explained to Teen Vogue. "I’m not religious, but I grew up religious, so it’s a comforting image to me."
And a Giant White Ink Tattoo
She Has a Very Specific Sense of Style
Notice that Grimes wore combat boots to the Met Gala? There's a specific reason for that. "Tank Girl or sci-fi punk," she said when describing her style to Out. "I’m always wearing skirts that I’d cut shorter and just don’t hem. I always wear combat boots at all times—that’s the basis of everything, the combat boots."
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