06 Oct 2021
Overview
  • From one extreme to the other: Grimes has been seen reading the Communist Manifesto, after her split from capitalist and Tesla zaddy, Elon Musk.
  • Grimes claims it was a troll but behind every joke, there is a little bit of truth.
  • Apologies for the clickbaity title - she’s always been anti-capitalist but then why vibe with an astronomically rich billionaire? A bond over space and crypto, I guess.

The literal art form that is Grimes has hit the streets, trolling paparazzi by posing with Karl Marx's The Communist Manifesto after splitting with billionaire Elon Musk. 

If you don’t already know Grimes, she gave birth to the infamous password that is X Æ A-Xii and is a sci-fi, feminist, electro-synth art pop queen 👑 think of a cross between Die Antwoord, Charli XCX and Björk. I could very much be missing the mark here but hey, this is for context!

She stands for a lot and we love her for it - but The Communist Manifesto (a 1848 novel that argues communism [creating one class] would end class struggles)? Not sure if it hit the way it was intended to but she has since come out and said she was just trolling the paps.

She wrote in an Instagram caption:

“I was really stressed when paparazzi wouldn’t stop following me this wk but then I realized it was opportunity to troll .. i swear this headline omg wtf haha im dead.”

I am LIVING for this type of humour and deter from using proper grammar - this is her world, we are just simply living in it.

Look, I think Grimes is the most opinionated yet least problematic artist I know. She stays in her own lane, doesn’t trust the government, is very transparent about drug use and is often misunderstood but that is why she is so unique. Sure, she hasn’t gone to the total extreme of boiling her cat like Azealia Banks (that’s a whole ‘nother can of worms there) but she is incredibly talented in her own right.

Although, it does seem a little bonkers that she was with one of the richest men in the world that held the power to control the stock market with one Tweet and sold NFT’s for millions, to now being a socialist (or at least agreeing with some of the ideas). But Grimes has come out and stated that she’s still living with Elon and the photos were posed; not candid.

Look, above anything it was a little bit of a giggle. It had us questioning (as it should) but to the approval of Lights, Sza, Bloodpop, Sofi Tukker and Bloodpop on her socials, I guess the stunt did indeed, slap.

All in all, she made headlines - it very much represented her performative nature and it hurt nobody. Hey, it even delivered the perfect costume for Halloween dress-ups at the end of the month!

For a brilliant closer, take it away, Grimes: “Anyway if paparazzi keep chasing me perhaps I will try to think of more ways to meme - suggestions welcome!”

Oh and this meme: